Step one: Send out the bigass nuke right now. Put it on one of those ion engine crafts.
Step two: Nail the trajectory down to 99% accuracy.
Step three: Figure out the best way to deal with it. Have it pass by the earth into the sun? Have it slam into the moon? Is it possible to slow it down enough to put it into a stable orbit and mine it for resources later?
Step Four: Once the calculations are done, send the course corrections to our bigass nuke to put it exactly where we need it, and to detonate when we want it to. You don't hit the asteroid directly. You just get close enough and nudge it. This is why you sent the nuke so early, over time, a small nudge adds up to a huge course change.
Step Five: Placate the general public who were hoping they would have to send a mining team up in a risky yet heroic venture to save the earth.
Expensive cooling kits that come with NO waterblocks? Flexibility my ass. They should include a "Select 1 waterblock of your choice" to come with the kit. But I'm guessing that's where they make their money. Carving up 1$ worth of aluminum and selling it for 40$
Until they start cutting their prices, I'm going to have to stick with homebuilt water-cooling. My current reservoir is made from a Tupperware container!
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Photoshop is SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS.
It's for people who don't want to pirate and need to work on photos.
I'd like to thank you for being so informative and helpful. It's difficult for people who are not in the thick of things to get a good idea of what's going on.
It's also very heartening to hear that companies are catching on.
It's disheartening that I don't have the skill sets you're looking for, but if the companies are asking for these skills because they honestly need these skills, I don't mind. Now that the job market is opening up again, it was good for me to sit down and go over what I've been doing the past couple of years. It wasn't pretty, but you took what was available so you had a roof over your head.
So I'm going to go and work on that cross platform C# app I've been promising myself I'd write.
My Secret security clearance expired two years after I got out of the military, about 6 months before I graduated college. It never occurred to me that it would be valuable. 9/11, who knew?
I'd appreciate it if we took the rest of this conversation out of the public eye though. My e-mail is ezolan@ezolan.com
If you decide not to e-mail me, thanks for the rare gem. An intelligent, flame free discussion on Slashdot.;-)
Give me a break. You got your first job because you went to a nice school. And now you're still working because you are a good worker.
If you lost your job tomorrow, how would anyone know you're a good worker? They don't have a test for that and if you don't have their laundry list of skills, you won't even get to the interview.
Well it's good to hear things are picking up for you. A friend of mine is a manager at a temp. agency, and she says they'll finally get out of the red this year. (low level get-a-body placement)
Background: Did 4 years in the AF in Electronic Warfare. Worked on/repaired systems avionics at a component level and did systems testing on the aircraft. Picked up 2 year degree in system avionics. Result: Three years is not enough experience to get a job, and they don't like it that it was 1998. Got out and went for my Bachelors in Computer Information Services and minored in Bus Adm. Graduated 2001. Horrible horrible timing.
Things I've ended up doing: Repairing and then recreating the Access program for handling training classes for a company. General computer operations. AS400 operations. Inkjet printer cleaning/repair. Hard drive helpdesk. Compusa shmoe.
And currently I'm back doing computer operations for AS400s.
Frankly, I can't believe you can tell me with a straight face, that the talented workforce isn't there. It is there, but it doesn't have X years of.NET experience, they are not "experts" in a half a dozen fields. You guys have raised the requirement bar so high, no one can jump over it.
Or have you? I'm assuming that these companies are begging for people who have a laundry list of skills, with 10 years of experence in each, and not older than 35. What are they asking for?
Seriously? From what I see, you can only get hired from 'work' experience. Not "Yeah, I tried that." experience.
And they want a LOT of work experience.
I couldn't imagine going into an interview and saying "Yes, I've set up multiple OS's on a network, set up a RAID array fileserver, made the whole thing web/internet accessible on a dynamic IP." as my experience. Is that how you got your jobs? Incredible!
What I find is that you need to tap your social network. I've moved around quite a bit in my life so I have none. I'm currently trying to settle down and stick to one place. Still working on that social network though.
Woah woah woah! You had TWO jobs before you started you dream goverment job?
