b) Reverse proof of concept experience visible today in India. By this I mean that you can see with your own eyes how material from the Astral plane can be materialized on Earth. The reverse is also possible, but due to the witnesses having to be in the Astral plane, it is harder for the average layman to conclude its reality, other than physical things just appearing to dissapear into thin air. URL: http://www.saibaba.ws/miracles/orphanagemysore.htm
FYI, I've seen B) with my own eyes, and so can you - just travel to Mysore in India. It's no magic trick, it's a surreal reality. essentially a tiny metalic medal, barely bigger than a fingernail has been producing 2 Liters of rose scented honey (edible too) for the past ~25 years, 7 days a week! I know, it sounds whack, but its the only miracle left on Earth that you can witness with your own eyes, and if science can understand the physics behind that... hell, Armagedon doesn't stand a chance.
1) Assuming at least some of these asteroids will be passing Earth before they come back 100+ years from now (or however long) and then actually hit the Earth. Why not, as they are passing by, specifically as they have *passed* the Earth, nuke them from behind?
2) Same idea as #1, but instead get some modified HUGE rockets with robotic modifications to fly up to the asteroid, and then auto-magically grapple onto the 'Earth/rock' base of the asteroid, and then tilt to a different direction & fire the engines in a different direction, thereby 'flying' the asteroid in a different path... even if only by 0.002 degrees or whatever, that might make all the difference. Depending on the size of the asteroid, you might of course, need anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred or even thousands of these rockets.
3) Implement a Tesla death ray machine on a satellite above Earth's atmosphere (or "Star Wars" defense system). Possibly even a few of these around every planet or moon in the planets around our Galaxy (yeah I know this is not an overnight implementation plan), and then as asteroids are on their way towards or away from Earth - BLAST 'EM! Related links: Tesla Death Ray: http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_wendwar.html Star Wars Defense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Ini tiative
4) How about instead of wasting all those nukes in disarming strategies, hand them all over to the UN, and have the UN work with NASA to ship them all into some outer space orbiting satellites on the moon or better yet, Mars, and then aim them at ASteroids for anti-Armagedon purposes? I suggest Mars, because if that system ever gets hacked and somebody points a missel towards Earth, at least we'll have time to counter-Skud the Nukes.
5) Ship into outer space a few million tonnes of SOLID rock & position it in our own sweet time such that any asteroids coming towards Earth hit that first with the idea of slowing down, possibly shattering or deviating the asteroid (depending on density of rock, shape (i.e. cone with point on end facing asteroid), etc).
6) Same as #5, but attach some propulsion system behind the conned shape rock. Maybe even melt several meters of metal on the tip of the cone to re-enforce it & ensure asteroid gets split in half... then propulsion system slowly but surely accelerates the cone towards the asteroid thereby having an even greater impact and minimize asteroid's success in hitting or hurting the Earth as much.
7) Create about 10,000 solar powered spider like robots (I forget the movie reference now) with drill-heads. Ship said spider robots in a few rockets & have the rockets dump the payload onto the asteroid. Then over the period of however long before it hits Earth, the robots with AI and heat and/or solar power or something-powered will have the mission to drill the astroid into a thousand pieces.
8) Learn how to make little black holes. Create one in the trajectory of the asteroid... and POOF... asteroid gone!
9) Ask our Area 51 alien 'friends' for assistance & more ideas:-D
9.5) Carve out HUGE multi-million or billion tonne stone or ice chunks out of Mars or some future uneeded planet, and propel these chunks in a somewhat controlled fashion BY the asteroid, such that it will distort the trajectory path simply with its own gravitational pull.
10) Get the scientists to hurry the hell up and understand how to project solid matter into Astral planes, and then either with advanced human minds or with machines with the physics to do this, teleport the asteroid out of thin vaccuum (can't be air;-) into an astral plane where it would not have a physical impact to the Earth.
11) Send rockets up to dump payloads of corrosive acid onto the asteroid such that it deteriorates into a thin mist before hitti
Is Microsoft trying to make good on all that SPAM that said if you sign your name on some forwarded email that Bill Gates will send you money in the (snail) mail - even though you never typed your address?
Maybe there is something to paying your userbase?!? I just haven't quite figured it all out yet. Maybe you can help me out...
1. Make Internet product 2. Give it free to users 3. Pay users to use it 4. ???? 5. Profit !!!!!!!
What about Lemmings? Or has everyone forgotten the dead?
