Older folks most likely skip ads as a convenience to save time, not just to avoid advertising. The value of time to someone who works or has hobbies is much greater than a teenager who can just waste away an afternoon watching tv.
I personally skip ads because it the only way to watch an hour of tv in 40 minutes.
Changing jobs is THE ONLY way to get paid what you're worth. You only get 'market value' if you put yourself on the market.
I used to work for the federal gov't doing software engineering. I was making 40K, but this was during the dot-bomb collapse and it was safer than my 40K job at the large bank I was at before. Just over three years later, I'm working at a different company for DOUBLE the salary. If I was still there, I'd be making ~68 and bored out of my mind. I unfortunatly had to change jobs twice (company closed down), but I'm making more and I now live in an area with affordable housing and a lower cost of living.
At my former place (a Fortune 50 retailer), we used JasperReports for a lot of our internal reporting needs. Generating PDF's for the web-applications, XLS docs for the business folks, and using all OS/Free software to do it.
We used JasperAssistant to create the reports, training even non-technical folks on how to create the reports they needed. The reports they made weren't going to win awards, but they got what they wanted and we saved time.
Just be aware that the JasperReports libs do their own thread management (at least it did as of the pre-1.2 release) so be aware of running inside of a J2EE container. We chose to write an asynchronous app that utilized JMS and a java daemon that read the queue and processed the messages, storing the output as a BLOB in a db.
The NSA has the highest concentration of PhD's anywhere in the world, and they're hiring in droves over the next 5 years (10K openings). Also, each branch has a Research Lab, and the DoD itself has labs. That's just the DoD, there are a lot of other gov't institutions (DoE, etc) that need to hire smart Americans who can also get cleared.
Here Sure it costs a fortune, and its old, but the stuff in it stands the test of time. Definatly a must have if you're testing any software that just cannot have a critical failure.
The curriculum that you have posted sounds like something out of DeVry or Chubb and not something that you'd find at a college. Instead of having particular courses in.NET/Java/C++, have generalized data structures and algorithm classes that teach the basics of low-level software design and hammer the importance of efficiency home.
Having theoretical coursework may seem lame and not usefull post-graduation, but they often teach the concepts that are the most used in a CS position. These concepts can be enforced with projects, homeworks, and, most importantly, through internships or co-operative education experiences.
I am a computer scientist in the defense industry and I have seen other 'computer scientists' with degrees from schools whose curriculum approaches what you are proposing. They have a lot harder time thinking in terms of the problem and are 'hard-wired' to use certain technologies to solve every problem. They rely on the SKILLS they were taught in college rather then on the KNOWLEDGE they learned through theory and the application of the theory through constructive coursework.
Here's a link to the current CS curriculum of the school I attended, it has changed a lot since I went there but the focus on theory and knowledge is still present.
Just this past weekend, my group of engineer friends and I were walking from bar to bar, passed an ATM, and we all laughed our butts off that it was BSOD'd. I have also seen the same thing at the Fleet bank ATM at 6th and Washington in Hoboken also. Must be something about the town...
From experience (with EMC - Sun) your price tag sounds a bit on the high side, but not by very much. Considering that EMC storage (after all mission critical data should be stored on EMC/Hitachi/StorageTek, NOT on consumer IDE) costs much more than consumer IDE/SCSI (25 - 75x) and that's only the disks.
If you're going with EMC, you'll need to put those disks in something, like a frame (cabinet), and for your size, more like 5 cabinets. With that many cabinets, you'll need some sort of SAN switch and associated fibre cables (not cheap). That gets your disks into cabinets and all hooked together.
You wanted to access the data? Then you'll need EMC fibre channel cards ($15k a pop for the Sun 64bit PCI high end jobs). But you'll more than likely be serving data from a cluster of machines, so count on buying three ($45k) per machine (so each card is on a different I/O board hitting the SAN switch, redundancy)
Who's going to set this up? For that kind of coin, EMC (or whomever you go with) will more than likely set the thing up and burn it in for you on site. The price probably also includes some kind of maintenance contract with turn around time fitting the criticality of the system.
Yes, my 'big ass storage' experience may be limited , but I think that 20Million for 50TB installed/supported/tested by a big storage vendor is in the ballpark.
