As for fox news - they're just the "missing blonde white girl" network and they have been for about four or five years now.
I dont' know about Fox News overall, but Greta Van Susteren sure is. Wait. It's not just "blonde white" girls. Just girls in general. There is no way in hell I'll watch her stupid tabloid hour. She doesn't just beat the horse after it's dead, she grinds it into hamburger and then sits around talking about it some more while it decomposes.
BTW, on the "fair" side, speaking of FNC, at least Bill O'Reilly labels himself as a columnist, not a journalist.
A lot of people seem to overlook that.
I'd like to see some of the other channels and papers follow suit, NYTs being on the top of that list.
Case in point, Alessandra Stanley, who wrote that Geraldo pushed an Air Force rescuer out of the way for a photo-op. It never happened. It took over a week for that to get retracted, and then they buried it on... page 7, I think it was ?
Ya can't be more blatant than that.
There's plenty of skeletal muscle mass in the glutes.
He's surely rip right out of those pants like everything else.. only, I imagine before they actually ripped, he'd be growling and snarling 5 octaves higher...
Ouch !
No wonder he doesn't like turning into the Hulk
I didn't mean to imply that degrees are worth more than certs; notice that I used a degree in mathematics in my examples. As you said, it's all in the relevance.
I do, though, tend to disagree on the part about memorization for only a few hours - I've had cert tests that employed a lot of simulations, not mulitple choice, where you really did have to know what you were doing and why.
That said, there is certainly an overabundance of poorly written, ambigious, mulitple choice questions, and they should cut back on that dramatically.
There is also a difference between someone who attended a boot camp, and someone who is self-taught, (like myself) when it comes to those certs. Yes, there is no doubt that there are MCSEs who couldn't figure out how to shut down the remote registry service, but we shouldn't let that become a stereotype - not all people with certs are necessarily clueless, in fact, I think it's less than half... though probably barely. lol
I just meant a degree in general is not necessarily worth more than a cert, in reality, but to many HR departments, it doesn't much matter; degrees are worth more to them than certs regardless of relevance - which just goes to show you that a written record of some kind, whether it's a cert or a degree, often helps you get jobs.
As to the "what's to lose", that too depends on the employer, but for the most part, how are they going to know how knowledgable you really are ? Your case was different, but a lot of job interviews don't adequately test or screen applicants, so the only assurance the Interviewer has that you know your stuff is a piece of paper, be it a degree or a certification. I think we both know a certain place where this mistake is evident... repeatedly.;-)
At least somebody passing a certifiation knows something about the subject. (Braindumps notwithstanding, but no everyone cheats)
We have people here with Bachelor's Degrees that don't know squat about IT, but got their job soley because of that aptly named BS.
True, some people may very knowledgable w/o a Cert, but the chances are that those with them know the technology fairly well, while the risk increases (from a hiring HR standpoint) without them.
I'd much rather see somebody with aN IT Cert than a BS in mathematics apply for a job in my Network Services unit, yet unfortunately, the guy with the Math BS is more likely to get the position and have to be taught everything from the ground up.
Besides, if you really know your stuff, why not take the test(s) ? What's to lose ?
You don't find your supposals/accusations against employers in general as ad hominem ?
You're making a large sweeping statement about employers in general, and painting them all as despotic slave drivers.
Sure, some misanthropic types might try this, but in general, the vast majority of situations, this simply won't be happening. Those employers who might be tempted would be standalone rogues who don't represent the culture in general. There are already enough parallels today to indicate this.
I think it's important to keep in mind that no matter your position, information is a neutral tool - inherently neither good nor evil - it's all in how it's used. Some may feel that information is intrinsically good; I don't agree with this biased view - I maintain that it's neutral. Case in point: the same information that Einstein bestowed upon the word that yielded so many wonderful inventions and discoveries also made the atomic bomb possible.
Now, while I've always been for *responsible* journalism, the fact that the information in question was gotten via Google, a search engine that merely indexes already publicly available information, pretty much negates any such issues for me. This is a beautiful case of irony and hypopcrisy.
