The main problem with certs can be demonstrating by googling the cert title or number + "dumps". You will find the exact questions and answers for most tests. (More on "most" in a moment.) I don't mean a detailed outline - I mean the full text of the question, the possible answers, and which one is correct. Memorize the answers and you pass the cert.
As someone who periodically participates in hiring, I don't see much value in certs. I've had the experience of people who had certs who didn't know their stuff. I've never known any employer who given a choice between someone with many years of experience and someone with a cert, would choose the latter.
There are other problems with certs. I've always found the format is quite ridiculous. Why should I memorize things? If they test concepts, that'd be one thing, but often certs are "which of these commands is correct" kind of questions. What, am I trapped on a desert island with a datacenter to administer and no manuals?
That said, certs can't hurt. I find them valuable to study for though less to actually take. Vendors outline everything to get a basic knowledge, and that's useful to go over. The only time I see real value in certs is
Your employer is a government agency or some kind of big bureaucracy and they require the cert for a position.
Some vendors will only extend certain partnerships ("Gold VAR" or whatever) to companies that have X number of certified technicians
Your company is providing services and wants to be able to say "all our techs are certified in X" for marketing purposes
All that said...the exception to the above is the certs that do have some value. These are the certs that you have to pass a lab for: RHCE, Oracle Certified Master, Cisco's CCIE, etc. A CCIE is highly valuable - those guys bill very well.
Remember Diaspora? In 2010, it raised $200,641 on Kickstarter to take on Facebook with "an open source personal web server to share all your stuff online." Two years later, they essentially gave up, leaving their code to the open source community to carry forward.
Are you expecting an entire state to disappear? I mean, I've heard jokes about California falling into the ocean, but a requirement of having backups in two different states seems kind of extreme.
Particularly because "two different states" could mean "Rhode Island and Delaware" which is very different than "Alaska and Florida."
In the early 90s, I used to read the cypherpunks email list. During the PGP, Clipper chip, etc. drama, the cypherpunks were discussing practical ways of encryption. They wrote code and collected practical how-to guides on encryption. Lots of good stuff - how to automate encryption on your email, how to make an encrypted "cryptobook" laptop, etc.
And no one used it.
Today encryption is used only for shopping.
When's the last time you got an encrypted email? It isn't for lack of technology.
ICBMs have a habit of not being recallable. Once it is in the air, the only abort possible is destruction of the missile. Unfortunately, that still leaves a lot of shrapnel on a ballistic trajectory to the target.
They get to the target in 30-60 minutes. If you are so confused that you're going to change your mind in 30 minutes, don't launch.
In most cases, you're talking about a few minutes before and during takeoff and a few minutes during landing. During that time, read a book.
I've certainly used tablets, phones (for apps), and laptops all other times during flight.
There is no one on this planet who can't live without the Internet for the duration of a flight. If you are so insanely important, buy the plane's service.
When you're done with one of those ebooks, can you give it to me? Oh. Well, you can donate it to...oh. At least you can sell it used to...oh. Anyway, you can always lend it to...oh.
Most prisons are built as public-works projects in remote communities where your other choices are making minimum wage at McDonald's or the gas station. Prisons can get away with this because the local workforce is often desperate for a good-paying job.
You cannot seriously consider Rolling Stone a source of anything more than dopehead diatribes. Dude, it's Rolling Stone - they were marginally relevant to the 70s music scene. Marginally. Since then they've been nothing but a venting platform for drug-addled baby boomers who refuse to shut up.
Oh, whatever...anonymous runs around saying it's anonymous and you can't define anonymous and anonymous is an "anarchic, digitalized global brain". So for all you know, there is a lot of overlap or even 100% overlap. You don't really know.
Here in the United States I think we need to do something about obesity first...
I don't know why this was mod'd down. Obesity really is the problem. Most of those "skinny" models are not "skinny" - they're normal-sized. It's just that Americans have become a nation of morbidly obese people.
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The main problem with certs can be demonstrating by googling the cert title or number + "dumps". You will find the exact questions and answers for most tests. (More on "most" in a moment.) I don't mean a detailed outline - I mean the full text of the question, the possible answers, and which one is correct. Memorize the answers and you pass the cert.
As someone who periodically participates in hiring, I don't see much value in certs. I've had the experience of people who had certs who didn't know their stuff. I've never known any employer who given a choice between someone with many years of experience and someone with a cert, would choose the latter.
There are other problems with certs. I've always found the format is quite ridiculous. Why should I memorize things? If they test concepts, that'd be one thing, but often certs are "which of these commands is correct" kind of questions. What, am I trapped on a desert island with a datacenter to administer and no manuals?
