I am glad to see someone has got a book out about this package. If you need something like Pentaho, then writing simple translation scripts is probably not where you want to be. Kettle has a steep learning curve, but has proven to be reasonably reliable, and very flexible.
In one of the referred articles on the Congo, it mentions that cassiterite is one of the ores that is being faught over. Cassiterite is the primary source of tin. Congo is one of the primary sources of cassiterite.
They want to ban tin. Tin goes in solder. Solder holds chips to circuit boards. Circuit boards have via's lined in tin to allow for complex circuit design. Ban tin and you make most of our tech industry dead overnight. Now I know there are people that want to return our world to the caves, and this may be a good step in that direction. But do all/. readers really want themselves to be reduced to sending their comments in on Slates?
I've always regarded HH's as one-hit wonders. If they send you to a job (however appropriate) and you decline/fail the interview/or hate the "opportunity" then they just wander off anyway. Now, I will say I have known some headhunters for more than 15 years, but they are few - they know my disagreeable traits. In general, you just need to move on.
As for resume modifications, etc... rub behind your ears, if still damp, then "No" they never change aaanyyyything.
Interestingly enough, not all businesses have a network, in fact the vast majority of businesses still don't have a network. Many are just 1 to 20 person companies, I agree, but they form the bulk of the working population. They don't have networks because either the business doesn't justify it (which is often hard to believe) or they can't afford to get someone in to do it for them. Ma & Pa are not calling in IBM. They need John & Jane. They need the personal touch. These little companies often have to buy inappropriate package software. It's in these areas that the Glory quietly continues. Building computers & building software for the little folk. Because the little folk are in fact doing the interesting stuff, and them doing interesting stuff means we as the IT players are helping that interesting stuff get done better. Which is glorious!
Political asylum is a mugs game. The grass is always the same shade of green of the other side of the fence, which ever way you go.
You need a better angle.
I chose Climatological Asylum. The weather is miserable in the UK (most years, though not this by all accounts), with cold damp winters leading to cold damp summers. It made me really depressed, so I fled. Love New Mexico, much better weather. And the grass is always browner on the other side of the fence!
Only the Icelandic people would think you stupid from fleeing on climatological grounds.
I too live in NJ, and commute into Gotham. It takes a total of between 3 and 4 hrs a day to do the train rides. The parking is approx $1/day (resident perk), which equates to a saving of $30-$40/day if I were to pay for parking in the City.
The wear and tear on the car is covered by others, the wear and tear on me to drive that journey, is simply inestimable. I know that I can eat babes after about an hours commute in the car, and this commute could easily be 2 hrs each morning. Nerves would be wrecked, stomach churned, finger nails eaten, and hair ripped out.
NJ Transit may be the worst rail company on the face of the planet, but I can still get to work (relatively) reliably, can sleep on the train, and look down on all the poor schlubs stuck in their tin coffins on the Garden State Parkway. A monthly pass cost $227, good for multiple trips a day, weekend travel, and any of the tram rail lines in NJ.
The 18th century way to travel still works well in the 21st Century - where it's available.
The only people left that haven't a clue about what goes on in dockyards at Faslane are the British Taxpayers. Everyone else has spies there and photographs the place as needed.
Cold War? Heck this goes back a bit further than that. They haven't forgiven us for Agincort, or Joan of Arc. And we haven't given up needling them about it.
I live in this small town, at the top of the hill is a large edifice to modern technology. The town's zipcode is immortalised in "The C Programming Language" book. K&R both used to be seen in the local Friendly's.
Things are different now, though. The huge carparks have been empty for years, some of the multiple entrances are often closed on workdays. I have been in the buildings and they smell of history, but sadly they don't smell of the future. This story is simply the black filling in the final period in a long story. The fact is the place has done little of it's famous research in more than a decade. It's an empty shell of a place. C was created there, Unix too, even C++. Many local businesses have failed or moved out as the Labs have withered away. The gist of this story is long overdue.
Others have pointed at the Linksys RV series of Routers, I use the Netgear FVS 336G. It provides similar features, namely dual WAN connections at up to 100Mb, fail over of these ports or some load balancing. These solutions are far simpler to implement than hanging a server out into the Internet breeze, with all its ports naked to the wiles of every hacker on the planet, and trying to configure it as a router with, quite frankly quirky routing tables (yup, I tried that.)
