That's great. Who doesn't want to work with someone knowledgeable and competent?
But no one starts out that way. You need to start off in an entry level position with little knowledge, some competence and a whole lot of ignorance.
Now, what happens when all those entry-level jobs are sent overseas? The flow is interrupted. Your supply of Knowledgeable and Competent people will start to dwindle.
Employers that advertise "Entry Level" positions that require skills and experience are messed up.
"According to UC Berkeley's career center, CS grads are still some of the most employable majors with starting salaries comparable to EECS and actually higher than Bus.Adm and most of engineering varieties."
If they're getting info from their own grads, I wouldn't be surprised.
I've heard Berkeley's a pretty good school and stuff.
You don't need to use DNS at all to use the Internet, and if you do use DNS, you are free to use your own that is tied to no roots and assign domains to IPs as you see fit.
And in other news, The Chinese government has banned the use of foriegn root servers. Violators may be enrolled in the the state "Organ Donor" farm program.
Really? None? I guess you just don't have any interests then.
Recently I've enjoyed: A blog about making homemade chocolate. (Grind the beans up and everything) A blog about PVRs The many, many politcial blogs Several blogs about guns
Blogs I should look for: Someone building a kit plane Off grid living
So, there's the life, opinions, and experences of humanity out there, being written down in blogs. How can you not find that interesting?
Everything I'm seeing about Ruby on Rails says it's great for making "Web Applications". I'm going to start designing a new dynamic website soon, and I was wondering about building it using RoR.
I just want to use CSS, and plug the whole thing into a database.
So are they just buzzwording me, or is RoR the wrong tool to use for something like this?
Right now I've built a PC for a friend of mine. She was planning on installing Windows on it when I give it to her, I thought it would be interesting to show her that Linux would work too.
Well, it doesn't. I've tried several flavors so far, and they either won't work with the on-board graphics chip (Nvidia 6100 I believe) or they won't work with the on-board network chip.
And that's just the start. She has 5 requirements. Open office, GAIM, Email, web browing, and pogo.com.
If I could get X and the network working, getting the JRE (for pogo) installed is a whole new complication. I tried it on my home system using FC4 and it's "Jumping through hoops" time.
Why do we need libraries now anyway? DLL hell exists for Linux, and it shouldn't. Feel free to make the source available, but until someone makes a simplified "Pre-compiled" version of linux with no libraries, this won't get better.
I understand the whole "Source code" thing, but the vast majority of people who use Linux now don't need it. And if you want Linux to become popular on the desktop, that number will balloon greatly!
To sum, libraries and source code are important to coders, not users!
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. "If you're trying to determine if someone is guilty or innocent, why use a Judge?"
The last person you've ever want doing that sort of thing, is someone who has spent years in the courtroom as a lawyer, and then years judging innocent and guilty over hundreds of cases.
In case my sarcasm has flown over your head. Let me ask you this question, Why do we have juries at all? A judge is perfectly capable at doing his job. Why would the designers of the judicial system allow you to have access to a group of your peers?
The previous poster said that the drives are pretty much identical except for the controller board. You shouted WRONG, and then said nothing to prove him wrong. Testing the drives does not have anything to do with them being nearly identical.
And do you have a problem with ignorance? It's just a long word for "I don't know". Perhaps you leaped out of your mothers womb knowing everything, but the rest of us are learning as we go along.
Feh. Civilizatoin wouldn't collapse. Food is still tansferable by train. Nuclear power works just fine. I can do my job just as well at home from my PC, I don't *need* to commute every morning to work, my bosses just want me in the building.
You know, those guys who only communicate by email?
Most towns and citys were founded before the automobile, once gas becomes too expensive for the average person to drive or fly, then you'll see modern communities change to look more like the old cities.
Also, at this point you're supposed to consider either taking out a loan and improving the energy efficency of your house, or consider moving.
If you had bought a car which only got 5 miles to the gallon, would you be arguing along the same lines? Gas used to be cheap enough to drive it, but now it's not. You will have to make some changes.
At this point it's obvious that depending on a limited natural resource is a bad idea. Yet so many people depend on it to cook and heat their house. At least with electricity you can have power plants of various types and sizes that can produce it.
"Quite frequently recently, OPEC has been producing at 100% capacity and still not producing enough to keep the price of oil down. This is one of the oft-quoted symptoms of the "Peak Oil" theory."
