Just about every MSCE/RHCE/A+/CCNA/whatnot course I have seen is comprised of several all-day courses. Usually they come in a format like 'Monday-Friday, 8:30am - 4:30pm' or '5 saturdays, 8:30am - 5:30pm'.
I've done this back in college and as recently as 2 months ago, and everyone I have spoken to agrees.
YOU ARE NOT A ROBOT. This is not learning, it's cramming. It is impossible to learn that way. Your brain cannot retain that many new facts for a long period of time.
If you spend 8 hours a day in a classroom, you will forget the vast majority of the knowledge in a few weeks. Sure, you may pass your CCNA, but you won't be able to apply your knowledge afterwards, so what's the point?
If you do take these classes, take it for review, if you can afford it. (The RHCE courses cost about $3000, not including the $700 test).
The only real way to learn computers is a gradual, hands-on approach. Give yourself some time to retain the knowledge.
Go ahead, take the test, get the certificate. $700 isn't much money, relatively speaking, and will probably pay for itself quickly.
Read books, practice, take breaks. It's the only way to learn.
Certainly, networking will yield the best results in terms of jobs.
Unfortunately, you need to know people who are working at a place that is hiring...
Right now, 50% of my friends are out of work and looking, or are working at a place that won't be hiring in the near future, or are in a completely different industry from me (I have a house, and switching careers would mean selling the house).
I use groups.google.com and news.google.com all the time. I'd be perfectly happy to pay for a portal-type subscription if I could:
- Customize the news (Politics & tech section on the top. No sports or entertainment news please). - Give priority to certain news/RSSfeeds (slashdot.org , indymedia.org) - Keep a list of subscribed newsgroups, as in a newsreader
I think that Google should continue to provide access to the raw information, but I want more ways to get the information that I need and filter out the crap.
How can you believe that they put out Conan the Barbarian, and immediately went "good idea" and put out "The Beastmaster" the same year, with better production, a deeper story, better polished, as a "copy cat" THAT CAME OUT A COUPLE MONTHS LATER?
Well, this "copy cat" thing happens frequently. "A Bugs Life" and "Ants" came out at the same time, "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon"... and we're their two "Volcano appears in the middle of a metropolian area" movies at the same time (I never saw either).
A rumor leaks that "Studio A" is going to release a movie about $SUBJECT, so "Studio B" quickly produces a similar script also about $SUBJECT.
On the contrary, I live out West (California). I've been to Utah a dozen times, and probably travelled 20,000 miles with my parents throughout the Western states when I was a kid. Hours in the car.
My wife and I have done a dozen 12-hour journies through the West. Even done a big 20 hour road-trip from Boseman, Montana all the way to Reno, NV (Could have made it all the way to San Francisco, but it hurt too much). Next time, I'll stop in Winnemucca or some other town on 80.
Sure, the west has big expanses of stuff that looks boring, but there are zillions of parks to visit, and some chain hotel (motel 6 quality or higher) within a few hours of eachother. Millions of people drive through the West, and there is a big hotel industry taking advantage of the opportunity.
Of course, I don't have kids, but I have gone on several 5+ hour trips with a toddler in the last few years.
And yet most of us survived quite well without a TV in the car.
Hell, I have many fond memories of driving around with my parents. Reading a book, playing with stuffed animals with my sister, looking out the window (Perfect for my INFP personality), pondering the world...
12 hours spent sitting immobile in the back of a car while staring at some canned entertainment doesn't sound healthy at all, especially for kids.
Perhaps you should break the 12 hour road trip into 2 six hour drives?
If your TiVo or your cable set-top box was allowed to send back viewing habits info to the cable provider, the media companies would have much better numbers to go by.
I'd like to see the demographic of TiVo owners first. From my perspective, Tivo owners are mostly wealthy geeks.
she finds old-fashioned mechanical typewriters much easier on her fingers because they offer gradual resistance rather than the feeling of moving through air then hitting a wall, like most computer keyboards
Different keyboards work for different people. If you're used to typing on a Smith-Corona, I can definatly see how the "hitting a wall" can hurt your fingers.
So it looks like IE can't handle PNG transparency. I get Javascript errors in IE all the time. The sites usually still work...
Welcome to the club.
Several times a week, I hit a site that won't work with Mozilla, so I simply don't patronize the site. I refuse to change my Browser string.