Now, if the information had been obtained by hiring a Private Investigator, who tailed the CEO, went dumpster diving, the whole nine yards, then that would be a different story. However, all the information was gotten via his own freakin' search engine !
If Google has an issue with this, than perhaps they should take a look inward at the "power" of their engine and lay some of the blame on themselves. Again, personal accountiblity goes out the window.
Can a person sue themselves ?
That site is in the UK, meaning 60 pounds, not dollars. As for the 8 gig capacity, it's probably a firmware upgrade that they have.
They use the "$" (dollar) sign in the UK for pounds ? The "pound" sign is optional ?
Interestingly, a whois reveals the administrative contact of the site to be greek, but the technical contact is in New York, USA. Go figure.
Yep. No way that thing grows long hair and wears skin tight leather pants. No way that thing scores with chicks like Pam Lee and Carmen Miranda. Maybe Morgan Webb, but I doubt even that.
Just because Morgan Webb plays computer games ? Geesh, give her a break !
Damn, where are my mod points ? Excellent point.
Exactly - the really good musicians almost never get airtime, and 90$ of the listening public have never heard of them.
But then, the majority of that 90 percent probably wouldn't or couldn't appreciate them either. At least they appreciated Eddie (VH).
The other mentionables:
Allan Holdsworth
Steve Morse
Vinnie Moore
Randy Rhodes
Yngwie Malmsteen
and a bunch of others I'm sure I missed..
Hm yes, I'm reminded of the Buffy episode The Pack, where Xander insults nerdy Willow when he says he's glad he's never going to have to see her pasty face again. Still, she's a rather cute girl.
Especially as pasty white Vamp-Willow, but definitely not nerdy then !
God I miss that show.
Well diffence between hacking and breaking and entering are somewhat simular.,/i>
Not to pick nits, but really, it's cracking, not hacking.
You have to believe that anyone who says there's nothing illegal about just walking into someone's home has got be trolling.
That's one reason in the US that it's legal to shoot a would-be-robber in your house, but not necessarily in your yard.
If strangers started randomly entering their home regularly, I think they'd be calling the police to do something about it rather quickly.
Mod parent up !
I agree, this is one of the stupidist things about Windows, and I'm not usually a Windows basher.
I do find this really annoying though. It doesn't shield the user from executing the file, only from understanding what the file really is. How is this a good idea ?
Perhaps in "file extension hidden" mode, it should automatically disable file execution at the user level, with explorer.exe as the exception.
That's possible... i'n't it? (IANAD)
While AVG is not the most effective AV according to the test trials, rating under all the commercial AV's and some of the free ones, it still does the job fine for home users who aren't getting hundreds of emails a day.
I generally agree that AVG is good, and, in fact, I use it at home myself and like it.
But it only takes one virus/email to get in and do it's damage, so I'm not sure how much it matters whether you get 10 or 500 emails a day. Not to mention, the home user is more likely to get spam than a large business, that is, at the user level, because business' IT departments should be filtering out the spam before it gets to the user, for the most part. Keyword is, of course, "should be".
I've always found there to be a rather fine line between insurance and extortion. If the story is true, he probably is one of the good guys, but he's merely tapped into the revenue stream the extortionists created.
That kind of goes without saying for the entire IT security industry, doesn't it ?
Believe me, I did allof this.
Sometimes it's like you almost see the light come on inside their head, problem is, it's battery powered and the battery is dead by the next day.
I actually get kudos from the section heads on my ability to explain things, and the detail I sometimes go into when appropriate. It takes two to teach though.. one has to learn ! The one good thing about teaching is the reinforcement you give yourself through the repeated explanations, you really get to know something inside out.
That would be such a major waste of time for me.
While I do send tip bulletins to our various section heads in charge of the users (they're not actual IT personnel though), I would never bother going right to the end user, because they, mostly middle-aged women, would not understand any of it.
