Is there anything that you are in the minority? If not, then I understand why you do give a shit. I'm a "lefty", and pretty much every writing device (notebooks, binders, grade school desks) are all devised for "righties".
How would you like it if everything was made for "lefties"? Every time you would write in a notebook your hand would hit the binding when you were only 1/2 across the page, when trying to write on your desk your hand would be off the desk for half of the time.
Not that we "lefties" give a shit, really, do you ever here about "equal rights (nice pun) for lefties!"? Nope. But why not give us one freaking extra button so we can play a game more easily? It costs about $0.01 per stick?
Of course, it sounds like you would like to get rid of all wheelchair and disability entrance accesses because "theres more of us (normals) anyway."
I find this kind of funny after repeatedly hearing about how Apple's hardware is so overpriced, how "I can get the same performance with cheaper hardware".
Seems like everyone ties the health of the economy to the DOW, or the NASDAQ, or what have you. Companies' stock fluctuate wildly day to day if they say they are going to only make 9% growth this quarter instead of 9.5%. Look at all of the recent accounting scandals, upper management cooking the books to raise stock prices so they can sell their shares and leave town. It looks like corporations, especially the larger ones, having been living off of a shaky business for a while now. There's something wrong when it's bad that you made $100M because you made $100M last year (or worse, last quarter), you should have made $110M!
As for the taxation law, repeal the loophole and let them operate like all other out of state businesses- the buyer is responsible for paying the sales tax directly to their state.
And we don't need a new tax. The water in my house is taxed! But this is a different argument for a different time.
This is so true- when I got my new toaster, I read the instructions 4 times before I plugged it in! No electrocution here!
Seriously, if you worked for me and read an instruction/info book 4 times before you wrote squat, you'd be fired before you would finish the 3rd re-read. I'd expect once, could go for 2, but if you can't code after reading twice, you are just not competent (sp?) enough to code. I could go for a 3rd re-read while debugging.
My area is the NYC area, about 20 miles out of Manhattan. Here are my choices:
Dial up: many Cable- none DSL- many advertised for my area, but none can actually do it when I call them. This includes Verizon, though oddly my company was able to get a "business class" line (about 600/150k, $250 or so a month).
The reason MST3K tanked was that the copyright holders of bad films started charging huge fees for the right to use the movie. Apparently SciFi couldn't find anyone to give them cheap movies any more.
Interesting that no one else caught the one flaw in the serial/parallel debate- optics. Not quite price feasible now, but maybe 5 years or so(?), but run X number of single-mode fibers and you have X parallel bits with zero interference. It has its pros and cons, but nice performance!
Exactly why should I, as an American citizen, care what is happening outside of my country? I live here, I work here, and I don't travel outside of my country (at least not yet). There are enough problems in my own country that need to be worked on. For all it's worth, some idiots attacked my country (and I was in downtown NYC that day), now they die.
Now in reality, I do pay attention to world events, so don't go off accusing me of being myopic- I would just like a good, compelling reason for "giving a damn" about a whole bunch of countries that can't get their shit together and form a better government/country. You don't want sweatshops? Get rid of them. You don't want that dictator? Get rid of him. The US got rid of British rule at a time when it had a world wide empire, so feel free to stop whining and actually do something about the conditions you hate so much.
If you have to include a "technical interview", not to mention 2 of those, then your company is shit. If your hiring manager can't get by with interviewing the guy/gal with some of his/her folks doing an informal interview (that do have some probing tech questions), then your entire structure is fucked.
A bit ago I went through a tough time at my company, so I started out interviewing. I got 3 tech interviews that asked me questions like "what is the command to increase the frame relay delay timing", "what is the public number for public MIBs", and what are the arguments to display only workstations in a Tivoli system?"
Give me 2 minutes with my books, I would have no problem. Expecting me to memorize all this random shit is just beyond stupid. Go find a 5th grader who memorized the nation and state capitals on the 1st try if this is what you want. If you want someone who actually solve a problem, maybe you want to hire someone who can research the problem and come up with a better solution.