That said, certs can't hurt. I find them valuable to study for though less to actually take. Vendors outline everything to get a basic knowledge, and that's useful to go over. The only time I see real value in certs is
All that said...the exception to the above is the certs that do have some value. These are the certs that you have to pass a lab for: RHCE, Oracle Certified Master, Cisco's CCIE, etc. A CCIE is highly valuable - those guys bill very well.
Remember Diaspora? In 2010, it raised $200,641 on Kickstarter to take on Facebook with "an open source personal web server to share all your stuff online." Two years later, they essentially gave up, leaving their code to the open source community to carry forward.
Diaspora is still very much alive.
Are you expecting an entire state to disappear? I mean, I've heard jokes about California falling into the ocean, but a requirement of having backups in two different states seems kind of extreme.
Particularly because "two different states" could mean "Rhode Island and Delaware" which is very different than "Alaska and Florida."
In the early 90s, I used to read the cypherpunks email list. During the PGP, Clipper chip, etc. drama, the cypherpunks were discussing practical ways of encryption. They wrote code and collected practical how-to guides on encryption. Lots of good stuff - how to automate encryption on your email, how to make an encrypted "cryptobook" laptop, etc. And no one used it. Today encryption is used only for shopping. When's the last time you got an encrypted email? It isn't for lack of technology.
ICBMs have a habit of not being recallable. Once it is in the air, the only abort possible is destruction of the missile. Unfortunately, that still leaves a lot of shrapnel on a ballistic trajectory to the target.
They get to the target in 30-60 minutes. If you are so confused that you're going to change your mind in 30 minutes, don't launch.
In most cases, you're talking about a few minutes before and during takeoff and a few minutes during landing. During that time, read a book.
I've certainly used tablets, phones (for apps), and laptops all other times during flight.
There is no one on this planet who can't live without the Internet for the duration of a flight. If you are so insanely important, buy the plane's service.
Seriously, why not link the source instead of some spammy blog?
This is seriously one of the best parodies of a Wikipedia fanboy I've ever read.
When you're done with one of those ebooks, can you give it to me? Oh. Well, you can donate it to...oh. At least you can sell it used to...oh. Anyway, you can always lend it to...oh.
Wikipedia is not progress.
>This is mainly due to the fact that there is no "stable" Wikipedia --
This is mainly due to the fact that the vast majority of those in academia (=higher education) consider Wikipedia to be absolutely unreliable.
Everyone should consider Wikipedia unreliable.
He already has. (Novel's premise is that the Eugenics Wars have already come and gone - they just weren't the big military conflicts people expected.)
Editors don't change headlines here? I guess you've never had an accepted submission.
At first glance, the whole idea of personal analytics seems kind of worthless. But imagine comparing analytics among populations
That is statistics, not "personal analytics".
Personal analytics appears to be what was earlier called "narcissism".
Most prisons are built as public-works projects in remote communities where your other choices are making minimum wage at McDonald's or the gas station. Prisons can get away with this because the local workforce is often desperate for a good-paying job.
You cannot seriously consider Rolling Stone a source of anything more than dopehead diatribes. Dude, it's Rolling Stone - they were marginally relevant to the 70s music scene. Marginally. Since then they've been nothing but a venting platform for drug-addled baby boomers who refuse to shut up.
You make it sound like there's only a handful of them,
People who want to feel alternative and underground and rebellious and cool by wearing Guy Fawkes masks? There's a ton.
People who also break into computer systems and deface web sites? A handful.
Anonymous != LulzSec. LulzSec != Anonymous.
Oh, whatever...anonymous runs around saying it's anonymous and you can't define anonymous and anonymous is an "anarchic, digitalized global brain". So for all you know, there is a lot of overlap or even 100% overlap. You don't really know.
Defacing for defacing sake is childish.
Defacing for defacing sake is the Anonymous motto.
Or better: Tarsnap - "online backups for the truly paranoid".
I have friends who are doctors, some of them psychologists. I have a friend who is an eye surgeon.
Oh you do not. Give us a break.
Well, since you USED ALL CAPS, you must be right.
Here in the United States I think we need to do something about obesity first...
I don't know why this was mod'd down. Obesity really is the problem. Most of those "skinny" models are not "skinny" - they're normal-sized. It's just that Americans have become a nation of morbidly obese people.
It's not like the average person can moderate the amount of advertising that rapes their eyeballs and subconcious every day.
Nonsense. Don't watch TV. Don't listen to the radio. Use Adblock Plus. I'm assuming your eyes gloss pass magazine ads automatically.
Seems pretty moderated to me.
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