An honest question: where are you at? Northeast? West Coast? Seattle? The South (Austin)?
I'm trying to find talent in the Southeast...I'm willing to pay well. I haven't found anyone I would consider acceptable (trainable maybe). And I've seriously been searching for over 6 months.
I really wonder if geographic location plays one of the most significant roles in all this, and most people overlook that.
The solution I recommend, which is how my desk is setup, is incredibly simple. A USB keyboard and mouse. Less than $50. Now make the big monitor your main desktop. Piece of cake.
I'm trying to understand this question. It seems really simple. Is there something I'm missing here?
This is why I love Slashdot. This comment right here.
I learned something new just now. I had no idea that "limnology" meant "the study of lakes". To me, that is actually fascinating and I'm glad I learned that fact.
But if you look at the GP post, you'll note....the parent comment (while intellectually interesting) missed the entire dang point the GP was trying to make!
I guess for my kids, 9 hours is a week. HOw many hours do you let your kids play with a tablet every day? maybe 2 hours each on fri, sat, sun, then 1 hour some schooldays, and some schooldays not at all.
There's already other products on the market in this space. But I guess this one is interesting because it runs android?
So I'm not a shill, but my kids both have a Leappad. http://www.leapfrog.com/leappad2/ They are very nice...run off 4 AAs for a week or two, and seem pretty indestructible. And its only $100. PRoprietary walled garden, I know, but the apps come either downloadable or via a dedicated SIM-like card. Works well enough for me.
I guess my point is...I don't know what my point is. Maybe the Toysrus one is interesting because its Android? So it can run any android app? But although my kids prefer my iPad I much rather they use a kid-proofed tablet.
I was going to post a reply but you are spot-on. The REAL Big Data folks I've seen...no, this wouldn't work. You can't just write a python script and send to to a single graphics package.
Because as you said...1TB isn't just a single box. Its a cluster of SAN arrays spread out over an entire datacenter. Simply getting a look at the entire dataset is a challenge in itself.
I'm only just this year moving into this industry (after being in IT for 15 years) and I'm constantly amazed at the size of this market sector. There are WAY, way more companies out there than I realized with at least 1PB of data. Its kind of mind-boggling and insane, when you stop and think about it. Especially if you've been in the industry more than 10 years or so.
I think you make a great point but I think a lot of./ers aren't going to pick up on what you are saying.
I do all enterprise-level work. I'm talking organizations with petabytes of data and thousands of servers. And you know what? I'm seeing more and more Windows 2008R2 server. Linux got popular for a while when Solaris and big iron started to disappear, but now with VMs and the improved stability in Windows, people are more comfortable with hosting their apps on Windows instead, especially because.NET web apps are easier to write.
So yeah, maybe Apple and even Linux are taking over the tablet/smartphone/consumer market. But MS pwns in the biz world.
(this is kind of sad to me...back in the day I was a Unix/Linux admin and I remember when Unix ran the world, sendmail, bind/dns, etc. Ever since active directory came about it and Exchange seems to be replacing the lan/wan-level infrastructure. Backbones might still use unix though, I'm not really in touch with that level)
You know what's funny? I watched this parody video and was just mildly amused. But then I went to watch the "official" real video on YouTube, and youtube gives me ad popups over the top of the video. So essentially, the official video now looks almost identical to the parody!
An honest question...how does buying fair trade products hurt the situation? I'm well aware of the "there's enough food...it's a distribution problem" issue. But what's fair trade got to do with it?
General Electric also paid ZERO corporate taxes. This is while they are laying off thousands and raking in record profits
Record profits? Maybe. The made 12B in net income in 2000, 17B in 2008, and 11B in 2010. Make of that what you will (I looked up the numbers on finance.yahoo.com and http://www.ge.com/annual00/financial/index.html)
It makes me sad too, but remember that the users of the Apollo and moon landing systems were the ultimate in power users. Years of intense training. The actual system developers who personally knew every line of code available as help desk. You don't have that today.
I've not particularly played them because I've had a burning desire to - but because they are the games that all of my colleagues have played and if you want to be part of the "watercooler" conversation, then you've got to play them
Dude, I learned an important personal secret to gaming a few years ago and its GREATLY improved my enjoyment.
Play what you want to play.
If you don't want to play what other people are playing, DON'T. Watch some youtube videos of the cutscenes or read the wikis so you can be in on the conversation. But why oh why would you spend your own personal time playing games that you don't enjoy?
I learned this because I found that I was forcing myself to play games and not really enjoying them. Partially because I had bought them and felt compelled to finish them. But once I figured out, if I don't finish Gears of War but stay forever at 60%, who the hell cares? Just play what and when you want to play. Its about personal enjoyment, not a job or task. I just couldn't finish GoW so I watched the ending cutscenes on youtube. Life is just fine for me.
You gave an awfully long list of games that you "had" to play. Either you've got WAAAY too much free time and need to self-examine your reactions to peer pressure. Or, as I suspect, you actually enjoy these games more than you're willing to admit. Which is perfectly cool.
