Interesting. I haven't researched it myself, but at a guess I'll bet there's a substantially bigger gap if we compare homicides instead of "firearm-related deaths." I suspect (but at the moment have no data to back this up) that Mexico has a significantly higher homicide-by-firearm rate and a significantly lower suicide-by-firearm rate.
Even without narrowing the scope to homicides, we see that a country with about 83% fewer guns per capita has a firearm-death rate about 8.5% higher than the US. I won't say gun laws are the causative factor here, there's substantially more factors that play into it, but it's clear from this that a simple "reducing the number of guns will reduce the firearm death rate" argument is also not valid.
I think when one starts to compare gun laws vs. crime rates in enough countries, it becomes pretty clear that they're not strongly related. There are contries with very liberal (where liberal = non-restrictive) gun laws, and some of the lowest violent crime rates in the world. There are others with extremely restrictive gun laws and extremely high violent crime rates, and then there are countries (and even areas within countries) where things are the exact opposite (restrictive with low crime rates, and liberal with high crime rates). Then there are a bunch of countries in the middle with regards to both. The simplest conclusion? Guns can be used to commit crimes, and they can be used to stop it, and there's probably not much true correlation between gun laws and crime rates. It's much more likely that crime rates are due to cultural and socio-economic issues. Television, movies and video games may or may not play into this. It probably does to some extent, though likely not as much as parenting practices and other adult influences during a child's development.
England: 332 knife deaths, population 5,3013,000 US: 1704 knife deaths, population 311,591,917
England: 1 in 159678 chance of dying by knife. US: 1 in 182859 chance of dying by knife.
Englanders therefore are approximately 14.5% more likely to die by knife than Americans, averaged out.
Now, what are the total per-capita homicide rates between the nations? Forget what tool was used, and forget total numbers, it's the per-capita that matters.
You forgot the bit about "if need be, your society." If you need to understand the rationale behind this, look at any of the Arab countries who have recently decided "enough with our tyrant leader." Do you believe any of them could have been successful in casting off their oppressors without access to assault weapons? And are you truly so naive as to believe we couldn't end up with the same kind of oppression here?
The second amendment, at the most basic levels, exists to ensure "the security of a free state." If this isn't something you care about, then feel free to move to a less free state.
What's the per-capita "gun death" rate in Mexico? Better yet, let's scope it to homicides, as "gun deaths" is somewhat of a weasel term.
Compare firearm-related per-capita homicide rates in Mexico (where firearms and ammunition are tightly controlled and regulated) with those in the US. Better yet, compare with per-capita homicide rates in the US, excluding places that tightly regulate and control firearms, such as Chicago, Washington D.C., and New York.
If you don't give a shit about our rights, do the rest of us a favor and GTFO of our country (assuming you're in it). And if you're not in it, then do us a favor and piss off.
You could have simply stopped at "If only there was an OSS alternative to Office 2013..."
There's really not. OpenOffice/LibreOffice is ok for some stuff, I used it for years because I didn't have the money to buy MSFT Office, but now that I have a few years experience using the real thing I find it very frustrating to go back (I have a couple Linux systems where I don't have much choice, and any time I have to use a spreadsheet I realize how far behind OOo really is).
Higher education (college, university, whatever you want to call it) has never that I know of been considered a "right" to be enjoyed by all. It has always been reserved for the financially well-off (those who can afford it), the financially stupid (those willing to take on loads of debt for something not guaranteed to provide a return on investment), and the financially gifted (those given scholarships for any number of reasons).
There have also always been people who don't fit in any of the above categories, to whom a formal higher education is denied. Some of them make up for it through self-motivated study, obtaining books from the nearby library, etc. I suspect the free online courses appeal most to this class of people, and I suggest that if they are sufficiently motivated, available broadband internet will not be a limiting factor. There are still books available covering most material needed, and anything only available online can be accessed at a local library or similar place in any developed country.
For those who might say "what about the undeveloped countries," I say those people have bigger things to worry about, like where the next meal is coming from, how to get clean water, etc.