When was the last time you saw a phone that would let you dial a number? I mean just dial a number, without redial, memory, flash, hold, speakerphone, caller ID, flashing lights or any of that peripheral junk? When was the last time you actually heard a telephone RING? With an actual brass bell that went "ding-a-ling-a-ling?"
Now, actually, I work for the government so we have cheap leftover phones that actually have a bell in them and no extra features, just dial-talk-hangup. Big chance from the multi-line big ass Lucent phone I was used to in the private sector. Despite current thinking, getting anything modern in a government job (except PC's) is next to impossible due to budget constraints.
Because they want theirs to be unique. No where in the Social Security law does it mandate that every SS# be unique although it is rare that two+ people have the same number. This stems from the fact that SSN's were never meant to be ID numbers, but through a series of Executive Orders, has become just that. A good reference on this is the book "A Gift Of Fire"
This is also a danger while driving in the summer with the windows down. You still sweat but the onrushing air wisks it away very quickly. I have driven hundreds of miles per day while drinking bottles of water ( >2) and still have not had to use the lav.
I shred every receipt after entering it into MS Money. Those few that I keep are stored in my filing cabinet. I also exclusively use only one card for online purchases, minimising the impact of an 'owned' card. Sounds like your just having some really crappy luck.
Definatly see this. It's in Mitchell SD, around where the Badlands are (another must see). Going stargazing in the summer in the badlands is great, no lights, no humidity, only clear skies. Better than this Jersey shit.
This book is heavy on the theory and such, a bit light on examples, but since they primarily use (f)lex and (b)yacc, finding examples if you get stuck isn't too hard. They dedicate a lot of pages to parsing and parser theory.
This book is quite thick, but with a halfway decent instructor and 3 years of undergrad CS behind me, I found this book very manageable. We used it in our senior CS/CPE architecture course, after each of us had already been through a microprocessors course, a compilers course, a computer organisation course, and a programming lang. theory course. Having those specific courses under our belts made the book digestable.
True that all processors have bugs, hell the Ultra Sparc II had One, just one, fixable with a software patch. The key is that Intel rushes commodity stuff out to the consumer market whereas Sun is expected to deliver top-notch carrier class chips, not matter how long it takes.
Depends on how new the hard disks are. I have an 18 GB Seagate Barracude (7200rpm) (50Pin SCSI) in an external Sun 411 case, and I can barely tell its on by how little noise it makes. This combo of external case and this disk is very quiet. The thing is, the seagate barracuda's used to be very loud.
Adding new harware to their new enterprise server systems is mindless and requires no reboot at all. If a processor board fails, just yank the dead one out and put a new one in and once the RAM and CPU check out as OK, its part of the system. And since all of the USIII based systems share the *exact same boards* (processor, I/O, power) one canreplace a blown processor board in a 15K with one from a 6800, all without a reboot. It's pretty neat to watch, although it scares the shit out of the NT guys.
Just do what O'Reilly does, make the bindings the 'lay flat' variety ala the '* in a Nutshell' series, but more heavy duty. These solve te problem of laying flat and easy to spot on shelves.
Sun won't need to do a damn thing as there will still be companies that will want Sun hardware/OE to run Oracle and other applications on. Take banks and brokerage houses for example, they live for Sun/Solaris/Oracle and they have such a deep investment in licenses and staff that they won't change unless their forced to. Also, managers at these places (who have to answer to the SEC/Fed if certain machines go down) want Some Big Company they can sue the pants off of if their hardware fails. On top of that, tell me what Intel company gives 24/7 on site hardware/OE support that guarantees a fix in two hours?
The problem with Oracle licensing is that on Intel its in $ per MHz whereas on Sparc/PARISC/MIPS/etc. it's $ per CPU. This is what makes the 'big iron' competitive with the smaller machines, paying 25$ per Mhz on a dualie 2.2Ghz P4 is more expensive than paying for a 4 CPU license for an E450.
This email is so fake!!!! Anyone who uses that many !!!'s in an email is trying way! to hard! to make a point!!! Any executive who uses that many !'s should take basic Engr^Hlish 101 again.
Companies are abandoning token based authentication in favour of PKI because of one thing $$$. Token based costs more because of lost tokens, dumb users requiring support staff, etc. PKI has a higher initial cost but is pretty much set and forget.
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Older folks most likely skip ads as a convenience to save time, not just to avoid advertising. The value of time to someone who works or has hobbies is much greater than a teenager who can just waste away an afternoon watching tv.