How about starting where I'm at? Where you can't get a job, thus no experence. Are there a lot of government jobs that hire programmers with no security clearance and little work experence?
How the hell does one become an honest consultant when you don't know anything?
I don't know anyone who is angry about not being able to afford a BMW or "A better car".
There. Are. No. Jobs. 9 out of 10 new IT jobs are not going Americans. We are angry because IT requires a lot of work and study to become good at, and then the jobs are being given to H1Bs.
We are angry because we're trying to come up with RENT money.
I know a guy who finally got out of the computer career field because he could make more money as a guard in an airport.
They're working on giving us another paycut where I work. One guy scoffed at the amount of cut saying "They can't get us below minimum wage."
I've gotten over being angry. Until the people in IT are willing to fight for their jobs like the factory workers did, they will continue to be bitchslapped around.
Hiring an enormous government workforce and placing a huge tax burden on society is NOT the answer. The more people the government hires the more it damages society.
"How are we supposed to justify the cost in addition to the $100 Billion (approx 25 Billion more than Bush said we would need before the election) we are going to spend in Iraq and Afghanistan next year? "
Yeah, cause a nuke hitting a major city would cost us tens of thousands of dollars.
I don't understand. What kind of experments are they doing on "The Internet 2"? The design is already set in stone right? So what they have now is a faster network...and?
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It has a charging cradle. When you're done for the day, put it back.
It can certainly last a day.
(blink)
What operation *requires* a 800-1066MHz bus speed?
Frankly, I find not having to worry about how to fix social security very enjoyable.
sigh.
Step one: Send out the bigass nuke right now. Put it on one of those ion engine crafts.
Step two: Nail the trajectory down to 99% accuracy.
Step three: Figure out the best way to deal with it. Have it pass by the earth into the sun? Have it slam into the moon? Is it possible to slow it down enough to put it into a stable orbit and mine it for resources later?
Step Four: Once the calculations are done, send the course corrections to our bigass nuke to put it exactly where we need it, and to detonate when we want it to. You don't hit the asteroid directly. You just get close enough and nudge it. This is why you sent the nuke so early, over time, a small nudge adds up to a huge course change.
Step Five: Placate the general public who were hoping they would have to send a mining team up in a risky yet heroic venture to save the earth.
Yeah, and if he has parents willing to buy it for him, it's free! Woo! Free ibook!
But if he's not a student and his parents won't buy it for him, he'll have to pay the same price as the rest of us.
Expensive cooling kits that come with NO waterblocks? Flexibility my ass. They should include a "Select 1 waterblock of your choice" to come with the kit. But I'm guessing that's where they make their money. Carving up 1$ worth of aluminum and selling it for 40$
Until they start cutting their prices, I'm going to have to stick with homebuilt water-cooling. My current reservoir is made from a Tupperware container!
Photoshop is SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS.
It's for people who don't want to pirate and need to work on photos.
I'd like to thank you for being so informative and helpful. It's difficult for people who are not in the thick of things to get a good idea of what's going on.
;-)
It's also very heartening to hear that companies are catching on.
It's disheartening that I don't have the skill sets you're looking for, but if the companies are asking for these skills because they honestly need these skills, I don't mind. Now that the job market is opening up again, it was good for me to sit down and go over what I've been doing the past couple of years. It wasn't pretty, but you took what was available so you had a roof over your head.
So I'm going to go and work on that cross platform C# app I've been promising myself I'd write.
My Secret security clearance expired two years after I got out of the military, about 6 months before I graduated college. It never occurred to me that it would be valuable. 9/11, who knew?
I'd appreciate it if we took the rest of this conversation out of the public eye though. My e-mail is ezolan@ezolan.com
If you decide not to e-mail me, thanks for the rare gem. An intelligent, flame free discussion on Slashdot.
Hilarious.
So, there's no difference in cost overruns? See, in a government agency, they just ask for more money.
Too much mismanagement in a private sector company and they go out of business.
Ah forget it. You're obviously a troll.
Give me a break. You got your first job because you went to a nice school. And now you're still working because you are a good worker.