Didn't that inspire an entire genre of teen age suicide and self-hatred as well as give the terrorists motivation to blow themselves up? (oh no wait, part of that was the Nirvana band)
Terrorist Leader: "If the 10 of you blow up yourselves in sequence on the same spot, we (Alah and us) will be able to have a tunnel that goes all the way to America where we may...."
And leisure suite larry? And Roger Wilco, and all the ones that followed from there?
Thanks Sierra, for making my highschool lunch time hours sitting in front of CGA and EGA monitors (that's 4 and 16 colour for the young ones in the crowd) playing those super fun games... especially Hero's quest!
Where's the extension that allows me to use firefox in a 3D fashion just like I.E. in Vista? Then I would really have no usefulness for Vista (not that I do now).
And yes I know, I'm comparing a browser to an OS... but hey, if they can make 3D surfing windows with transparency & it all works in XP, that'd be sweet. Cube browsing would earn them bonus points.
Seeing as NASA has confirmed this CHIP is real, I think it's time for Weird Al Yankovic to come up with a sequel to his 1999 killer music video titled "It's all about the Pentiums Baby!"
Some video sequel suggestions for Mr. Yankovic: 1) New title might be "It's all about the Qubits, baby!" 2) Any references to Y2K should be updated to reference DST in 2007 & UNIX date issues in 2038 3) The T1 at his house needs to be upgraded to quad OC768 SONET fiber rings hosting Torrent servers and at least 1/3rd of Youtube. 4) References to newbies might include "Trying to upgrade to Vista on a single core CPU, 256 MB of RAM & single square 15" monitor" 5) Video dance moves should be upgraded to Popping moves (search "popping" on Youtube). 6) Floppy disks in video & references to storing "your entire hard drive data" should be upgraded to USB sticks. 7) Babes in video need less clothing (less is more right?) 8) Chorus update: "What'chu wanna do? Wanna be torrent leechers, MySpace peepers? Wasting time with all the Google seekers? 9-5 chillin' with all the Vonage Phreakers? Working at a cubicle, with some lame little speakers? Yeah payin' the bills with my mad zero-down mortgaging skills!... etc" 9) & 10) you fill in the blanks.
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1. Is directly in contradiction to 5.
4. Not a bad idea.
6. Why non-Hindus? Is there a less qualified ratio of Muslims, Sihks & Christians in India?
According to this reliable source (Canadian Globe and Mail national newspaper), it was a maintenance patch applied on March 4th that broke CRA's (Canada Revenue Agency) website.
Yesterday afternoon, the VP of IT at my company called a 2.5 hour emergency meeting to review our entire DST patch process across all systems to ensure all issues are on track & resolvable - the reason for the emergency meeting? Somebody told him that that CRA glitch was triggered by problematic Microsoft DST (daylight savings time) patches. Our internal MS IT techs confirm, the patches are not exactly simple, or easy to apply and at the last minute some patches have been re-patched or "upgraded" to newer versions, requiring one to uninstall earlier 1.0 patches.
Can anybody site a source that confirms the CRA's glitch was indeed related to DST?
#1. Rarely do actors pause in mid conversation, after a meal, or during their entire (movie) life-time to go to the washroom. #2. Entire weeks, months or years can pass without the main character being seen eating any food. #3. A 1/2 litre sheep-skin sac of water is all you'll need to cross any desert. #4. After you faint in the desert sun from dehydration & tiredness, you will wake up many hours later somewhat refreshed and able to carry on. Either that or you'll be found against all odds... EVERY time! #5. Enemy bullets always hurt less than your bullets hurt the enemies. #6. Nobody ever catches diseases in movies where blood spils over the main characters every other minute (horror/war/action movies). #7. Heros never grow old #8. Often the ugly guy, still gets all the hot chicks (by force, or by sympathy). #9. Any ignoramus can survive by eating random leaves and miraculously bacteria free water in any jungle... and find his way out of course. #10. The wound of a hero, no matter how long it bleeds, never results in death. This is because no hero's would ever gets infected.
Canada has plenty to supposedly lose. Many American movies (or sequences within) are being filmed in Canada due to cheaper production costs & beautiful scenery. If the US movie industry goes down the tubes (economically speaking), Canada would be affected.
So it's a good thing that year after year, the US movie industry records even greater gains, and ever increasing box-office hits. (DESPITE ALL THE "ILLEGAL" MARKETING..er... PIRACY).
