How can you do PhD work on software design principles if you haven't delved into all forms of programming for yourself and applied them to real world scenarios? Please don't tell me you are an academic writing some paper to then stay school-side and claim you are an expert. You should get a job, assuming you don't have one already, in the corporate jungle like the rest of us and do the research for yourself. A/. doctor, is this a first? How do you put that in your thesis and defend it? If you are an industry expert soliciting opinion only, then more power to you.
Yeah, considering the scope I think we are talking about different goals. I understand what you are getting at with the crew/actors. We are doing this just for fun and don't have grand execations. You make very valid points depending on scope and goals.
Years ago, my friends and I thought of buying an 8mm camera and some film and getting started on some of our ideas. Not so much for the purpose of 'breaking into the movie business' but more for fun. It was a full time job just planning and writing. The cost was prohibitive as our wives had(still have) most of our cash ear-marked for their pork spending projects. Now as I look at the cost of shooting a low budget film, a truly creative mind could sneak material out on the market for very little money compared to years ago. I am not considering casting outside of friends and shooting in areas that are permit crazy. Youtube is a great way to get material out there. Myspace is a tool that is great also. Computer editing has come a long way as well as processing power. I have seen some really great fan based sci-fi films out on the internet where the CGI was surprisingly good.
I agree, am artist like this is rare and his creativity and efforts will be missed. It has always impressed me that some special effects artists will spend days creating something that might only be seen for a flash on the screen. While watching a horror movie the other night, a head was chopped off and it only had a few frames of screen time. The efforts these artists put into their work is highly unappreciated.
Has anyone ever seen Logan's Run? I am just waiting for my little RFID 'crystal' to be implanted so that I may authenticate to the Big Brother system. This is just one more step in the erosion of our privacy. When Homeland Security and CDC folks determine that they need access to your google health records, how quickly they will institute health care reform disease prevention legislation to force you to do things with your body against your better judgment. "Your gov't and your health care provider have determined that you must conform to this medical procedure to ensure that you are not posing a risk to the financial and physiological wellness of the nation." "If you do not comply, your children will be taken by social services for not having risky vaccinations and you will be criminally charged."
I am in the exact same boat as I have been in IT for 15 years and have 4 kids under 10 years of age. If you think teaching your kids that money is the prime motivator in life and living for others' benefit is the right thing to do, you are creating monsters. That is what is wrong with the world today. People sacrifice themselves for money. I will not teach my kids that money is more important than the time I spend with them. I moved out of a pager crazy support role into testing to spend more time with my kids. I am now looking to move out of IT all together. I can't stand it when people think that latch-key kids are a sign of a good parent. Show them that they matter, spend time with them and teach them to follow what makes them happy.
Is this is such a priority to them because they like the fact that they get to collect, look through and save any child porn they find as evidence? Why would they want to sting identity theft when they can get their pedo-rocks off this way. Bunch of perverts? I bet they have daily reviews of content to 'train' their agents to recognize kiddie porn. Of course, that is just an idea.. not really what I believe. Don't arrest me please, I know 1st amendment rights are subject to FBI scrutiny.
Give me a few billion dollars and I would be happy to give my monthly interest to the poor unfortunates. If I push the crumbs from my table and the dog eats, does that make me a hero?
The reality is that I like my media whores fair and balanced. Reality is subjective... subject to the decisions I make as to what matters to me. Bill needs to realize that there are people in this world that are just waiting for the mothership to come back.
We are all doomed! Just watched a show about dodging asteroids. Now we are talking about sun shields. What is next? Armageddon 2, the vicious cycle.. coming soon to a theater near you! Alien invasion my arse! What self respecting alien race would not come down to this planet and look at us and say, "we really screwed up that one, $%^^&" I told you they couldn't function with only 2% !"
What is quality of life? Can someone define it for me please? I sure as hell can't seem to get a straight answer from anyone. Wait let me go start my F350 king cab and check country radio, maybe they know. Or, I will just ask Al Gore. He seems to know everything. I think I will leave W. alone, he has enough to worry about. Hey Joe America, Jane world ! Do you know what the secret to life is? What is happiness and should I feel guilty to feel it? Seriously, where are we as this human race to be so screwed up in such a short time. 100 years it took us to need sun shields. Maybe the ignorant college kids know, at least they have passion.