I personally skip ads because it the only way to watch an hour of tv in 40 minutes.
Ramonnnne... mod this parent up and let him into the Big Ass Prize Closet.
L'il Conner gave his mommy an XM for christmas, too bad it don't work under water.
Changing jobs is THE ONLY way to get paid what you're worth. You only get 'market value' if you put yourself on the market.
I used to work for the federal gov't doing software engineering. I was making 40K, but this was during the dot-bomb collapse and it was safer than my 40K job at the large bank I was at before. Just over three years later, I'm working at a different company for DOUBLE the salary. If I was still there, I'd be making ~68 and bored out of my mind. I unfortunatly had to change jobs twice (company closed down), but I'm making more and I now live in an area with affordable housing and a lower cost of living.
At my former place (a Fortune 50 retailer), we used JasperReports for a lot of our internal reporting needs. Generating PDF's for the web-applications, XLS docs for the business folks, and using all OS/Free software to do it.
We used JasperAssistant to create the reports, training even non-technical folks on how to create the reports they needed. The reports they made weren't going to win awards, but they got what they wanted and we saved time.
Just be aware that the JasperReports libs do their own thread management (at least it did as of the pre-1.2 release) so be aware of running inside of a J2EE container. We chose to write an asynchronous app that utilized JMS and a java daemon that read the queue and processed the messages, storing the output as a BLOB in a db.
The NSA has the highest concentration of PhD's anywhere in the world, and they're hiring in droves over the next 5 years (10K openings). Also, each branch has a Research Lab, and the DoD itself has labs. That's just the DoD, there are a lot of other gov't institutions (DoE, etc) that need to hire smart Americans who can also get cleared.
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Sure it costs a fortune, and its old, but the stuff in it stands the test of time. Definatly a must have if you're testing any software that just cannot have a critical failure.
The curriculum that you have posted sounds like something out of DeVry or Chubb and not something that you'd find at a college. Instead of having particular courses in .NET/Java/C++, have generalized data structures and algorithm classes that teach the basics of low-level software design and hammer the importance of efficiency home.
Having theoretical coursework may seem lame and not usefull post-graduation, but they often teach the concepts that are the most used in a CS position. These concepts can be enforced with projects, homeworks, and, most importantly, through internships or co-operative education experiences.
I am a computer scientist in the defense industry and I have seen other 'computer scientists' with degrees from schools whose curriculum approaches what you are proposing. They have a lot harder time thinking in terms of the problem and are 'hard-wired' to use certain technologies to solve every problem. They rely on the SKILLS they were taught in college rather then on the KNOWLEDGE they learned through theory and the application of the theory through constructive coursework.
Here's a link to the current CS curriculum of the school I attended, it has changed a lot since I went there but the focus on theory and knowledge is still present.
Just this past weekend, my group of engineer friends and I were walking from bar to bar, passed an ATM, and we all laughed our butts off that it was BSOD'd. I have also seen the same thing at the Fleet bank ATM at 6th and Washington in Hoboken also. Must be something about the town...
From experience (with EMC - Sun) your price tag sounds a bit on the high side, but not by very much. Considering that EMC storage (after all mission critical data should be stored on EMC/Hitachi/StorageTek, NOT on consumer IDE) costs much more than consumer IDE/SCSI (25 - 75x) and that's only the disks.
If you're going with EMC, you'll need to put those disks in something, like a frame (cabinet), and for your size, more like 5 cabinets. With that many cabinets, you'll need some sort of SAN switch and associated fibre cables (not cheap). That gets your disks into cabinets and all hooked together.
You wanted to access the data? Then you'll need EMC fibre channel cards ($15k a pop for the Sun 64bit PCI high end jobs). But you'll more than likely be serving data from a cluster of machines, so count on buying three ($45k) per machine (so each card is on a different I/O board hitting the SAN switch, redundancy)
Who's going to set this up? For that kind of coin, EMC (or whomever you go with) will more than likely set the thing up and burn it in for you on site. The price probably also includes some kind of maintenance contract with turn around time fitting the criticality of the system.
Yes, my 'big ass storage' experience may be limited , but I think that 20Million for 50TB installed/supported/tested by a big storage vendor is in the ballpark.
Good luck.
