Most of the "political" literacy rating methods define literacy as being able to read and write your own name. And no, I'm not joking. I wish I was. (In some places, that is called "functional illiterate", which is still worse).
I agree. On the other hand, they have to be careful about Microsoft. They are a very attractive target, and the obvious market for MS to take over first, before going for iPhone's and Android's.
Besides the obvious "stupid divaloper" joke, and I will refrain from making, I agree the problem is much bigger.
It is what I call the "Windows Mentality". "So simple anyone can do it" is another way of stating it.
Companies (Microsoft is a leader on this) sell their software as something extremely simple, that anyone can install, run and maintain. And, for someone who doesn't understand it (a good number of managers, CEOs and director), it actually looks that simple. Well, guess again ? It is not. I'm sorry, but your 17 years old intern (hourly rate = 1 candle bar) can't install and maintain a good server. You need to have someone who actually knows what he is doing, has the experience and the knowledge to do it well. Oh ? Too expensive, is it ? Really ? I suppose you take your Porche to be serviced buy that tatooed guy at the gas station too ?
Nope, sorry. There are no simple server. Windows, Linux (LAMP or otherwise). They all require skilled admins, skilled coders and skilled designers. And those cost money. They require regular and constant maintenance. In other words: money.
That is the real problem. Most companies are just cheap.
It is completely possible/practical to have zero downtime for a website. It just costs tons, and is usually not worth it (I'm talking telecom-level real redundancy here, including different brands of equipments etc).
It is also possible/practical to have zero loss transport. It just increases the cost exponentially. It is cheaper to pay insurance than to implement zero loss. Much cheaper. For both the transportation companies and their clients.
So, anyone who wants to demand zero loss would have to be willing to pay a big premium and, again, no one is.
However, if performance is your number TWO priority, and stability is your number ONE, you should use the stock kernel. If you are using an enterprise distribution, that is.
This is just stupid. Yes, some people will do better starting a company instead of going to college (myself included), but that is not the rule, that is the exception. The vast majority will do worst if they drop college to start a company. Heck, most will crash and burn starting a company even after college. The numbers of factor determining "success without/instead of college" is staggering, and it is not about $100k (heck, I did it with a quarter of that).
I second this recommendation. For small networks, HP is much better (simpler even) than Cisco. I wouldn't bother with Cisco (except routers) for anything less than 500 computers. And even at 500 I would still not be sure.
Technically speaking, there is already a definition of broadband. E2 or higher, meaning at least 2mbps.
So, in a nutshell, you are as clueless as those legislators you want to make decision on something they (and you) dont understand. Please do your homework.
Uncommon stupidity shloud be grounds for jail time. this guy got it easy,as far as I'm concerned.
On a different note, although that was not proved, since he could not access the forum or download the game, there is a chance he would not be able to login if he had it installed. this kind of online authentication for a single player game is just wrong, regardless of anything else.
Thank you. And I claim it as part of my responsibility that it is so. Maybe if more people tried to live in a kinder world, it would be better for everyone.
Right. Which is why cops get lots of psychological training to learn how to deal with the consequences of firing a gun. And why do many people are shot by mistake. Or why gun safety (keeping guns away from children) is still far from idea. Not to mention what would happen to those guns AFTER the civil war is over. Or how about all the amazing consequences of the last couple times USA gave rebels guns. You know what "arms race" is ? Expected consequence: escalation in violence. But what am I saying. I'm pretty sure anyone who advocates "giving them more weapon" studied all the possible consequence, including medium and long term, of that. So forgive me to stating the obvious.
You know, I was thinking along those lines. Considering the sheer numbler of nonpc devices running Linux, ranging from Android phones to CC machines, I have to wonder if embedded linux didn't surpass desktop/server computer in the number of instalations. In my house it is true, with 3 Linux computer and 5 (maybe more) linux based devices.
Shouldn't people at some point stop blaming outside influences for their own failings ?
I'm happily married. I'm a hardcore gamer, who spend a lot of time online. My wife hates computer games. We make it work fine. My daughter owns a notebook, spends a lot of time online. I don't have any kind of "network nanny" on her computer. So far, she hasn't committed mass murder in her school.
