(All of this, and 1000 more things, are summed up by vendors with this magic word, "scalable"):
I help admin a national network and you're right, it's often hard to know how well a product is going to perform until after the fact. Testing only goes so far, but of all the concerns I've dealt with these are the three I try to stick to.
I'm in my mid 30s and have a masters degree. What I studied in both my undergrad and graduate work I am not currently doing. Currently, I work in the IT field and am successful in it.
The most important thing is to get your degree. Even if it's in cornflakes, get the degree. After that, I have found that people skills are the most important aspect. Learning how to survive, and then thrive, in the corporate world takes a lot more than they ever teach you in school.
Some of the best stuff I ever learned about success in a corporate career came from people who actually worked in it and had years of experience. Not a single professor relayed any such information.
Now, focusing in an area and then actually carrying that into the work force is keen, and I commend anyone for that, but simply getting an education, period, and then learning how to "survive on the street" in the work place are the first two priorities IMHO....
What's next? Plant your PC/Mac and watch a house grow?
How nutty. That's like, using old RAM boards as keychains or something. Stop with this nonsense....
___ "We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993"
Microsoft (27 Jul 1998, filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)
I'll go even further -- again, off the top of my head and with nothing up my sleeves folks -- and describe each, original, name:
Olorin=wise one -- as in an advisor, counselor, seer. Gandalf was meant to be a unifying counselor which he indeed was. He was the only one of the 5 Istari to complete his mission. All others failed.
Curumo=Saruman=craft, builder -- Saruman was meant to engineer for war. As Gandalf pulled the forces of good from all parts of middle earth together, Saruman was to help them build for war, but, alas, he failed and instead built a splendid army for Sauron.
Eiwendel=I think this means "bird lover," but I argued in depth that it could be translated "lover of the holy maiden." He was never intended to go, and was pushed onto the effort by, um, forget her name -- anyhow, the Valar lady who really loved the little animals. As Saruman said of him, "that bird tamer" or whatever....
Palando=K, these two Istari are the blue wizards of course, and most information on them is outside LOTR. One's name means, "far wanderer" and the other is "one who enlightens." That is, they were meant to go to those dark regions in the south, etc., and educate the peoples there as to the plight of middle earth. I do believe Palando means "far wanderer" and Alatar is "bringer of light" or "enlightens" or something. Again, they would bring the forces that Sauran ended up getting instead because these two Istari, wizards, failed. Tolkien suggests that they failed along the lines of Saruman and sought power for themselves. We do not know their M.E. names....
Alatar= See above.
The wizards, of course, were Istari and were Maiar, or, "the people of the valar." They each served a Valar. Of course, in UT Christopher reveals Tolkien's suggestion that Gandalf was indeed Eru himself come to reclaim the world personally and not put it again through the tragedy of the earlier ages....
Tada! No sources sought, but maybe I should have. Just from readings I've done over the years and before a movie made the professor's work legit.
If I mispelled any of the names, then fuck you:) I got enough friends....
Are reenactments of historical events disrespectful to those involved?
At some point something should offend us. The JFK assassination is recent history with an immediate family still alive and affected, emotionally, by the event and by anything such as a video game reproducing it. I am sure that the family doesn't sit and watch every valid, academic, history channel piece on the murder of their brother/uncle/etc. and those documentaries have far more validity.
Video games notoriously draw arena crowds: looking for blood, violence, sex -- disconnected and over-indulgenced content defines them best. An explanation of this thing being for historical and educational purposes is trite and pretentious at best.
HOWEVER, once I found out it was faked, I was extremely upset. The original impact of the story was immediately gone, and I felt like I was cheated out of those emotions of awe and wonder. There's no way I'm going to go out on a limb again and trust anything that woman says.
"Today Microsoft warned several Asian countries that using Linux could subject them to lawsuits, claiming that Linux violates '228 patents'. Apparently, Steve Ballmer believes he can enforce U.S. law in Asia."
"In a related story, Ballmer is suing Sony for allegedly producing an inferior product, Dance Dance Revolution, which he claims cannot stand up to 'real dancing.' Ballmer has reportedly broken 10 of the devices made for the PS2 doing, as he calls it, 'muh jiggy wifit foot stompin' moves....'"
"In yet another unrelated story, neighbors of Steve Ballmer are suing him for scaring their children with, as they explain it, 'producing high-pitched, glass-shattering, woman squeals.' Ballmer denied the allegations claiming that such noises are natural when 'getting jiggy wifit....'"
