Before even bothering to ask if you COULD do it, better decide if you SHOULD do it. Would you really want a windows dll destablizing the kernel? The minute you let windows code into the kernel we are little better off than windows users in terms of stability.
Yes it's a pretty term for price fixing. For the most part when your participating in price discrimination what your really doing is price fixing. So you call it price discrimination since price fixing is illegal.
lol there is a difference. Linux patches only patch the things they say they are going to for one. They also don't come with a 90% likely of screwing up something on your system.
The testing of windows patches is to find out WHAT it broke and how to get around it, not to find out IF it will break something;)
"there are lots of people building stable Windows servers and networks. Ive done it many times, so I know it can be done, and its not just a fluke"
Stable compared to what exactly?
"How about people who admin things can do admin, and people who engineer things can fix problems when they arise? Nice division of labor, isnt it? I dont think people getting paid over $70k/year should be stuck doing hours of data entry work, but thats just my opinion. Oh ya, and also the opinion of MS, apparently. Try coming up with a valid point next time, thanks for playing."
lol there is a whole lot of room between understanding the concept of DNS and debugging source code. The technician should be capable of fixing every problem that does NOT involve editing the source code as a minimum before deploying DNS in a production environment (or anything else for that matter).
Let's compare to something blatantly obvious (since your answer indicates your in the group I just mentioned who doesn't know how DNS works) a phillips screwdriver. If you understand the concept, you understand it's used for removing screws, but you don't know how. If you understand how it works, you know the concept and the application. Understanding the details of how it functions is a far cry from understanding how to forge the steel and mold the handle of the screwdriver.
"You were the one who lumped them in with phone support people. I just said that I automatically disqualify somebody's opinion (yourself, in this case) who bases a company's tech knowledge on phone support people; you were just looking for a way to say that MS is stupid, and said something stupid. Just admit it and move on, because you arent fooling me, and most likely nobody else is reading this tripe."
You should try going back and reading your own post before commenting. The first mention of "office personel" was by you. I said I had family and friends working at Microsoft, you assumed they were office personel. My cousin as it happens is one of the core developers working on Longhorn. He's also one of the first people who will tell you windows is unstable and insecure.
"I would reply to that, but Im laughing so hard I can barely type. I hope you dont honestly believe that crap you are trying to claim as true."
Why because you have no significant recent experience to base things on so you assume this is a laughable statement? Why don't you go out and fetch rh9 or even fedora and install it on typical hardware. The most you are likely to have to do is update with the vid card manufacturers driver to get 3d acceleration. A Mac does an even better job of plug and play. That's how it's supposed to work you know. You plug it in, it works. Unlike plug and pray systems you aren't supposed to have to load a driver disk.
"No, I consider an outage to be when the system crashes, stops responing, etc. Since the majority of places arent 24/7, staying late one or two nights a month after hours isnt a big deal. BTW, MS is making no reboot patches, but since you claim to be an MCSE I guess you already knew that... didnt you? BTW, how were you talking about XP? They dont have XP servers..."
I consider it an outage when the system is down for any reason whatsoever. Uptime is whatever answer I get when I type "uptime" at the console. I wasn't aware we were only talking about servers, I was under the impression we were talking about operating systems. Further, there are no shortage of people who use XP Pro as a small business server.
"I dont see anything about using the OS and having it spontaneously combust like you are talking of." Ah, I guess that would make you the first windows user never to see a BSOD in his life, congratulations. I know no shortage of users who have been merrily typing along in a word processor and then bam the system bluescreens.
"As for the safe bullshit, you really need to learn how to write analogous analogies; your example makes no sense, and really doesnt apply to anything on
I don't know about both underage. In this state 17 is considered the age of consent for a MALE but NOT for a female. Therefore if two 17yr olds have sex the male is committing statutory rape. The female is not committing a crime. He goes on the record as a rapist for having sex with a partner his own age, he's marked a sex offender and must make sure the state has updated information about his whereabouts and address.