That said: The error message is a little immature. Sometimes people say "IE Sucks" when really the problem is with simply that MS chose a different implementation from Mozilla, because the Standard is not clear.
Back when Linuxcare was still growing, they were producing these cards like mad. If you liked Linux, they would give you a dozen for free (To pass out at Lugs and geek-parties... "FOR THE REVOLUTION!" they said). I have given a bunch of them away to friends, and keep a copy at home and at work.
I really like small tools that have multiple uses, and this Linux CD fits well. I keep one in my mini-toolkit, right next to a Leatherman Multitool and Pocket Ref.
And yes, I have actually used it when I upgraded my RH6.2 to 7.2 (The GRUB install failed miserably), and to recover data from a friends partition.
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No, but you can do that on kuro5hin.org. k5 has an editorial queue, where you can suggest better wording/grammer, etc. or make snide comments like what I just did.
Some day I'd like to do this for Slashcode, but not enough time today...
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it's a Ny Times (Free reg. blah blah)
-1 redundant.
Come on, someone says this every time there is a NYT story. Quit it. We know.
Anyone who reads slashdot knows this.
Anyone who goes to NYT will find this out soon enough.
Slashdot Mirror
Socket Bluetooth GPS Receiver
Online Price: $399.00
Ouch! With prices like that, I'll stay with the $100 GPS + a $20 regional map book.
Guess these might become affordable in 2005 or later...
Here's what I have to say to that!
:)
Does Disney own the copyright to this image??
This sounds familiar.
If people would kill the animal before cutting off dorsal fin, I would object less.
No, silly.
If the sharks are dead, then no other animal will be able to keep the African Cane Toad population in check...
Here's my big gripe about Certificate Programs.
Just about every MSCE/RHCE/A+/CCNA/whatnot course I have seen is comprised of several all-day courses. Usually they come in a format like 'Monday-Friday, 8:30am - 4:30pm' or '5 saturdays, 8:30am - 5:30pm'.
I've done this back in college and as recently as 2 months ago, and everyone I have spoken to agrees.
YOU ARE NOT A ROBOT. This is not learning, it's cramming. It is impossible to learn that way. Your brain cannot retain that many new facts for a long period of time.
If you spend 8 hours a day in a classroom, you will forget the vast majority of the knowledge in a few weeks. Sure, you may pass your CCNA, but you won't be able to apply your knowledge afterwards, so what's the point?
If you do take these classes, take it for review, if you can afford it. (The RHCE courses cost about $3000, not including the $700 test).
The only real way to learn computers is a gradual, hands-on approach. Give yourself some time to retain the knowledge.
Go ahead, take the test, get the certificate. $700 isn't much money, relatively speaking, and will probably pay for itself quickly.
Read books, practice, take breaks. It's the only way to learn.
Certainly, networking will yield the best results in terms of jobs.
Unfortunately, you need to know people who are working at a place that is hiring...
Right now, 50% of my friends are out of work and looking, or are working at a place that won't be hiring in the near future, or are in a completely different industry from me (I have a house, and switching careers would mean selling the house).
One thing I can't find out from any of these stories is the Java version?
Is MS shipping Java1.4? 1.1? 1.2? Some truncated version of one of the above?
Riding a bike in subzero temperatures in constant danger of losing your life sure beats my job.
Except for the bike part, it sounds alot like working in a colocation facility!
*shrug*
and Did Iraq use them? no.
Tell that to the poor Kurds and Iranians who died from the mustard and nerve gas in the late 80's.
Or, you could just use your phone to call your friend and say "Hey, this is Stefan. Meet me at the club if you're free."
But didn't you see the ads?
You can use SMS to send "i c u" messages like a friggen 17-year-old at the Britany Spears concert!
Gosh, now if that isn't useful, I don't know what is!
I use groups.google.com and news.google.com all the time. I'd be perfectly happy to pay for a portal-type subscription if I could:
- Customize the news (Politics & tech section on the top. No sports or entertainment news please).
- Give priority to certain news/RSSfeeds (slashdot.org , indymedia.org)
- Keep a list of subscribed newsgroups, as in a newsreader
I think that Google should continue to provide access to the raw information, but I want more ways to get the information that I need and filter out the crap.