That's not being sexist, or age-discriminatory, just practical.
I have tried to explain the difference between hard drive space and memory to my mother-in-law for years now, and it's absolutely hopeless !
Even as it is, the tip bulletins I write goes over the head of some of the section heads too. At least they can't fault me for not trying.
It would help if the end users were all sent to basic computer training as a prerequesite for using a computer, but that'll never happen.
in Windows is probably not so much Windows itself as the clueless end-users and lazy sysadmins that often run it.
The majority of Windows' virus and worm attacks in the past 2 years were preventable with proactive monitoring and definition updates, but it just wasn't done.
We have a few Win32 servers here, but those are administered by outside vendors. That was the box that got hit by slammer 2 years ago.
I'm not justifying an OS with holes, but there is NO justification for sysadmins who let them go unplugged.
Hate it isn't the word. I'm no tree-hugger, (I'm not a robber-baron either), but the thought of using the night sky for advertisement turns my stomach inside out.
Yes, I'm an amateur astronomer, very amateur I might add.
It's bad enough to have to see ads on TV, on the web, in magazines, and on billboards all over the city, but at least these are manmade constructs.
Don't rape nature by throwing ionic advertising in the sky !!
The very notion is revolting. Light pollution is already at severe levels all over the northeast, do we really need this ?
The only public display I can see as useful is creating an aururoa or light show for say, Independence Day, to complement the fireworks. Or maybe dire public service announcements, like an impending terrorist attack. Other than that, leave the sky the hell alone.
Who am I kidding ? They'll do it anyway. The least they could is show Buffy reruns in HD. What a big screen projector that'd be !!
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As for fox news - they're just the "missing blonde white girl" network and they have been for about four or five years now.
... page 7, I think it was ?
I dont' know about Fox News overall, but Greta Van Susteren sure is. Wait. It's not just "blonde white" girls. Just girls in general. There is no way in hell I'll watch her stupid tabloid hour. She doesn't just beat the horse after it's dead, she grinds it into hamburger and then sits around talking about it some more while it decomposes.
BTW, on the "fair" side, speaking of FNC, at least Bill O'Reilly labels himself as a columnist, not a journalist.
A lot of people seem to overlook that.
I'd like to see some of the other channels and papers follow suit, NYTs being on the top of that list.
Case in point, Alessandra Stanley, who wrote that Geraldo pushed an Air Force rescuer out of the way for a photo-op. It never happened. It took over a week for that to get retracted, and then they buried it on
Ya can't be more blatant than that.
Whatever. I suppose you think CNN is well centered too.
There's plenty of skeletal muscle mass in the glutes.
He's surely rip right out of those pants like everything else.. only, I imagine before they actually ripped, he'd be growling and snarling 5 octaves higher...
Ouch !
No wonder he doesn't like turning into the Hulk
I didn't mean to imply that degrees are worth more than certs; notice that I used a degree in mathematics in my examples. As you said, it's all in the relevance.
;-)
I do, though, tend to disagree on the part about memorization for only a few hours - I've had cert tests that employed a lot of simulations, not mulitple choice, where you really did have to know what you were doing and why. That said, there is certainly an overabundance of poorly written, ambigious, mulitple choice questions, and they should cut back on that dramatically.
There is also a difference between someone who attended a boot camp, and someone who is self-taught, (like myself) when it comes to those certs. Yes, there is no doubt that there are MCSEs who couldn't figure out how to shut down the remote registry service, but we shouldn't let that become a stereotype - not all people with certs are necessarily clueless, in fact, I think it's less than half... though probably barely. lol
I just meant a degree in general is not necessarily worth more than a cert, in reality, but to many HR departments, it doesn't much matter; degrees are worth more to them than certs regardless of relevance - which just goes to show you that a written record of some kind, whether it's a cert or a degree, often helps you get jobs.