These routers cost between $150 & $300, and provide lots of simple to configure security.
I guess I have to explain that the IBM PC released in the UK in 1981 was a piece of junk even in comparison to the products then on the market. Machines such as the Sirius and Vector microcomputers, even manufacturers like Northgate, all used MS-DOS 1.x and made much better, cheaper boxes. The IBM PC was hideously expensive and sold only as separate components. You got next to no memory as standard, and there were no hard drive options. Even Commodore 8000's had external hard drives at the time. The Sirius and Vector had bit mapped graphics displays, though in shades of green, but much better resolution than CGA. The floppy disk drives on the IBM PC were limited to 160KB initially, before being made DS and doing a dull 320KB. Commodores and Sirius's did a megabyte or more out of the box.
Junk is precisely what the original IBM PC was. Don't look back with rose tinted glasses.
This a preposterously technically flawed list. Before the IBM PC came out all "PC's" were actually called Micro Computers (shortened to the character mu followed by a p). Therefore, no Apples. Amiga's, Atari's, Sinclair's, or other makes, unless emulating the IBM, were ever strictly PC's. The term Personal Computer just didn't exist prior to IBMs release of that god awful expensive piece of junk.
Then what you do is encrypt your sig at the end of the email... NSA sees the email, has to spend 20 seconds decrypting to find out the encrypted sig says "Hello, I'm a jerk, but a good one."
A few days of zillions of these, and those ABC morons will be sitting smuggly until a Government gentleman or gentlewoman comes in, and "interests" them in continuing their station licenses, because it's costing a certain government department millions of dollars in wasted time and effort.
She was just listening to the noise, must have been very soothing. If you remember, but then I doubt many do, mainframe consoles used to come with a speaker that was hooked up over the data bus. It was there to listen to the computer - not that you really could - though people wrote programs that did nothing other than cause the gentle hiss to become melodic for a few moments.
I think this can be found in Churchill's History of the Second World War; German production in WWII was not exceeded by the Allies until mid-1944. Now, the Germans had an issue or two with oil, but it was late in the day that the Allies managed to out produce their foe.
And half a world away is about 400 miles. Horizons, boost phase topping out at say 100,000 feet before rockets contain insufficient fuel to blow them up, and incidentals like atmospheric pollution, sort of limit this 'half a world away' drivel.
Americans have such a poor sense of Geography.
One of these ABL's will have to fly within spitting distance of NK to have a hope of shooting down something coming from that country. With the other 3 ABL's we will have lots of opportunities to burst party balloons all over Nevada and California.
Just take care when you get a job, that you also get eventual pay raises. Being recruited at a few bucks shy of a bazillion dollars doesn't mean they will ever pay you anymore. Gone are the days when new recruits could easily see their pay double or triple in the first year. Now it is more common to find that at the end of your first year you hear that the new intake is getting starting pay that is more than your salary and it's meagre 2% pay increase, because "competition for new hires is so stiff."
Of course if you get 60K straight out school and happen to live in say Kansas City, enjoy. You will live like a king. Just make sure that you don't get 30K for the NYC job.
I would agree that the Universities SHOULD teach concepts that don't go out of style, but the reality is that computing moves far faster than University courses can evolve. I was not taught about structured methodolgies, Jacobson was prevalent at the time, and things like SSADM and Yourdon were unthinkable - forget about OO, as it hadn't even become a glint in anyone's eyes at that time.
As for languages, I was taught Basic, Fortran, Cobol and Algol. The only ones of use being Basic and Algol. Today's Universities seem besotted with some minor language called Java. So your assertion that these fine institutions teach rarely seen languages has to be taken with a grain of salt.
As for mathematicians, the formulae they use don't and haven't changed. There are new theorems, I agree. But the means to calculate things hasn't changed; 6 x 6 is still 36, whether its done on paper, on a slide rule, a calculator, or using some equation solving software on a Cray.
In CS, how we build systems is the name of the game - the results always have to be the same. How we construct our systems has changed out of all recognition in the last 30 years. How Universities manage this change, and how we as practitioners manage to evolve, becomes of paramount concern if we wish to continue earning a living working with computers.
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I am glad to see someone has got a book out about this package. If you need something like Pentaho, then writing simple translation scripts is probably not where you want to be. Kettle has a steep learning curve, but has proven to be reasonably reliable, and very flexible.