I'm still with my first company out of college. The hiring manager didn't even ask about my skills- he wanted to know if I wanted to learn, if I wanted to gain new skills, and if I was willing to put in the time to learn new stuff. Of course, I'm a DoD system and network consultant, so I need to learn and master new stuff all the time. The couple of corporate projects I've been on have so focused on one single aspect that they get a llama that can program in Java, and they still hire the llama. (Yes, that was mostly facitous).
So go interview the guy/gal about who they are, what they want to do in life and in thier job, how they like to do their work. Don't worry about what languages they can program in (unless thi is what you are looking for), any literate computer person can learn a new language in a few days.
In summary, look at the person, not thier certificatons and answers to crazy technical questions.
Wrong- they may flock to your house, but since it is private property they can't trample your property (call the cops if they do), though they may block the street (you can still call the cops for this). Also think of this, anything that you display for the public, even if it is on private property but can be seen from public property, is fair game. Inconvience? Sure. Inappropriate? Maybe. It depends on whether you want to blame yourself for displaying whatever, or you want to blame people for showing up to look at it. If you didn't want people to see it, put it where others can't see it (back yard, maybe?). This attitude is becoming more prevalent from people who do something (web page, work of art, a fountain) and then bitch when it becomes popular and they are inconvienced. "It's not my fault, it's all the people who caused all the unexpectated consequences from what I did." What is the root cause? You built/showed/did something. Therefore, any result from that display that is not illegal is your fault. If you don't want your web page to be/.ed, don't put up something neat. Don't know about/.? Well, you put up something neat because you wanted people to see the neatness, and if you really didn't want lots and lots of people to see it, ie. only your friends, you would password protect the pages and email your friends the password. Newbie to the web? Again, too bad, don't jump in when you don't know how deep you are going in.
The closest proper analogy that I can think of is putting up a billboard/public ad- you paid for it, and pay for it per month, it is posted in a public forum, and if it is so popular that it is swamped by people trying to see it, well too bad, you put it out there.
Hello, Microsoft sales? Hi, I'd like to place an order of 1 billion no Xbox systems. Yes, that's right, "no Xboxs". What do you mean you can't cover that sale! Well, in that case I expect my $300 billion check! Ha, suckers!
In related news, a local restaurant goes out of business after its new special "Black death on a stick", costing $20k per plate, didn't sell once. The management also said that their new offering of "air" cost them billyuuns and billyuuns of dollars to produce.
Ah, another Penn Stater- I was wondering if anyone would mention Playland. I was there from '93-97, and Playland sucked much money from me, and it didn't help that I lived in Atherton hall for the first 2 years! My favorite was Theatre of Magic- that particular machine was just set up perfectly, since the other arcade down the street (above the used CD shop) also had a Theatre table but the right flipper was so misaligned that I couldn't do any of special moves. Not hard, just impossible! Meh.
Oops, forgot to mention my background, thus not showing my bias! I'm an EE working in tele/data-comm systems, so I'm in a very degree oriented profession. Sorry, MCSEs are just NOT going to be designing comm systems for the gov any time soon. And don't talk about the masters, my company has been poking me about that for 2 years already........of course I could always go the way my dad did, just pick up a PhD in nuclear physics by the time he was my age! Jeez, at least my mom was only a nurse by this time... wait, that's not easy, either. Ah, crap! The pressure, the pressure! At least no underpant gnomes yet...
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You said it better than I probably could have.
(on rant)I'm rather tired of everyone blaming the current Pres for Enron/Worldcom/etc when just as many Dems are taking the money. Sen. Hollings, aka Mr. Disney, anyone? Pretty much everyone in the Fed gov are greedy, power-hungry idiots. I know, I have to deal with some of these morons as a defense contractor. The only reason that I like conservatives better than liberals is because I don't want to live in a socialist state- at the age of 28 I'm already giving up around 1/3 of my pay to pre-pay taxes, thus not including sales tax, interest tax on my savings, taxes on my phone bill, capital gains tax, cigarette taxes, taxes on other utilities (cable, water, electric, natural gas). I don't really want to pay another 10% for national health care, perscription drugs (oops, down the drain), sex change operations (oops if you live in San Fran), and other "dumb" stuff. Quotes because I'm sure that there will be many that think every fucking whim a person might have should be paid for by the fed gov, ie your neighbor (where the hell do you think fed money comes from?). And to tie this up in a neat little package (can you guess from which show I grabbed that phrase from?), who wants to make everything a fed gov program? Yes, the liberal folks. Be they Republicans or Democrats (doesn't really jive any more with conservative vs. liberal views anymore), the fed gov folks are increasingly just trying to create more power for themselves. (off rant)
I see your point about the 4-5 years of experience, but how do you get that first job? A good degree from a good school helps a bunch. Yes, you could try and work your way up, but that is pretty iffy. For the kiddies- go get a good degree from a good school.