With this he would be labeled a rapist and plastered on a website, grouped in with child molestors.
With DRAM the higher the clock the more wasted cpu clockcycles, it scales that way.
Definately higher density at a lower price but I thought the idea of supercomputers was to build the most powerful machine possible at ANY expense?
Not to say that just thinking of having even the prototype in my basement doesn't make me want to cream my jeans. But this is not news, if you want lots of memory real cheap you go with dynamic ram, if you want the fastest ram you go with static. Dynamic ram bears a double penalty however in that it has to be refreshed and actually refreshing it eats clock cycles.
"And of course, you speak authoritatively on this because you've taken all the MCSE tests, and you have used those wizards, right? Of course not, you just go by what others on Slashdot say."
As a matter of fact I AM an MCSE. Your assumptions are certainly not sound. You assume my dislike of windows and belief in it's instability are based on ignorance. You are wrong, they are based on experience and extensive knowledge.
"Nothing spends easier than other peoples money, thats for sure. That mentality is what makes people pay $700 for a toilet seat. BTW, I have a crimper that costs $7.50, and it works just as well as any other Ive ever used. Ive never found crimp tools to be the essence of hi-tech that other have, I suppose."
A toilet seat fall under the phillips category. A crimper on the other hand is used by REAL network technicians to secure literally hundreds of connections every day. Even 1 weak crimp could destroy your 99.999% uptime in an office. I'd argue it's one of the single most likely points of failure in the network.
"For example, setting up the DNS service on Win2k no longer requires you to manually insert each domain, subnet, the reverse lookup addresses, etc. But you still have to know what you are doing, or it will turn out misconfigured. Its a convience, not a substitute for knowledge, so please dont try and tell me how great the wizards are."
Really? I'll give this a test tommorow, I'll pull out a couple of our windows only techs and hand them the bind conf files, explain the syntax for each component they ask for (volunteering would mean teaching them dns, they have to know what they want to enter just not the syntax, or they don't know DNS) and we'll see if they get it. If the most they know is that you can fill in a blank with an ip for domain x, www.domain, ftp.domain, and there is a spot for making sure mail.domain works then they DO NOT know DNS, they merely understand the CONCEPT of dns. Like a gun, understanding the concept is NOT knowing enough to be trusted to use it.
"And can use the same description for a guy who was a Unix and Checkpoint Firewall admin. Coaching to pass HR and interviews is nothing new, and it certainly isnt only MS (or even IT) related. Opinion via anecdote is generally a very poor substitute for fact."
You can even struggle through setting up a unix server in a passable amount of time with no prior experience with Unix. Prior experience with windows will make it even harder. You might slip through an interview but the first time your asked to actually DO something you'll be exposed. Unix in general is typically designed to be easy for people who already know every detail of what their doing. As opposed to being designed to be easy for the lowest common denominator.
"but anybody who bases a company's knowledge"
Again that assumption thing! You ASSUME I'm basing my judgements on office personel, implying secretaries, etc. I'm certainly not basing it on the developers themselves, they likely make up less than 10% of the staff at Microsoft. When I say tech I mean technician, someone who has actually touched the guts of a computer with understanding. And yes, their tech support is their face to the world, the training of that support is certainly a measure to judge the company by.
"So its MS's fault if they bundle the driver, and its MS's fault if they dont bundle the driver. Interesting take. How about this one- its only MS's fault if the driver and hardware is on the WHCL (Windows Hardware Compatibility List), which they personally test? I cant see how its logical to hold MS responsible for every single vendor's hardware and drivers. If I hire a crappy mechanic who puts in the wrong oil filter, and breaks some other stuff while he's at it, how on earth is the manufacture responsible? Try placing the blame with the party responsible, instead of acting like MS is some omnipotent god-like being. Because the only other viable alternative is for MS to restict who can and cant make hardwar
Statutory Rape shouldn't even be on the books, let alone grouped with real sex offenders. IMHO that is something that should be left in the domain of parents, not the law.