Now I know what the guy at the bus stop preaching from the camera manual and flinging doo doo at the passing cars is thinking. Screw it ! Now let's see if/. readers have any 'wise' comments about this one. Shouldn't you be working anyway, so you can consume shit and leave it on my doorstep? I know what you will say, " he is a ranting idiot", now use your +/-2% and convince me that you aren't some armchair jockey with all the answers. Maybe some college professor will open a book and quote something at me trying to be papa brain. God forbid the Christians start in on me with all that BS.
Ok, I worked for a newly formed IT support leg of a local contracting firm a few years ago. The general attitude was, "just get it done". We made some good headway with certain clients. While we were focusing on those clients, planning and prevention fell apart for the others. Small networks usually mean cheaper equipment, multipurpose servers that do way more than they should. Tight purse strings are a huge problem.
Moving from the small to medium sized organization is moving to a different universe. Spending 2 hours troubleshooting onsite desktop problems may be okay for the 3-10 client staff. A 200-user network will have constant issues. A 200-person network will get away from you quickly. You should have tiered support set up for these sized clients so that you focus your staff and keep them happy. Doing it all is a burn and at already 60-hour weeks, you are going to deal with burnout and performance issues that squash the romance of growing the business.
Either take on the 200 person networks and tier yourselves or just stick to the little guys. If you decide to take the mid sized clients, drop the small ones or your efforts will be counter-productive. Focus will protect your reputation, doing it all will ruin it over time with growth.
I fing myself working on so many different technologies each and every day. Windows, Unix, TSO/Mainframe, SQL, proprietary applications and the list goes on. I hope that the new people who are breaking into the tech field are suffering some sort of internship or part time job while attending university. If you are not, you will be sorry. My brother-in-law has an MIS degree with experience in making beer can pyramids in his Frat house's lobby. He is now a general laborer for a construction company trying to get a job in a market that looks at experience first. Having the people skills and the business sense is key also, but if you don't have the ammo in the tech realm, shmoozing skills and business process/project skills may push you elsewhere for a career until you can swing back.
So you mean that if you take a IP packet stream and analyze the headers you can reconstruct the communications??? When did this madness start? What kind of voodoo magic are they using up there?
If you do a little research as to where substantial energy is being focused over in China, you will see that they are adopting the aspects that make the USA strong. All the while, they are keeping their population from becoming influenced by western ideas as much as possible.
Why do you think they are trying to buy up some of our primary markets? China will be a force that we will fear in less than 20 years. Mark my words ! We will be at their mercy the way we are headed.
"We regret that someone was able to sneak viral code into Vista while it was in the lab and not connected to the outside world. Please bear with us while we figure out how to patch the patch that unpatched the vulnerability that we carried over from the previous version of Windows XP. Even though we rewrote the code entirely from scratch, we had to use legacy modules in order to meet deadlines. Now that those deadlines are moot, we will be rewriting it the way it should have been done to begin with, all the while, this virus is spawning sporadic BMPs of fecal matter on the desktop. We have a committee investigating whether or not we can use this as the new Windows Vista Mascot and charge extra for it."
I expect that you will have a private moment within yourself when studies show linkage between cancer and some of the preventive measures we blindly follow.
My mother and 2 of her brothers suffered from polio back in 1949. She has a weak underdeveloped leg due to the disease. She now suffers from post-polio syndrome. Could immunization have helped her, maybe, but it wasn't out at the time. I had a battery of immunizations when I was in the Army, now I am suffering from poor health, fatigue and symptoms of lymphoma. Are these issues a direct result of the shots? I don't know but I wouldn't be surprised.
To call someone an ignorant hick while hiding behind the Anonymous Coward flag is in itself, pitiful. Why don't you show some character and post your personal experience with disease and health issues. Anyone can spout rhetoric and call names while still being ignorant. Life and death is not a science to everyone. There are people that do not believe in playing god, whether you believe in that or not.
We have grown into a society that reacts on fear. Fear of losing our homes, cars, social status and health while sacrificing our souls every day. I was on the nuclear, biological and chemical warfare team in the Army. I have seen some really nasty stuff out there. None of it scares me worse than losing my character.