Go be a husband/wife and a parent. Stop blaming outside influences, computers, games, TV etc for your own failings. Own up to it.
Facebook don't force people to commit adultery. Videogames don't brainwash kids to murder other people. Deal with it.
That is exactly it. Which is why I advocate strongly for technical + CS. Someone with just the kind of knowledge you described (which is pretty much correct regarding CS), won't be able to make money for a company for a long time. The company would have to teach the person the knowledge he would get from technical school to get him started. Then later on, after a few years, as he progresses either inside the company, or from job to job (past the experience hump), then his CS degree will count as a plus with the knowledge he acquired. But not right after graduation.
So another option is for companies to hire people with technical degree, and get them enrolled on college. Even if they can't attend one of the big league universities because of his work/study schedule, it will still be better for the company.
The other options are hiring someone with a CS degree who attended technical school first, or having a college that will imbue the person with both the CS knowledge and the technical knowledge. In other words, a college that prepares the person for the job market in full.
Maybe I should have been more clear. Would you say, considering job positions in IT overall, most of them are in situations like yours, or most of them are on shops where the solution for performance is hardware upgrades ?
As I mentioned, I've encountered situations in the past where performance fine tunning was a big deal. Both in embedded applications and on TMN platforms. However, I would consider them to be the exception.
I still do code optimization myself now and then, and I have to say I quite enjoy it (yeah, I know I'm nuts, but I also program in assembly and used to manually edit sendmail.cf:D), but if anyone wants to shape their IT career, specially at the beginning, using that as a guideline, they will most likely starve.
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Most of the "political" literacy rating methods define literacy as being able to read and write your own name. And no, I'm not joking. I wish I was. (In some places, that is called "functional illiterate", which is still worse).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy makes for some very interesting reading for anyone interested in the subject.
I agree. On the other hand, they have to be careful about Microsoft. They are a very attractive target, and the obvious market for MS to take over first, before going for iPhone's and Android's.
Besides the obvious "stupid divaloper" joke, and I will refrain from making, I agree the problem is much bigger.
It is what I call the "Windows Mentality". "So simple anyone can do it" is another way of stating it.
Companies (Microsoft is a leader on this) sell their software as something extremely simple, that anyone can install, run and maintain. And, for someone who doesn't understand it (a good number of managers, CEOs and director), it actually looks that simple. Well, guess again ? It is not. I'm sorry, but your 17 years old intern (hourly rate = 1 candle bar) can't install and maintain a good server. You need to have someone who actually knows what he is doing, has the experience and the knowledge to do it well. Oh ? Too expensive, is it ? Really ? I suppose you take your Porche to be serviced buy that tatooed guy at the gas station too ?
Nope, sorry. There are no simple server. Windows, Linux (LAMP or otherwise). They all require skilled admins, skilled coders and skilled designers. And those cost money. They require regular and constant maintenance. In other words: money.
That is the real problem. Most companies are just cheap.
It is completely possible/practical to have zero downtime for a website. It just costs tons, and is usually not worth it (I'm talking telecom-level real redundancy here, including different brands of equipments etc).
It is also possible/practical to have zero loss transport. It just increases the cost exponentially. It is cheaper to pay insurance than to implement zero loss. Much cheaper. For both the transportation companies and their clients.
So, anyone who wants to demand zero loss would have to be willing to pay a big premium and, again, no one is.
However, if performance is your number TWO priority, and stability is your number ONE, you should use the stock kernel. If you are using an enterprise distribution, that is.
Redhat Enterprise Linux.
If you need something cheaper (no licenses), you can always go CentOS. Or you can mix both, having some RHEL and some CentOS machines.
This is just stupid. Yes, some people will do better starting a company instead of going to college (myself included), but that is not the rule, that is the exception.
The vast majority will do worst if they drop college to start a company. Heck, most will crash and burn starting a company even after college.
The numbers of factor determining "success without/instead of college" is staggering, and it is not about $100k (heck, I did it with a quarter of that).
I second this recommendation. For small networks, HP is much better (simpler even) than Cisco. I wouldn't bother with Cisco (except routers) for anything less than 500 computers. And even at 500 I would still not be sure.
Exactly so people will use an ATM machine, which is cheaper for the bank than having someone actually assisting the customer.