Why would you want to keep the price of oil down?
Yes, people would *like* to have cheap gas. But that's impossible in the long term. Let the price of gas go up, people use less. Eventually it will get high enough where alternate forms of energy are more feasable.
Trying to artifically shortcut to this state tends to blow up in our faces though. So, don't worry, be happy.
The reason government feels that it can pass laws about what we can smoke and eat is because it sees itself as paying for you hospital bills. (Even though we pay those bills through taxes.)
Do you really think the government would give a damn about you hurting yourself if it didn't have to foot all the hospital bills you can't afford?
Holy cow. If I had borrowed my way through college I would have had needed to assume another identity and grow a mustache to escape that debt. There would have been no way for me to pay that off.
The only reason that I have a job now is because I had gotten a job in college doing operations with an as400. Knowing people on the inside was the only way for me to apply for an internship, a graduation requirement. I wouldn't have graduated if I hadn't been working through college.
Nobody gives a damn about your skills. If you have any aptitude at all I can train you to be an as400 monkey in a week. But the only reason I had gotten the job after college was the experience I had working in college.
After spending billions on a new fab and R&D, they produce a chip that "Keeps up" with AMD's slowest dual-core chip? The 3800+ is made with older tech and came out last year.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
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That's great. Who doesn't want to work with someone knowledgeable and competent?
But no one starts out that way. You need to start off in an entry level position with little knowledge, some competence and a whole lot of ignorance.
Now, what happens when all those entry-level jobs are sent overseas? The flow is interrupted. Your supply of Knowledgeable and Competent people will start to dwindle.
Employers that advertise "Entry Level" positions that require skills and experience are messed up.
"According to UC Berkeley's career center, CS grads are still some of the most employable majors with starting salaries comparable to EECS and actually higher than Bus.Adm and most of engineering varieties."
If they're getting info from their own grads, I wouldn't be surprised.
I've heard Berkeley's a pretty good school and stuff.
You don't need to use DNS at all to use the Internet, and if you do use DNS, you are free to use your own that is tied to no roots and assign domains to IPs as you see fit.
And in other news, The Chinese government has banned the use of foriegn root servers. Violators may be enrolled in the the state "Organ Donor" farm program.
Yes, I find it's a great way to run a business. By not giving the customer what they are asking for.
Sigh, where's my sarcasm tags...
Really? None? I guess you just don't have any interests then.
Recently I've enjoyed:
A blog about making homemade chocolate. (Grind the beans up and everything)
A blog about PVRs
The many, many politcial blogs
Several blogs about guns
Blogs I should look for:
Someone building a kit plane
Off grid living
So, there's the life, opinions, and experences of humanity out there, being written down in blogs. How can you not find that interesting?
This may be a dumb question but...
Everything I'm seeing about Ruby on Rails says it's great for making "Web Applications". I'm going to start designing a new dynamic website soon, and I was wondering about building it using RoR.
I just want to use CSS, and plug the whole thing into a database.
So are they just buzzwording me, or is RoR the wrong tool to use for something like this?
"Does seem to agree?"
Does seem?
It either does, or it doesn't.
The issue I'm taking up with you is that your definition of a Judge, doesn't seem to involve any actual judging .
Oh, I get it. Troll. Sheesh. Can't you just get a dog or something to fill the void in your life?
Really? What dictionary are you using? Cause that's not what is says in mine.
Right now I've built a PC for a friend of mine. She was planning on installing Windows on it when I give it to her, I thought it would be interesting to show her that Linux would work too.
Well, it doesn't. I've tried several flavors so far, and they either won't work with the on-board graphics chip (Nvidia 6100 I believe) or they won't work with the on-board network chip.
And that's just the start. She has 5 requirements. Open office, GAIM, Email, web browing, and pogo.com.
If I could get X and the network working, getting the JRE (for pogo) installed is a whole new complication. I tried it on my home system using FC4 and it's "Jumping through hoops" time.
Why do we need libraries now anyway? DLL hell exists for Linux, and it shouldn't. Feel free to make the source available, but until someone makes a simplified "Pre-compiled" version of linux with no libraries, this won't get better.
I understand the whole "Source code" thing, but the vast majority of people who use Linux now don't need it. And if you want Linux to become popular on the desktop, that number will balloon greatly!
To sum, libraries and source code are important to coders, not users!