Anybody know of any Canadian versions of these websites out there? It's about freggin time somebody came out with this (obvious) idea! THANK YOU!
I've managed to negotiate my way into a substancial salary about 4 years ago, that I'm even comfortable with today without a single raise; however, I can't keep this up much longer, and the 'Secret HR books' (essentially a compliation of all company jobs of supposedly similar 500 to 1000 companies within my province), cost several hundred dollars each, and are not available for regular employees to peek at, possibly not even available for a non-large company to purchase.
So where is a Canadian employee to go these days for accurate information? I've found that most job-hunting websites out there do not reveal actual salary ranges until you get to some interview stage.
Why doesn't the USA just launch 5100 satellites that orbit the Earth just above the USA. Roughly 100 satellites per State - is that enough to record everything going on 24/7 when the weather is good? Then beam the info in real time to at least 2 data centres per State wherein the NSA/Homeland security ties in and can play back anything on their 'little' Tivo network.
Remind me to buy some stock in Seagate if this thing ever goes through.
"I would not be at all surprised to see a 19 year old with an associate's degree come to work under you, and be on your level or above within a couple years."
I won't be spending my time commenting on some of your other easily debatable points, but you should at least admit one thing - you are NOT a network engineer, and therefore don't actually know what you are talking about.
No sane mid-sized company employer will hand over the responsibility of a company's network to some newbie 2 or 3 year "Network Engineer". The network always represents the blood & circulation stream of an Enterprise - all data (and recently voice) flows through it. When the network goes down, companies come to a grinding halt with all employees achieving near 0% productivity levels with all your customers not being able to be serviced. Costs of network downtime for a financial institution such as the one I presently work at, are in excess of $3 MILLION PER HOUR! Would you hand over that type of responsibility to a junior engineer? I think not! In the case of a Telco, the dollar figures are easily MUCH higher (obviously depending on the size of the outage & number and types of customers impacted).
An experienced Network Engineer is worth is weight in gold. Being able to solving a wide-spread production issue in 15 minutes vs that of 5+ hours or never (in the case of a junior engineer), is when a Senior Network Engineer proves to his employer that in 15 minutes he has saved his employer the equivalent of 75 times his 100K yearly wage.
A Senior Engineer is often one that has over 7 years of experience and has usually worked on different kinds of networks which specifically span entire states/provinces, and often an entire country... and I don't just mean interconnecting branch offices with internet links.
In it, the kid is sitting at his computer rubbing his hands and licking his lips. His mother asks him what he is is doing...
Mother: What are you doing? Kid: I'm creating digital music. The first song I'll call "0" and the second I'll call "1". Kid: Anybody who then publishes CDs with replicas of my content will be sued for Trillions of dollars due to Billions of instances of copyright infringements! MPAA & RIAA will be my first victims. Mother: Remind me not to allow you to go to law school. Kid: Ahhhh! To live in America! (dollar signs in his eyes).
"Doom9 forums has received its first official DMCA Takedown Notice."
Yo, MPAA, this is the 21st century. We now have torrents, anonymous blogging (for dissiminating raw code that can be compiled or pasting of encryption keys), open wireless connections (for endless reposting of your SuperTopSecret encryption keys wherever on the net), anonymous proxies (same purpose as previous)and P2P software for end-user to end-user dissimination of files. Not to mention that the rest of the world could care less about your messed up United States laws.
Your take down notice is just asking for the keys to go underground and being mass spread via above channels for the elite/martyrness of it all.
Considering I make over $110K a year as a network engineer and that I make more money than people with all sorts of real University Engineering degrees in a 20-40 year career, I'm quite happy to have to reboot a router at 4AM once every few months.
Cable pullers aren't network engineers, they are FSRs (Field Services Representatives). In fact neither are router rebooters. In Telco-land, Engineers often have a 100% hands-off production network. They do research of all the leading edge network technologies, establish provisioning standards, design the network core, make equipment recommendation & test it in labs.
Real network engineers are hardly a dime a dozen... more like 1.2+ million a dozen/yr. Adeptus.
I am in my early 30's and I am currently the most Senior Network Engineer for one of Canada's top 10 largest Financial Institutions (banks). My experience & advice differs signficantly from most people's apparent armchair advice in this slashdot thread. I seriously question how many of the user comments here are actually from "Network Egineers" as opposed to "Systems Administrators" which are often also titled "Network Administrators" but whose responsibilities are primarily managing server/software as opposed to managing switches, routers & firewalls.
