Most job descriptions just list that they require a degree by default, I've yet to be declined any job in IT (or any job for that matter) because I haven't got a degree.
Getting a degree has absolutely nothing to do with that, I'm sorry but if you have done any kind of real work with databases and don't know what referential integrity means with or without a degree then you are doing it wrong.
Getting a degree also tells prospective employers that you're a finisher. You don't just start stuff and bail when it gets scary. You don't give up on a project because parts of it are hard or unpleasant. I know some employers who don't care what degree you've got, as long as you've got one.
If you want an employer's respect, there is no quick and easy way to win it. You have to do the really hard stuff to prove that you can do the really hard stuff..
I hate that kind of thinking with a passion, getting a degree is not hard, I'm sorry if that insults anyone with a degree but getting a degree doesn't prove anything other than the fact you can study for a test and write the odd essay.
Actually going by my referrer logs alone I think most images on MySpace aren't even hosted on MySpace, the MySpace users just hotlink photos from wahtever source they can.
Note to self: add hotlink protection to images on my site.
I see all these startups raising rediculous amounts of money and everytime I have to wonder what exactly is the money spent on? Does anyone know? How many developers does it take to maintain something like FaceBook? Just how expensive can their infraastructure and bandwidth be? It just boggles the mind that a site like that can raise so much in venture capital andit is even harder to see how they make enough profit to be able to provide a return on that investment.
Does advertising and/or subscription fees really make that much money for a site? I guess it is just tiny amounts of revenue but spread between LOTS of users.
Actually if you are going for IT jobs then prospective employers (well our company does at least) actually look online for that sort of thing and if we find geeky stuff like newsgroup postings or involvement in Open Source Software projects then it is a definite plus in your favor. Although it can easily go the other way as well, like if you have something like a Geocities account with one of those ugly picture backgrounds with big bold text to post your resume online then that will earn you a black mark.
I've tried most of the Plays For Sure stores (Yahoo, Napster & Rhapsody) in an attempt to get some legal music onto my Treo for PocketTunes so when I'm training on the bike I can just carry one device and if I get a call then the hybrid headset/earphones makes life easy. However I was dissappointed in all of the stores.
First I tried Napster, it was okay but their client sucked especially when syncing to my Treo as it would always hang up, then I tried Yahoo Music, the interface for their store was pathetic, unless you knew exactly what you were looking for then you were SOL and finally I tried Real Rhapsody. Real Rhapsody is the best of the bunch but their player software on the PC sucks pretty badly, like if you double click the first song in an album to play it then it will play just that song to play the album you have to press the play whole album button, likewise for a playlist.
It is also not intuitive at all to sync with my Treo as you have to go into some obscure control panel to set what playlists you want to sync and creating the playlists is a pain as well as there is no "Create new playlist from selection" feature. It sure would be nice if Palm and Apple got into bed together with one of the next Treo's or even just allowed PocketTunes to license FairPlay, that would rock!
Also why are Exchange mailboxes so damn large anyway? I've tried getting mine down to a reasonable size but it just seems impossible even when you are ruthlessly deleting (and yes I am emptying the trash) emails and making sure there are no large attachments hanging around.
I just created my homepage and was frustrated with how little I could do. Oh well, what did I spend on this? Nothing, a few seconds of my time, that's all.
You obviously know what you are doing so you were trying to do things that Google Pages just isn't intended to do, it isn't a Drewamweaver replacement or even a competitor to Nvu it is just a simple and quick way to build basic pages that look quite nice using the including templates.
Wordpress is a usability nightmare even for advanced users it is a pain to use and that isn't for a lack of the community to try to get improvements made it is just the way they want it for some reason.
From what little I've played with it, Google Pages seems a lot more usability friendly and lets you create pages in a much more natural way.
Well if the Nintendo WiFi Connection on the DS for Super Mario Cart is any indication it looks like Nintendo does get it, it is free and couldn't be any easier to use. I often just jump online for a couple of races for a bit of quick fun and that is exactly how it should be.
