I face a similar dilemma. While I'd much prefer to take a selection of the better certifications (SANS, GIAC and several others), the reality of my professional life is that, until I get an MSc in CS/IT, many doors are closed to me. This is not speculation - I am occasionally asked to do a certain job by the person running the project/mission but the HR people look at my National Diploma (three year full time course at an Irish University, 1983) and say "sorry, we require minimum post-graduate degree". My almost 20 years in the industry is not considered at all.
So, I'm about to sign up for an online MSc from a reputable university. Two years of solid work should make my career prospects quite rosy.
Unless, of course, I behave like I did while an undergraduate...
If I put a website online, even if it's contents are copyright, surely anything which brings traffic to that website cannot be held responsible for subsequent abuse of the content? This is especially true if the intent of the person/tool which brings the traffic to my site is not to breach copyright but to connect visitor with content?
If this can be banned, then we have to hold the Yellow Pages publishers guilty if a bank robber looks up the address of banks...
It's just possible that it may be complete and utter nonsense too. If Mr. Ballmer says he hasn't seen much in the way of technical innovation in Open Source, he's either not looking in the right places or he's telling porkies.
The scenario, it must be acknowledged, was not conducive to probing questions, lets face it. Both men inside the tent pissing out.
This is serious advice. Don't put your dreams on hold until your career has been well established. If you do, you'll wake up one morning years or decades down the road and it will be too late.
After I finished in college, I became a musician - something I always wanted to do. This evolved into running a recording studio. I also worked in the theatre - because I always wanted to act too! The skills I learned in these professions have stood me well to this day. About 5 years out of college, I got my first "conventional" job.
Now, in my early forties, my career is where I want it to be. I'm still trying new things but staying within the ball park of my qualifications and experience.
Some of my peer group who left school and immersed themselves immediately and deeply into their career paths are now hitting their mid-life crises with varying consequences.
So, find a comfortable place along the spectrum which has career/salary/prospects at one end and reckless abandon at the other.
Good luck to you and remember - don't rely on the advice of strangers...
Slashdotters who regularly vent their anger at Micro$oft's monopoly should read about the diamond industry, monopoly and de Beers.
Unlke MS, the diamond trade costs lives. Sierra Leone, Libera and other West African countries are in ruins because of conflict diamonds. A good book is Blood Diamonds which tells the story of how gems destroyed Sierra Leone.
I don't do handhelds. If it doesn't fit in my pocket, it might as well be a real computer. And none of the handhelds are.
Typical Linus, iron fist in a velvet glove. Wonderful stuff. I was conflicted about this issue (whether or not to get a powerful handheld) but the belly laugh when I read this convinced me to keep computing on my desk (or lap) and keep the gadgets pocket sized.
Congratulations Linus on your deserved selection as most influential.
If the flash memory cannot be recovered - and it will take quite a while to figure that out - the team must develop new procedures to operate the entire mission with the RAM memory.
Okay/. - you have no Flash memory but oodles of RAM. You have to go to sleep when the sun goes down. How do you reprogramme Spirit to deliver the objectives in these, new circumstances?
I ask out of curiosity and humility - I have NO idea!!
It's easy to picture Microsoft using its Windows monopoly to lasso people into using its search--even if its search is slightly clunkier than Google's. That scenario won't happen, says Brin. He thinks the company with the superior technology will triumph: "If they force users to use MSN Search and it's inferior, it will cause lots of problems for them."
Forgive me Brin, but Microsoft have made heaps of money without problems by selling technically inferior products. Users forced to search on MSN will experience the problems but the vast majority of them will not migrate from the Microsoft solution.
Why IPO Google at all? Keep it privately owned and to hell with the SEC and having to jump through hoops.
I visited the SCO Roadshow page but could not see any reference to HP on there. It refers to Microlite as sponsors. I also found the place where you can email HP CEO Carly Fiorino, but decided to confirm HP's involvement with SCO in general but the Roadshow in particular before letting rip at HP.
Strange,.. I got NT patch from here.. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/ default. asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp W here were you looking....