I don't know. After the "1 click" patent, I'm not sure I want Amazon to win this.
Even if the server doesn't belong (and isn't managed) by said organization ?
The part where the server is connected to the same network as the ones with private health information, thus lowering the overall security ?
That should have been "E1 or higher".
You dont need a law. Just a dictionary.
Unlimited = no limits
Technically speaking, there is already a definition of broadband. E2 or higher, meaning at least 2mbps.
So, in a nutshell, you are as clueless as those legislators you want to make decision on something they (and you) dont understand.
Please do your homework.
Uncommon stupidity shloud be grounds for jail time.
this guy got it easy,as far as I'm concerned.
On a different note, although that was not proved, since he could not access the forum or download the game, there is a chance he would not be able to login if he had it installed.
this kind of online authentication for a single player game is just wrong, regardless of anything else.
Thank you. And I claim it as part of my responsibility that it is so. Maybe if more people tried to live in a kinder world, it would be better for everyone.
Right. Which is why cops get lots of psychological training to learn how to deal with the consequences of firing a gun.
And why do many people are shot by mistake. Or why gun safety (keeping guns away from children) is still far from idea.
Not to mention what would happen to those guns AFTER the civil war is over.
Or how about all the amazing consequences of the last couple times USA gave rebels guns.
You know what "arms race" is ? Expected consequence: escalation in violence.
But what am I saying. I'm pretty sure anyone who advocates "giving them more weapon" studied all the possible consequence, including medium and long term, of that. So forgive me to stating the obvious.
Yes, Im sure more weapons is the way to solve it. Specially in the hands of people not trained to handle them.
I mean, what could go wrong ?
You know, I was thinking along those lines. Considering the sheer numbler of nonpc devices running Linux, ranging from Android phones to CC machines, I have to wonder if embedded linux didn't surpass desktop/server computer in the number of instalations. In my house it is true, with 3 Linux computer and 5 (maybe more) linux based devices.
So you are going to blame the site, not the person?
Shouldn't people at some point stop blaming outside influences for their own failings ?
I'm happily married. I'm a hardcore gamer, who spend a lot of time online. My wife hates computer games. We make it work fine.
My daughter owns a notebook, spends a lot of time online. I don't have any kind of "network nanny" on her computer. So far, she hasn't committed mass murder in her school.
Go be a husband/wife and a parent. Stop blaming outside influences, computers, games, TV etc for your own failings. Own up to it.
Facebook don't force people to commit adultery. Videogames don't brainwash kids to murder other people. Deal with it.
On the same blog, actually:
http://cartesianproduct.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/what-if-p-np/
Yeah, someone else also corrected me on the that time issue there. My mistake there, for incomplete knowledge on the subject.
I'm not against Ivory Tower. I'm against Ivory Tower ONLY.
Germany is a very good example on how to make things work. One of the best examples, really, if not the best.
That is exactly it. Which is why I advocate strongly for technical + CS. Someone with just the kind of knowledge you described (which is pretty much correct regarding CS), won't be able to make money for a company for a long time. The company would have to teach the person the knowledge he would get from technical school to get him started. Then later on, after a few years, as he progresses either inside the company, or from job to job (past the experience hump), then his CS degree will count as a plus with the knowledge he acquired. But not right after graduation.
So another option is for companies to hire people with technical degree, and get them enrolled on college. Even if they can't attend one of the big league universities because of his work/study schedule, it will still be better for the company.
The other options are hiring someone with a CS degree who attended technical school first, or having a college that will imbue the person with both the CS knowledge and the technical knowledge. In other words, a college that prepares the person for the job market in full.
So, yeah, I agree with you 100%.
Maybe I should have been more clear.
Would you say, considering job positions in IT overall, most of them are in situations like yours, or most of them are on shops where the solution for performance is hardware upgrades ?
As I mentioned, I've encountered situations in the past where performance fine tunning was a big deal. Both in embedded applications and on TMN platforms. However, I would consider them to be the exception.
I still do code optimization myself now and then, and I have to say I quite enjoy it (yeah, I know I'm nuts, but I also program in assembly and used to manually edit sendmail.cf :D), but if anyone wants to shape their IT career, specially at the beginning, using that as a guideline, they will most likely starve.