The best part of your rant is that equating India with Capitalism. Like if Nehru and the Congress Party never existed. Honestly man, your red Kool-Aid is much better than our propaganda.
Why you did not chose Germany and Japan as capitalist countries for you little rant is baffling.
Or myabe it was because you wanted to probe a point and you looked for the example that in you mind best fitted your preonceptions. Germany and Japan embraced (or in the case of Germany re-embraced) Capitalism and they became economic powerhouses. In the same period China was close to starve itself to death. Pol Pot,who followed Mao's ideology, almost succeded at the task on his own country. But no, better lets choose India (the leader of the non-aligned movement I hasten to remind you) and as a consequence we end with India being an example of capitalism going pear-shapped.
Look, I like your propaganda, it is cute. But for fuck's sakes, learn some history.
Do you want some degree of accountability for what is going on on the systems?(desktops included, many around here are quite cavalier about those when they have the potential to create as much havoc as a server).
Hire competent SAs. I am one and happen to administer such a system where the application team have no root access. They tell us what to do, we do it.
Easy really. Oh yes, pay them some ENglish classes, brng them to your country for one month so they become more profficient. There are solutions for all your problems.
2nd point: ensure you have a proper problem tracking software (it could be something as simple as a Wiki). FInd problem, document it on the problem tracking application, call the guy tht has to solve the problem. All this conferencing sounds a lot about tumping chest competition and less about solving the problems given the legal and auditorial limitations nowadays (thanks Enron).
Golly, I wish we did not have to go down this route,but I do it for the benefit of humanity.
When you smell your depositions in the toilet bowl you are actually receiving pfeces particles in your nose.
You can safely assume that if you take your laptopto the toilet (why for bunnies sakes!) particles of your faces/urine will happily settle there, no matter how clean you keep your toilet.
There is a reason why humans dislike to be close to faeces, it is because our evolution as a species madeclear to us that is not a good idea.
If you are spending enough time in the toilet to read you should cut it short, shit quickly untilsatisfied and gte out of there.
As for tootbrushes in the same room as toilets, don't get me started....
The Dell "muppet" would use a process to install Linux that you may have heard about somewhere: mass production.
The muppet will be guided by an invisible hand in the form of a precise script, the muppet can be trusted because the hardware has little variability and the muppet is good at following instructions (I wonder if nowadays the process is completely automatic and the muppets only assemble the final product and the hard disk has been loaded automatically with the software).
Next time I buy a computer I will be more than willing to check for pre-installed Linux machines. I have had enough with hacking my way around Linux, it is nice, one learns alot, but there is a moment when you need something just to work once your freedom is safe (formats, possibility to change provider, etc).
How life originated is indenpendent of our konlewdge of evolution by natural selection.
We have a good theory that pretty much explains how life changes. Once we have life evolution works its wonders.
The day we find how life originated (which most likely one day we will) your point will be moot.
There are many processes that can't be duped in the lab, the appeareance of anything recognizable as alive could have taken hundreds of millions of years via porcesses we may not even have imagined yet. To expect that such a thing will be reproducible is meybe too much to ask.
But we can may informed inferences, and so we will
That would give an aproximate idea to the poster about where the wind is blowing.
My 2 centavos: I have worked for several big companies in several industries and Java is still king in companies that matter. It is a technology well understood and standarized. Mature in one word.
If you want to increase your employability and your prospects of a higher salary learn Java technologies to the rot. People that need a good Java programmer recognize one when they see him.
People pretending to know C# in the other hand are a dime a dozen, and the technology is not mature. Mono is nice and all, but many companies are thinking how to deliver internal applications to Web browsers, that makes many server side application development teams naturally reluctant to use C# since they know the lock in is always a disaster witing to happen, with Java that is less of a concern and one reason of several why people feel more comfortable working with it.
What you are providing is a lousy explanation, as it was clearly and succintly explained by the other poster.
I will rework his main point: it is unbelievable that people that in general can be considered rational and intelligent spouse the views you are ejaculating without realizing the final implications.
You work in a system that, for its eternal shame, only manages to produce 2% of female students (that are brave enough to mingle with people truly believing that such imbalance is down to "natural differences").
Then you proceed to claim that women can't do analytical thinking as well as men (of course, this is old Victorian era knowledge).
What an amazing teorethical whatever you are you are...
You are failing to criticize a social and educational system that is clearly broken. The almost complete barring of female students in whatever you are studying can't be down to "natural differences" (of which we have no probe but your anecdotical sexist evidence).
Women since time immemorial have been first stopped, later discouraged and ridiculed to pursue any interests on their own, but specially any technical knowledge.
I have seen it all my life, males that are patronizing, sexiest, and frankly hostile in occassions to any women on their little male preserve. I had a boss that thought he could close deals with female clients by "pleasing" them as he used to put it. I knew of another guy that would send females to the worst hotels in economy class while all the boys were travelling business class and staying in 5 star hotels.
And that is for starters only, in most companies where policies are not in place to ensure there is no discrimination against women, women doing the same job will earn less and the real differences between sexes, like the little detail of women being the ones that give birth, in some places can be punished with summary dismissal.