I didn't ask for an interpretation of St. Lucia law. I stated my interpretation of it qualified by "I might be wrong". I did ask/. readers for their experiences in other countries.
I raised no principled objection to licencing of 802.11/2.4Ghz - just that US$400 per link per anum - (say, 100 subscribers - that's US$40,000 PER ANUM) rendered any business model non-viable.
If your response had some links to the "many countries" in which operators are required to contribute to the community, hell, I'd have modded it up as insightful!
I'm sorry if this comes across as cynical but the only sugggestion I can make is to avoid including "cool" in your criterium of what to teach or how to teach it.
It's almost as undesirable as having to include a toy in every meal a child eats at a fast food restaurant.
Gratuitous use of technology will not win people over to the subject matter. Also, you'll drive a wedge through the class - those with computer skills will be at an advantage while those without (and possibly with more aptitude for the real subject of your class) may be left behind or hide their lights under a bushel.
Is metering, securing, financing, billing, authenticating, supporting, marketting, *ing of the communication service more expensive than the cost of the bandwidth stolen by those who can MAC/IP spoof?
Slashdot Mirror
Mosquitoes suck.
Forgive me, but isn't this sort of stating the obvious?
I face a similar dilemma. While I'd much prefer to take a selection of the better certifications (SANS, GIAC and several others), the reality of my professional life is that, until I get an MSc in CS/IT, many doors are closed to me. This is not speculation - I am occasionally asked to do a certain job by the person running the project/mission but the HR people look at my National Diploma (three year full time course at an Irish University, 1983) and say "sorry, we require minimum post-graduate degree". My almost 20 years in the industry is not considered at all.
So, I'm about to sign up for an online MSc from a reputable university. Two years of solid work should make my career prospects quite rosy.
Unless, of course, I behave like I did while an undergraduate...
If I put a website online, even if it's contents are copyright, surely anything which brings traffic to that website cannot be held responsible for subsequent abuse of the content? This is especially true if the intent of the person/tool which brings the traffic to my site is not to breach copyright but to connect visitor with content?
If this can be banned, then we have to hold the Yellow Pages publishers guilty if a bank robber looks up the address of banks...
(IANAL, as if you couldn't guess...).
That may be all well and true.
It's just possible that it may be complete and utter nonsense too. If Mr. Ballmer says he hasn't seen much in the way of technical innovation in Open Source, he's either not looking in the right places or he's telling porkies.
The scenario, it must be acknowledged, was not conducive to probing questions, lets face it. Both men inside the tent pissing out.
This is serious advice. Don't put your dreams on hold until your career has been well established. If you do, you'll wake up one morning years or decades down the road and it will be too late.
After I finished in college, I became a musician - something I always wanted to do. This evolved into running a recording studio. I also worked in the theatre - because I always wanted to act too! The skills I learned in these professions have stood me well to this day. About 5 years out of college, I got my first "conventional" job.
Now, in my early forties, my career is where I want it to be. I'm still trying new things but staying within the ball park of my qualifications and experience.
Some of my peer group who left school and immersed themselves immediately and deeply into their career paths are now hitting their mid-life crises with varying consequences.
So, find a comfortable place along the spectrum which has career/salary/prospects at one end and reckless abandon at the other.
Good luck to you and remember - don't rely on the advice of strangers...
Sorry, but am I the only one here who completely misses the point? Apple a threat to Linux? Are you completely mad?
(And yes, I have read the article and most of the comments.)
Apple pose no more threat to Linux than Prada.
Thank you and good night.
Slashdotters who regularly vent their anger at Micro$oft's monopoly should read about the diamond industry, monopoly and de Beers.
Unlke MS, the diamond trade costs lives. Sierra Leone, Libera and other West African countries are in ruins because of conflict diamonds. A good book is Blood Diamonds which tells the story of how gems destroyed Sierra Leone.
So, roll on artifical gems I say.
..Darwin, would he?
http://www.dryiceinfo.com/Pictures/dry%20ice%20bom b%20injury.jpg
This guy gets my vote for the Darwin Awards.
http://www.darwinawards.com/
ID has nothing to do with science
/. QOTD) - "Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man."