The problem with a lot of the online multi-player stuff is the genre of games that have dominated like FPS and adventure games where people can either easily cheat or have no life & stay online all day long increasing their skill level well beyond everyone else and ruining everyone's fun. I think Nintendo are very wary of this and are being very careful with any of the online multi-player stuff that they implement so my money is actually on Nintendo for this particular race.
Especially as a Nintendo actually makes a profit on it's hardware so it doesn't need othe ways to get it's money back and can afford to provide things like free online multi-player where Microsoft can't.
Why in the heck does someone's behaviour in a game have to be politically correct? This wole politically correct world that is devoid of personal responsibility that we are living in really is pissing me off.
Oh no someone called you a name in an online game, lets go cry about it, even if the name calling was based upon race or sexual preference, does it really matter that much? Who the heck cares? Insult them back or brawl with them in the game or something.
Sheesh next thing we'll hear about is someone suing someone over something like this, it is just insane...
The downside is when you get pushed an update that either starts on it's own or gets so in your face that you have to install it and the installing takes some obscene amount of time while you are trying to resolve Production problems on an enterprise wide system.
Don't even get me started on the software that enforces micro-pauses, stretch breaks and rest breaks, yeah sure I'd love to be forced to take a break right in the middle of writing some complex SQL thank you very much...
Just because a game doesn't have a mature rating doesn't mean it is targeted at children, does a game that is enjoyable for adults have to have blood and gore or other things that will earn a mature rating? The answer to that is a clear no!
Do you know who introduced me to the NES as it was something they themselves were enjoying? My grandparents! Yes that is right they didn't just buy us an NES for Christmas they had it and were playing it (still do actually) so saying it was for kids is just wrong!
Nintendo has always catered to people that want to play & enjoy their games and not for people that want to drool at pretty graphics.
If you actually read the linked article (yeah I know that is a lot to expect around here and all that) then you will find out the problem isn't the lack of hosting it is that the founder seems to be holding the site ransom without actually posting a ransom but it seems like he wishes to make the site more comercial.
and as a student that actually used those labs and then later the Amiga based ones I can say the opposite in that they did help a lot to put me on the right career track and give me a good grounding in technology. You see the thing about technology, programming in particular that people don't get is that it is something that needs to be learned it isn't something that can be taught and having those labs available was a huge enabler for that.
"9 Million of these discs have been games, with just over 8 Million UMD movies"
How many of those were the bundled Spiderman 2?
Now do those figures mean consumers ahve purchased 9 million or that retailers have purchased 9 million and they are just sitting on their shelves? Sales figures like that have always confused me as it is hard to see how they could quickly & easily track actual consumer sales.
Do you really think Nintendo is going to roll out a wireless network? Of course they aren't, they are going to be smart and just piggy back on all the existing hot spots so it will work just like wireless for any other device does currently.
The infrastructure Nintendo will provide will be more geared towards the game servers themselves and there is also talk about them releasing a wireless router of sorts that people like my parents that have broadband but only one computer with no wireless router can just plug into a spare USB port.
You can hope all you want that people will innovate; the reality is most web site owners are only in it for the money. They don't care about compromise and even if they did, they wouldn't know where to even start coming up with new revenue streams.
Ah yes but the reality is that most website owners that are only in it for the money aren't contributing anything worthwhile paying for any way.
Can anyone else remember the days back when everything was informational and then all the good sites ended up getting bought off by large corporations? That was when a lot of things went down hill with the internet.
So you sue them? That is what the heart of this issue is, litigation obsessed Americans!
Oh no I can't replace my battery... Must sue Apple... Give me a friggin break.
You know people would complain if they did add a battery door to the back of the iPod and personally I like it just how it is, I don't want no easily replacable battery but am I going to sue Apple for ruining the asthetic design of the iPod by doing so? Not at all.
Some bored lawyer must have stumbled across some whiner on a blog and started this class action...
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Most job descriptions just list that they require a degree by default, I've yet to be declined any job in IT (or any job for that matter) because I haven't got a degree.