"I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft." --George W. Bush
The problem with Linux has always been too many cooks doing their own thing. It confuses the heck out of PHBs. Any move -- ANY -- toward standarization is only going to assist in its growth....
Actually, I was just thinking that: as they once called the Ottoman Empire a prison of nations, they should call AOL a cemetary of independent software projects.
You hear people say, "only on slashdot" and a negative shpill follows, but in this case, I've learned a phrase regarding history and it is much appreciated. The Ottoman Empire as a "prison of nations" brings depth to the thoughts I have on that period, so....
Only on slashdot do you read a thread about Winamp to learn a bit more about history....
90% of what you fear never happens. The 10% that does isn't as bad as it was originally thought to be.
This is Carnegie and Peale formula. Don't sweat it. Chances are the way things are is the way they are going to remain. I highly doubt that the figures are that far off and that Bush didn't actually win either the popular or electoral vote. Anything could happen in a universe of endless possibilities, but life tells us, usually, this isn't the case....
That's what they think, but then that laser thing that shoots ever few seconds down that tube thing you gotta later run down messes up I think, cuz the room changes color, and you then you get to the other side and see this blue stuff being pumped into this lever gizmo that will smash you so you gotta time your sprint past it, but then these mobs appeared just after I got the health (duh) and I was like "well shit oom"... I mean, "well shit outta ammo," so I ran back and the lever thing smashed me and I died....
Slashdot Mirror
1. Rollout.
2. Administration.
3. Upgradeability.
(All of this, and 1000 more things, are summed up by vendors with this magic word, "scalable"):
I help admin a national network and you're right, it's often hard to know how well a product is going to perform until after the fact. Testing only goes so far, but of all the concerns I've dealt with these are the three I try to stick to.
I'm in my mid 30s and have a masters degree. What I studied in both my undergrad and graduate work I am not currently doing. Currently, I work in the IT field and am successful in it.
The most important thing is to get your degree. Even if it's in cornflakes, get the degree. After that, I have found that people skills are the most important aspect. Learning how to survive, and then thrive, in the corporate world takes a lot more than they ever teach you in school.
Some of the best stuff I ever learned about success in a corporate career came from people who actually worked in it and had years of experience. Not a single professor relayed any such information.
Now, focusing in an area and then actually carrying that into the work force is keen, and I commend anyone for that, but simply getting an education, period, and then learning how to "survive on the street" in the work place are the first two priorities IMHO....
What's next? Plant your PC/Mac and watch a house grow?
How nutty. That's like, using old RAM boards as keychains or something. Stop with this nonsense....
___
"We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993" Microsoft (27 Jul 1998, filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)
And Pro-Am programmers also produce the rest of the stuff on the web that's not porn....
What kind of LOTR geek are you anyway?
:) I got enough friends....
I don't know what kind he is, but I think I'm one. Let's see. Here it is, off the top of my head, the original names of each of the Istari:
Olorin=Gandalf
Curumo=Saruman
Eiwendel=Radagast
Palando=N/A
Alatar=N/A
I'll go even further -- again, off the top of my head and with nothing up my sleeves folks -- and describe each, original, name:
Olorin=wise one -- as in an advisor, counselor, seer. Gandalf was meant to be a unifying counselor which he indeed was. He was the only one of the 5 Istari to complete his mission. All others failed.
Curumo=Saruman=craft, builder -- Saruman was meant to engineer for war. As Gandalf pulled the forces of good from all parts of middle earth together, Saruman was to help them build for war, but, alas, he failed and instead built a splendid army for Sauron.
Eiwendel=I think this means "bird lover," but I argued in depth that it could be translated "lover of the holy maiden." He was never intended to go, and was pushed onto the effort by, um, forget her name -- anyhow, the Valar lady who really loved the little animals. As Saruman said of him, "that bird tamer" or whatever....
Palando=K, these two Istari are the blue wizards of course, and most information on them is outside LOTR. One's name means, "far wanderer" and the other is "one who enlightens." That is, they were meant to go to those dark regions in the south, etc., and educate the peoples there as to the plight of middle earth. I do believe Palando means "far wanderer" and Alatar is "bringer of light" or "enlightens" or something. Again, they would bring the forces that Sauran ended up getting instead because these two Istari, wizards, failed. Tolkien suggests that they failed along the lines of Saruman and sought power for themselves. We do not know their M.E. names....
Alatar= See above.
The wizards, of course, were Istari and were Maiar, or, "the people of the valar." They each served a Valar. Of course, in UT Christopher reveals Tolkien's suggestion that Gandalf was indeed Eru himself come to reclaim the world personally and not put it again through the tragedy of the earlier ages....