In one of the referred articles on the Congo, it mentions that cassiterite is one of the ores that is being faught over. Cassiterite is the primary source of tin. Congo is one of the primary sources of cassiterite.
They want to ban tin. Tin goes in solder. Solder holds chips to circuit boards. Circuit boards have via's lined in tin to allow for complex circuit design. Ban tin and you make most of our tech industry dead overnight. Now I know there are people that want to return our world to the caves, and this may be a good step in that direction. But do all /. readers really want themselves to be reduced to sending their comments in on Slates?
I've always regarded HH's as one-hit wonders. If they send you to a job (however appropriate) and you decline/fail the interview/or hate the "opportunity" then they just wander off anyway. Now, I will say I have known some headhunters for more than 15 years, but they are few - they know my disagreeable traits. In general, you just need to move on.
As for resume modifications, etc... rub behind your ears, if still damp, then "No" they never change aaanyyyything.
Interestingly enough, not all businesses have a network, in fact the vast majority of businesses still don't have a network. Many are just 1 to 20 person companies, I agree, but they form the bulk of the working population. They don't have networks because either the business doesn't justify it (which is often hard to believe) or they can't afford to get someone in to do it for them. Ma & Pa are not calling in IBM. They need John & Jane. They need the personal touch. These little companies often have to buy inappropriate package software. It's in these areas that the Glory quietly continues. Building computers & building software for the little folk. Because the little folk are in fact doing the interesting stuff, and them doing interesting stuff means we as the IT players are helping that interesting stuff get done better. Which is glorious!
Political asylum is a mugs game. The grass is always the same shade of green of the other side of the fence, which ever way you go.
You need a better angle.
I chose Climatological Asylum. The weather is miserable in the UK (most years, though not this by all accounts), with cold damp winters leading to cold damp summers. It made me really depressed, so I fled. Love New Mexico, much better weather. And the grass is always browner on the other side of the fence!
Only the Icelandic people would think you stupid from fleeing on climatological grounds.
Interesting. You're barefooted?
I too live in NJ, and commute into Gotham. It takes a total of between 3 and 4 hrs a day to do the train rides. The parking is approx $1/day (resident perk), which equates to a saving of $30-$40/day if I were to pay for parking in the City.
The wear and tear on the car is covered by others, the wear and tear on me to drive that journey, is simply inestimable. I know that I can eat babes after about an hours commute in the car, and this commute could easily be 2 hrs each morning. Nerves would be wrecked, stomach churned, finger nails eaten, and hair ripped out.
NJ Transit may be the worst rail company on the face of the planet, but I can still get to work (relatively) reliably, can sleep on the train, and look down on all the poor schlubs stuck in their tin coffins on the Garden State Parkway. A monthly pass cost $227, good for multiple trips a day, weekend travel, and any of the tram rail lines in NJ.
The 18th century way to travel still works well in the 21st Century - where it's available.
The only people left that haven't a clue about what goes on in dockyards at Faslane are the British Taxpayers. Everyone else has spies there and photographs the place as needed.
Cold War? Heck this goes back a bit further than that.
They haven't forgiven us for Agincort, or Joan of Arc. And we haven't given up needling them about it.
I live in this small town, at the top of the hill is a large edifice to modern technology. The town's zipcode is immortalised in "The C Programming Language" book. K&R both used to be seen in the local Friendly's.
Things are different now, though. The huge carparks have been empty for years, some of the multiple entrances are often closed on workdays. I have been in the buildings and they smell of history, but sadly they don't smell of the future. This story is simply the black filling in the final period in a long story. The fact is the place has done little of it's famous research in more than a decade. It's an empty shell of a place. C was created there, Unix too, even C++. Many local businesses have failed or moved out as the Labs have withered away. The gist of this story is long overdue.
Others have pointed at the Linksys RV series of Routers, I use the Netgear FVS 336G. It provides similar features, namely dual WAN connections at up to 100Mb, fail over of these ports or some load balancing. These solutions are far simpler to implement than hanging a server out into the Internet breeze, with all its ports naked to the wiles of every hacker on the planet, and trying to configure it as a router with, quite frankly quirky routing tables (yup, I tried that.)
These routers cost between $150 & $300, and provide lots of simple to configure security.
There I was thinking that the year was speeding by, little did I know we had got to April 1st already!
I think there is just time for a bath.
Troll!!!
