they are commonly referred to as "Civil Engineer's", and believe it or not, getting an honest to god "engineering" degree is not exactly taking a couple MS tests and passing.
I'm an honest to god systems-engineer. as in, i will need to get an MS EE to advance to top levels, my CS BS barely cuts it.
in many cultures, germany, japan and china, the title "engineer" is looked upon almost like the title "doctor" or "lawyer" is.
That is before anyone who knew how to turn on a computer started to call themselves an "engineer".
i think that you massively underestimate the sacrifice and hard work and effort it takes to become a "real engineer".
no shit its difficult, if it were easy, then everyone would be doing it.
you get paid the big bucks to take care of these "complex" issue and save your company money.
because, if you are the one doing the deployment, you are there to save your company money, not make life easy on yourself. you are a cost center, and not revenue generating
see... you forgot the part where you say "and then i hit a glass ceiling and cant get past mid-level manager, and take out my bitterness on the people who work for me."
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hopes she's exaggerating?
good god man, the USA is going to try to "liberate" all countries in between Afghanistan to Iraq.
never, ever, ever let a sociopath run the worlds only super power.
can we still use the backs of napkins?
point is - users dont use that kindof shit.
geeks are supposed to setup corporations mail servers, and its just s'posed to work...
a user uses not these thingss... mmmm yes....
a user wants to go... surf the web... write some email... write a report
and not have the damn thing blow up in his face.
user's will learn how to optimize their apps on their own terms... if you give them a very consistent interface.
and we're living here in Allentown...
:-)
Where the factories are closing down...
howdy fellow lehigh valley-ian...
jackass,
they are commonly referred to as "Civil Engineer's", and believe it or not, getting an honest to god "engineering" degree is not exactly taking a couple MS tests and passing.
I'm an honest to god systems-engineer. as in, i will need to get an MS EE to advance to top levels, my CS BS barely cuts it.
in many cultures, germany, japan and china, the title "engineer" is looked upon almost like the title "doctor" or "lawyer" is.
That is before anyone who knew how to turn on a computer started to call themselves an "engineer".
i think that you massively underestimate the sacrifice and hard work and effort it takes to become a "real engineer".
hopefully, this will last as long and have as big an impact as extreme programming did.
for the sarcasm impaired : this is sarcasm.
what do you recommend for an evercrack addiciton?
which is why libraries are under the LGPL.
what type of crack are you smoking?
keee-rist...
the "no child left behind" act is a way to further defund schools, that have been horribly neglected.
why? republicans like to spend an obscene amount of money on defence, and have no extra money for their constituents.
blowtorch will do it, too :-)
in reality its a replacement for win32 api's .
in marketing, its anything you want it to be.
i've always started by openning up a modem connection, picking up the phone, sneezing into the receiver and capturing the output as my sendmail.conf
so... how would you describe installing sendmail?
first post.
and CmdrTaco _loves_ the cock.
In Soviet Russia the cock loves CmdrTaco...
2) ???
3) Profit!!!
for great glory!
Yes.
Haven't been working long in the real world, eh?
ya know -
no shit its difficult, if it were easy, then everyone would be doing it.
you get paid the big bucks to take care of these "complex" issue and save your company money.
because, if you are the one doing the deployment, you are there to save your company money, not make life easy on yourself. you are a cost center, and not revenue generating
if you're good enough, do what i did and cross the line from IT to "engineering".
Why would you stay in a career that has a shorter average career length than an NBA player?
and with that in mind, why are IT workers so damn adamant about not unionizing? christ, these companies use abuse and wear you out.
so... how's your pension?
and your job security?
oh, you can be fired at a drop of a hat with no severence?
wait until you get to the point where you are too experienced and get shitcanned.
sorry, most people who reply to the with me start much earlier in the skit...
like with...
bingo?
right, when it comes right down to it - We're ALL agnostic.
there is no way that we know, one way or another.
you're talking about post Martin Luther Protestant Chritianity.
I.E. Man is a heap of dung that must be covered with the virgin white snow of the saviour in order to be saved.
Which is drastically different than the Catholic interpretation.
geez.... I went to way too many years of jesuit education....
sigh...
google on : bingo the clowno
sounds like bill clinton led a good life then :-)
and look, here come the republican trolls to tell me how bad peace, prosperity and blowjobs are...
let me guess, you dont have a degree?
see... you forgot the part where you say "and then i hit a glass ceiling and cant get past mid-level manager, and take out my bitterness on the people who work for me."