I use my local library all the time. Just read Danielewski's latest. And the new Ice and Fire (didn't want to pay $30 for a new hardcover) My wife uses it all the time, she just finished reading all three Hunger Games. My kids use it WAY more than I do (two kids, 5 books each, every other week). And there's always at least one or two other people in line to check out books when I go to check mine out.
To say nothing of all the people using the internet PCs in there. And the storytime for the kids. And the DVDs. And the music CDs. And the cubicles where I see high school kids doing homework.
But my library is awesome. I can search the catalog from online and reserve books and they'll hold them at the desk. And I can search other libraries' catalogs and they'll move the books to my library for me. Awesome.
Granted,my 5th-grade science is a little rusty, but I though gravity was a Law? As in, if a theory has enough corroborating evidence the scientific community agrees that it deserves to be promoted to a Law.
Also, can't gravity be rigorously proven from first concepts using basic forces, etc? Isn't that how the Law of Universal Gravitation and the Gravitational Constant are calculated?
I'm not a physicist...hopefully one can chime in, I'm honestly curious.
Well, I didn't RTFA, but I remember Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, there were civilians, you could kill them but if you killed too many you failed the mission. And they would run into your line of fire or even throw rocks at you (and you took damage from the rocks!)
Its probably way too late for my comment to be modded up for the submitter, but here goes.
I've taught "Into to Word Processing" and "Intro to Spreadsheets" type courses at some local adult education colleges. The best books I found were the Shelly Cashman series, such as "Microsoft Office 2007 Introductory Concepts and Techniques". Good explanations with screenshots, and good exercises.
Its sad that you've chosen to bash the GP for this. I wish more people would understand what he does: that college is there to make you a "more informed, well-rounded" person.
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An honest question: where are you at? Northeast? West Coast? Seattle? The South (Austin)?
I'm trying to find talent in the Southeast...I'm willing to pay well. I haven't found anyone I would consider acceptable (trainable maybe). And I've seriously been searching for over 6 months.
I really wonder if geographic location plays one of the most significant roles in all this, and most people overlook that.
The solution I recommend, which is how my desk is setup, is incredibly simple. A USB keyboard and mouse. Less than $50. Now make the big monitor your main desktop. Piece of cake.
I'm trying to understand this question. It seems really simple. Is there something I'm missing here?
Well, maybe, except that the second sentence in the article states she's the OTHER kind of anthropologist that you mentioned.
"Coleman, an anthropologist who teaches at McGill University"
This is why I love Slashdot. This comment right here.
I learned something new just now. I had no idea that "limnology" meant "the study of lakes". To me, that is actually fascinating and I'm glad I learned that fact.
But if you look at the GP post, you'll note....the parent comment (while intellectually interesting) missed the entire dang point the GP was trying to make!
I guess for my kids, 9 hours is a week. HOw many hours do you let your kids play with a tablet every day? maybe 2 hours each on fri, sat, sun, then 1 hour some schooldays, and some schooldays not at all.
There's already other products on the market in this space. But I guess this one is interesting because it runs android?
So I'm not a shill, but my kids both have a Leappad. http://www.leapfrog.com/leappad2/ They are very nice...run off 4 AAs for a week or two, and seem pretty indestructible. And its only $100. PRoprietary walled garden, I know, but the apps come either downloadable or via a dedicated SIM-like card. Works well enough for me.
I guess my point is...I don't know what my point is. Maybe the Toysrus one is interesting because its Android? So it can run any android app? But although my kids prefer my iPad I much rather they use a kid-proofed tablet.
Holy crap! This is a tearjerker horror story right there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Solon/
I really wish I had mod points...this is seriously one of the best slashdot posts I've ever read.
I was going to post a reply but you are spot-on. The REAL Big Data folks I've seen...no, this wouldn't work. You can't just write a python script and send to to a single graphics package.
Because as you said...1TB isn't just a single box. Its a cluster of SAN arrays spread out over an entire datacenter. Simply getting a look at the entire dataset is a challenge in itself.
Many, many more than you realize.
I'm only just this year moving into this industry (after being in IT for 15 years) and I'm constantly amazed at the size of this market sector. There are WAY, way more companies out there than I realized with at least 1PB of data. Its kind of mind-boggling and insane, when you stop and think about it. Especially if you've been in the industry more than 10 years or so.
I think you make a great point but I think a lot of ./ers aren't going to pick up on what you are saying.
I do all enterprise-level work. I'm talking organizations with petabytes of data and thousands of servers. And you know what? I'm seeing more and more Windows 2008R2 server. Linux got popular for a while when Solaris and big iron started to disappear, but now with VMs and the improved stability in Windows, people are more comfortable with hosting their apps on Windows instead, especially because .NET web apps are easier to write.
So yeah, maybe Apple and even Linux are taking over the tablet/smartphone/consumer market. But MS pwns in the biz world.
