Creativity is a huge part of IT. When a code monkey is a given specs to do a, b and c for client x, he will write code to do a, b and c for client x. But when a creative programmer is given those same specs, he will write code that does a, b and c for client x, but could also do a and c, but not b for client y, or for when client x change its mind.
Secondly, the DBA is kind of like a pilot. Modern planes more or less fly themselves, except for those oh sh*t moments when the autopilot encounters a situation it was not programmed for and someone with the ability to think has to take over.
The same is true in the DBA world.
I would consider that a company who's "DBA" just clicks on icons and prebuilt GUI crap and has no knowledge of OAM tables, rollbock segments, log truncation markers and the like is in actuality running WITHOUT a DBA and some day is going to be in a world of hurt when a situation arises that the GUI is not programmed for.
Oh, by the way, who writes the code to help automate the job of the DBA? Must be some creative individuals.
Anyone can program? Not if they can't think logically. Do you think everyone can think logically? Not by a long shot.
Throw a couple of NOT conditions in and the average person would not be capable of generating the logic to produce the desired result set.
To me this seems more like replacing good creative but expensive people with adequate but really cheap code monkeys.
Or replacing a five pound sledgehammer with five regular hammers. They don't serve the same purpose, but clueless managers make the substitution anyway.
Enrollment in Engineering probably went down because companies don't hire engineers for engineering type of work. They hire MIS majors for engineering work. Thus people who really want a programming job don't bother to learn the nuts and bolts of how things work, but instead go learn how to manage people who know know the nuts and bolts. Then when they graduate companies hire them to do nuts and bolts work.
When did the ability to program in Java become a standard for measuring the ability to program?
That said, I agree with your point. Lot's of people in the last decade went into programming for the money, not for any desire or ability to do so.
You probably want to accelerate at the RPM at which your engine puts out maximum torque. Then you want to cruise at the RPM where your engine generates maximum HP.
Piston airplane engines run for hours at the same RPM because that RPM is where the most power can be gotten from the engine.
I would think that the continuously variable transmission vehicles would make use of this sweet spot, but I never researched it.
Considering the long wheelbase and relatively low center of gravity (compared to other SUVs), the suburban doesn't present nearly as much of a rollover likelihood as other SUVs. However, some of the four wheel drive versions I have seen do sit up pretty high.
Unfortunately, the argument that a heavier vehicle makes you safer is similar to the arms race. If everybody drove little peashooter cars, they would just bounce off of each other. As soon as someone gets a Suburban, everyone needs a suburban to be safe.
The act of moving does require energy, to overcome friction and wind resistance (which is still friction). Without energy being put in, eventually any moving body will stop.
More importantly, since his computer was at home, how did they know what he was looking at? Did his ISP rat on him, or was one of the popups actually from a police sting?
Perhaps they raided his house for other reasons, something that might have involved files on his computer, but found this instead, or in addition.
Far be it from me to say that an article might leave out non-alarmist information.
Not to mention that the news always uses the negative prefix "anti" to refer to the pro-life movement and the positive prefix "pro" to refer to the pro-choice movement. It would be interesting to see a newscast one day that used the words pro-life and anti-life, instead of pro-choice and anti-abortion. Of course, it would probably only air on the 700 club.
In the United States, depending on the severity of the audit, they can require you to produce everything going back as far as they like. Luckily most of us will never be subjected to having to produce more than seven years of back data. But I would be very wary of disposing of paper records newer than seven years unless you had archived it electronically somwehere.
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Considering that they refuse to take responsibility for physical mail that doesn't reach you, I'm very surprised that they took responsibility for an e-mail not reaching you.
Just because they don't tell you that you owe them money doesn't mean you don't have to pay them.
In fact, one time my sister got several parking tickets while driving the old car that I gave to her. They never sent me a notice to pay, but several years later when I went to buy a house, they appeared on my credit report!
I wonder how much ROI the businesses that hire spammers actually get directly from the spam. Perhaps they just consider it an advertising expense and hope someone will recognize their name someday and buy their product.