What about two 17 year olds having consentual sex? If the father presses charges the male is legally considered a sex offender and would be branded along with the rest. I have a friend in this position... it lasts for life.
"Whats wrong with tools from the dollar store? I have a really nice mini-screwdriver set from there, some decent wire cutters, and a few other things. Like most people who try and live by witty comments like that, you are making a comment based largely on your own ignorance, and mask that ignorance with ridicule. BTW, avoid dollar store flashlights, and just stick with Maglite."
Yes you can get tools there that will get the job done. A phillips screwdriver is a phillips screwdriver wherever you get it from. But I've yet to pay $30 for a tool somewhere else that wasn't superior in some fashion to the $3 equivelent in the dollar store. If you saw a more complex tool, even say, an rj45 crimper in the dollar store for $5 would you buy it and use it to crimp the ends being plugged into even a 16port switch? I should hope not.
"Most of them do not get exposed because pretty much any idiot can work on a windows system."
You have a point, idiots are OS independant, it could be argued that there are more people working on windows in general and that is why you see more idiots. I won't debate that, but pretty much anyone who can configure a mail client has enough knowledge to walk up and configure an exchange server (definately note I'm not saying PROPERLY configure) and get it running. The boss doesn't know if it's configured properly or not, that's just one more MCSE that slips through the cracks.
My argument isn't neccesarily even that windows sucks. It's that it's EXTREMELY easy to become an MCSE, and on windows they use these things called wizards that eliminate the requirement to actually know how a service operates beneath the surface. As a result someone who is not qualified can get the certification and limp along. They may not entirely fool their co-workers, but they'll fool the boss and that's all that counts. After 5yrs of this they will have learned enough to be as qualified as they should have been before getting the job to begin with. I've worked with these people, I know.
"I think its safe to say you dont know any tech related employees at Microsoft."
Actually I have family who are tech related employee's at Microsoft. On the basis I know them and many of their tech workers I'd like to amend and extend this. 90% of course is a number pulled out of my arse. However based on the few dozen tech related employee's I DO know and the experiences I've had with Microsoft technical support, I'd like to extend my statement to yourself and the majority of slashdot. I think it's a fair bet that you and most of slashdot know more about the windows operating system than most individual microsoft employees do.
For instance, my support has never been compared with the psychic friend's network, and barely broke even. In my experience most people call the vendor when they have problems they can't resolve on their own with a product. When it's a microsoft product however, in my experience people are more likely to call a tech shop than microsoft and more likely to get it fixed by calling any random tech shop.
"Thats pretty strange, because the servers *I* build have 99.999% uptime. You must be doing something wrong, and I think that pretty much negates your previous claim to knowledge."
First, doing something wrong negates no claims of knowledge. Second, as I've already said, the claims I made aren't really claiming much. Last, let me guess, you are building servers that perform a fixed function, all the time, you have less than 10 genuinely unique setups which you build. You claim 99.999% uptime, are you sure that's the server or the service? If you have a backup server that even comes into play to keep that uptime going then your server does NOT have 99.999% uptime.
Then it could be a hardware issue. Bad memory is often the culprit; I once had a goofy time with one server which never worked right; we eventaully contacted the vendor, and there were some problems with the motherboard. Another time a wire was obstructing one of the proc
Maybe you understand this already and maybe not. The load on the dns servers wouldn't really be that large, only the.torrent file is distributed via dns, not the data itself.
'they' or 'them' is an option, 'him' is genderless in the appropriate context regardless. Either way is correct but 'they' or 'them' not actually commonly used in practice. 'him" or "his" is still and will likely always be the most grammatically correct and popularly correct answer to this problem.
In any case, I certainly won't be changing MY use of english to appease a Femmenazi anymore than I will to appease a grammar/spelling nazi.