(this is kind of sad to me...back in the day I was a Unix/Linux admin and I remember when Unix ran the world, sendmail, bind/dns, etc. Ever since active directory came about it and Exchange seems to be replacing the lan/wan-level infrastructure. Backbones might still use unix though, I'm not really in touch with that level)
Thanks for the link!
You know what's funny? I watched this parody video and was just mildly amused. But then I went to watch the "official" real video on YouTube, and youtube gives me ad popups over the top of the video. So essentially, the official video now looks almost identical to the parody!
Suddenly the parody isn't as funny anymore.
Here, this will make you feel better.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/05/zuckerberg-bride-not-your-usual-billionaires-wife/
As cynical as I am, this is actually kind of a cute, romantic story.
Remember this really cool slashdot story about a sysadmin on the receiving end of a DDOS?
http://slashdot.org/story/01/05/31/1330202/post-mortem-of-a-dos-attack
The original writeup link is dead but I found it here (warning: PDF). This was a really cool story.
http://www.stanford.edu/class/msande91si/www-spr04/readings/week1/grcdos.pdf
An honest question...how does buying fair trade products hurt the situation? I'm well aware of the "there's enough food...it's a distribution problem" issue. But what's fair trade got to do with it?
It's like calling Skyrim "Fallout 3 with swords."
And Fallout 3 was "Oblivion with Guns".
If a=b and b=c then a=c.
So Skyrim is...Oblivion?
You broke my brain.
General Electric also paid ZERO corporate taxes. This is while they are laying off thousands and raking in record profits
Record profits? Maybe. The made 12B in net income in 2000, 17B in 2008, and 11B in 2010. Make of that what you will (I looked up the numbers on finance.yahoo.com and http://www.ge.com/annual00/financial/index.html)
It makes me sad too, but remember that the users of the Apollo and moon landing systems were the ultimate in power users. Years of intense training. The actual system developers who personally knew every line of code available as help desk. You don't have that today.
I've not particularly played them because I've had a burning desire to - but because they are the games that all of my colleagues have played and if you want to be part of the "watercooler" conversation, then you've got to play them
Dude, I learned an important personal secret to gaming a few years ago and its GREATLY improved my enjoyment.
Play what you want to play.
If you don't want to play what other people are playing, DON'T. Watch some youtube videos of the cutscenes or read the wikis so you can be in on the conversation. But why oh why would you spend your own personal time playing games that you don't enjoy?
I learned this because I found that I was forcing myself to play games and not really enjoying them. Partially because I had bought them and felt compelled to finish them. But once I figured out, if I don't finish Gears of War but stay forever at 60%, who the hell cares? Just play what and when you want to play. Its about personal enjoyment, not a job or task. I just couldn't finish GoW so I watched the ending cutscenes on youtube. Life is just fine for me.
You gave an awfully long list of games that you "had" to play. Either you've got WAAAY too much free time and need to self-examine your reactions to peer pressure. Or, as I suspect, you actually enjoy these games more than you're willing to admit. Which is perfectly cool.
I use my local library all the time. Just read Danielewski's latest. And the new Ice and Fire (didn't want to pay $30 for a new hardcover) My wife uses it all the time, she just finished reading all three Hunger Games. My kids use it WAY more than I do (two kids, 5 books each, every other week). And there's always at least one or two other people in line to check out books when I go to check mine out.
To say nothing of all the people using the internet PCs in there. And the storytime for the kids. And the DVDs. And the music CDs. And the cubicles where I see high school kids doing homework.
But my library is awesome. I can search the catalog from online and reserve books and they'll hold them at the desk. And I can search other libraries' catalogs and they'll move the books to my library for me. Awesome.
Granted,my 5th-grade science is a little rusty, but I though gravity was a Law? As in, if a theory has enough corroborating evidence the scientific community agrees that it deserves to be promoted to a Law.
Also, can't gravity be rigorously proven from first concepts using basic forces, etc? Isn't that how the Law of Universal Gravitation and the Gravitational Constant are calculated?
I'm not a physicist...hopefully one can chime in, I'm honestly curious.
Well, I didn't RTFA, but I remember Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, there were civilians, you could kill them but if you killed too many you failed the mission. And they would run into your line of fire or even throw rocks at you (and you took damage from the rocks!)
Its probably way too late for my comment to be modded up for the submitter, but here goes.
I've taught "Into to Word Processing" and "Intro to Spreadsheets" type courses at some local adult education colleges. The best books I found were the Shelly Cashman series, such as "Microsoft Office 2007 Introductory Concepts and Techniques". Good explanations with screenshots, and good exercises.
Here's an Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Office-2007-Introductory-Techniques/dp/0324826842/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306895933&sr=8-1
Its fairly inexpensive for a used copy.
Its sad that you've chosen to bash the GP for this. I wish more people would understand what he does: that college is there to make you a "more informed, well-rounded" person.
The awesome part would have been if it was the same person. Would have been hilarious and fun.