I once actually answered a spam for car insurance because I was looking for a better rate. I didn't even get a response back to my query.
Paul
I hear you. I've been getting bounced e-mails lately claiming that I sent a file with a virus in it. Of course, the subject of "my" original letter was not one that I had sent or would have sent. Of course, the virus was also windows based, and my domain resides on a Lunix server and does NOT allow relay.
On an unrelated note, I manage a mailing list from which I get 10 or 20 bounces a day because my upstream is apparently RBLed somewhere, even though my upstream has strict anti-spam policies.
Paul
I think you missed the point. He's no arguing for a monopoly to control the whole process, but rather for a single company or preferably multiple single companies to control the whole process from start to finish.
As it stands now, we have a different provider for internet service, a different company for the last mile, a different company that owns the backbone, etc. etc. What we wind up with is not competition, but multiple serial monopolies, which is even worse.
The World Trade Center WAS designed to withstand a plane collision, and did. What they didn't plan for was someone doing it on purpose with a plane loaded with enough fuel for a transcontinental flight. The Empire State Building would have faired little better.
While I tend to agree that faster than light travel is impossible with currently known laws,
I have to play Devil's Advocate for a moment.
How do we really know there aren't things out there going faster than the speed of light?
Would we even be able to see an object going faster than the speed of light?
Right, because congress obivously has more insight into this than the people who actually fly the planes day in and day out.
But you're right that there was resistance to fly-by-wire until it was proven.
Not that fly-by-wire doesn't have it's problems. The Airbus crash in NYC allowed the pilot to wag the rudder back and forth violently with no real input effort back to his feet.
Some systems will take evasive manuevers for traffic or terrain, most just emit a warning. The Pilots prefer a warning to something actually taking over. There may be some reason they are flying at a mountain. For instance, they may be trying to do the landing at Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
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Creativity is a huge part of IT. When a code monkey is a given specs to do a, b and c for client x, he will write code to do a, b and c for client x. But when a creative programmer is given those same specs, he will write code that does a, b and c for client x, but could also do a and c, but not b for client y, or for when client x change its mind. Secondly, the DBA is kind of like a pilot. Modern planes more or less fly themselves, except for those oh sh*t moments when the autopilot encounters a situation it was not programmed for and someone with the ability to think has to take over. The same is true in the DBA world. I would consider that a company who's "DBA" just clicks on icons and prebuilt GUI crap and has no knowledge of OAM tables, rollbock segments, log truncation markers and the like is in actuality running WITHOUT a DBA and some day is going to be in a world of hurt when a situation arises that the GUI is not programmed for. Oh, by the way, who writes the code to help automate the job of the DBA? Must be some creative individuals.
Anyone can program? Not if they can't think logically. Do you think everyone can think logically? Not by a long shot. Throw a couple of NOT conditions in and the average person would not be capable of generating the logic to produce the desired result set.
To me this seems more like replacing good creative but expensive people with adequate but really cheap code monkeys. Or replacing a five pound sledgehammer with five regular hammers. They don't serve the same purpose, but clueless managers make the substitution anyway.
Enrollment in Engineering probably went down because companies don't hire engineers for engineering type of work. They hire MIS majors for engineering work. Thus people who really want a programming job don't bother to learn the nuts and bolts of how things work, but instead go learn how to manage people who know know the nuts and bolts. Then when they graduate companies hire them to do nuts and bolts work.
When did the ability to program in Java become a standard for measuring the ability to program? That said, I agree with your point. Lot's of people in the last decade went into programming for the money, not for any desire or ability to do so.
You probably want to accelerate at the RPM at which your engine puts out maximum torque. Then you want to cruise at the RPM where your engine generates maximum HP. Piston airplane engines run for hours at the same RPM because that RPM is where the most power can be gotten from the engine. I would think that the continuously variable transmission vehicles would make use of this sweet spot, but I never researched it.
All the fast food companies I ever worked for already did sell their oil to recyclers.