When was the last time you saw a phone that would let you dial a number? I mean just dial a number, without redial, memory, flash, hold, speakerphone, caller ID, flashing lights or any of that peripheral junk? When was the last time you actually heard a telephone RING? With an actual brass bell that went "ding-a-ling-a-ling?"
Now, actually, I work for the government so we have cheap leftover phones that actually have a bell in them and no extra features, just dial-talk-hangup. Big chance from the multi-line big ass Lucent phone I was used to in the private sector. Despite current thinking, getting anything modern in a government job (except PC's) is next to impossible due to budget constraints.
Because they want theirs to be unique. No where in the Social Security law does it mandate that every SS# be unique although it is rare that two+ people have the same number. This stems from the fact that SSN's were never meant to be ID numbers, but through a series of Executive Orders, has become just that. A good reference on this is the book "A Gift Of Fire"
This is also a danger while driving in the summer with the windows down. You still sweat but the onrushing air wisks it away very quickly. I have driven hundreds of miles per day while drinking bottles of water ( >2) and still have not had to use the lav.
I shred every receipt after entering it into MS Money. Those few that I keep are stored in my filing cabinet. I also exclusively use only one card for online purchases, minimising the impact of an 'owned' card. Sounds like your just having some really crappy luck.
Definatly see this. It's in Mitchell SD, around where the Badlands are (another must see). Going stargazing in the summer in the badlands is great, no lights, no humidity, only clear skies. Better than this Jersey shit.
This book is heavy on the theory and such, a bit light on examples, but since they primarily use (f)lex and (b)yacc, finding examples if you get stuck isn't too hard. They dedicate a lot of pages to parsing and parser theory.
This book is quite thick, but with a halfway decent instructor and 3 years of undergrad CS behind me, I found this book very manageable. We used it in our senior CS/CPE architecture course, after each of us had already been through a microprocessors course, a compilers course, a computer organisation course, and a programming lang. theory course. Having those specific courses under our belts made the book digestable.
True that all processors have bugs, hell the Ultra Sparc II had One, just one, fixable with a software patch. The key is that Intel rushes commodity stuff out to the consumer market whereas Sun is expected to deliver top-notch carrier class chips, not matter how long it takes.
Yes, I love Sun.
Depends on how new the hard disks are. I have an 18 GB Seagate Barracude (7200rpm) (50Pin SCSI) in an external Sun 411 case, and I can barely tell its on by how little noise it makes. This combo of external case and this disk is very quiet. The thing is, the seagate barracuda's used to be very loud.
Just to get this post into the slashdot hall of fame i'm posting this comment, hopefully it'll get past the lameness filter.
Congrats Taco, best wishes.
Adding new harware to their new enterprise server systems is mindless and requires no reboot at all. If a processor board fails, just yank the dead one out and put a new one in and once the RAM and CPU check out as OK, its part of the system. And since all of the USIII based systems share the *exact same boards* (processor, I/O, power) one canreplace a blown processor board in a 15K with one from a 6800, all without a reboot. It's pretty neat to watch, although it scares the shit out of the NT guys.
Just do what O'Reilly does, make the bindings the 'lay flat' variety ala the '* in a Nutshell' series, but more heavy duty. These solve te problem of laying flat and easy to spot on shelves.
Sun won't need to do a damn thing as there will still be companies that will want Sun hardware/OE to run Oracle and other applications on. Take banks and brokerage houses for example, they live for Sun/Solaris/Oracle and they have such a deep investment in licenses and staff that they won't change unless their forced to. Also, managers at these places (who have to answer to the SEC/Fed if certain machines go down) want Some Big Company they can sue the pants off of if their hardware fails. On top of that, tell me what Intel company gives 24/7 on site hardware/OE support that guarantees a fix in two hours?
The problem with Oracle licensing is that on Intel its in $ per MHz whereas on Sparc/PARISC/MIPS/etc. it's $ per CPU. This is what makes the 'big iron' competitive with the smaller machines, paying 25$ per Mhz on a dualie 2.2Ghz P4 is more expensive than paying for a 4 CPU license for an E450.
This email is so fake!!!! Anyone who uses that many !!!'s in an email is trying way! to hard! to make a point!!! Any executive who uses that many !'s should take basic Engr^Hlish 101 again.
Companies are abandoning token based authentication in favour of PKI because of one thing $$$. Token based costs more because of lost tokens, dumb users requiring support staff, etc. PKI has a higher initial cost but is pretty much set and forget.