In my 10 year career I've worked on over 5 different National and even International Networks (including Telco's & Cable companies), one of which I even designed from scratch, and specifically I've worked on some of Canada's largest networks (easily in the top 25 list). I'm stating this not for bragging rights, but simply to say that my advice comes from direct experience in the field.
Here's my advice to you: 1) Try before you buy - Above all else, you should choose this career path because you like the day to day work it involves. Money & fancy titles should be very secondary considerations. So if you are serious, by all means try it out, but possibly try to get some student co-op work or even some entry level work with a small company first, before you spend your parents life savings on a 4+ year education.
2) University Degree vs Certification - Believe it or not I have neither! Not a single cert (albeit I've taken over 10 different Cisco courses, a few Lucent courses, and even 2 or 3 Microsoft courses earlier in my career). Here in the West Coast of Canada experience is king!
2a)The problem with degrees & certifications: In my grade 12 highschool days (early 90's) there was no such thing as a "Network Engineer" degree. To this day, the local University only offers Computer Science and Computer Engineering bachelour degrees, albeit they did introduce about 5 years ago a 2 year diploma program for "Network Administrators + Security" (I forget the exact title, but it still wasn't purely network engineering). At the various jobs I've had, people who walk in off the street with zero experience just a bunch of fancy certifications or computer science/engineering degrees are often either rejected work or given only very entry level positions. Why might you ask?
Certifications: For the most part people who have lots of certs, have lots of theoretical knowledge but no PRACTICAL & REAL-WORLD experience. Try as they might, no certification test & simulation scenarios will ever perfectly simulate some company's network because they are all just so wildly different - so if you walk in off the street with a cert, you'll be expected to spend at least 1 or 2 years learning the network before you would be given any high level access & responsibility. On the plus side, one might argue that Certifications give you very specific training that can and often is key to understanding the niche job world that is network engineering. On the negative side many vendors (i.e. Cisco) still have courses that are 2, 3 & even 4 years outdated. I.e. The course material no longer reflects the actual products & services that urban city companies are purchasing & implementing. I.e. CCNA still teaches RIP, ISDN & Frame relay... all very much dead technologies here on the West Coast of Canada. Mid to Large companies are all running fiber optic links either switched or dynamically routed (OSPF) over ATM or MPLS Telco networks.
University Degrees: The problem with having a University degree is that graduates have almost no *** PRACTICAL *** knowledge of how basic computers or networks actually work. Ask a Masters Degree Computer Science graduate how to install a DVD drive in their PC and they will look at you with a "I don't have a clue" kind of look. Ask them to write a software driver for a DVD player and they will ask you "which language do you prefer I write that in?". Some of them can barely figure o
QUOTE: 'What part of "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration" do you not understand, dipshit? Wages are a source of income. Period. End of discussion. You lose.'...ACTUALLY... that clause is not a valid part of law, because of the way in which it was instituted. If you read the details of how the 16th amendment came to be you will learn that most states did not actually ratify it, that it was imposed on December 24th (when most voting government officials were not in office) and that the few that voted it in were actually bribed! And if you think I'm full of it, then perhaps you might believe the MULTIPLE IRS agents that have quit the IRS, stopped paying taxes & went on national television about it explaining to the american citizens admiting that as soon as they discovered the truth that they took the actions they did. They have now joined 67 Million Americans that do not pay income tax.... but hey if you want to continue to be an ignorant sheep, that's your perogative.
Here's the video backing up all my statements. Watch the whole thing, then judge for yourself.
Actually the 16th Amendment was never legal to start with. Most states never actually ratified it, and the ones that did had their senior government officials bribed. Think I'm kidding?
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a) The Magus of Strovolos, ISBN#0-140-19034-1
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b) Reverse proof of concept experience visible today in India. By this I mean that you can see with your own eyes how material from the Astral plane can be materialized on Earth. The reverse is also possible, but due to the witnesses having to be in the Astral plane, it is harder for the average layman to conclude its reality, other than physical things just appearing to dissapear into thin air.