Funny that you got modded up for this while I got modded down for saying nearly the same thing in a more humorous manner. Perhaps I should have used refrigerators instead of Santa and his Militant Reindeer Army as my example.
Maybe the mods are cold today, and have become slow (and not able to appreciate humour) as a result.
Another study recently concluded that things such as water and gasoline evaporate less quickly when they're kept very cold. Also, oils, molasses, and other liquids get thicker and move more slowly. This is now summed up as the Santa Clause law of nature, that is, when things are as cold as Santa's nose on a North Pole night, they tend to happen more slowly.
The converse side of this is that when things warm up from North Pole temperatures, they happen much more quickly. This is why Santa and his militant reindeer army are able to very quickly deliver AR-15's and lots of ammo to all the good little American boys and girls on Revolution Eve.
And the Dans are both tools (Kaminsky and Bernstein). And to the guy who suggested hosts files with nasty scripts copying things to and fro, ummm... NO. Sounds like some of the horror stories I've heard of how things are cobbled together at a certain large Seattle-based internet retailer, and it's the kind of hair-brained idea a DevOps fan might dream up.
It really depends what you're trying to do. D-Link's low-power gigabit switches are great, for a dumb switch, and most home users really don't need a managed switch. Sucking down only around 8 watts of power, they're nice and cool to the touch and pretty hard to beat. I also have an old D-Link 802.11g router that has travelled around the world with me, giving me wireless internet in the hotels that only provided wired. It's nothing fancy, but small and has gotten the job done, and has stood up to all the baggage handlers that have thrown it.
Linksys, eh, some of it's ok, some of it's crap. My main router is an old WRT54G or GL (It runs Linux, but I think it might be the early G before they split them into G/GL). The radio on it died some time ago, but the router portion still works OK and has survived several power issues that have killed my cable modems. One of these days I'll get around to configuring the Cisco that's sitting in the garage, but so far I haven't cared enough to bother with it.
Belkin, I decided all of it was crap the day I bought one and tried to change the internal IP to something other than the default 192.168.1.1, and it told me I couldn't. I called their tech support and they told me that was by design. I told them it was a crappy design, and returned the POS.
Surprisingly, some of the best (for the price) consumer gear I've used is the AirLink101 that Fry's used to sell. It was cheap, had decent build quality, and generally had all the features I really needed at 1/3 or less the price of Linksys.
I can't comment on Buffalo as I haven't used their stuff.
Actually, Perchlorate isn't a compound, and it's certainly not a mineral. Perchlorates are a family of salts, and you need a word in front of "Perchlorate" for it to be useful. Something like Ammonium Percholorate or Sodium Perchlorate, etc. So, I want to know, what kind of perchlorates did they find?
The most common utility for full-disk encryption on workstations in enterprise/government is probably going to be bitlocker, since it's already included free with the OS most of them use. Bitlocker in the enterprise already has the "lost/forgotten password" issue solved quite nicely, in that on a domain-joined machine it backs it up to AD and a sufficiently-privileged helpdesk or admin person can recover things for a hapless forgetful user.
Some might argue that this is slightly less secure, but the average workstation/laptop thief isn't going to have access to an organization's AD infrastructure, and anyone who does have that access doesn't need to steal physical hardware to obtain sensitive data.
Don't forget, it wasn't very many years ago that Android was under 2% compared with the likes of Blackberry, and a bit further back Apple could only dream of having the market share Palm had.
The mobile space changes rapidly. Consumers are fickle. iOS is growing old, and people are becoming bored with it. Android might be popular (hey, the devices are cheap), but a lot of people with those devices aren't really enthralled with them. If there's anything the computing and especially the mobile space should have taught us by now, it's not to count someone out just because they're late to the party.
I'll take on your points one by one, and disagree on all of them:
Agreed. Nokia == BlackBerry. That's quite a stretch... BlackBerry == early smartphone maker who has since refused to innovate and even refused for many years to use touchscreens. Nokia == early maker of "dumb phones" who, while being early to the smart phone game, never really did well in it, resting on their success in the dumb phone market. They have now woken up and started to pursue smart phones in a serious manner.