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How can you do PhD work on software design principles if you haven't delved into all forms of programming for yourself and applied them to real world scenarios? Please don't tell me you are an academic writing some paper to then stay school-side and claim you are an expert. You should get a job, assuming you don't have one already, in the corporate jungle like the rest of us and do the research for yourself. A /. doctor, is this a first? How do you put that in your thesis and defend it? If you are an industry expert soliciting opinion only, then more power to you.
Yeah, considering the scope I think we are talking about different goals. I understand what you are getting at with the crew/actors. We are doing this just for fun and don't have grand execations. You make very valid points depending on scope and goals.
Years ago, my friends and I thought of buying an 8mm camera and some film and getting started on some of our ideas. Not so much for the purpose of 'breaking into the movie business' but more for fun. It was a full time job just planning and writing. The cost was prohibitive as our wives had(still have) most of our cash ear-marked for their pork spending projects. Now as I look at the cost of shooting a low budget film, a truly creative mind could sneak material out on the market for very little money compared to years ago. I am not considering casting outside of friends and shooting in areas that are permit crazy. Youtube is a great way to get material out there. Myspace is a tool that is great also. Computer editing has come a long way as well as processing power. I have seen some really great fan based sci-fi films out on the internet where the CGI was surprisingly good.
I agree, am artist like this is rare and his creativity and efforts will be missed. It has always impressed me that some special effects artists will spend days creating something that might only be seen for a flash on the screen. While watching a horror movie the other night, a head was chopped off and it only had a few frames of screen time. The efforts these artists put into their work is highly unappreciated.
Unfortunately, you are correct. We need to rattle our chains !
Has anyone ever seen Logan's Run? I am just waiting for my little RFID 'crystal' to be implanted so that I may authenticate to the Big Brother system. This is just one more step in the erosion of our privacy. When Homeland Security and CDC folks determine that they need access to your google health records, how quickly they will institute health care reform disease prevention legislation to force you to do things with your body against your better judgment. "Your gov't and your health care provider have determined that you must conform to this medical procedure to ensure that you are not posing a risk to the financial and physiological wellness of the nation." "If you do not comply, your children will be taken by social services for not having risky vaccinations and you will be criminally charged."
One knows that the big red button makes big boom boom! The other knows how to read Internet Polls. Guess which one is which.
Do you actually hire people? I feel sorry for those who work for you.
All you guys need to get laid.
I am in the exact same boat as I have been in IT for 15 years and have 4 kids under 10 years of age. If you think teaching your kids that money is the prime motivator in life and living for others' benefit is the right thing to do, you are creating monsters. That is what is wrong with the world today. People sacrifice themselves for money. I will not teach my kids that money is more important than the time I spend with them. I moved out of a pager crazy support role into testing to spend more time with my kids. I am now looking to move out of IT all together. I can't stand it when people think that latch-key kids are a sign of a good parent. Show them that they matter, spend time with them and teach them to follow what makes them happy.
Is this is such a priority to them because they like the fact that they get to collect, look through and save any child porn they find as evidence? Why would they want to sting identity theft when they can get their pedo-rocks off this way. Bunch of perverts? I bet they have daily reviews of content to 'train' their agents to recognize kiddie porn. Of course, that is just an idea.. not really what I believe. Don't arrest me please, I know 1st amendment rights are subject to FBI scrutiny.
Give me a few billion dollars and I would be happy to give my monthly interest to the poor unfortunates. If I push the crumbs from my table and the dog eats, does that make me a hero?
The reality is that I like my media whores fair and balanced. Reality is subjective... subject to the decisions I make as to what matters to me. Bill needs to realize that there are people in this world that are just waiting for the mothership to come back.
We are all doomed! Just watched a show about dodging asteroids. Now we are talking about sun shields. What is next? Armageddon 2, the vicious cycle.. coming soon to a theater near you! Alien invasion my arse! What self respecting alien race would not come down to this planet and look at us and say, "we really screwed up that one, $%^^&" I told you they couldn't function with only 2% !"
/. readers have any 'wise' comments about this one. Shouldn't you be working anyway, so you can consume shit and leave it on my doorstep? I know what you will say, " he is a ranting idiot", now use your +/-2% and convince me that you aren't some armchair jockey with all the answers. Maybe some college professor will open a book and quote something at me trying to be papa brain. God forbid the Christians start in on me with all that BS.