If you lost your job tomorrow, how would anyone know you're a good worker? They don't have a test for that and if you don't have their laundry list of skills, you won't even get to the interview.
Well it's good to hear things are picking up for you. A friend of mine is a manager at a temp. agency, and she says they'll finally get out of the red this year. (low level get-a-body placement)
.NET experience, they are not "experts" in a half a dozen fields. You guys have raised the requirement bar so high, no one can jump over it.
Background: Did 4 years in the AF in Electronic Warfare. Worked on/repaired systems avionics at a component level and did systems testing on the aircraft. Picked up 2 year degree in system avionics. Result: Three years is not enough experience to get a job, and they don't like it that it was 1998.
Got out and went for my Bachelors in Computer Information Services and minored in Bus Adm. Graduated 2001. Horrible horrible timing.
Things I've ended up doing: Repairing and then recreating the Access program for handling training classes for a company.
General computer operations.
AS400 operations.
Inkjet printer cleaning/repair.
Hard drive helpdesk.
Compusa shmoe.
And currently I'm back doing computer operations for AS400s.
Frankly, I can't believe you can tell me with a straight face, that the talented workforce isn't there. It is there, but it doesn't have X years of
Or have you? I'm assuming that these companies are begging for people who have a laundry list of skills, with 10 years of experence in each, and not older than 35. What are they asking for?
Oh, I currently live in Colorado.
Oh god. Don't even joke about that.
The voice....that laugh...it haunts me...
How can you tell me to change careers at this point, when almost all careers are vunerable to outsourcing?
The time for education is over, it's time for me to be able to get work and make a living on the education I've gotten.
Seriously? From what I see, you can only get hired from 'work' experience. Not "Yeah, I tried that." experience.
And they want a LOT of work experience.
I couldn't imagine going into an interview and saying "Yes, I've set up multiple OS's on a network, set up a RAID array fileserver, made the whole thing web/internet accessible on a dynamic IP." as my experience. Is that how you got your jobs? Incredible!
What I find is that you need to tap your social network. I've moved around quite a bit in my life so I have none. I'm currently trying to settle down and stick to one place. Still working on that social network though.
You're assuming one thing: That the workers are being used to their full efficiency.
It is easier to badly manage two green workers and still get the job done.
In the IT business, one person can do the work of two or more. Especially when managed well.
Try to imagine how long anyone would hold onto wealth without police protection.
You're saying that I should be happy that they're importing smart people from other countries to take the jobs I'm qualified for?
Are you insane?
Woah woah woah! You had TWO jobs before you started you dream goverment job?
How about starting where I'm at? Where you can't get a job, thus no experence. Are there a lot of government jobs that hire programmers with no security clearance and little work experence?
How the hell does one become an honest consultant when you don't know anything?
And there are a lot more lonely, beautiful, women than you think!
They're still not interested in you though.
I don't know anyone who is angry about not being able to afford a BMW or "A better car".
There. Are. No. Jobs. 9 out of 10 new IT jobs are not going Americans. We are angry because IT requires a lot of work and study to become good at, and then the jobs are being given to H1Bs.
We are angry because we're trying to come up with RENT money.
I know a guy who finally got out of the computer career field because he could make more money as a guard in an airport.
They're working on giving us another paycut where I work. One guy scoffed at the amount of cut saying "They can't get us below minimum wage."
I've gotten over being angry. Until the people in IT are willing to fight for their jobs like the factory workers did, they will continue to be bitchslapped around.
Hiring an enormous government workforce and placing a huge tax burden on society is NOT the answer. The more people the government hires the more it damages society.
Otherwise socialism would work great.
"How are we supposed to justify the cost in addition to the $100 Billion (approx 25 Billion more than Bush said we would need before the election) we are going to spend in Iraq and Afghanistan next year? "
Yeah, cause a nuke hitting a major city would cost us tens of thousands of dollars.
I don't understand. What kind of experments are they doing on "The Internet 2"? The design is already set in stone right? So what they have now is a faster network...and?
From here it just looks like a big toy.
How do you know this?
How about waiting with the naysaying until they actually fail?
Porn.