"I also suspect people in hiring positions give a lot more weight to a certification that pretends to be an engineering degree than they really should."
Undoubtedly true, but equally true is that companies give a lot more weight to a degree than they should period. Generally if you take out the courses that aren't really needed for doing the job you cut down that 4yrs to 3yrs, if you reprepare the material to be absorbed by the highest common denominator instead of the lowest, you chop it down to about 3-6 Months.
get rid of the/her part, the grammar trolls will eat you alive. him/her is not english, it's Megathawtian. In English you would simply say "him" which used in this context is genderless.
So it's a safe bet you buy all your tools from the dollar store?
Seriously, there are orders of magnitude more paper based MCSE's than people who know what they are doing. Most of them do not get exposed because pretty much any idiot can work on a windows system. You can't do much with them and therefore there is not much to figure out.
I think it's a fairly safe bet to say I know more about windows than 90% of the tech related employees at Microsoft. Some of the developers may know a bit more but they cheat.
And although I spend most of my day TRYING to fix windows, I assure you, there is no way to truely do so. There is a base level of brokeness you achieve when there are no nonOS memory leaks, all patches are applied, and none of the drivers have yellow flags and all diagnostics APPEAR to turn up reasonable results. But I assure you, even then, it's STILL broken.
I'm sure it doesn't, that's hardly the point. Those platforms aren't exactly relevant to determining if it's geared for MODERN computing anyway. Might as well judge it by whether or not it runs on OS/2... in fact you are;)
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wine is a win32 implementation with an incomplete but common api. It would be a stretch to call it an emulator IMHO.
Before even bothering to ask if you COULD do it, better decide if you SHOULD do it. Would you really want a windows dll destablizing the kernel? The minute you let windows code into the kernel we are little better off than windows users in terms of stability.
Yes it's a pretty term for price fixing. For the most part when your participating in price discrimination what your really doing is price fixing. So you call it price discrimination since price fixing is illegal.
Yes but the sentence in question had a singular subjet (the genderless singular linux geek crossing the road). It was geek, not geeks.
Explain to me again exactly what Linus has to gain by microsoft failing? or even linux succeeding for that matter. he doesn't exactly get royalties ;)
lol there is a difference. Linux patches only patch the things they say they are going to for one. They also don't come with a 90% likely of screwing up something on your system.
;)
The testing of windows patches is to find out WHAT it broke and how to get around it, not to find out IF it will break something
He was obviously being used as a genderless term in accordance with the language called ENGLISH.
If the parent had used something like s/he or some such that would be a make believe language promoted by femenazis.
"there are lots of people building stable Windows servers and networks. Ive done it many times, so I know it can be done, and its not just a fluke"
Stable compared to what exactly?
"How about people who admin things can do admin, and people who engineer things can fix problems when they arise? Nice division of labor, isnt it? I dont think people getting paid over $70k/year should be stuck doing hours of data entry work, but thats just my opinion. Oh ya, and also the opinion of MS, apparently. Try coming up with a valid point next time, thanks for playing."
lol there is a whole lot of room between understanding the concept of DNS and debugging source code. The technician should be capable of fixing every problem that does NOT involve editing the source code as a minimum before deploying DNS in a production environment (or anything else for that matter).
Let's compare to something blatantly obvious (since your answer indicates your in the group I just mentioned who doesn't know how DNS works) a phillips screwdriver. If you understand the concept, you understand it's used for removing screws, but you don't know how. If you understand how it works, you know the concept and the application. Understanding the details of how it functions is a far cry from understanding how to forge the steel and mold the handle of the screwdriver.
"You were the one who lumped them in with phone support people. I just said that I automatically disqualify somebody's opinion (yourself, in this case) who bases a company's tech knowledge on phone support people; you were just looking for a way to say that MS is stupid, and said something stupid. Just admit it and move on, because you arent fooling me, and most likely nobody else is reading this tripe."