What is quality of life? Can someone define it for me please? I sure as hell can't seem to get a straight answer from anyone. Wait let me go start my F350 king cab and check country radio, maybe they know. Or, I will just ask Al Gore. He seems to know everything. I think I will leave W. alone, he has enough to worry about. Hey Joe America, Jane world ! Do you know what the secret to life is? What is happiness and should I feel guilty to feel it? Seriously, where are we as this human race to be so screwed up in such a short time. 100 years it took us to need sun shields. Maybe the ignorant college kids know, at least they have passion.
Now I know what the guy at the bus stop preaching from the camera manual and flinging doo doo at the passing cars is thinking. Screw it ! Now let's see if
Moving from the small to medium sized organization is moving to a different universe. Spending 2 hours troubleshooting onsite desktop problems may be okay for the 3-10 client staff. A 200-user network will have constant issues. A 200-person network will get away from you quickly. You should have tiered support set up for these sized clients so that you focus your staff and keep them happy. Doing it all is a burn and at already 60-hour weeks, you are going to deal with burnout and performance issues that squash the romance of growing the business.
Either take on the 200 person networks and tier yourselves or just stick to the little guys. If you decide to take the mid sized clients, drop the small ones or your efforts will be counter-productive. Focus will protect your reputation, doing it all will ruin it over time with growth.
You have a point there. Maybe that is why my back has been aching lately.
I fing myself working on so many different technologies each and every day. Windows, Unix, TSO/Mainframe, SQL, proprietary applications and the list goes on. I hope that the new people who are breaking into the tech field are suffering some sort of internship or part time job while attending university. If you are not, you will be sorry. My brother-in-law has an MIS degree with experience in making beer can pyramids in his Frat house's lobby. He is now a general laborer for a construction company trying to get a job in a market that looks at experience first. Having the people skills and the business sense is key also, but if you don't have the ammo in the tech realm, shmoozing skills and business process/project skills may push you elsewhere for a career until you can swing back.
Never knew that...
Can you imagine these at the airport?
So you mean that if you take a IP packet stream and analyze the headers you can reconstruct the communications??? When did this madness start? What kind of voodoo magic are they using up there?
Why do you think they are trying to buy up some of our primary markets? China will be a force that we will fear in less than 20 years. Mark my words ! We will be at their mercy the way we are headed.
"We regret that someone was able to sneak viral code into Vista while it was in the lab and not connected to the outside world. Please bear with us while we figure out how to patch the patch that unpatched the vulnerability that we carried over from the previous version of Windows XP. Even though we rewrote the code entirely from scratch, we had to use legacy modules in order to meet deadlines. Now that those deadlines are moot, we will be rewriting it the way it should have been done to begin with, all the while, this virus is spawning sporadic BMPs of fecal matter on the desktop. We have a committee investigating whether or not we can use this as the new Windows Vista Mascot and charge extra for it."
My packets have spoof all over them ! Anyone have a tissue?
I expect that you will have a private moment within yourself when studies show linkage between cancer and some of the preventive measures we blindly follow. My mother and 2 of her brothers suffered from polio back in 1949. She has a weak underdeveloped leg due to the disease. She now suffers from post-polio syndrome. Could immunization have helped her, maybe, but it wasn't out at the time. I had a battery of immunizations when I was in the Army, now I am suffering from poor health, fatigue and symptoms of lymphoma. Are these issues a direct result of the shots? I don't know but I wouldn't be surprised. To call someone an ignorant hick while hiding behind the Anonymous Coward flag is in itself, pitiful. Why don't you show some character and post your personal experience with disease and health issues. Anyone can spout rhetoric and call names while still being ignorant. Life and death is not a science to everyone. There are people that do not believe in playing god, whether you believe in that or not. We have grown into a society that reacts on fear. Fear of losing our homes, cars, social status and health while sacrificing our souls every day. I was on the nuclear, biological and chemical warfare team in the Army. I have seen some really nasty stuff out there. None of it scares me worse than losing my character.
Does that mean the actually selling of the soul or just the removal of it?