URL: http://www.saibaba.ws/miracles/orphanagemysore.ht
FYI, I've seen B) with my own eyes, and so can you - just travel to Mysore in India. It's no magic trick, it's a surreal reality. essentially a tiny metalic medal, barely bigger than a fingernail has been producing 2 Liters of rose scented honey (edible too) for the past ~25 years, 7 days a week! I know, it sounds whack, but its the only miracle left on Earth that you can witness with your own eyes, and if science can understand the physics behind that... hell, Armagedon doesn't stand a chance.
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A few more ideas....
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;-) into an astral plane where it would not have a physical impact to the Earth.
1) Assuming at least some of these asteroids will be passing Earth before they come back 100+ years from now (or however long) and then actually hit the Earth. Why not, as they are passing by, specifically as they have *passed* the Earth, nuke them from behind?
2) Same idea as #1, but instead get some modified HUGE rockets with robotic modifications to fly up to the asteroid, and then auto-magically grapple onto the 'Earth/rock' base of the asteroid, and then tilt to a different direction & fire the engines in a different direction, thereby 'flying' the asteroid in a different path... even if only by 0.002 degrees or whatever, that might make all the difference. Depending on the size of the asteroid, you might of course, need anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred or even thousands of these rockets.
3) Implement a Tesla death ray machine on a satellite above Earth's atmosphere (or "Star Wars" defense system). Possibly even a few of these around every planet or moon in the planets around our Galaxy (yeah I know this is not an overnight implementation plan), and then as asteroids are on their way towards or away from Earth - BLAST 'EM! Related links:
Tesla Death Ray: http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_wendwar.html
Star Wars Defense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Ini tiative
4) How about instead of wasting all those nukes in disarming strategies, hand them all over to the UN, and have the UN work with NASA to ship them all into some outer space orbiting satellites on the moon or better yet, Mars, and then aim them at ASteroids for anti-Armagedon purposes? I suggest Mars, because if that system ever gets hacked and somebody points a missel towards Earth, at least we'll have time to counter-Skud the Nukes.
5) Ship into outer space a few million tonnes of SOLID rock & position it in our own sweet time such that any asteroids coming towards Earth hit that first with the idea of slowing down, possibly shattering or deviating the asteroid (depending on density of rock, shape (i.e. cone with point on end facing asteroid), etc).
6) Same as #5, but attach some propulsion system behind the conned shape rock. Maybe even melt several meters of metal on the tip of the cone to re-enforce it & ensure asteroid gets split in half... then propulsion system slowly but surely accelerates the cone towards the asteroid thereby having an even greater impact and minimize asteroid's success in hitting or hurting the Earth as much.
7) Create about 10,000 solar powered spider like robots (I forget the movie reference now) with drill-heads. Ship said spider robots in a few rockets & have the rockets dump the payload onto the asteroid. Then over the period of however long before it hits Earth, the robots with AI and heat and/or solar power or something-powered will have the mission to drill the astroid into a thousand pieces.
8) Learn how to make little black holes. Create one in the trajectory of the asteroid... and POOF... asteroid gone!
9) Ask our Area 51 alien 'friends' for assistance & more ideas
9.5) Carve out HUGE multi-million or billion tonne stone or ice chunks out of Mars or some future uneeded planet, and propel these chunks in a somewhat controlled fashion BY the asteroid, such that it will distort the trajectory path simply with its own gravitational pull.
10) Get the scientists to hurry the hell up and understand how to project solid matter into Astral planes, and then either with advanced human minds or with machines with the physics to do this, teleport the asteroid out of thin vaccuum (can't be air
11) Send rockets up to dump payloads of corrosive acid onto the asteroid such that it deteriorates into a thin mist before hitti
Is Microsoft trying to make good on all that SPAM that said if you sign your name on some forwarded email that Bill Gates will send you money in the (snail) mail - even though you never typed your address?
Maybe there is something to paying your userbase?!? I just haven't quite figured it all out yet. Maybe you can help me out...
1. Make Internet product
2. Give it free to users
3. Pay users to use it
4. ????
5. Profit !!!!!!!
What about Lemmings? Or has everyone forgotten the dead?
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Didn't that inspire an entire genre of teen age suicide and self-hatred as well as give the terrorists motivation to blow themselves up? (oh no wait, part of that was the Nirvana band)
Terrorist Leader: "If the 10 of you blow up yourselves in sequence on the same spot, we (Alah and us) will be able to have a tunnel that goes all the way to America where we may
And leisure suite larry? And Roger Wilco, and all the ones that followed from there?
