While not the be-all end-all of certification, A+ certified techs know a TON more than some people who run and/or work in IT departments. Some of my cow-orkers are fine examples of this. Experience without skills. Authority without knowledge. And almost comical attempts at diagnosis. .
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How many people are really going to do this? I can see plenty of applications, academics wishing to disseminate information and wanting to get around the DMCA, but I doubt we'll see John Grisham or Piers Anthony having their earlier (read: slower-selling) works unleashed for the public good.
Great tool for Estates of dead IP holders to be publicly philanthropic. Artists could will their entire bodies of work to this post mortem, make money while alive, and enrich the public domain.
I have a BA in History(!) and my A+ and Server+, with my MCSA in the works, and plans for Network+, Linux+ and RHCE down the road. Any degree on your resume will usually give you a notch or you above candidates without, more reliably than a certification. A degree says that not only do you know your stuff, but you can focus on a project for an extended period and have a certain level of competency at basic work-type skills, i.e. the English language, something many people lack, or business, or critical thinking. Certifications give a picture of you as an IT professional, but a degree says something about your life skills and what type of an employee you can become.
I hope they have an exhibit on Air Support, Matrix Marauders, Datastorm, and all the subLogic Flight simulators, including Jet. To say nothing of AmigaBASIC. Gotta love writing action games in color: Black, White, Blue and Orange.
I just bought a 1.6 p4, and it's dual-booting XP and RH7.2. I'm still tweaking the X driver for the GeForce2 mobility, and the modem's probably a Winmodem so I use my old PCMCIA 33.6, but everything else SMOKES.
I use Abiword to save to Word format all the time, and have never had a problem.
Since Version 0.95 came out, that is. Also has lots of other niphty features. My wife and my godmother both stick to Word like postage stamps, but I use of AbiWord has never hampered my communicating with them.
Do you think "underground-enabled" P2P projects like Freenet
http://freenet.sourceforge.net using strong encryption will become more common as means to exercise free speech and circumvent these "legal" violations of the constitution?
Limburgher
beginquote Science is wrong... therefore the bible must be correct. endquote
Hmm. So, since you cannot precisely know both a particle's velocity and position at the same time, it follows that observation is capable of altering the properties of an object. Might this not make a literal interpretation of the bible a little, ummm, stupid?
First it was money, then it was power, then it was sex, then it was alcohol, then drugs, then books, then sports, then MST3k, now games. None of these things are necessarily bad in and of themselves, it's just that people are prone to addiction.
My parents are both recovering alcoholics, so genetically, i've got loaded dice. I've noticed many addictive tendancies in myself, and tried EXTREMELY hard to moderate them. I'm doing pretty well.
It's the people who don't see their own tendancies that are in danger, with ANY of the above. They start, and can't stop, and feel like the rest of the world is against them when really it's that they've gone in too deep to have any real perspective. Gaming is no different, and no worse. There is no reason games can't be used, even heavily, without any major problems. Like with booze, a major binge every now and again within a pattern of responsible use is fine as long as it doesn't screw up your life or the life of anyone you care about.
Offtopic. ..MADD==Mothers Agains Dungeons and Dragons. . .
3D rendered MYST was the best thing ever to happen to that game, and my only regret is that i havnt found a way to turn it into a Half-life deathmatch level.
I've not played Exile yet, but then poverty is usually restrictive if your wife INSISTS on eating EVERY day. . .
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The worm is coming! It can smell the spice on your hard drive! Delete it, or it'll smash through it and destroy you!
While not the be-all end-all of certification, A+ certified techs know a TON more than some people who run and/or work in IT departments. Some of my cow-orkers are fine examples of this. Experience without skills. Authority without knowledge. And almost comical attempts at diagnosis. .
And name an OS Winux. . .
Great tool for Estates of dead IP holders to be publicly philanthropic. Artists could will their entire bodies of work to this post mortem, make money while alive, and enrich the public domain.
I have a BA in History(!) and my A+ and Server+, with my MCSA in the works, and plans for Network+, Linux+ and RHCE down the road. Any degree on your resume will usually give you a notch or you above candidates without, more reliably than a certification. A degree says that not only do you know your stuff, but you can focus on a project for an extended period and have a certain level of competency at basic work-type skills, i.e. the English language, something many people lack, or business, or critical thinking. Certifications give a picture of you as an IT professional, but a degree says something about your life skills and what type of an employee you can become.
I hope they have an exhibit on Air Support, Matrix Marauders, Datastorm, and all the subLogic Flight simulators, including Jet. To say nothing of AmigaBASIC. Gotta love writing action games in color: Black, White, Blue and Orange.
Then a strange chip would be perfectly normal!
Time to encrypt everything. 512-bit encryption ought to slow them down, especially on large files.
I mean, I consider him to be a major distro in his own right. . .
I mean, her boyfriend's a tech, but she freaks out if he makes the slightest little change.
To top it all off, she's running WinME.
Will soon be on every major web site. Again. . .
So, it must be OK to count them now!!
Why can't IIIIII get a story accepted? oh well. I'm just glad it happened. . .
I just bought a 1.6 p4, and it's dual-booting XP and RH7.2. I'm still tweaking the X driver for the GeForce2 mobility, and the modem's probably a Winmodem so I use my old PCMCIA 33.6, but everything else SMOKES.
Toastie? Scares me some, too.
I'd rather be referred to as a Lederman, Hawking or Fermat. Besides, fewer Manhattan-project jokes.
KthlnTaco?
I use Abiword to save to Word format all the time, and have never had a problem. Since Version 0.95 came out, that is. Also has lots of other niphty features. My wife and my godmother both stick to Word like postage stamps, but I use of AbiWord has never hampered my communicating with them.
. . .naming it The Wrath of Khan? That's MY sequel. . .
Windows XP found to be buggy and insecure! Industry insiders astounded!
http://freenet.sourceforge.net using strong encryption will become more common as means to exercise free speech and circumvent these "legal" violations of the constitution? Limburgher
I've got to be, a dim dwarf star man. . . Que es mas MACHO? Tu? Si! Mas MACHO! There are so many possibilities. I have dibs on the next one they find.
beginquote Science is wrong ... therefore the bible must be correct. endquote
Hmm. So, since you cannot precisely know both a particle's velocity and position at the same time, it follows that observation is capable of altering the properties of an object. Might this not make a literal interpretation of the bible a little, ummm, stupid?
First it was money, then it was power, then it was sex, then it was alcohol, then drugs, then books, then sports, then MST3k, now games. None of these things are necessarily bad in and of themselves, it's just that people are prone to addiction. My parents are both recovering alcoholics, so genetically, i've got loaded dice. I've noticed many addictive tendancies in myself, and tried EXTREMELY hard to moderate them. I'm doing pretty well. It's the people who don't see their own tendancies that are in danger, with ANY of the above. They start, and can't stop, and feel like the rest of the world is against them when really it's that they've gone in too deep to have any real perspective. Gaming is no different, and no worse. There is no reason games can't be used, even heavily, without any major problems. Like with booze, a major binge every now and again within a pattern of responsible use is fine as long as it doesn't screw up your life or the life of anyone you care about. Offtopic. . .MADD==Mothers Agains Dungeons and Dragons. . .
3D rendered MYST was the best thing ever to happen to that game, and my only regret is that i havnt found a way to turn it into a Half-life deathmatch level. I've not played Exile yet, but then poverty is usually restrictive if your wife INSISTS on eating EVERY day. . .