I guess I have to explain that the IBM PC released in the UK in 1981 was a piece of junk even in comparison to the products then on the market. Machines such as the Sirius and Vector microcomputers, even manufacturers like Northgate, all used MS-DOS 1.x and made much better, cheaper boxes. The IBM PC was hideously expensive and sold only as separate components. You got next to no memory as standard, and there were no hard drive options. Even Commodore 8000's had external hard drives at the time. The Sirius and Vector had bit mapped graphics displays, though in shades of green, but much better resolution than CGA. The floppy disk drives on the IBM PC were limited to 160KB initially, before being made DS and doing a dull 320KB. Commodores and Sirius's did a megabyte or more out of the box.
Junk is precisely what the original IBM PC was. Don't look back with rose tinted glasses.
This a preposterously technically flawed list. Before the IBM PC came out all "PC's" were actually called Micro Computers (shortened to the character mu followed by a p). Therefore, no Apples. Amiga's, Atari's, Sinclair's, or other makes, unless emulating the IBM, were ever strictly PC's. The term Personal Computer just didn't exist prior to IBMs release of that god awful expensive piece of junk.
Then what you do is encrypt your sig at the end of the email... NSA sees the email, has to spend 20 seconds decrypting to find out the encrypted sig says "Hello, I'm a jerk, but a good one."
A few days of zillions of these, and those ABC morons will be sitting smuggly until a Government gentleman or gentlewoman comes in, and "interests" them in continuing their station licenses, because it's costing a certain government department millions of dollars in wasted time and effort.
Just a thought.
Seconded!
Great movie. Spooky opening credits with the Universal globe somehow - different!
She was just listening to the noise, must have been very soothing. If you remember, but then I doubt many do, mainframe consoles used to come with a speaker that was hooked up over the data bus. It was there to listen to the computer - not that you really could - though people wrote programs that did nothing other than cause the gentle hiss to become melodic for a few moments.
Did you ever notice that some spellings of Emmett are can be Emit, which is Time spelt backwards?
Milo O'Shea as Duran-Duran. Who could be really scientific or wicked with Jane Fonda wandering around in a see-through plastic bra?
I think this can be found in Churchill's History of the Second World War; German production in WWII was not exceeded by the Allies until mid-1944. Now, the Germans had an issue or two with oil, but it was late in the day that the Allies managed to out produce their foe.
And half a world away is about 400 miles. Horizons, boost phase topping out at say 100,000 feet before rockets contain insufficient fuel to blow them up, and incidentals like atmospheric pollution, sort of limit this 'half a world away' drivel.
Americans have such a poor sense of Geography.
One of these ABL's will have to fly within spitting distance of NK to have a hope of shooting down something coming from that country. With the other 3 ABL's we will have lots of opportunities to burst party balloons all over Nevada and California.
Just take care when you get a job, that you also get eventual pay raises. Being recruited at a few bucks shy of a bazillion dollars doesn't mean they will ever pay you anymore. Gone are the days when new recruits could easily see their pay double or triple in the first year. Now it is more common to find that at the end of your first year you hear that the new intake is getting starting pay that is more than your salary and it's meagre 2% pay increase, because "competition for new hires is so stiff."
Of course if you get 60K straight out school and happen to live in say Kansas City, enjoy. You will live like a king. Just make sure that you don't get 30K for the NYC job.
I would agree that the Universities SHOULD teach concepts that don't go out of style, but the reality is that computing moves far faster than University courses can evolve. I was not taught about structured methodolgies, Jacobson was prevalent at the time, and things like SSADM and Yourdon were unthinkable - forget about OO, as it hadn't even become a glint in anyone's eyes at that time.
As for languages, I was taught Basic, Fortran, Cobol and Algol. The only ones of use being Basic and Algol. Today's Universities seem besotted with some minor language called Java. So your assertion that these fine institutions teach rarely seen languages has to be taken with a grain of salt.
As for mathematicians, the formulae they use don't and haven't changed. There are new theorems, I agree. But the means to calculate things hasn't changed; 6 x 6 is still 36, whether its done on paper, on a slide rule, a calculator, or using some equation solving software on a Cray.
In CS, how we build systems is the name of the game - the results always have to be the same. How we construct our systems has changed out of all recognition in the last 30 years. How Universities manage this change, and how we as practitioners manage to evolve, becomes of paramount concern if we wish to continue earning a living working with computers.