Thanks Sierra, for making my highschool lunch time hours sitting in front of CGA and EGA monitors (that's 4 and 16 colour for the young ones in the crowd) playing those super fun games... especially Hero's quest!
Adeptus
I can see it now... Google acquires Wikipedia, news @ 11
I don't know about 50%, but with me they've easily attained 5-10% of my searches.
Adeptus
Where's the extension that allows me to use firefox in a 3D fashion just like I.E. in Vista? Then I would really have no usefulness for Vista (not that I do now).
v ie-cube_maly.jpg
And yes I know, I'm comparing a browser to an OS... but hey, if they can make 3D surfing windows with transparency & it all works in XP, that'd be sweet. Cube browsing would earn them bonus points.
http://www.pctuning.cz/ilustrace2/Teuzz/Vista2/Mo
Adeptus
PS. Can you tell I'm not a programmer?
Seeing as NASA has confirmed this CHIP is real, I think it's time for Weird Al Yankovic to come up with a sequel to his 1999 killer music video titled "It's all about the Pentiums Baby!"
The hilarious video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vaNeaWQoHI
Some video sequel suggestions for Mr. Yankovic:
1) New title might be "It's all about the Qubits, baby!"
2) Any references to Y2K should be updated to reference DST in 2007 & UNIX date issues in 2038
3) The T1 at his house needs to be upgraded to quad OC768 SONET fiber rings hosting Torrent servers and at least 1/3rd of Youtube.
4) References to newbies might include "Trying to upgrade to Vista on a single core CPU, 256 MB of RAM & single square 15" monitor"
5) Video dance moves should be upgraded to Popping moves (search "popping" on Youtube).
6) Floppy disks in video & references to storing "your entire hard drive data" should be upgraded to USB sticks.
7) Babes in video need less clothing (less is more right?)
8) Chorus update: "What'chu wanna do? Wanna be torrent leechers, MySpace peepers? Wasting time with all the Google seekers? 9-5 chillin' with all the Vonage Phreakers? Working at a cubicle, with some lame little speakers? Yeah payin' the bills with my mad zero-down mortgaging skills!... etc"
9) & 10) you fill in the blanks.
Adeptus
1. Is directly in contradiction to 5.
4. Not a bad idea.
6. Why non-Hindus? Is there a less qualified ratio of Muslims, Sihks & Christians in India?
Adeptus
Oops, forgot the URLy:
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGA
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According to this reliable source (Canadian Globe and Mail national newspaper), it was a maintenance patch applied on March 4th that broke CRA's (Canada Revenue Agency) website.
Yesterday afternoon, the VP of IT at my company called a 2.5 hour emergency meeting to review our entire DST patch process across all systems to ensure all issues are on track & resolvable - the reason for the emergency meeting? Somebody told him that that CRA glitch was triggered by problematic Microsoft DST (daylight savings time) patches. Our internal MS IT techs confirm, the patches are not exactly simple, or easy to apply and at the last minute some patches have been re-patched or "upgraded" to newer versions, requiring one to uninstall earlier 1.0 patches.
Can anybody site a source that confirms the CRA's glitch was indeed related to DST?
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#1. Rarely do actors pause in mid conversation, after a meal, or during their entire (movie) life-time to go to the washroom.
#2. Entire weeks, months or years can pass without the main character being seen eating any food.
#3. A 1/2 litre sheep-skin sac of water is all you'll need to cross any desert.
#4. After you faint in the desert sun from dehydration & tiredness, you will wake up many hours later somewhat refreshed and able to carry on. Either that or you'll be found against all odds... EVERY time!
#5. Enemy bullets always hurt less than your bullets hurt the enemies.
#6. Nobody ever catches diseases in movies where blood spils over the main characters every other minute (horror/war/action movies).
#7. Heros never grow old
#8. Often the ugly guy, still gets all the hot chicks (by force, or by sympathy).
#9. Any ignoramus can survive by eating random leaves and miraculously bacteria free water in any jungle... and find his way out of course.
#10. The wound of a hero, no matter how long it bleeds, never results in death. This is because no hero's would ever gets infected.
Adeptus
Canada has plenty to supposedly lose. Many American movies (or sequences within) are being filmed in Canada due to cheaper production costs & beautiful scenery. If the US movie industry goes down the tubes (economically speaking), Canada would be affected.
So it's a good thing that year after year, the US movie industry records even greater gains, and ever increasing box-office hits. (DESPITE ALL THE "ILLEGAL" MARKETING..er... PIRACY).