Referential Integrity was a term I understood
Getting a degree has absolutely nothing to do with that, I'm sorry but if you have done any kind of real work with databases and don't know what referential integrity means with or without a degree then you are doing it wrong.
Getting a degree also tells prospective employers that you're a finisher. You don't just start stuff and bail when it gets scary. You don't give up on a project because parts of it are hard or unpleasant. I know some employers who don't care what degree you've got, as long as you've got one.
If you want an employer's respect, there is no quick and easy way to win it. You have to do the really hard stuff to prove that you can do the really hard stuff..
I hate that kind of thinking with a passion, getting a degree is not hard, I'm sorry if that insults anyone with a degree but getting a degree doesn't prove anything other than the fact you can study for a test and write the odd essay.
Actually going by my referrer logs alone I think most images on MySpace aren't even hosted on MySpace, the MySpace users just hotlink photos from wahtever source they can.
Note to self: add hotlink protection to images on my site.
The Trump Tower or something?
I see all these startups raising rediculous amounts of money and everytime I have to wonder what exactly is the money spent on? Does anyone know? How many developers does it take to maintain something like FaceBook? Just how expensive can their infraastructure and bandwidth be? It just boggles the mind that a site like that can raise so much in venture capital andit is even harder to see how they make enough profit to be able to provide a return on that investment.
Does advertising and/or subscription fees really make that much money for a site? I guess it is just tiny amounts of revenue but spread between LOTS of users.
Actually if you are going for IT jobs then prospective employers (well our company does at least) actually look online for that sort of thing and if we find geeky stuff like newsgroup postings or involvement in Open Source Software projects then it is a definite plus in your favor. Although it can easily go the other way as well, like if you have something like a Geocities account with one of those ugly picture backgrounds with big bold text to post your resume online then that will earn you a black mark.
I've tried most of the Plays For Sure stores (Yahoo, Napster & Rhapsody) in an attempt to get some legal music onto my Treo for PocketTunes so when I'm training on the bike I can just carry one device and if I get a call then the hybrid headset/earphones makes life easy. However I was dissappointed in all of the stores.
First I tried Napster, it was okay but their client sucked especially when syncing to my Treo as it would always hang up, then I tried Yahoo Music, the interface for their store was pathetic, unless you knew exactly what you were looking for then you were SOL and finally I tried Real Rhapsody. Real Rhapsody is the best of the bunch but their player software on the PC sucks pretty badly, like if you double click the first song in an album to play it then it will play just that song to play the album you have to press the play whole album button, likewise for a playlist.
It is also not intuitive at all to sync with my Treo as you have to go into some obscure control panel to set what playlists you want to sync and creating the playlists is a pain as well as there is no "Create new playlist from selection" feature. It sure would be nice if Palm and Apple got into bed together with one of the next Treo's or even just allowed PocketTunes to license FairPlay, that would rock!
Also why are Exchange mailboxes so damn large anyway? I've tried getting mine down to a reasonable size but it just seems impossible even when you are ruthlessly deleting (and yes I am emptying the trash) emails and making sure there are no large attachments hanging around.
You obviously know what you are doing so you were trying to do things that Google Pages just isn't intended to do, it isn't a Drewamweaver replacement or even a competitor to Nvu it is just a simple and quick way to build basic pages that look quite nice using the including templates.
Wordpress is a usability nightmare even for advanced users it is a pain to use and that isn't for a lack of the community to try to get improvements made it is just the way they want it for some reason.
From what little I've played with it, Google Pages seems a lot more usability friendly and lets you create pages in a much more natural way.
Well if the Nintendo WiFi Connection on the DS for Super Mario Cart is any indication it looks like Nintendo does get it, it is free and couldn't be any easier to use. I often just jump online for a couple of races for a bit of quick fun and that is exactly how it should be.