Which would then quickly kill Apple. If Apple started putting its OS on PC hardware, Apple would have to adopt MS's strategies, and would be broke before it could overcome the massive Windows inertia. Unless Apple could control the OS on PC hardware with proprietary ROM chips, which would probably piss everyone off or the chips would be cracked within a week.
I agree stereotyping is bad, but (always the but) during the.boom days, we had high school graduates with MCSEs applying for jobs. We are one of the Big 6 consulting firms! It seemed like there was a huge glut of MCSEs due to the shortage of IT folks during the bubble, and there were many cert mills out there- "MCSE boot camp- cert in 2 weeks!" kinda stuff. I would bet that when someone asks you what you do, you say you are a sysadmin. I've met many people who have told me "I'm a MCSE!" Ok, so what the hell do you do? "I work on computers." Bloody hell.....
Don't mind me, I'm just bummed 'cause my 6 year old Mac (clone, even!) just died and I can't seem to fix it. sniff.
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Replace "I understand why you give a shit" with "I understand why you DON'T give a shit".
Is there anything that you are in the minority? If not, then I understand why you do give a shit. I'm a "lefty", and pretty much every writing device (notebooks, binders, grade school desks) are all devised for "righties".
How would you like it if everything was made for "lefties"? Every time you would write in a notebook your hand would hit the binding when you were only 1/2 across the page, when trying to write on your desk your hand would be off the desk for half of the time.
Not that we "lefties" give a shit, really, do you ever here about "equal rights (nice pun) for lefties!"? Nope. But why not give us one freaking extra button so we can play a game more easily? It costs about $0.01 per stick?
Of course, it sounds like you would like to get rid of all wheelchair and disability entrance accesses because "theres more of us (normals) anyway."
I find this kind of funny after repeatedly hearing about how Apple's hardware is so overpriced, how "I can get the same performance with cheaper hardware".
I guess now we know why it is cheaper?
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At least they cut income taxes. Now they want to make them permanent (currently they expire in 10 years). That's stuff I go for.
As for doing stuff, I pretty much oppose any gov spending increases, Dem or Rep, so at least they lowered my taxes.
Seems like everyone ties the health of the economy to the DOW, or the NASDAQ, or what have you. Companies' stock fluctuate wildly day to day if they say they are going to only make 9% growth this quarter instead of 9.5%. Look at all of the recent accounting scandals, upper management cooking the books to raise stock prices so they can sell their shares and leave town. It looks like corporations, especially the larger ones, having been living off of a shaky business for a while now. There's something wrong when it's bad that you made $100M because you made $100M last year (or worse, last quarter), you should have made $110M!
As for the taxation law, repeal the loophole and let them operate like all other out of state businesses- the buyer is responsible for paying the sales tax directly to their state.
And we don't need a new tax. The water in my house is taxed! But this is a different argument for a different time.
This is so true- when I got my new toaster, I read the instructions 4 times before I plugged it in! No electrocution here!
Seriously, if you worked for me and read an instruction/info book 4 times before you wrote squat, you'd be fired before you would finish the 3rd re-read. I'd expect once, could go for 2, but if you can't code after reading twice, you are just not competent (sp?) enough to code. I could go for a 3rd re-read while debugging.
Gee, and I wonder why the FCC is dragging it's heels on UWB? Military interference, my ass.
My area is the NYC area, about 20 miles out of Manhattan. Here are my choices:
Dial up: many
Cable- none
DSL- many advertised for my area, but none can actually do it when I call them. This includes Verizon, though oddly my company was able to get a "business class" line (about 600/150k, $250 or so a month).
oh well.