It has absolutely everything to do with science. It seeks to replace science, to diminish science, to silence science.
Don't worry about ennobling the quacks, worry about how to rebut their quackery. But ignore them at your peril.
Oh shucks - Napoleon Bonaparte said it so much better than me - (todays
Thanks Boney!
Why is is unacceptable to call a woman a bitch (resulting in the b%$^*) while no such typographical fig-leaf is required for mindless whore?
Just wondering.
(1) set up revenue mechanism /. wrapped as a thought piece /. effect
(2) post link on
(3) wait for the
(4) put offspring through college on the proceeds
I don't do handhelds. If it doesn't fit in my pocket, it might as well be a real computer. And none of the handhelds are.
Typical Linus, iron fist in a velvet glove. Wonderful stuff. I was conflicted about this issue (whether or not to get a powerful handheld) but the belly laugh when I read this convinced me to keep computing on my desk (or lap) and keep the gadgets pocket sized.
Congratulations Linus on your deserved selection as most influential.
...in favour of "Handwritting"
I, for one, cannot wayte.
If the flash memory cannot be recovered - and it will take quite a while to figure that out - the team must develop new procedures to operate the entire mission with the RAM memory.
/. - you have no Flash memory but oodles of RAM. You have to go to sleep when the sun goes down. How do you reprogramme Spirit to deliver the objectives in these, new circumstances?
Okay
I ask out of curiosity and humility - I have NO idea!!
Forgive me Brin, but Microsoft have made heaps of money without problems by selling technically inferior products. Users forced to search on MSN will experience the problems but the vast majority of them will not migrate from the Microsoft solution.
Why IPO Google at all? Keep it privately owned and to hell with the SEC and having to jump through hoops.
What about bonzi buddy
I was wondering when someone would raise the little purple f$#ker.
Why don't these software developers pick more appropriate animals for their products - you know, Hyena-Tor or Anglerfish Buddy?
I visited the SCO Roadshow page but could not see any reference to HP on there. It refers to Microlite as sponsors.
I also found the place where you can email HP CEO Carly Fiorino, but decided to confirm HP's involvement with SCO in general but the Roadshow in particular before letting rip at HP.
So, can anyone put HP together with SCO Roadshow?
Strange,.. I got NT patch from here../ default. asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp
W here were you looking....
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview
Michael
I've had this argument with ThinkGeek and now, God help me, I'm going to have it with Slashdot..
Why no other colours? White is boring but black is a no-no in a tropical country unless you're in airconditioned offices and home.
I'd LOVE to wear quite a few of the t-shirts I see on ThinkGeek. But not in black or white (they don't offer 'Both'). Why no other colours?
I didn't ask for an interpretation of St. Lucia law. I stated my interpretation of it qualified by "I might be wrong". I did ask /. readers for their experiences in other countries.
I raised no principled objection to licencing of 802.11/2.4Ghz - just that US$400 per link per anum - (say, 100 subscribers - that's US$40,000 PER ANUM) rendered any business model non-viable.
If your response had some links to the "many countries" in which operators are required to contribute to the community, hell, I'd have modded it up as insightful!
What Linus actually meant to say was:
I allege that SCO is full of IT
Clearly, something for which evidence might be hard to come by...
I'm sorry if this comes across as cynical but the only sugggestion I can make is to avoid including "cool" in your criterium of what to teach or how to teach it.
It's almost as undesirable as having to include a toy in every meal a child eats at a fast food restaurant.
Gratuitous use of technology will not win people over to the subject matter. Also, you'll drive a wedge through the class - those with computer skills will be at an advantage while those without (and possibly with more aptitude for the real subject of your class) may be left behind or hide their lights under a bushel.
Best of luck!
No phones, no internet, no electricity, just over forty thousand people in an area the size of Great Britain.
TwoTomCats has the details.
I think the question he just wanted to ask was:
Is metering, securing, financing, billing, authenticating, supporting, marketting, *ing of the communication service more expensive than the cost of the bandwidth stolen by those who can MAC/IP spoof?
If not, can I ask it anyway!!