Tada! No sources sought, but maybe I should have. Just from readings I've done over the years and before a movie made the professor's work legit.
If I mispelled any of the names, then fuck you
Best read using Christopher Lloyd's voice from Back to The Future, e.g.:
"101 jigowatts per second!!!" --Professor Emmett Brown
At least it didn't say, "all your code...."
A Xerox researcher says that the number-embedding chip lies 'way in the machine, right near the laser...'
...just past this little doohicky, but to the right of the thingamuhwhachit, but if you get as far as the whatchamacallit you've passed it....
Darn engineers and their technical mumbo-jumbo....
Are reenactments of historical events disrespectful to those involved?
At some point something should offend us. The JFK assassination is recent history with an immediate family still alive and affected, emotionally, by the event and by anything such as a video game reproducing it. I am sure that the family doesn't sit and watch every valid, academic, history channel piece on the murder of their brother/uncle/etc. and those documentaries have far more validity.
Video games notoriously draw arena crowds: looking for blood, violence, sex -- disconnected and over-indulgenced content defines them best. An explanation of this thing being for historical and educational purposes is trite and pretentious at best.
Ted Kennedy Forever....
Well, wait, that bastard really is forever....
HOWEVER, once I found out it was faked, I was extremely upset. The original impact of the story was immediately gone, and I felt like I was cheated out of those emotions of awe and wonder. There's no way I'm going to go out on a limb again and trust anything that woman says.
So you've gone through divorce too eh?...
Actually there really is stuff just lying around all over the place in Europe....
I always felt like all the history I took in College could be summed up with such a sentence. My god gump! You're a genius!...
The good news is that its not only the USA administration that lies.
oh brother....
The other is, never do a movie when Vicini is a manager over insurance agents!!! Hahahahahah!!! *gasp* /dead
"Today Microsoft warned several Asian countries that using Linux could subject them to lawsuits, claiming that Linux violates '228 patents'. Apparently, Steve Ballmer believes he can enforce U.S. law in Asia."
"In a related story, Ballmer is suing Sony for allegedly producing an inferior product, Dance Dance Revolution, which he claims cannot stand up to 'real dancing.' Ballmer has reportedly broken 10 of the devices made for the PS2 doing, as he calls it, 'muh jiggy wifit foot stompin' moves....'"
"In yet another unrelated story, neighbors of Steve Ballmer are suing him for scaring their children with, as they explain it, 'producing high-pitched, glass-shattering, woman squeals.' Ballmer denied the allegations claiming that such noises are natural when 'getting jiggy wifit....'"
"I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft." --George W. Bush
The problem with Linux has always been too many cooks doing their own thing. It confuses the heck out of PHBs. Any move -- ANY -- toward standarization is only going to assist in its growth....
it's the journey not the destination
My brain first read that as:
it's the journey not the destruction
Which made more sense for that split second....
I am not an aeronautical engineer or even much of a space buff by /. standards....
But you did sleep at a holiday inn express?...
Actually, I was just thinking that: as they once called the Ottoman Empire a prison of nations, they should call AOL a cemetary of independent software projects.
You hear people say, "only on slashdot" and a negative shpill follows, but in this case, I've learned a phrase regarding history and it is much appreciated. The Ottoman Empire as a "prison of nations" brings depth to the thoughts I have on that period, so....
Only on slashdot do you read a thread about Winamp to learn a bit more about history....
The real question is if the anomolies....
a ly
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=anom
Has anyone spelled anomaly right in this entire thread?....
Too many words hurts Hulk's head! Hulk hates words! Hulk smash! HULK SMASH!!!
*Bing!* Your vote for Ralph Nader has been recorded....
Ok, I was buying your shpill until you said you were married. Only an idiot does that....
Shit. I need mod points. Damn good job....
90% of what you fear never happens. The 10% that does isn't as bad as it was originally thought to be.
This is Carnegie and Peale formula. Don't sweat it. Chances are the way things are is the way they are going to remain. I highly doubt that the figures are that far off and that Bush didn't actually win either the popular or electoral vote. Anything could happen in a universe of endless possibilities, but life tells us, usually, this isn't the case....
have even solved the graphite ablation problem!
... I mean, "well shit outta ammo," so I ran back and the lever thing smashed me and I died....
That's what they think, but then that laser thing that shoots ever few seconds down that tube thing you gotta later run down messes up I think, cuz the room changes color, and you then you get to the other side and see this blue stuff being pumped into this lever gizmo that will smash you so you gotta time your sprint past it, but then these mobs appeared just after I got the health (duh) and I was like "well shit oom"