Device manufacturer means NOTHING in the mobile marketplace - operating system does! Samsung is doing fantastic using Android, while HTC is very rapidly losing market share, and Motorola is a Has-Been. Device manufacturer means NOTHING? Please... I think HTCs shareholders would have some rather strong words for you.
Windows mobile is terrible and will continue to be terrible, so I'm not sure that it was much of a lifeline to begin with. Have you actually used Windows Phone? (I mean 7, 7.5 or 8, not the old 6.5 or before). It's the only one of the major contendors that doesn't look like a smartphone swallowed Windows 95 and then puked icons all over itself. It's incredibly stable, and has a lot of built-ins that make a lot of the most common smart-phone tasks very simple and fast.
The market wants iOS and Android. Nobody else matters. Microsoft just has a lot of money so they pretend that people care about them as a mobile OS provider. They would make more money by manufacturing Android phones. A lot of people I talk to want an alternative to the somewhat stale iOS and craptastic Android. I think Microsoft actually does have a chance, and with the amount they're investing in Windows Phone I think it's a pretty good chance at that. Oh yeah, and they already make a lot of money off Android phones... Love 'em or hate 'em, patents are a beautiful thing if you're on the right side of them.
Microsoft has made some serious mistakes in mobile, but they're hardly out of the game.
Note: In the interest of full disclosure, I currently work at Microsoft, though nowhere near the Phone or OS divisions. I do hope to see Microsoft succeed in the phone world, partly because I own stock in both Microsoft and Nokia, but my coworkers would tell you I have no problem bashing decisions I disagree with at the company.
There aren't many good uses for "little boxes" in a datacenter. For the things you mention, there are dedicated devices, there are big boxes, and there are VMs hosted on big boxes.
1) Time - If you care enough to have your own time server, you don't want this on a generic "little box." If you actually care about accurate time, you'll want a CDMA/GPS/WWVB time device (assuming US, if outside the US use whatever is available for your locale). The easiest setup will be CDMA or WWVB, as long as you get a decent signal where the device sits. I've had good luck with End-Run Technology's gear. GPS works great for time, but won't typically get signal inside a datacenter so you have to run a lot of coax and mount and antenna on the roof, which your datacenter may or may not be OK with. CDMA relies on accurate time, and is usually synchronized directly to GPS, so you can consider it nearly as accurate while being a whole lot easier to set up.
If you don't care enough to buy a dedicated NTP device and are just looking for something to keep all your local gear in sync, a VM will work OK, though it's better to put it on a physical box with a real RTC. If you do host it virtual, make sure you disable any virtual time sync providers your virtualization platform may normally use, or else bad things happen (your NTP server syncs with the RTC on the host, the host syncs with the NTP server, they both drift).
For monitoring, if you have any real number of servers, you'll want it on its own beefy box. Decent monitoring is surprisingly resource-intensive. Any other "little boxes" (dhcp, administrative, etc) are a perfect use for VMs.
Yup... tried many, many others back in the day, starting with some debian floppy, going to a couple they had at Costco, finally around 2000-2001 timeframe discovered Slack and haven't looked back. Pretty much all my home hardware runs on it (other than routers). Funny thing, several months back I had to do some maintenance on our NTP devices at work (due to hardware failures, one lost the CDMA radio and the other froze up, probably due to bad RAM or the old clunker 486 CPU it uses), and found out they were running Slack too.
Interesting. I have no certs, and I work for a Fortune 100 company. In fact, when asked about certs in an interview, my typical response is along the lines of "I'd rather know my stuff than have some expensive pieces of paper that say I might know my stuff."
Lack of certs has in no way hindered my professional career, and I believe has probably helped it a few times.
If I ever look at your resume, you probably won't get hired... A long list of certs isn't an absolute blocker, but it IS a huge red flag. At the very least, expect to get grilled 10x harder on the subjects those certs are supposed to cover, and to get 10x less sympathy if you don't know the answers.
The most successful hires I've had were without certs. One of them was a guy we hired straight from Olive Garden where he'd been a bartender.
A successful hire doesn't need to come in knowing how to do everything, they just need to come in knowing how to learn. Someone who says "I don't know, but I know how to find out." is miles ahead of the guy who makes up an answer.