The problem with a lot of the online multi-player stuff is the genre of games that have dominated like FPS and adventure games where people can either easily cheat or have no life & stay online all day long increasing their skill level well beyond everyone else and ruining everyone's fun. I think Nintendo are very wary of this and are being very careful with any of the online multi-player stuff that they implement so my money is actually on Nintendo for this particular race.
Especially as a Nintendo actually makes a profit on it's hardware so it doesn't need othe ways to get it's money back and can afford to provide things like free online multi-player where Microsoft can't.
But did it really cost billions? That seems like an awful lot for the kind of infrastructrue we are talking about here.
Why in the heck does someone's behaviour in a game have to be politically correct? This wole politically correct world that is devoid of personal responsibility that we are living in really is pissing me off.
Oh no someone called you a name in an online game, lets go cry about it, even if the name calling was based upon race or sexual preference, does it really matter that much? Who the heck cares? Insult them back or brawl with them in the game or something.
Sheesh next thing we'll hear about is someone suing someone over something like this, it is just insane...
Err... Last I checked the S in SQL stood for Structured...
It was the first thing that came to mind though as it is what I end up doing most.
The downside is when you get pushed an update that either starts on it's own or gets so in your face that you have to install it and the installing takes some obscene amount of time while you are trying to resolve Production problems on an enterprise wide system.
Don't even get me started on the software that enforces micro-pauses, stretch breaks and rest breaks, yeah sure I'd love to be forced to take a break right in the middle of writing some complex SQL thank you very much...
Just because a game doesn't have a mature rating doesn't mean it is targeted at children, does a game that is enjoyable for adults have to have blood and gore or other things that will earn a mature rating? The answer to that is a clear no!
Do you know who introduced me to the NES as it was something they themselves were enjoying? My grandparents! Yes that is right they didn't just buy us an NES for Christmas they had it and were playing it (still do actually) so saying it was for kids is just wrong!
Nintendo has always catered to people that want to play & enjoy their games and not for people that want to drool at pretty graphics.
If you actually read the linked article (yeah I know that is a lot to expect around here and all that) then you will find out the problem isn't the lack of hosting it is that the founder seems to be holding the site ransom without actually posting a ransom but it seems like he wishes to make the site more comercial.
and as a student that actually used those labs and then later the Amiga based ones I can say the opposite in that they did help a lot to put me on the right career track and give me a good grounding in technology. You see the thing about technology, programming in particular that people don't get is that it is something that needs to be learned it isn't something that can be taught and having those labs available was a huge enabler for that.
Skype + PayPal's announcement about micro payments, can you see the correlation?
"9 Million of these discs have been games, with just over 8 Million UMD movies"
How many of those were the bundled Spiderman 2?
Now do those figures mean consumers ahve purchased 9 million or that retailers have purchased 9 million and they are just sitting on their shelves? Sales figures like that have always confused me as it is hard to see how they could quickly & easily track actual consumer sales.
Do you really think Nintendo is going to roll out a wireless network? Of course they aren't, they are going to be smart and just piggy back on all the existing hot spots so it will work just like wireless for any other device does currently.
The infrastructure Nintendo will provide will be more geared towards the game servers themselves and there is also talk about them releasing a wireless router of sorts that people like my parents that have broadband but only one computer with no wireless router can just plug into a spare USB port.
Ah yes but the reality is that most website owners that are only in it for the money aren't contributing anything worthwhile paying for any way.
Can anyone else remember the days back when everything was informational and then all the good sites ended up getting bought off by large corporations? That was when a lot of things went down hill with the internet.
Well the blurb might have been a little harsh but...
Mainstream
* Paid-per-incident support
* Free hotfix support
Is what expires next month.
So you sue them? That is what the heart of this issue is, litigation obsessed Americans!
Oh no I can't replace my battery... Must sue Apple... Give me a friggin break.
You know people would complain if they did add a battery door to the back of the iPod and personally I like it just how it is, I don't want no easily replacable battery but am I going to sue Apple for ruining the asthetic design of the iPod by doing so? Not at all.
Some bored lawyer must have stumbled across some whiner on a blog and started this class action...