It's been my long experience that employers who would hire primarily for academic accomplishments are advertising the fact that they don't have the ability to evaluate you straightup. An employer like that is difficult to work for because it's very difficult to communicate with them.
You may be right about this. However, how is a high school educated person supposed to be evaluated "straightup"? By the job history he doesn't have? Who's going to hire him in the first place?
Hell, you can get all that at your neighborhood bar without having to spend $10k a year.
If you'd rather hang out with the old local drunks than 10,000 people your own age on a college campus, then more power to you.
I'm a little hesitant when I see the "school doesn't matter because you don't learn problem solving and those academics don't know their arses from a hole in the ground" attitude. The fact that this person has been working for 20 years means that he (or she) went into the workforce long before a college education was an absolute requirement (as it is now) for most well-salaried jobs.
While it may be true that some people don't learn many applied skills in college, many companies simply won't take a chance on a non-college graduate, college dropout, or someone who got straight D's.
You can bleat and complain as much as you want about the effectiveness of academic training, but the power of the diploma is well-established in job hunting.
Besides, college is fun and is often a good place to mature and improve other important social skills.
I was happy to get this e-mail from Microsoft so I could apply a cumulative patch. I'm usually so bad about patching my system in time, but this time they took the trouble to remind me personally!
My worst agony was fooling around in the/dev/ttyS* trying to get my modem to work. This was with Redhat 5.something and I didn't know what the hell I was doing.
Can you elaborate on this? My wife has cousins in India and this hardware/service would be a great gift for them. They already have internet connectivity (just a dial-up). What else would they need? Is there a website where I can check this out?
One important point I didn't see in the article was that many old dvd players will only play disks that have a "book type field" of DVD-ROM.
See this link.
My old Toshiba SD2100 is that way. So it wouldn't play DVD+R disks that I made on my Memorex 4X DVD+RW burner (actually a rebranded NEC) until I reflashed the NEC firmware with HP firmware (written for HP by NEC). The HP firmware causes DVD+R disks to be written with a DVD-ROM bitsetting (for maximum compatibility). Those DVD+RW drives that default to a DVD+R bitsetting cause problems with old home DVD players. For what it's worth, I bought a DVD+RW only because that's what I have to use at work and I wanted to avoid compatibility issues.
Have you considered neurofeedback? Many of the "fringe" proponents make claims that smack of snake oil, but there is considerable evidence to support neurofeedback as a potential treatment for ADHD.
I use the ads that pop up in Google to find vendors for all sorts of things. I found my DirecTivo retailer in this fashion. I think that the ads are plainly marked with little intent to confuse the user. OK I sound like a Google fanboy but so what.
Slashdot Mirror
Here.
Yep, you guessed it.
S-C-O
Ed.
Bet the girls can't wait for the 'Geek Boys of Open Source' pinup calendar after seeing these shots of Linus.
I bet more straight geek guys would buy that calendar than girls.
'Cause everybody knows that Germans *love* David Hasselhoff. . .
"Maybe if they didn't spend R&D time and money on useless features, their products would be more affordable."
I'm sure they are just printing their own money anyway.
Provide a link. I am interested in knowing how you can do this.
It's been my long experience that employers who would hire primarily for academic accomplishments are advertising the fact that they don't have the ability to evaluate you straightup. An employer like that is difficult to work for because it's very difficult to communicate with them.
You may be right about this. However, how is a high school educated person supposed to be evaluated "straightup"? By the job history he doesn't have? Who's going to hire him in the first place?
Hell, you can get all that at your neighborhood bar without having to spend $10k a year.
If you'd rather hang out with the old local drunks than 10,000 people your own age on a college campus, then more power to you.
I'm a little hesitant when I see the "school doesn't matter because you don't learn problem solving and those academics don't know their arses from a hole in the ground" attitude. The fact that this person has been working for 20 years means that he (or she) went into the workforce long before a college education was an absolute requirement (as it is now) for most well-salaried jobs.
While it may be true that some people don't learn many applied skills in college, many companies simply won't take a chance on a non-college graduate, college dropout, or someone who got straight D's.
You can bleat and complain as much as you want about the effectiveness of academic training, but the power of the diploma is well-established in job hunting.
Besides, college is fun and is often a good place to mature and improve other important social skills.
For a second there I thought Larry W. had renamed "Perl".
if I don't RTFA. I just ate and I'm pretty sure it would make me feel nauseous.
This is like going trout fishing and catching a shark that eats your wife.
Face it, your wife would never go trout fishing with you.
Outgoing.
Who gives a shit?
I was happy to get this e-mail from Microsoft so I could apply a cumulative patch. I'm usually so bad about patching my system in time, but this time they took the trouble to remind me personally!
No more worries for me!
It appears to already have been settled.
You won't find that with BeOS users.
Yeah, those two guys are nice. =)
My worst agony was fooling around in the /dev/ttyS* trying to get my modem to work. This was with Redhat 5.something and I didn't know what the hell I was doing.
Can you elaborate on this? My wife has cousins in India and this hardware/service would be a great gift for them. They already have internet connectivity (just a dial-up). What else would they need? Is there a website where I can check this out?
One important point I didn't see in the article was that many old dvd players will only play disks that have a "book type field" of DVD-ROM.
See this link.
My old Toshiba SD2100 is that way. So it wouldn't play DVD+R disks that I made on my Memorex 4X DVD+RW burner (actually a rebranded NEC) until I reflashed the NEC firmware with HP firmware (written for HP by NEC). The HP firmware causes DVD+R disks to be written with a DVD-ROM bitsetting (for maximum compatibility). Those DVD+RW drives that default to a DVD+R bitsetting cause problems with old home DVD players. For what it's worth, I bought a DVD+RW only because that's what I have to use at work and I wanted to avoid compatibility issues.
Ed.
Have you considered neurofeedback? Many of the "fringe" proponents make claims that smack of snake oil, but there is considerable evidence to support neurofeedback as a potential treatment for ADHD.
For example, there are some papers here.
Your sig made me drag out my whole collection and listen to it.
.here in the trailer park".
"You know what Stuart? I like you. You're not like the other people. .
I use the ads that pop up in Google to find vendors for all sorts of things. I found my DirecTivo retailer in this fashion. I think that the ads are plainly marked with little intent to confuse the user. OK I sound like a Google fanboy but so what.
Why are new comments disabled?
Microsoft is starting to fall apart, even if this is not entirely obvious.
Was this modded as funny? Microsoft continues to do well whether or not you like them.
SCO's suit, which requests "not less than $1 billion" for damages, has been a source of great controversy in the Linux community.
No controversy on Slashdot certainly.
Nosirree Bob.