Adeptus
Anybody know of any Canadian versions of these websites out there? It's about freggin time somebody came out with this (obvious) idea! THANK YOU!
I've managed to negotiate my way into a substancial salary about 4 years ago, that I'm even comfortable with today without a single raise; however, I can't keep this up much longer, and the 'Secret HR books' (essentially a compliation of all company jobs of supposedly similar 500 to 1000 companies within my province), cost several hundred dollars each, and are not available for regular employees to peek at, possibly not even available for a non-large company to purchase.
So where is a Canadian employee to go these days for accurate information? I've found that most job-hunting websites out there do not reveal actual salary ranges until you get to some interview stage.
Thanks,
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Why doesn't the USA just launch 5100 satellites that orbit the Earth just above the USA. Roughly 100 satellites per State - is that enough to record everything going on 24/7 when the weather is good? Then beam the info in real time to at least 2 data centres per State wherein the NSA/Homeland security ties in and can play back anything on their 'little' Tivo network.
Remind me to buy some stock in Seagate if this thing ever goes through.
Adeptus.
"I would not be at all surprised to see a 19 year old with an associate's degree come to work under you, and be on your level or above within a couple years."
I won't be spending my time commenting on some of your other easily debatable points, but you should at least admit one thing - you are NOT a network engineer, and therefore don't actually know what you are talking about.
No sane mid-sized company employer will hand over the responsibility of a company's network to some newbie 2 or 3 year "Network Engineer". The network always represents the blood & circulation stream of an Enterprise - all data (and recently voice) flows through it. When the network goes down, companies come to a grinding halt with all employees achieving near 0% productivity levels with all your customers not being able to be serviced. Costs of network downtime for a financial institution such as the one I presently work at, are in excess of $3 MILLION PER HOUR! Would you hand over that type of responsibility to a junior engineer? I think not! In the case of a Telco, the dollar figures are easily MUCH higher (obviously depending on the size of the outage & number and types of customers impacted).
An experienced Network Engineer is worth is weight in gold. Being able to solving a wide-spread production issue in 15 minutes vs that of 5+ hours or never (in the case of a junior engineer), is when a Senior Network Engineer proves to his employer that in 15 minutes he has saved his employer the equivalent of 75 times his 100K yearly wage.
A Senior Engineer is often one that has over 7 years of experience and has usually worked on different kinds of networks which specifically span entire states/provinces, and often an entire country... and I don't just mean interconnecting branch offices with internet links.
Adeptus
I have a fox-trot cartoon clip in my cubicle
In it, the kid is sitting at his computer rubbing his hands and licking his lips. His mother asks him what he is is doing...
Mother: What are you doing?
Kid: I'm creating digital music. The first song I'll call "0" and the second I'll call "1".
Kid: Anybody who then publishes CDs with replicas of my content will be sued for Trillions of dollars due to Billions of instances of copyright infringements! MPAA & RIAA will be my first victims.
Mother: Remind me not to allow you to go to law school.
Kid: Ahhhh! To live in America! (dollar signs in his eyes).
Adeptus
"Doom9 forums has received its first official DMCA Takedown Notice."
Yo, MPAA, this is the 21st century. We now have torrents, anonymous blogging (for dissiminating raw code that can be compiled or pasting of encryption keys), open wireless connections (for endless reposting of your SuperTopSecret encryption keys wherever on the net), anonymous proxies (same purpose as previous)and P2P software for end-user to end-user dissimination of files. Not to mention that the rest of the world could care less about your messed up United States laws.
Your take down notice is just asking for the keys to go underground and being mass spread via above channels for the elite/martyrness of it all.
Considering I make over $110K a year as a network engineer and that I make more money than people with all sorts of real University Engineering degrees in a 20-40 year career, I'm quite happy to have to reboot a router at 4AM once every few months.
Cable pullers aren't network engineers, they are FSRs (Field Services Representatives). In fact neither are router rebooters. In Telco-land, Engineers often have a 100% hands-off production network. They do research of all the leading edge network technologies, establish provisioning standards, design the network core, make equipment recommendation & test it in labs.
Real network engineers are hardly a dime a dozen... more like 1.2+ million a dozen/yr.
Adeptus.