There is absolutely no physical difference that would explain why women do not pursue technical carriers. In many countries they are better at science and maths until around 12 or 13 years old and then something happens, it is like if society notices that they are starting to become fully grown women and in that moment the door is shut close and any attempt to solve an equation or write a computer program is met with derision.
The first programmers were women, and they served with distinction, probing that in a virgin field where there were no misnconceptions, they could excell as anybody.
It is the macho attitude justyfing things based on hypotetical "natural differences" (that normally, oh coincidence, put women in positions of disadvantage or servitude) what stop women's progress, not any "differences" as you put it.
It is clearly hateful, and beyond question trollish (i.e it should be lurking with -1 where it belongs).
I will refer to my 4 colleagues and myself, all top notch geeks (I will spare the modesty here).
One of us goes skiing every year to exotic locations in Europe, speaks 4 languages and is pasionate about horse riding.
The other one is an expert in martial arts and yoga, has travelled to several exotic places and worked overseas.
Another one has worked in many different countries, speaks 4 languages and is an expert in calssical music, chess, Oh yes, he runs 10k races to keep fit.
Another one is a reading vulture, expert in astronomy, SciFi, passionate about economis and politics.
And another one is certainly a gadget freak, but he can afford it after a succesful carrer that allows him to travel all around Europe.
In 15 years working on this industry I have never mete anybody that even remotely meets the stereotype above.
I think you should read less about geeks and go out and meet more of them.
On the IT side of things such a person will have quite a bit of responsibility and will manage a team between 5 and 20 people depending on the situation.
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... showing standards of living are declining in the US.
The best part of your rant is that equating India with Capitalism. Like if Nehru and the Congress Party never existed. Honestly man, your red Kool-Aid is much better than our propaganda.
Why you did not chose Germany and Japan as capitalist countries for you little rant is baffling.
Or myabe it was because you wanted to probe a point and you looked for the example that in you mind best fitted your preonceptions. Germany and Japan embraced (or in the case of Germany re-embraced) Capitalism and they became economic powerhouses. In the same period China was close to starve itself to death. Pol Pot,who followed Mao's ideology, almost succeded at the task on his own country. But no, better lets choose India (the leader of the non-aligned movement I hasten to remind you) and as a consequence we end with India being an example of capitalism going pear-shapped.
Look, I like your propaganda, it is cute. But for fuck's sakes, learn some history.
Just venturing a guess.
Many towns around the world run clean, efficient bus systems.
Somebody where you live is chosing not to do so, but buses are not inherently vile as you put it.
Use smaller buses....
That is it really.
Do you want some degree of accountability for what is going on on the systems?(desktops included, many around here are quite cavalier about those when they have the potential to create as much havoc as a server).
Yes? Good, then only SAs get root. No exceptions.
Hire competent SAs. I am one and happen to administer such a system where the application team have no root access. They tell us what to do, we do it.
Easy really. Oh yes, pay them some ENglish classes, brng them to your country for one month so they become more profficient. There are solutions for all your problems.
2nd point: ensure you have a proper problem tracking software (it could be something as simple as a Wiki). FInd problem, document it on the problem tracking application, call the guy tht has to solve the problem. All this conferencing sounds a lot about tumping chest competition and less about solving the problems given the legal and auditorial limitations nowadays (thanks Enron).
Golly, I wish we did not have to go down this route,but I do it for the benefit of humanity.
When you smell your depositions in the toilet bowl you are actually receiving pfeces particles in your nose.
You can safely assume that if you take your laptopto the toilet (why for bunnies sakes!) particles of your faces/urine will happily settle there, no matter how clean you keep your toilet.
There is a reason why humans dislike to be close to faeces, it is because our evolution as a species madeclear to us that is not a good idea.
If you are spending enough time in the toilet to read you should cut it short, shit quickly untilsatisfied and gte out of there.
As for tootbrushes in the same room as toilets, don't get me started....
The GP poster said not to visit sites that don't want you. Easy and straight forward point of view.
Then you whine about your job.
Sorry, irrelevant. If your company is dumb enough to insititute a IE only policy then most likely you are banned to use alternative safe browsers.
If you aren't then you should demand a solution from your IT department. The solution will be to ban the browsers you are tyring to use.
Frankly I don't see what your point is in the context given by the GP posting.
The Dell "muppet" would use a process to install Linux that you may have heard about somewhere: mass production.
The muppet will be guided by an invisible hand in the form of a precise script, the muppet can be trusted because the hardware has little variability and the muppet is good at following instructions (I wonder if nowadays the process is completely automatic and the muppets only assemble the final product and the hard disk has been loaded automatically with the software).
Next time I buy a computer I will be more than willing to check for pre-installed Linux machines. I have had enough with hacking my way around Linux, it is nice, one learns alot, but there is a moment when you need something just to work once your freedom is safe (formats, possibility to change provider, etc).
... you should know one can't prove a negative.
But lets that one slip away.
How life originated is indenpendent of our konlewdge of evolution by natural selection.
We have a good theory that pretty much explains how life changes. Once we have life evolution works its wonders.
The day we find how life originated (which most likely one day we will) your point will be moot.