That completely depends on if there's a trust, as well as if it's inbound, outbound or bidirectional. Now if a tree falls down in a workgroup, you'll just know it was from a small blast of WINS.
Are you joking, or are you just that incredibly uneducated?
While plenty of people may dispute the deity of Jesus Christ, there's no shortage of historical documentation that he existed, and had a major influence on society at the time. I'm not just talking about the Bible, either. There were many who witnessed his speaking and the things he did and wrote about him... Jews, Greeks, Romans, many of them did not believe he was the Christ, but they still wrote about him.
To say that there's no compelling evidence that there ever was such a person as Jesus Christ is similar to saying there's no compelling evidence that there ever was such a person as George Washington, except that there's probably MORE evidence for the existence of Jesus.
Now, it's true, I very strongly doubt you'll ever find his DNA.
We're almost there already. Win Phone 7 is a bit short on apps perhaps, but already has many features the other two don't (and yes, there are some features the others have that WinPhone 7 doesn't).
There's still plenty of room for improvement in Windows Phone, but it's been improving rapidly already. I've owned one for about 6 months now I think (since the HTC Arrive came out on Sprint, whenever that was). It's been more stable than the "feature phones" I've owned, with the exception of my original Nokia 6185 in the '90s. If this keeps up, with Google's "Screw Security and Privacy" attitude, and Apple's "You can have it our way or you can't have it at all" "we know what hardware you want" attitude, I think Microsoft may even be able to break the stranglehold, with proper execution.
So, Mr. "I've been registered with the Linux Counter for 14 months, I'm so l33t"... I know it's made by the company everyone loves to hate, but have you actually tried out a Mango phone?
-- Linux user # 292874 (Believe it or not, it's possible for someone to like and use more than one OS.)
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Interesting. I haven't researched it myself, but at a guess I'll bet there's a substantially bigger gap if we compare homicides instead of "firearm-related deaths." I suspect (but at the moment have no data to back this up) that Mexico has a significantly higher homicide-by-firearm rate and a significantly lower suicide-by-firearm rate.
Even without narrowing the scope to homicides, we see that a country with about 83% fewer guns per capita has a firearm-death rate about 8.5% higher than the US. I won't say gun laws are the causative factor here, there's substantially more factors that play into it, but it's clear from this that a simple "reducing the number of guns will reduce the firearm death rate" argument is also not valid.
I think when one starts to compare gun laws vs. crime rates in enough countries, it becomes pretty clear that they're not strongly related. There are contries with very liberal (where liberal = non-restrictive) gun laws, and some of the lowest violent crime rates in the world. There are others with extremely restrictive gun laws and extremely high violent crime rates, and then there are countries (and even areas within countries) where things are the exact opposite (restrictive with low crime rates, and liberal with high crime rates). Then there are a bunch of countries in the middle with regards to both. The simplest conclusion? Guns can be used to commit crimes, and they can be used to stop it, and there's probably not much true correlation between gun laws and crime rates. It's much more likely that crime rates are due to cultural and socio-economic issues. Television, movies and video games may or may not play into this. It probably does to some extent, though likely not as much as parenting practices and other adult influences during a child's development.
England: 332 knife deaths, population 5,3013,000
US: 1704 knife deaths, population 311,591,917
England: 1 in 159678 chance of dying by knife.
US: 1 in 182859 chance of dying by knife.
Englanders therefore are approximately 14.5% more likely to die by knife than Americans, averaged out.
Now, what are the total per-capita homicide rates between the nations? Forget what tool was used, and forget total numbers, it's the per-capita that matters.
You forgot the bit about "if need be, your society." If you need to understand the rationale behind this, look at any of the Arab countries who have recently decided "enough with our tyrant leader." Do you believe any of them could have been successful in casting off their oppressors without access to assault weapons? And are you truly so naive as to believe we couldn't end up with the same kind of oppression here?
The second amendment, at the most basic levels, exists to ensure "the security of a free state." If this isn't something you care about, then feel free to move to a less free state.