As to the "what's to lose", that too depends on the employer, but for the most part, how are they going to know how knowledgable you really are ? Your case was different, but a lot of job interviews don't adequately test or screen applicants, so the only assurance the Interviewer has that you know your stuff is a piece of paper, be it a degree or a certification. I think we both know a certain place where this mistake is evident... repeatedly.
At least somebody passing a certifiation knows something about the subject. (Braindumps notwithstanding, but no everyone cheats)
We have people here with Bachelor's Degrees that don't know squat about IT, but got their job soley because of that aptly named BS.
True, some people may very knowledgable w/o a Cert, but the chances are that those with them know the technology fairly well, while the risk increases (from a hiring HR standpoint) without them.
I'd much rather see somebody with aN IT Cert than a BS in mathematics apply for a job in my Network Services unit, yet unfortunately, the guy with the Math BS is more likely to get the position and have to be taught everything from the ground up.
Besides, if you really know your stuff, why not take the test(s) ? What's to lose ?
You don't find your supposals/accusations against employers in general as ad hominem ?
You're making a large sweeping statement about employers in general, and painting them all as despotic slave drivers.
Sure, some misanthropic types might try this, but in general, the vast majority of situations, this simply won't be happening. Those employers who might be tempted would be standalone rogues who don't represent the culture in general. There are already enough parallels today to indicate this.
I think it's important to keep in mind that no matter your position, information is a neutral tool - inherently neither good nor evil - it's all in how it's used. Some may feel that information is intrinsically good; I don't agree with this biased view - I maintain that it's neutral. Case in point: the same information that Einstein bestowed upon the word that yielded so many wonderful inventions and discoveries also made the atomic bomb possible.
Now, while I've always been for *responsible* journalism, the fact that the information in question was gotten via Google, a search engine that merely indexes already publicly available information, pretty much negates any such issues for me. This is a beautiful case of irony and hypopcrisy.
Now, if the information had been obtained by hiring a Private Investigator, who tailed the CEO, went dumpster diving, the whole nine yards, then that would be a different story. However, all the information was gotten via his own freakin' search engine !
If Google has an issue with this, than perhaps they should take a look inward at the "power" of their engine and lay some of the blame on themselves. Again, personal accountiblity goes out the window.
Can a person sue themselves ?
That site is in the UK, meaning 60 pounds, not dollars. As for the 8 gig capacity, it's probably a firmware upgrade that they have.
They use the "$" (dollar) sign in the UK for pounds ? The "pound" sign is optional ?
Interestingly, a whois reveals the administrative contact of the site to be greek, but the technical contact is in New York, USA. Go figure.
According to: http://cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?News ID=14213, the iRam now supports 8GB, and should have a street price of $60.
Introducing the iSingularity ? ... it is catchy sounding. I'll take one.
Well
I'd give Morgan Webb anything she wanted Me too. ;-p
Question is, would she want it ?
Yep. No way that thing grows long hair and wears skin tight leather pants. No way that thing scores with chicks like Pam Lee and Carmen Miranda. Maybe Morgan Webb, but I doubt even that.
Just because Morgan Webb plays computer games ? Geesh, give her a break !
Damn, where are my mod points ? Excellent point. ..
Exactly - the really good musicians almost never get airtime, and 90$ of the listening public have never heard of them. But then, the majority of that 90 percent probably wouldn't or couldn't appreciate them either. At least they appreciated Eddie (VH).
The other mentionables:
Allan Holdsworth
Steve Morse
Vinnie Moore
Randy Rhodes
Yngwie Malmsteen
and a bunch of others I'm sure I missed
That'd make for an interesting Geico commerical !
Seems companies always seemed to assume that they had exclusive rights to claim a particular IRQ
.DLLs. There's a certain megalomaniacal theme here..
And many still seem to assume they'll have exclusive use of certain system
Anyone else read the title and think STDs or Hepatitis ? I guess that would be Pam Anderson though.
Hm yes, I'm reminded of the Buffy episode The Pack, where Xander insults nerdy Willow when he says he's glad he's never going to have to see her pasty face again. Still, she's a rather cute girl.