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. "If you're trying to determine if someone is guilty or innocent, why use a Judge?"
The last person you've ever want doing that sort of thing, is someone who has spent years in the courtroom as a lawyer, and then years judging innocent and guilty over hundreds of cases.
In case my sarcasm has flown over your head. Let me ask you this question, Why do we have juries at all? A judge is perfectly capable at doing his job. Why would the designers of the judicial system allow you to have access to a group of your peers?
Seriously, why do waitresses get paid more than particle physicists?
Because particle physicists won't bring me food.
They maybe know all sorts of stuff about particles, but that's not something people pay for at an individual level.
How many jobs out there *aren't* important to society?
People don't get paid simply because someone was feeling generous.
The previous poster said that the drives are pretty much identical except for the controller board. You shouted WRONG, and then said nothing to prove him wrong. Testing the drives does not have anything to do with them being nearly identical.
And do you have a problem with ignorance? It's just a long word for "I don't know". Perhaps you leaped out of your mothers womb knowing everything, but the rest of us are learning as we go along.
Yes, runaway inflation is bad.
However, the price for a barrel of oil has almost doubled in the past three years.
Inflation for 2005 has gone up...to match what it was for 2000. About 3.4 percent.
Feh. Civilizatoin wouldn't collapse. Food is still tansferable by train. Nuclear power works just fine. I can do my job just as well at home from my PC, I don't *need* to commute every morning to work, my bosses just want me in the building.
You know, those guys who only communicate by email?
Most towns and citys were founded before the automobile, once gas becomes too expensive for the average person to drive or fly, then you'll see modern communities change to look more like the old cities.
Things change man. Be prepared.
Also, at this point you're supposed to consider either taking out a loan and improving the energy efficency of your house, or consider moving.
If you had bought a car which only got 5 miles to the gallon, would you be arguing along the same lines? Gas used to be cheap enough to drive it, but now it's not. You will have to make some changes.
At this point it's obvious that depending on a limited natural resource is a bad idea. Yet so many people depend on it to cook and heat their house. At least with electricity you can have power plants of various types and sizes that can produce it.
Yeah, it's open source. But how many people are working on it that aren't employeed by MySQL?
I would think that buying it out at this point and firing those guys would essentally halt the development.
"Quite frequently recently, OPEC has been producing at 100% capacity and still not producing enough to keep the price of oil down. This is one of the oft-quoted symptoms of the "Peak Oil" theory."
Why would you want to keep the price of oil down?
Yes, people would *like* to have cheap gas. But that's impossible in the long term. Let the price of gas go up, people use less. Eventually it will get high enough where alternate forms of energy are more feasable.
Trying to artifically shortcut to this state tends to blow up in our faces though. So, don't worry, be happy.
Yes, but what would you suggest he do if he *has* to use windows?
Maybe get one of those Dual core processors? I think that would be a keen idea!
I drive a Toyota Corolla in Colorado. Where would I have to go where I "Wouldn't make it?"
Cause I've been having a great time so far. The only problem was that filing cabinet I bought wouldn't fit in it.
Are you NUTS?
The reason government feels that it can pass laws about what we can smoke and eat is because it sees itself as paying for you hospital bills. (Even though we pay those bills through taxes.)
Do you really think the government would give a damn about you hurting yourself if it didn't have to foot all the hospital bills you can't afford?
Holy cow. If I had borrowed my way through college I would have had needed to assume another identity and grow a mustache to escape that debt. There would have been no way for me to pay that off.
The only reason that I have a job now is because I had gotten a job in college doing operations with an as400. Knowing people on the inside was the only way for me to apply for an internship, a graduation requirement. I wouldn't have graduated if I hadn't been working through college.
Nobody gives a damn about your skills. If you have any aptitude at all I can train you to be an as400 monkey in a week. But the only reason I had gotten the job after college was the experience I had working in college.
Impressive?
After spending billions on a new fab and R&D, they produce a chip that "Keeps up" with AMD's slowest dual-core chip? The 3800+ is made with older tech and came out last year.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
I was reading an article about Ford closing all those plants.
Some high up manager said "We need to start focusing on building cars that people want to buy, and not just cars that fill our factories."
I was stunned at that quote, it really revealed how they were operating.
Do you have to pay for missed appointments? If not, then you're seriously screwing them.
My dentist makes me pay 40$ for missed appointments, and I don't have a problem paying them.