But that does not really apply to people already working in IT looking to attend school at the same time. Those people have interaction with people they work with. Also lets face it, some people are not cut out for IT, and the people that are should not have to sit through hour long lectures covering concepts they quickly grasp. For this reason, online degrees have the potential of consuming much less time for the people who have been there and done most of it.
They are not really viewed equally in the industry, but in my opinion people that can pick the stuff up without the hand-holding are the people I would rather have working for me.
The degree is required for most of the jobs I have seen posted just to get your resume looked at. If you wanted to do _entry_level_ network support for the government or many companies they won't even look at anything less than a 4 year degree even if you are a CCIE. With government jobs you can have an engineering degree in tree cutting and get looked at, but if you have a 2 year degree in comp-sci and 20 certifications, they flat out do not care. I am 25 years old and I am as far as I will ever go in life right now unless I finish my degree.
RF engineering is nothing new. If they use a low power/high propigation (low) frequency, they run into interferance unless they are using very directional equipment. If they are using a high frequency (high power/low propigation), then they will need higher xmit power. These variables will not change.
What does change are advancements in modulation, DSP's, antennas, equipment cost etc.
If you don't do enough research on your question you get flamed for not trying, if you ask a well researched question and overshoot the people in the chan, you get flamed anyway becasue the people would rather yell at you than hurt their egos and say they don't know the answer.
What I have found is that by the time you become skilled enough to be able to find the exact happy medium for asking questions in IRC, then you are skilled enough to not have to ask.
IRC is an inferrior meduim to NNTP and web forums anyway.
So you decide to agree that MS is dying and base your assumption on MSFT's stock price? Did you notice that their net income was 8 billion from 6/03 to 6/04, and 12 billion from 6/04 and 6/05? Becasue I know I would consider a 4 billion dollar gain "no real growth" as well.
That is what I was thinking, and a very good point. I would imagine SCO would not openly admit that though, their reasoning for requesting the document be sealed is likely that the information in it is proprietary.
I like this part: "The hardest part is explaining it to friends," Schillinger says. "But we do have stories." Like what? "Like the donor who was in the room for the longest time. We had a big discussion about who was going to check on him. Turns out he thought he had to fill up the entire specimen cup."
So does the sperm bank still give guys like that the $75 and have some unsuspecting woman birth his offspring?
I can't help but wonder if there isn't a little kid somewhere that always seems to fill in EVERY little dot on multiple choice exams with his #2 pencil.
Just because they are offering VoIP does not mean VoIP is the enemy. If people are using Skype/Vonage etc. it reduces the chances of them defecting to satelite. You could still go to DSL, but expect to pay more for it if you don't have local phone service through the same company. VoIP even if the cable companies are not selling it is a good thing for cable companies. This is not even taking ninto account legal reprocusions for intentionally blocking people phone service or backlash from customer agression. If anyone, the LEC's may try something that stupid but it is really not in the cable companies best interest. I honestly don't subscribe to this VoIP blocking doomsday scenario (at least from a cable perspective).
"you no longer need the FCC to assign a specific bandwidth to a specific station, thereby limiting stations"
They have to do more than say, well you are FM, use something between 88 & 108 MHz. What stops me from basicially just "podcasting" over top the largest radio stations in my area by using a higher xmit power? The idea that Open Source Software would replace the FCC is every bit as retarded as saying that Linux will become the new governing body of the united states. What a very stupid idea.
Yahoo! has a notepad service and I use it ALL the time. I used to email myself things frequently just to keep track of them, now I just create folders and notes in yahoo's notepad. I highly recommend it.
Throw all the white papers you want at the argument. All the java software I use is still slow so I am going to continue to hate it.
Also one more point I would like to make: The point of Java is write once run anywhere. Sure in theory I can use the same application on multiple operating systems. The problem is that many of them have specific version requirements for the JVM I am using. Even with 2 or 3 Java applications on my PC there is a trial and error process of trying to find a JVM that all 2 or 3 applications can run on.
So I can write _one_ application and run it anywhere, as long as noby elses Java application using a seperate JVM version is already there.