Especially as pasty white Vamp-Willow, but definitely not nerdy then !
God I miss that show.
Well diffence between hacking and breaking and entering are somewhat simular. ,/i>
Not to pick nits, but really, it's cracking, not hacking.
You have to believe that anyone who says there's nothing illegal about just walking into someone's home has got be trolling.
That's one reason in the US that it's legal to shoot a would-be-robber in your house, but not necessarily in your yard.
If strangers started randomly entering their home regularly, I think they'd be calling the police to do something about it rather quickly.
Mod parent up !
I agree, this is one of the stupidist things about Windows, and I'm not usually a Windows basher.
I do find this really annoying though. It doesn't shield the user from executing the file, only from understanding what the file really is. How is this a good idea ?
Perhaps in "file extension hidden" mode, it should automatically disable file execution at the user level, with explorer.exe as the exception. That's possible... i'n't it? (IANAD)
While AVG is not the most effective AV according to the test trials, rating under all the commercial AV's and some of the free ones, it still does the job fine for home users who aren't getting hundreds of emails a day.
I generally agree that AVG is good, and, in fact, I use it at home myself and like it.
But it only takes one virus/email to get in and do it's damage, so I'm not sure how much it matters whether you get 10 or 500 emails a day. Not to mention, the home user is more likely to get spam than a large business, that is, at the user level, because business' IT departments should be filtering out the spam before it gets to the user, for the most part.
Keyword is, of course, "should be".
I've always found there to be a rather fine line between insurance and extortion. If the story is true, he probably is one of the good guys, but he's merely tapped into the revenue stream the extortionists created. That kind of goes without saying for the entire IT security industry, doesn't it ?
Believe me, I did allof this.
Sometimes it's like you almost see the light come on inside their head, problem is, it's battery powered and the battery is dead by the next day.
I actually get kudos from the section heads on my ability to explain things, and the detail I sometimes go into when appropriate. It takes two to teach though.. one has to learn ! The one good thing about teaching is the reinforcement you give yourself through the repeated explanations, you really get to know something inside out.
That would be such a major waste of time for me. While I do send tip bulletins to our various section heads in charge of the users (they're not actual IT personnel though), I would never bother going right to the end user, because they, mostly middle-aged women, would not understand any of it.
That's not being sexist, or age-discriminatory, just practical.
I have tried to explain the difference between hard drive space and memory to my mother-in-law for years now, and it's absolutely hopeless !
Even as it is, the tip bulletins I write goes over the head of some of the section heads too. At least they can't fault me for not trying.
It would help if the end users were all sent to basic computer training as a prerequesite for using a computer, but that'll never happen.
in Windows is probably not so much Windows itself as the clueless end-users and lazy sysadmins that often run it. The majority of Windows' virus and worm attacks in the past 2 years were preventable with proactive monitoring and definition updates, but it just wasn't done.
We have a few Win32 servers here, but those are administered by outside vendors. That was the box that got hit by slammer 2 years ago.
I'm not justifying an OS with holes, but there is NO justification for sysadmins who let them go unplugged.
Hate it isn't the word. I'm no tree-hugger, (I'm not a robber-baron either), but the thought of using the night sky for advertisement turns my stomach inside out.
Yes, I'm an amateur astronomer, very amateur I might add.
It's bad enough to have to see ads on TV, on the web, in magazines, and on billboards all over the city, but at least these are manmade constructs.
Don't rape nature by throwing ionic advertising in the sky !! The very notion is revolting. Light pollution is already at severe levels all over the northeast, do we really need this ?
The only public display I can see as useful is creating an aururoa or light show for say, Independence Day, to complement the fireworks. Or maybe dire public service announcements, like an impending terrorist attack. Other than that, leave the sky the hell alone.
Who am I kidding ? They'll do it anyway. The least they could is show Buffy reruns in HD. What a big screen projector that'd be !!