The reason MST3K tanked was that the copyright holders of bad films started charging huge fees for the right to use the movie. Apparently SciFi couldn't find anyone to give them cheap movies any more.
So sad.
Interesting that no one else caught the one flaw in the serial/parallel debate- optics. Not quite price feasible now, but maybe 5 years or so(?), but run X number of single-mode fibers and you have X parallel bits with zero interference. It has its pros and cons, but nice performance!
Knowing the liberal idiots that float around here, they would start the Township of the New Technological Socialists.
1/3 60's hippies, 1/3 youngin's who never went through a war, and 1/3 general idiots. Where do I sign up?!
"We do not care about your low fluid levels. Only the strong will survive. You are inferior, you will be consumed. We are the WinBorg."
Nachos!
But if you duct-taped them together and flew McGuyver there, he could invent a warp drive!
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
Exactly why should I, as an American citizen, care what is happening outside of my country? I live here, I work here, and I don't travel outside of my country (at least not yet). There are enough problems in my own country that need to be worked on. For all it's worth, some idiots attacked my country (and I was in downtown NYC that day), now they die.
Now in reality, I do pay attention to world events, so don't go off accusing me of being myopic- I would just like a good, compelling reason for "giving a damn" about a whole bunch of countries that can't get their shit together and form a better government/country. You don't want sweatshops? Get rid of them. You don't want that dictator? Get rid of him. The US got rid of British rule at a time when it had a world wide empire, so feel free to stop whining and actually do something about the conditions you hate so much.
I'll probably get crucified for this....
If you have to include a "technical interview", not to mention 2 of those, then your company is shit. If your hiring manager can't get by with interviewing the guy/gal with some of his/her folks doing an informal interview (that do have some probing tech questions), then your entire structure is fucked.
A bit ago I went through a tough time at my company, so I started out interviewing. I got 3 tech interviews that asked me questions like "what is the command to increase the frame relay delay timing", "what is the public number for public MIBs", and what are the arguments to display only workstations in a Tivoli system?"
Give me 2 minutes with my books, I would have no problem. Expecting me to memorize all this random shit is just beyond stupid. Go find a 5th grader who memorized the nation and state capitals on the 1st try if this is what you want. If you want someone who actually solve a problem, maybe you want to hire someone who can research the problem and come up with a better solution.
I'm still with my first company out of college. The hiring manager didn't even ask about my skills- he wanted to know if I wanted to learn, if I wanted to gain new skills, and if I was willing to put in the time to learn new stuff. Of course, I'm a DoD system and network consultant, so I need to learn and master new stuff all the time. The couple of corporate projects I've been on have so focused on one single aspect that they get a llama that can program in Java, and they still hire the llama. (Yes, that was mostly facitous).
So go interview the guy/gal about who they are, what they want to do in life and in thier job, how they like to do their work. Don't worry about what languages they can program in (unless thi is what you are looking for), any literate computer person can learn a new language in a few days.
In summary, look at the person, not thier certificatons and answers to crazy technical questions.
Wrong- they may flock to your house, but since it is private property they can't trample your property (call the cops if they do), though they may block the street (you can still call the cops for this). Also think of this, anything that you display for the public, even if it is on private property but can be seen from public property, is fair game. Inconvience? Sure. Inappropriate? Maybe. It depends on whether you want to blame yourself for displaying whatever, or you want to blame people for showing up to look at it. If you didn't want people to see it, put it where others can't see it (back yard, maybe?). This attitude is becoming more prevalent from people who do something (web page, work of art, a fountain) and then bitch when it becomes popular and they are inconvienced. "It's not my fault, it's all the people who caused all the unexpectated consequences from what I did." What is the root cause? You built/showed/did something. Therefore, any result from that display that is not illegal is your fault. If you don't want your web page to be /.ed, don't put up something neat. Don't know about /.? Well, you put up something neat because you wanted people to see the neatness, and if you really didn't want lots and lots of people to see it, ie. only your friends, you would password protect the pages and email your friends the password. Newbie to the web? Again, too bad, don't jump in when you don't know how deep you are going in.