Did you mean: +cancer +"LOS broadband" +fun
No standard web pages containing all your search terms were found.
Your search - +cancer +"LOS broadband" +funny - did not match any documents.
How can you believe that they put out Conan the Barbarian, and immediately went "good idea" and put out "The Beastmaster" the same year, with better production, a deeper story, better polished, as a "copy cat" THAT CAME OUT A COUPLE MONTHS LATER?
Well, this "copy cat" thing happens frequently. "A Bugs Life" and "Ants" came out at the same time, "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon"... and we're their two "Volcano appears in the middle of a metropolian area" movies at the same time (I never saw either).
A rumor leaks that "Studio A" is going to release a movie about $SUBJECT, so "Studio B" quickly produces a similar script also about $SUBJECT.
The LotR series is so popular, I'm sure we will see many LotR-inspired films in the next few years.
Hopefully this round will be better then "Conan" & "Heavy Metal" clones like "Beastmaster", "Red Sonja", etc. from the 70's and 80's
This looks like a lower budget movie, which should be entertaining.
On the contrary, I live out West (California). I've been to Utah a dozen times, and probably travelled 20,000 miles with my parents throughout the Western states when I was a kid. Hours in the car.
My wife and I have done a dozen 12-hour journies through the West. Even done a big 20 hour road-trip from Boseman, Montana all the way to Reno, NV (Could have made it all the way to San Francisco, but it hurt too much). Next time, I'll stop in Winnemucca or some other town on 80.
Sure, the west has big expanses of stuff that looks boring, but there are zillions of parks to visit, and some chain hotel (motel 6 quality or higher) within a few hours of eachother. Millions of people drive through the West, and there is a big hotel industry taking advantage of the opportunity.
Of course, I don't have kids, but I have gone on several 5+ hour trips with a toddler in the last few years.
And yet most of us survived quite well without a TV in the car.
Hell, I have many fond memories of driving around with my parents. Reading a book, playing with stuffed animals with my sister, looking out the window (Perfect for my INFP personality), pondering the world...
12 hours spent sitting immobile in the back of a car while staring at some canned entertainment doesn't sound healthy at all, especially for kids.
Perhaps you should break the 12 hour road trip into 2 six hour drives?
And the second "undo" button was the penknife, which you could use to scrape off the white-out that you applied by accident.
If your TiVo or your cable set-top box was allowed to send back viewing habits info to the cable provider, the media companies would have much better numbers to go by.
I'd like to see the demographic of TiVo owners first. From my perspective, Tivo owners are mostly wealthy geeks.
Hard typing can lead to RSI.
From the page:
she finds old-fashioned mechanical typewriters much easier on her fingers because they offer gradual resistance rather than the feeling of moving through air then hitting a wall, like most computer keyboards
Different keyboards work for different people. If you're used to typing on a Smith-Corona, I can definatly see how the "hitting a wall" can hurt your fingers.
So it looks like IE can't handle PNG transparency. I get Javascript errors in IE all the time. The sites usually still work...
Welcome to the club.
Several times a week, I hit a site that won't work with Mozilla, so I simply don't patronize the site. I refuse to change my Browser string.
That said: The error message is a little immature. Sometimes people say "IE Sucks" when really the problem is with simply that MS chose a different implementation from Mozilla, because the Standard is not clear.
Back when Linuxcare was still growing, they were producing these cards like mad. If you liked Linux, they would give you a dozen for free (To pass out at Lugs and geek-parties... "FOR THE REVOLUTION!" they said). I have given a bunch of them away to friends, and keep a copy at home and at work.
I really like small tools that have multiple uses, and this Linux CD fits well. I keep one in my mini-toolkit, right next to a Leatherman Multitool and Pocket Ref.
And yes, I have actually used it when I upgraded my RH6.2 to 7.2 (The GRUB install failed miserably), and to recover data from a friends partition.
What do you mean by "NYT meta-discussion"?
No, but you can do that on kuro5hin.org. k5 has an editorial queue, where you can suggest better wording/grammer, etc. or make snide comments like what I just did.
Some day I'd like to do this for Slashcode, but not enough time today...
it's a Ny Times (Free reg. blah blah)
-1 redundant.
Come on, someone says this every time there is a NYT story. Quit it. We know.
Anyone who reads slashdot knows this.
Anyone who goes to NYT will find this out soon enough.