You should try going back and reading your own post before commenting. The first mention of "office personel" was by you. I said I had family and friends working at Microsoft, you assumed they were office personel. My cousin as it happens is one of the core developers working on Longhorn. He's also one of the first people who will tell you windows is unstable and insecure.
"I would reply to that, but Im laughing so hard I can barely type. I hope you dont honestly believe that crap you are trying to claim as true."
Why because you have no significant recent experience to base things on so you assume this is a laughable statement? Why don't you go out and fetch rh9 or even fedora and install it on typical hardware. The most you are likely to have to do is update with the vid card manufacturers driver to get 3d acceleration. A Mac does an even better job of plug and play. That's how it's supposed to work you know. You plug it in, it works. Unlike plug and pray systems you aren't supposed to have to load a driver disk.
"No, I consider an outage to be when the system crashes, stops responing, etc. Since the majority of places arent 24/7, staying late one or two nights a month after hours isnt a big deal. BTW, MS is making no reboot patches, but since you claim to be an MCSE I guess you already knew that... didnt you? BTW, how were you talking about XP? They dont have XP servers..."
I consider it an outage when the system is down for any reason whatsoever. Uptime is whatever answer I get when I type "uptime" at the console. I wasn't aware we were only talking about servers, I was under the impression we were talking about operating systems. Further, there are no shortage of people who use XP Pro as a small business server.
"I dont see anything about using the OS and having it spontaneously combust like you are talking of." Ah, I guess that would make you the first windows user never to see a BSOD in his life, congratulations. I know no shortage of users who have been merrily typing along in a word processor and then bam the system bluescreens.
"As for the safe bullshit, you really need to learn how to write analogous analogies; your example makes no sense, and really doesnt apply to anything on
I don't know about both underage. In this state 17 is considered the age of consent for a MALE but NOT for a female. Therefore if two 17yr olds have sex the male is committing statutory rape. The female is not committing a crime. He goes on the record as a rapist for having sex with a partner his own age, he's marked a sex offender and must make sure the state has updated information about his whereabouts and address.
With this he would be labeled a rapist and plastered on a website, grouped in with child molestors.
With DRAM the higher the clock the more wasted cpu clockcycles, it scales that way.
Definately higher density at a lower price but I thought the idea of supercomputers was to build the most powerful machine possible at ANY expense?
Not to say that just thinking of having even the prototype in my basement doesn't make me want to cream my jeans. But this is not news, if you want lots of memory real cheap you go with dynamic ram, if you want the fastest ram you go with static. Dynamic ram bears a double penalty however in that it has to be refreshed and actually refreshing it eats clock cycles.
"And of course, you speak authoritatively on this because you've taken all the MCSE tests, and you have used those wizards, right? Of course not, you just go by what others on Slashdot say."
As a matter of fact I AM an MCSE. Your assumptions are certainly not sound. You assume my dislike of windows and belief in it's instability are based on ignorance. You are wrong, they are based on experience and extensive knowledge.
"Nothing spends easier than other peoples money, thats for sure. That mentality is what makes people pay $700 for a toilet seat. BTW, I have a crimper that costs $7.50, and it works just as well as any other Ive ever used. Ive never found crimp tools to be the essence of hi-tech that other have, I suppose."
A toilet seat fall under the phillips category. A crimper on the other hand is used by REAL network technicians to secure literally hundreds of connections every day. Even 1 weak crimp could destroy your 99.999% uptime in an office. I'd argue it's one of the single most likely points of failure in the network.
"For example, setting up the DNS service on Win2k no longer requires you to manually insert each domain, subnet, the reverse lookup addresses, etc. But you still have to know what you are doing, or it will turn out misconfigured. Its a convience, not a substitute for knowledge, so please dont try and tell me how great the wizards are."