The closest proper analogy that I can think of is putting up a billboard/public ad- you paid for it, and pay for it per month, it is posted in a public forum, and if it is so popular that it is swamped by people trying to see it, well too bad, you put it out there.
Hello, Microsoft sales? Hi, I'd like to place an order of 1 billion no Xbox systems. Yes, that's right, "no Xboxs". What do you mean you can't cover that sale! Well, in that case I expect my $300 billion check! Ha, suckers!
In related news, a local restaurant goes out of business after its new special "Black death on a stick", costing $20k per plate, didn't sell once. The management also said that their new offering of "air" cost them billyuuns and billyuuns of dollars to produce.
Ah, another Penn Stater- I was wondering if anyone would mention Playland. I was there from '93-97, and Playland sucked much money from me, and it didn't help that I lived in Atherton hall for the first 2 years! My favorite was Theatre of Magic- that particular machine was just set up perfectly, since the other arcade down the street (above the used CD shop) also had a Theatre table but the right flipper was so misaligned that I couldn't do any of special moves. Not hard, just impossible!
Meh.
Oops, forgot to mention my background, thus not showing my bias! I'm an EE working in tele/data-comm systems, so I'm in a very degree oriented profession. Sorry, MCSEs are just NOT going to be designing comm systems for the gov any time soon. And don't talk about the masters, my company has been poking me about that for 2 years already..... ...of course I could always go the way my dad did, just pick up a PhD in nuclear physics by the time he was my age! Jeez, at least my mom was only a nurse by this time... wait, that's not easy, either. Ah, crap! The pressure, the pressure! At least no underpant gnomes yet...
You said it better than I probably could have.
(on rant)I'm rather tired of everyone blaming the current Pres for Enron/Worldcom/etc when just as many Dems are taking the money. Sen. Hollings, aka Mr. Disney, anyone? Pretty much everyone in the Fed gov are greedy, power-hungry idiots. I know, I have to deal with some of these morons as a defense contractor. The only reason that I like conservatives better than liberals is because I don't want to live in a socialist state- at the age of 28 I'm already giving up around 1/3 of my pay to pre-pay taxes, thus not including sales tax, interest tax on my savings, taxes on my phone bill, capital gains tax, cigarette taxes, taxes on other utilities (cable, water, electric, natural gas). I don't really want to pay another 10% for national health care, perscription drugs (oops, down the drain), sex change operations (oops if you live in San Fran), and other "dumb" stuff. Quotes because I'm sure that there will be many that think every fucking whim a person might have should be paid for by the fed gov, ie your neighbor (where the hell do you think fed money comes from?). And to tie this up in a neat little package (can you guess from which show I grabbed that phrase from?), who wants to make everything a fed gov program? Yes, the liberal folks. Be they Republicans or Democrats (doesn't really jive any more with conservative vs. liberal views anymore), the fed gov folks are increasingly just trying to create more power for themselves. (off rant)
Feel free to flame.
I see your point about the 4-5 years of experience, but how do you get that first job? A good degree from a good school helps a bunch. Yes, you could try and work your way up, but that is pretty iffy. For the kiddies- go get a good degree from a good school.
In the NJ/NY area? We have several open reqs you might meet.
Just a thought.
Which would then quickly kill Apple. If Apple started putting its OS on PC hardware, Apple would have to adopt MS's strategies, and would be broke before it could overcome the massive Windows inertia. Unless Apple could control the OS on PC hardware with proprietary ROM chips, which would probably piss everyone off or the chips would be cracked within a week.
I just can't see it happening.
I agree stereotyping is bad, but (always the but) during the .boom days, we had high school graduates with MCSEs applying for jobs. We are one of the Big 6 consulting firms! It seemed like there was a huge glut of MCSEs due to the shortage of IT folks during the bubble, and there were many cert mills out there- "MCSE boot camp- cert in 2 weeks!" kinda stuff. I would bet that when someone asks you what you do, you say you are a sysadmin. I've met many people who have told me "I'm a MCSE!" Ok, so what the hell do you do? "I work on computers." Bloody hell.....
Don't mind me, I'm just bummed 'cause my 6 year old Mac (clone, even!) just died and I can't seem to fix it. sniff.