What's the per-capita "gun death" rate in Mexico? Better yet, let's scope it to homicides, as "gun deaths" is somewhat of a weasel term.
Compare firearm-related per-capita homicide rates in Mexico (where firearms and ammunition are tightly controlled and regulated) with those in the US. Better yet, compare with per-capita homicide rates in the US, excluding places that tightly regulate and control firearms, such as Chicago, Washington D.C., and New York.
If you don't give a shit about our rights, do the rest of us a favor and GTFO of our country (assuming you're in it). And if you're not in it, then do us a favor and piss off.
You could have simply stopped at "If only there was an OSS alternative to Office 2013..."
There's really not. OpenOffice/LibreOffice is ok for some stuff, I used it for years because I didn't have the money to buy MSFT Office, but now that I have a few years experience using the real thing I find it very frustrating to go back (I have a couple Linux systems where I don't have much choice, and any time I have to use a spreadsheet I realize how far behind OOo really is).
Higher education (college, university, whatever you want to call it) has never that I know of been considered a "right" to be enjoyed by all. It has always been reserved for the financially well-off (those who can afford it), the financially stupid (those willing to take on loads of debt for something not guaranteed to provide a return on investment), and the financially gifted (those given scholarships for any number of reasons).
There have also always been people who don't fit in any of the above categories, to whom a formal higher education is denied. Some of them make up for it through self-motivated study, obtaining books from the nearby library, etc. I suspect the free online courses appeal most to this class of people, and I suggest that if they are sufficiently motivated, available broadband internet will not be a limiting factor. There are still books available covering most material needed, and anything only available online can be accessed at a local library or similar place in any developed country.
For those who might say "what about the undeveloped countries," I say those people have bigger things to worry about, like where the next meal is coming from, how to get clean water, etc.
Funny that you got modded up for this while I got modded down for saying nearly the same thing in a more humorous manner. Perhaps I should have used refrigerators instead of Santa and his Militant Reindeer Army as my example.
Maybe the mods are cold today, and have become slow (and not able to appreciate humour) as a result.
Another study recently concluded that things such as water and gasoline evaporate less quickly when they're kept very cold. Also, oils, molasses, and other liquids get thicker and move more slowly. This is now summed up as the Santa Clause law of nature, that is, when things are as cold as Santa's nose on a North Pole night, they tend to happen more slowly.
The converse side of this is that when things warm up from North Pole temperatures, they happen much more quickly. This is why Santa and his militant reindeer army are able to very quickly deliver AR-15's and lots of ammo to all the good little American boys and girls on Revolution Eve.
Right behing Windows Phone, Blackberry, and Symbian.
Give them a year or two, and enough advertising budget, and maybe they can hit 0.1% overall market share.
Maybe it'll be an all-out game changer, but so far it's taken companies with billions of dollars in the bank to pull that off in the mobile space.
And the Dans are both tools (Kaminsky and Bernstein). And to the guy who suggested hosts files with nasty scripts copying things to and fro, ummm... NO. Sounds like some of the horror stories I've heard of how things are cobbled together at a certain large Seattle-based internet retailer, and it's the kind of hair-brained idea a DevOps fan might dream up.
It really depends what you're trying to do. D-Link's low-power gigabit switches are great, for a dumb switch, and most home users really don't need a managed switch. Sucking down only around 8 watts of power, they're nice and cool to the touch and pretty hard to beat. I also have an old D-Link 802.11g router that has travelled around the world with me, giving me wireless internet in the hotels that only provided wired. It's nothing fancy, but small and has gotten the job done, and has stood up to all the baggage handlers that have thrown it.
Linksys, eh, some of it's ok, some of it's crap. My main router is an old WRT54G or GL (It runs Linux, but I think it might be the early G before they split them into G/GL). The radio on it died some time ago, but the router portion still works OK and has survived several power issues that have killed my cable modems. One of these days I'll get around to configuring the Cisco that's sitting in the garage, but so far I haven't cared enough to bother with it.
Belkin, I decided all of it was crap the day I bought one and tried to change the internal IP to something other than the default 192.168.1.1, and it told me I couldn't. I called their tech support and they told me that was by design. I told them it was a crappy design, and returned the POS.