Hi,
I am in my early 30's and I am currently the most Senior Network Engineer for one of Canada's top 10 largest Financial Institutions (banks). My experience & advice differs signficantly from most people's apparent armchair advice in this slashdot thread. I seriously question how many of the user comments here are actually from "Network Egineers" as opposed to "Systems Administrators" which are often also titled "Network Administrators" but whose responsibilities are primarily managing server/software as opposed to managing switches, routers & firewalls.
In my 10 year career I've worked on over 5 different National and even International Networks (including Telco's & Cable companies), one of which I even designed from scratch, and specifically I've worked on some of Canada's largest networks (easily in the top 25 list). I'm stating this not for bragging rights, but simply to say that my advice comes from direct experience in the field.
Here's my advice to you:
1) Try before you buy - Above all else, you should choose this career path because you like the day to day work it involves. Money & fancy titles should be very secondary considerations. So if you are serious, by all means try it out, but possibly try to get some student co-op work or even some entry level work with a small company first, before you spend your parents life savings on a 4+ year education.
2) University Degree vs Certification - Believe it or not I have neither! Not a single cert (albeit I've taken over 10 different Cisco courses, a few Lucent courses, and even 2 or 3 Microsoft courses earlier in my career). Here in the West Coast of Canada experience is king!
2a)The problem with degrees & certifications: In my grade 12 highschool days (early 90's) there was no such thing as a "Network Engineer" degree. To this day, the local University only offers Computer Science and Computer Engineering bachelour degrees, albeit they did introduce about 5 years ago a 2 year diploma program for "Network Administrators + Security" (I forget the exact title, but it still wasn't purely network engineering). At the various jobs I've had, people who walk in off the street with zero experience just a bunch of fancy certifications or computer science/engineering degrees are often either rejected work or given only very entry level positions. Why might you ask?
Certifications: For the most part people who have lots of certs, have lots of theoretical knowledge but no PRACTICAL & REAL-WORLD experience. Try as they might, no certification test & simulation scenarios will ever perfectly simulate some company's network because they are all just so wildly different - so if you walk in off the street with a cert, you'll be expected to spend at least 1 or 2 years learning the network before you would be given any high level access & responsibility. On the plus side, one might argue that Certifications give you very specific training that can and often is key to understanding the niche job world that is network engineering. On the negative side many vendors (i.e. Cisco) still have courses that are 2, 3 & even 4 years outdated. I.e. The course material no longer reflects the actual products & services that urban city companies are purchasing & implementing. I.e. CCNA still teaches RIP, ISDN & Frame relay... all very much dead technologies here on the West Coast of Canada. Mid to Large companies are all running fiber optic links either switched or dynamically routed (OSPF) over ATM or MPLS Telco networks.
University Degrees: The problem with having a University degree is that graduates have almost no *** PRACTICAL *** knowledge of how basic computers or networks actually work. Ask a Masters Degree Computer Science graduate how to install a DVD drive in their PC and they will look at you with a "I don't have a clue" kind of look. Ask them to write a software driver for a DVD player and they will ask you "which language do you prefer I write that in?". Some of them can barely figure o
"If I ever meet you, I'll CTRL-ALT-DELETE you!!!!"
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Here's the actual original video (much funiier): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vaNeaWQoHI&mode=r
In case you're wondering what the hell this thread is about, watch this absolutely hilarious video by Weird Al Yankovic from 1999/2000.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p0gKNQAGUc
You'll laugh, you'll cry, and then you'll go watch "White & Nerdy"
Adeptus
QUOTE: 'What part of "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration" do you not understand, dipshit? Wages are a source of income. Period. End of discussion. You lose.' ...ACTUALLY... that clause is not a valid part of law, because of the way in which it was instituted. If you read the details of how the 16th amendment came to be you will learn that most states did not actually ratify it, that it was imposed on December 24th (when most voting government officials were not in office) and that the few that voted it in were actually bribed! And if you think I'm full of it, then perhaps you might believe the MULTIPLE IRS agents that have quit the IRS, stopped paying taxes & went on national television about it explaining to the american citizens admiting that as soon as they discovered the truth that they took the actions they did. They have now joined 67 Million Americans that do not pay income tax.... but hey if you want to continue to be an ignorant sheep, that's your perogative.
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Here's the video backing up all my statements. Watch the whole thing, then judge for yourself.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-43127302
Adeptus.
Actually the 16th Amendment was never legal to start with. Most states never actually ratified it, and the ones that did had their senior government officials bribed. Think I'm kidding?
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Check this out:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-43127302