Oh my god, I just read on the same page they are _still_ in discovery! What gives? If SCO _still_ does not have the evidence they need how could any sane judge let the discovery period continue for this long?
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They are not really viewed equally in the industry, but in my opinion people that can pick the stuff up without the hand-holding are the people I would rather have working for me.
The degree is required for most of the jobs I have seen posted just to get your resume looked at. If you wanted to do _entry_level_ network support for the government or many companies they won't even look at anything less than a 4 year degree even if you are a CCIE. With government jobs you can have an engineering degree in tree cutting and get looked at, but if you have a 2 year degree in comp-sci and 20 certifications, they flat out do not care. I am 25 years old and I am as far as I will ever go in life right now unless I finish my degree.
You talk like you are from the same part of eastern US (PA/NY) as I am :)
What does change are advancements in modulation, DSP's, antennas, equipment cost etc.
What I have found is that by the time you become skilled enough to be able to find the exact happy medium for asking questions in IRC, then you are skilled enough to not have to ask.
IRC is an inferrior meduim to NNTP and web forums anyway.
For the most part WWW based message boards have now filled that void.
So you decide to agree that MS is dying and base your assumption on MSFT's stock price? Did you notice that their net income was 8 billion from 6/03 to 6/04, and 12 billion from 6/04 and 6/05? Becasue I know I would consider a 4 billion dollar gain "no real growth" as well.
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That is what I was thinking, and a very good point. I would imagine SCO would not openly admit that though, their reasoning for requesting the document be sealed is likely that the information in it is proprietary.
I wish I could be 17 or 18 the rest of my life :) Waste not your time with porn and /. young iPod usrs.
So does the sperm bank still give guys like that the $75 and have some unsuspecting woman birth his offspring?
I can't help but wonder if there isn't a little kid somewhere that always seems to fill in EVERY little dot on multiple choice exams with his #2 pencil.
If it took 1 guy a _year_ to switch to Linux is the money saved by not paying for Windows really worth it?
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Just because they are offering VoIP does not mean VoIP is the enemy. If people are using Skype/Vonage etc. it reduces the chances of them defecting to satelite. You could still go to DSL, but expect to pay more for it if you don't have local phone service through the same company. VoIP even if the cable companies are not selling it is a good thing for cable companies. This is not even taking ninto account legal reprocusions for intentionally blocking people phone service or backlash from customer agression. If anyone, the LEC's may try something that stupid but it is really not in the cable companies best interest. I honestly don't subscribe to this VoIP blocking doomsday scenario (at least from a cable perspective).
I don't many cable companies really view VoIP as the enemy. I wouldn't worry.
And I thought I lived an isolated life.
Right, that is like selling military service enlistment to someone by saying "well an entry level General will make..."
They have to do more than say, well you are FM, use something between 88 & 108 MHz. What stops me from basicially just "podcasting" over top the largest radio stations in my area by using a higher xmit power? The idea that Open Source Software would replace the FCC is every bit as retarded as saying that Linux will become the new governing body of the united states. What a very stupid idea.
The fact that AMD outsold Intel there is a pretty good sign that there isn't.
Do they have a web site?
Yahoo! has a notepad service and I use it ALL the time. I used to email myself things frequently just to keep track of them, now I just create folders and notes in yahoo's notepad. I highly recommend it.
Also one more point I would like to make: The point of Java is write once run anywhere. Sure in theory I can use the same application on multiple operating systems. The problem is that many of them have specific version requirements for the JVM I am using. Even with 2 or 3 Java applications on my PC there is a trial and error process of trying to find a JVM that all 2 or 3 applications can run on.
So I can write _one_ application and run it anywhere, as long as noby elses Java application using a seperate JVM version is already there.
Oh my god, I just read on the same page they are _still_ in discovery! What gives? If SCO _still_ does not have the evidence they need how could any sane judge let the discovery period continue for this long?
And slashdot runs redundant stories on the same thing in case the first one is lost on the way.
....and having more up to date information on a specific topic is not a feature that should just be overlooked.