Surprisingly, some of the best (for the price) consumer gear I've used is the AirLink101 that Fry's used to sell. It was cheap, had decent build quality, and generally had all the features I really needed at 1/3 or less the price of Linksys.
I can't comment on Buffalo as I haven't used their stuff.
Actually, Perchlorate isn't a compound, and it's certainly not a mineral. Perchlorates are a family of salts, and you need a word in front of "Perchlorate" for it to be useful. Something like Ammonium Percholorate or Sodium Perchlorate, etc. So, I want to know, what kind of perchlorates did they find?
The most common utility for full-disk encryption on workstations in enterprise/government is probably going to be bitlocker, since it's already included free with the OS most of them use. Bitlocker in the enterprise already has the "lost/forgotten password" issue solved quite nicely, in that on a domain-joined machine it backs it up to AD and a sufficiently-privileged helpdesk or admin person can recover things for a hapless forgetful user.
Some might argue that this is slightly less secure, but the average workstation/laptop thief isn't going to have access to an organization's AD infrastructure, and anyone who does have that access doesn't need to steal physical hardware to obtain sensitive data.
Don't forget, it wasn't very many years ago that Android was under 2% compared with the likes of Blackberry, and a bit further back Apple could only dream of having the market share Palm had.
The mobile space changes rapidly. Consumers are fickle. iOS is growing old, and people are becoming bored with it. Android might be popular (hey, the devices are cheap), but a lot of people with those devices aren't really enthralled with them. If there's anything the computing and especially the mobile space should have taught us by now, it's not to count someone out just because they're late to the party.
Yeah... I'm pretty sure they fired everyone on that team and fumagated the building.
I'll take on your points one by one, and disagree on all of them:
Agreed. Nokia == BlackBerry.
That's quite a stretch... BlackBerry == early smartphone maker who has since refused to innovate and even refused for many years to use touchscreens. Nokia == early maker of "dumb phones" who, while being early to the smart phone game, never really did well in it, resting on their success in the dumb phone market. They have now woken up and started to pursue smart phones in a serious manner.
Device manufacturer means NOTHING in the mobile marketplace - operating system does!
Samsung is doing fantastic using Android, while HTC is very rapidly losing market share, and Motorola is a Has-Been. Device manufacturer means NOTHING? Please... I think HTCs shareholders would have some rather strong words for you.
Windows mobile is terrible and will continue to be terrible, so I'm not sure that it was much of a lifeline to begin with.
Have you actually used Windows Phone? (I mean 7, 7.5 or 8, not the old 6.5 or before). It's the only one of the major contendors that doesn't look like a smartphone swallowed Windows 95 and then puked icons all over itself. It's incredibly stable, and has a lot of built-ins that make a lot of the most common smart-phone tasks very simple and fast.
The market wants iOS and Android. Nobody else matters. Microsoft just has a lot of money so they pretend that people care about them as a mobile OS provider. They would make more money by manufacturing Android phones.
A lot of people I talk to want an alternative to the somewhat stale iOS and craptastic Android. I think Microsoft actually does have a chance, and with the amount they're investing in Windows Phone I think it's a pretty good chance at that. Oh yeah, and they already make a lot of money off Android phones... Love 'em or hate 'em, patents are a beautiful thing if you're on the right side of them.
Microsoft has made some serious mistakes in mobile, but they're hardly out of the game.
Note: In the interest of full disclosure, I currently work at Microsoft, though nowhere near the Phone or OS divisions. I do hope to see Microsoft succeed in the phone world, partly because I own stock in both Microsoft and Nokia, but my coworkers would tell you I have no problem bashing decisions I disagree with at the company.
There aren't many good uses for "little boxes" in a datacenter. For the things you mention, there are dedicated devices, there are big boxes, and there are VMs hosted on big boxes.