Considering the long wheelbase and relatively low center of gravity (compared to other SUVs), the suburban doesn't present nearly as much of a rollover likelihood as other SUVs. However, some of the four wheel drive versions I have seen do sit up pretty high. Unfortunately, the argument that a heavier vehicle makes you safer is similar to the arms race. If everybody drove little peashooter cars, they would just bounce off of each other. As soon as someone gets a Suburban, everyone needs a suburban to be safe.
The act of moving does require energy, to overcome friction and wind resistance (which is still friction). Without energy being put in, eventually any moving body will stop.
So you are proposing lowering the current gas taxes to only $0.75/gallon?
More importantly, since his computer was at home, how did they know what he was looking at? Did his ISP rat on him, or was one of the popups actually from a police sting? Perhaps they raided his house for other reasons, something that might have involved files on his computer, but found this instead, or in addition. Far be it from me to say that an article might leave out non-alarmist information.
I've noticed that gaming sites are very bad about popping up porn as well. Which is disgusting considering the number of kids that go to gaming sites.
Also, the vast majority of computers in use today are Macintosh laptops.
Not to mention that the news always uses the negative prefix "anti" to refer to the pro-life movement and the positive prefix "pro" to refer to the pro-choice movement. It would be interesting to see a newscast one day that used the words pro-life and anti-life, instead of pro-choice and anti-abortion. Of course, it would probably only air on the 700 club.
In the United States, depending on the severity of the audit, they can require you to produce everything going back as far as they like. Luckily most of us will never be subjected to having to produce more than seven years of back data. But I would be very wary of disposing of paper records newer than seven years unless you had archived it electronically somwehere.
Considering that they refuse to take responsibility for physical mail that doesn't reach you, I'm very surprised that they took responsibility for an e-mail not reaching you. Just because they don't tell you that you owe them money doesn't mean you don't have to pay them. In fact, one time my sister got several parking tickets while driving the old car that I gave to her. They never sent me a notice to pay, but several years later when I went to buy a house, they appeared on my credit report!
I wonder how much ROI the businesses that hire spammers actually get directly from the spam. Perhaps they just consider it an advertising expense and hope someone will recognize their name someday and buy their product. I once actually answered a spam for car insurance because I was looking for a better rate. I didn't even get a response back to my query. Paul
I hear you. I've been getting bounced e-mails lately claiming that I sent a file with a virus in it. Of course, the subject of "my" original letter was not one that I had sent or would have sent. Of course, the virus was also windows based, and my domain resides on a Lunix server and does NOT allow relay. On an unrelated note, I manage a mailing list from which I get 10 or 20 bounces a day because my upstream is apparently RBLed somewhere, even though my upstream has strict anti-spam policies. Paul
I think you missed the point. He's no arguing for a monopoly to control the whole process, but rather for a single company or preferably multiple single companies to control the whole process from start to finish. As it stands now, we have a different provider for internet service, a different company for the last mile, a different company that owns the backbone, etc. etc. What we wind up with is not competition, but multiple serial monopolies, which is even worse.
So driving on the right side of the road is primitive, versus driving on the left side, which is merely medievil?
The World Trade Center WAS designed to withstand a plane collision, and did. What they didn't plan for was someone doing it on purpose with a plane loaded with enough fuel for a transcontinental flight. The Empire State Building would have faired little better.
While I tend to agree that faster than light travel is impossible with currently known laws, I have to play Devil's Advocate for a moment. How do we really know there aren't things out there going faster than the speed of light? Would we even be able to see an object going faster than the speed of light?
Right, because congress obivously has more insight into this than the people who actually fly the planes day in and day out. But you're right that there was resistance to fly-by-wire until it was proven. Not that fly-by-wire doesn't have it's problems. The Airbus crash in NYC allowed the pilot to wag the rudder back and forth violently with no real input effort back to his feet.
An plane without fuel will do much less damage than one full of fuel. Nevertheless, you make a good point.
Some systems will take evasive manuevers for traffic or terrain, most just emit a warning. The Pilots prefer a warning to something actually taking over. There may be some reason they are flying at a mountain. For instance, they may be trying to do the landing at Tegucigalpa, Honduras.