Really? I'll give this a test tommorow, I'll pull out a couple of our windows only techs and hand them the bind conf files, explain the syntax for each component they ask for (volunteering would mean teaching them dns, they have to know what they want to enter just not the syntax, or they don't know DNS) and we'll see if they get it. If the most they know is that you can fill in a blank with an ip for domain x, www.domain, ftp.domain, and there is a spot for making sure mail.domain works then they DO NOT know DNS, they merely understand the CONCEPT of dns. Like a gun, understanding the concept is NOT knowing enough to be trusted to use it.
"And can use the same description for a guy who was a Unix and Checkpoint Firewall admin. Coaching to pass HR and interviews is nothing new, and it certainly isnt only MS (or even IT) related. Opinion via anecdote is generally a very poor substitute for fact."
You can even struggle through setting up a unix server in a passable amount of time with no prior experience with Unix. Prior experience with windows will make it even harder. You might slip through an interview but the first time your asked to actually DO something you'll be exposed. Unix in general is typically designed to be easy for people who already know every detail of what their doing. As opposed to being designed to be easy for the lowest common denominator.
"but anybody who bases a company's knowledge"
Again that assumption thing! You ASSUME I'm basing my judgements on office personel, implying secretaries, etc. I'm certainly not basing it on the developers themselves, they likely make up less than 10% of the staff at Microsoft. When I say tech I mean technician, someone who has actually touched the guts of a computer with understanding. And yes, their tech support is their face to the world, the training of that support is certainly a measure to judge the company by.
"So its MS's fault if they bundle the driver, and its MS's fault if they dont bundle the driver. Interesting take. How about this one- its only MS's fault if the driver and hardware is on the WHCL (Windows Hardware Compatibility List), which they personally test? I cant see how its logical to hold MS responsible for every single vendor's hardware and drivers. If I hire a crappy mechanic who puts in the wrong oil filter, and breaks some other stuff while he's at it, how on earth is the manufacture responsible? Try placing the blame with the party responsible, instead of acting like MS is some omnipotent god-like being. Because the only other viable alternative is for MS to restict who can and cant make hardwar
Statutory Rape shouldn't even be on the books, let alone grouped with real sex offenders. IMHO that is something that should be left in the domain of parents, not the law.
What about two 17 year olds having consentual sex? If the father presses charges the male is legally considered a sex offender and would be branded along with the rest. I have a friend in this position... it lasts for life.
The difference, these people have already been convicted and punished. His local clergy covered it up to PREVENT conviction and punishment.
As much as I hate to side with the sex offenders, the study you just quoted shows that MOST sex offenders are never reconvicted...
"Whats wrong with tools from the dollar store? I have a really nice mini-screwdriver set from there, some decent wire cutters, and a few other things. Like most people who try and live by witty comments like that, you are making a comment based largely on your own ignorance, and mask that ignorance with ridicule. BTW, avoid dollar store flashlights, and just stick with Maglite."
Yes you can get tools there that will get the job done. A phillips screwdriver is a phillips screwdriver wherever you get it from. But I've yet to pay $30 for a tool somewhere else that wasn't superior in some fashion to the $3 equivelent in the dollar store. If you saw a more complex tool, even say, an rj45 crimper in the dollar store for $5 would you buy it and use it to crimp the ends being plugged into even a 16port switch? I should hope not.
"Most of them do not get exposed because pretty much any idiot can work on a windows system."
You have a point, idiots are OS independant, it could be argued that there are more people working on windows in general and that is why you see more idiots. I won't debate that, but pretty much anyone who can configure a mail client has enough knowledge to walk up and configure an exchange server (definately note I'm not saying PROPERLY configure) and get it running. The boss doesn't know if it's configured properly or not, that's just one more MCSE that slips through the cracks.
My argument isn't neccesarily even that windows sucks. It's that it's EXTREMELY easy to become an MCSE, and on windows they use these things called wizards that eliminate the requirement to actually know how a service operates beneath the surface. As a result someone who is not qualified can get the certification and limp along. They may not entirely fool their co-workers, but they'll fool the boss and that's all that counts. After 5yrs of this they will have learned enough to be as qualified as they should have been before getting the job to begin with. I've worked with these people, I know.