1) Time - If you care enough to have your own time server, you don't want this on a generic "little box." If you actually care about accurate time, you'll want a CDMA/GPS/WWVB time device (assuming US, if outside the US use whatever is available for your locale). The easiest setup will be CDMA or WWVB, as long as you get a decent signal where the device sits. I've had good luck with End-Run Technology's gear. GPS works great for time, but won't typically get signal inside a datacenter so you have to run a lot of coax and mount and antenna on the roof, which your datacenter may or may not be OK with. CDMA relies on accurate time, and is usually synchronized directly to GPS, so you can consider it nearly as accurate while being a whole lot easier to set up.
If you don't care enough to buy a dedicated NTP device and are just looking for something to keep all your local gear in sync, a VM will work OK, though it's better to put it on a physical box with a real RTC. If you do host it virtual, make sure you disable any virtual time sync providers your virtualization platform may normally use, or else bad things happen (your NTP server syncs with the RTC on the host, the host syncs with the NTP server, they both drift).
For monitoring, if you have any real number of servers, you'll want it on its own beefy box. Decent monitoring is surprisingly resource-intensive. Any other "little boxes" (dhcp, administrative, etc) are a perfect use for VMs.
Yup... tried many, many others back in the day, starting with some debian floppy, going to a couple they had at Costco, finally around 2000-2001 timeframe discovered Slack and haven't looked back. Pretty much all my home hardware runs on it (other than routers). Funny thing, several months back I had to do some maintenance on our NTP devices at work (due to hardware failures, one lost the CDMA radio and the other froze up, probably due to bad RAM or the old clunker 486 CPU it uses), and found out they were running Slack too.
Interesting. I have no certs, and I work for a Fortune 100 company. In fact, when asked about certs in an interview, my typical response is along the lines of "I'd rather know my stuff than have some expensive pieces of paper that say I might know my stuff."
Lack of certs has in no way hindered my professional career, and I believe has probably helped it a few times.
If I ever look at your resume, you probably won't get hired... A long list of certs isn't an absolute blocker, but it IS a huge red flag. At the very least, expect to get grilled 10x harder on the subjects those certs are supposed to cover, and to get 10x less sympathy if you don't know the answers.
The most successful hires I've had were without certs. One of them was a guy we hired straight from Olive Garden where he'd been a bartender.
A successful hire doesn't need to come in knowing how to do everything, they just need to come in knowing how to learn. Someone who says "I don't know, but I know how to find out." is miles ahead of the guy who makes up an answer.
That completely depends on if there's a trust, as well as if it's inbound, outbound or bidirectional. Now if a tree falls down in a workgroup, you'll just know it was from a small blast of WINS.
Are you joking, or are you just that incredibly uneducated?
While plenty of people may dispute the deity of Jesus Christ, there's no shortage of historical documentation that he existed, and had a major influence on society at the time. I'm not just talking about the Bible, either. There were many who witnessed his speaking and the things he did and wrote about him... Jews, Greeks, Romans, many of them did not believe he was the Christ, but they still wrote about him.
To say that there's no compelling evidence that there ever was such a person as Jesus Christ is similar to saying there's no compelling evidence that there ever was such a person as George Washington, except that there's probably MORE evidence for the existence of Jesus.
Now, it's true, I very strongly doubt you'll ever find his DNA.
We're almost there already. Win Phone 7 is a bit short on apps perhaps, but already has many features the other two don't (and yes, there are some features the others have that WinPhone 7 doesn't).
There's still plenty of room for improvement in Windows Phone, but it's been improving rapidly already. I've owned one for about 6 months now I think (since the HTC Arrive came out on Sprint, whenever that was). It's been more stable than the "feature phones" I've owned, with the exception of my original Nokia 6185 in the '90s. If this keeps up, with Google's "Screw Security and Privacy" attitude, and Apple's "You can have it our way or you can't have it at all" "we know what hardware you want" attitude, I think Microsoft may even be able to break the stranglehold, with proper execution.
Even nerds occasionally like their primary communications devices to "just work."
So, Mr. "I've been registered with the Linux Counter for 14 months, I'm so l33t"... I know it's made by the company everyone loves to hate, but have you actually tried out a Mango phone?
-- Linux user # 292874 (Believe it or not, it's possible for someone to like and use more than one OS.)