There are many processes that can't be duped in the lab, the appeareance of anything recognizable as alive could have taken hundreds of millions of years via porcesses we may not even have imagined yet. To expect that such a thing will be reproducible is meybe too much to ask.
But we can may informed inferences, and so we will
The judge made very clear that the intentions of people pushing for ID was to introduce creationism in the classroom by using another name.
It is a vulgar rebranding exercise and the judge saw it for what it is.
ID belong to religious indoctrination, not to ascience curriculum of any kind.
That would give an aproximate idea to the poster about where the wind is blowing.
My 2 centavos: I have worked for several big companies in several industries and Java is still king in companies that matter. It is a technology well understood and standarized. Mature in one word.
If you want to increase your employability and your prospects of a higher salary learn Java technologies to the rot. People that need a good Java programmer recognize one when they see him.
People pretending to know C# in the other hand are a dime a dozen, and the technology is not mature. Mono is nice and all, but many companies are thinking how to deliver internal applications to Web browsers, that makes many server side application development teams naturally reluctant to use C# since they know the lock in is always a disaster witing to happen, with Java that is less of a concern and one reason of several why people feel more comfortable working with it.
I did not see that he mentioned his school offering the language, but never mind, thank you for such useful suggestion.
Fucking zealots.
Don't insult our intelligence.
I guess you had one too many drinks during your Xmas celebrations, but this drunkard tirade is frankly ridiculous.
Honestly, I don'tknow even where to start, so I betterlet it past, I hate to state the obious (that you clearly have missed).
Training of workers, and many other "synergies" that one can't appreciate because one does not see the big picture.
Call Fido.
Its ancestors used to be wolfs.
Most people love soap operas, these sorry excuses of shows (Buffy, Firefly) are just that.
And the movie (Serenity0 that I have the displeasure to watch is so lame that I feel vindicated when I check the box office sales.
Such crappy movie deserves to lose money. All of it if possible.
You have medium life of radioactive materials, mitocondrial DNA measurments and others.
For bunnies sakes, that debate is over.
What you are providing is a lousy explanation, as it was clearly and succintly explained by the other poster.
I will rework his main point: it is unbelievable that people that in general can be considered rational and intelligent spouse the views you are ejaculating without realizing the final implications.
Amazing, amuzing and disturbing.
You work in a system that, for its eternal shame, only manages to produce 2% of female students (that are brave enough to mingle with people truly believing that such imbalance is down to "natural differences").
Then you proceed to claim that women can't do analytical thinking as well as men (of course, this is old Victorian era knowledge).
What an amazing teorethical whatever you are you are...
You are failing to criticize a social and educational system that is clearly broken. The almost complete barring of female students in whatever you are studying can't be down to "natural differences" (of which we have no probe but your anecdotical sexist evidence).
Women since time immemorial have been first stopped, later discouraged and ridiculed to pursue any interests on their own, but specially any technical knowledge.
I have seen it all my life, males that are patronizing, sexiest, and frankly hostile in occassions to any women on their little male preserve. I had a boss that thought he could close deals with female clients by "pleasing" them as he used to put it. I knew of another guy that would send females to the worst hotels in economy class while all the boys were travelling business class and staying in 5 star hotels.
And that is for starters only, in most companies where policies are not in place to ensure there is no discrimination against women, women doing the same job will earn less and the real differences between sexes, like the little detail of women being the ones that give birth, in some places can be punished with summary dismissal.
There is absolutely no physical difference that would explain why women do not pursue technical carriers. In many countries they are better at science and maths until around 12 or 13 years old and then something happens, it is like if society notices that they are starting to become fully grown women and in that moment the door is shut close and any attempt to solve an equation or write a computer program is met with derision.
The first programmers were women, and they served with distinction, probing that in a virgin field where there were no misnconceptions, they could excell as anybody.
It is the macho attitude justyfing things based on hypotetical "natural differences" (that normally, oh coincidence, put women in positions of disadvantage or servitude) what stop women's progress, not any "differences" as you put it.
It is clearly hateful, and beyond question trollish (i.e it should be lurking with -1 where it belongs).
I will refer to my 4 colleagues and myself, all top notch geeks (I will spare the modesty here).
One of us goes skiing every year to exotic locations in Europe, speaks 4 languages and is pasionate about horse riding.
The other one is an expert in martial arts and yoga, has travelled to several exotic places and worked overseas.
Another one has worked in many different countries, speaks 4 languages and is an expert in calssical music, chess, Oh yes, he runs 10k races to keep fit.
Another one is a reading vulture, expert in astronomy, SciFi, passionate about economis and politics.
And another one is certainly a gadget freak, but he can afford it after a succesful carrer that allows him to travel all around Europe.
In 15 years working on this industry I have never mete anybody that even remotely meets the stereotype above.
I think you should read less about geeks and go out and meet more of them.
I have been to a bank branch 3 times in the last 8 years.
I have accounts in the UK and Mexico.
The internet has changed life for anybody that wishes to take advantage of it.
On the IT side of things such a person will have quite a bit of responsibility and will manage a team between 5 and 20 people depending on the situation.