"I think its safe to say you dont know any tech related employees at Microsoft."
Actually I have family who are tech related employee's at Microsoft. On the basis I know them and many of their tech workers I'd like to amend and extend this. 90% of course is a number pulled out of my arse. However based on the few dozen tech related employee's I DO know and the experiences I've had with Microsoft technical support, I'd like to extend my statement to yourself and the majority of slashdot. I think it's a fair bet that you and most of slashdot know more about the windows operating system than most individual microsoft employees do.
For instance, my support has never been compared with the psychic friend's network, and barely broke even. In my experience most people call the vendor when they have problems they can't resolve on their own with a product. When it's a microsoft product however, in my experience people are more likely to call a tech shop than microsoft and more likely to get it fixed by calling any random tech shop.
"Thats pretty strange, because the servers *I* build have 99.999% uptime. You must be doing something wrong, and I think that pretty much negates your previous claim to knowledge."
First, doing something wrong negates no claims of knowledge. Second, as I've already said, the claims I made aren't really claiming much. Last, let me guess, you are building servers that perform a fixed function, all the time, you have less than 10 genuinely unique setups which you build. You claim 99.999% uptime, are you sure that's the server or the service? If you have a backup server that even comes into play to keep that uptime going then your server does NOT have 99.999% uptime.
Then it could be a hardware issue. Bad memory is often the culprit; I once had a goofy time with one server which never worked right; we eventaully contacted the vendor, and there were some problems with the motherboard. Another time a wire was obstructing one of the proc
Maybe you understand this already and maybe not. The load on the dns servers wouldn't really be that large, only the .torrent file is distributed via dns, not the data itself.
Star wars episode III would not be downloadable bia dns, only the 200kish .torrent file would be.
'they' or 'them' is an option, 'him' is genderless in the appropriate context regardless. Either way is correct but 'they' or 'them' not actually commonly used in practice. 'him" or "his" is still and will likely always be the most grammatically correct and popularly correct answer to this problem.
In any case, I certainly won't be changing MY use of english to appease a Femmenazi anymore than I will to appease a grammar/spelling nazi.
I have provided proof equivelant to that provided by the parent. If he wishes to respond I will debate him. I will not however debate an AC.
"I also suspect people in hiring positions give a lot more weight to a certification that pretends to be an engineering degree than they really should."
Undoubtedly true, but equally true is that companies give a lot more weight to a degree than they should period. Generally if you take out the courses that aren't really needed for doing the job you cut down that 4yrs to 3yrs, if you reprepare the material to be absorbed by the highest common denominator instead of the lowest, you chop it down to about 3-6 Months.
get rid of the /her part, the grammar trolls will eat you alive. him/her is not english, it's Megathawtian. In English you would simply say "him" which used in this context is genderless.
yes, they are right.
So it's a safe bet you buy all your tools from the dollar store?
Seriously, there are orders of magnitude more paper based MCSE's than people who know what they are doing. Most of them do not get exposed because pretty much any idiot can work on a windows system. You can't do much with them and therefore there is not much to figure out.
I think it's a fairly safe bet to say I know more about windows than 90% of the tech related employees at Microsoft. Some of the developers may know a bit more but they cheat.
And although I spend most of my day TRYING to fix windows, I assure you, there is no way to truely do so. There is a base level of brokeness you achieve when there are no nonOS memory leaks, all patches are applied, and none of the drivers have yellow flags and all diagnostics APPEAR to turn up reasonable results. But I assure you, even then, it's STILL broken.
I'm sure it doesn't, that's hardly the point. Those platforms aren't exactly relevant to determining if it's geared for MODERN computing anyway. Might as well judge it by whether or not it runs on OS/2... in fact you are ;)