Honestly, I don't know what the "truth" is regarding the absolute makeup of our universe. No one does. There are countless papers on the subject. I'm simply saying that perhaps you should keep an open mind, that's all.
Which is why America is hemorrhaging wealth. Tickle-up and tickle-down policies won't do squat when we're facing a trickle-out of opportunity to other nations.
So? Just because it's the smallest we can measure doesn't mean that it's the smallest there is.
You're assuming for a moment that there is even a natural "unit" of time yet to be discovered as though the universe's space and time are made up of some natural resolution that can be calculated. I'm simply stating that it's perhaps infinite in the true sense of the word.
And you base this extraordinary claim on what evidence? The universe is grainy
The universe is what you make of it. Is that what your telling me? Let me flip the question back at you. By what extraordinary claim and on what evidence is the universe "grainy" (granular of a finite calculation)?
You know. Some say the Big Bang happened. Some say it not only happened, but in fact is continuing. Time just dilates the passage of time the closer to the present you observe from.
True, but NotQuiteReal's comment was quite salient. Irregardless of who had the better bow and arrow, all it takes is for a nation of guns to render the debate moot. We can play "what ifs" all night long. But his point was correct. Once you have a weapon that renders you invincible, nothing else matters in the grand scheme of things.
The smallest amount of time that can be measured is a Planck unit. And with regards to energy and mass, there may not be any limitation as to how small each unit can be. In fact, the resolution may be as infinite as calculating out Pi. So most assuredly, any "unit" that makes up the universe is purely a concept invented by man. Sorry, but I'm afraid it's turtles all the way down.
I live in Texas by choice. A right to work state. I don't believe in the Union system, but it's also none of my business if you wish to join one.
Here's the real problem we (American's) face. We are simply too overvalued compared to the rest of the world. It's an entitlement mentality that must be expunged from our minds. What do you think will happen if every American works for a Union starting tomorrow? Every fucking job that can be outsourced will be outsourced the day after. At least far faster that it is now.
My advice. You want job stabiliy with livable wages? Pick up a profession that works only at the local level. Plumbers, mechanics, Doctors are all good examples to start. Don't get involved in software development or anything that can literally be outsourced at the speed of light.
Just so I'm understanding this correctly. The actual act observing is what triggers final observational results. Correct? That is to say, the results are always there regardless of whether or not you decide to observe?
I'm not sure how much of the following is true. Rumor had it that from the mid-90s on back, the NSA and FBI would monitor a random selection of local telco phone calls (analog POT line for the younger readers). The purpose was seek out certain key words by computer and then flag the call for further review by an agent eavesdropping on it. They say if you heard a "click" after speaking one of these key words or phrases, someone just tapped into your line due to the change in voltage caused by this.
A meeting once a week where I work. Lasts anywhere from an hour to an hour and half. For what we do, I'd say that's optimal. I guess I fall in the lucky few group.
Depend on how much free time he had. Money opens up that opportunity. It could also be that he's just an active guy that lives for the weekends and is a workaholic during the week.
China doesn't want a unified Korea for several reasons.
1. China wants a pit bull keeping the US and allies from getting too close to its border. 2. The fall of N. Korea would mean potentially millions of refugees flooding into China. 3. China is no longer in the position to play in role of Good-Cop Bad-Cop. Geopolitically, it makes them look bad to not have a neighbor that's far worse.
The fall of the N. Korea regime wouldn't be the end of the world. I doubt China would put up too much of a stink about it. But if given the option, China would rather have N. Korea to stick around a bit longer.
When I became of age, my first part time job was working at Kroger as a sacker. Being the naive teenager that I was, I let myself get duped into signing for the union. The signup meeting among all employees was full of "rah rah rah", you'll never get fired because we will be there for you. Come first few paychecks, I noticed a substantial amount detected to pay for the union dues. As a teen looking for spare income from a suck-ass job, I was pissed.
As for the folks who are full time employees in the Kroger union. Well... Let's just say they're mentally disadvantaged. I'm not talking down on them. I'm simply stating that I did not belong with that group of people if I wished to further my life's goals. God bless them.
Don't let an MCSE lower your expectations. You're focusing on the experience of break/fix. An MCSE is about planning and implementation along with -proper- use of MS products. It's more about deployment and proactive planning of feature sets and their implementation. You can't just hire someone that has a firm grasp of "Google fu" and expect them to meet proper goals with the intended use of a Microsoft product on the fly as though it was a break/fix issue. If you think otherwise, I dare you to roll out a proper enterprise Exchange environment (one that will scale with cost and not box you in a corner) or some other MS clustered solution without proper product knowledge beforehand.
Simply put, you would never hire a software developer or break/fix technician to roll out a MS enterprise solution for a Fortune 500 company. You want employees or entire teams to have the necessary MS certification to take on a more wholistic view with the knowledge of reasonable product expectations.
So, would you really consider the MCSE certification worth paying for out of your own pocket, and also worth your own private time to sit for the tests?
Depends on the job and its level. For entry-level positions and tier 2 support, an MCP will get you far in the hiring process. Both Dell and TimeWarner's TSR departments highly value MS certs from a support standpoint. If your job in IT deals with specialized vertical market applications and development or pure academic CS theory, probably not. YMMV. Whether you're looking for your first job out of college, or someone older looking for a complete career change, you need to start somewhere. Obtaining certification in any product is a good place to start.
In my case, I work for a MSP (Managed Service Provider). It's a fancy way of saying that we provide outsourced IT support for small to medium businesses. Anyways, to maintain our Microsoft partnership that includes all sorts of marketing and resale benefits, employees need certification to score the required points MS is asking of our company. They've raised the bar considerably last year as though they're purposefully trying to squeeze out small MSP based companies and focus purely on the home office and enterprise markets exclusively. I doubt their SBS server linage will be around much longer, instead they're focusing SMBs on Office 365. Currently both products are marketed as complementary to each other.
BTW, the company not only pays for the tests, but I also get a salary increase for each cert earned.
Correct. But the same could be said of any other certification too.
Let's be frank about it. Certifications don't replace experience on a resume' despite what they may have you believe. If anything, it's the other way around. Certifications are obtained to augment someone with existing product experience. In my view, they're a resume' enhancement when combined with experience. Clueless HR people want them. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Microsoft certifications are about proof of concept and best practices along with familiarity of the product in question. That's it. It does not teach best business practices or optimization. It also doesn't teach advanced troubleshooting beyond looking up event logs and searching KB articles.
You took the test. There was nothing deceptive about them that should have astounded you. Perhaps your false expectations were raised too high? Not to be snarky here, but seriously. How does Microsoft differ from any other company's product certification in this regard?
Simply put, WiFi airspace is severely crowded. ISPs practically give away WiFi routers for free (Uverse and those damn 2Wire units). My guess is that a WiFi admin's purpose is to scope deployment and ensure a good SNR level for proper coverage without blowing the budget. Also to troubleshoot and isolate interference. Poor SOB. That's got to be a frustrating job.
To the Feds, it's not about priorities. It's about taking action to justify their department and funding necessary to maintain the status quo (and then some). It's precisely why the go after the low hanging fruit first and foremost.
I suppose you could say their priorities are self-serving. Screw dealing with violent offenders and crime. That just too dangerous and politically incorrect.
Exactly. No, the additional tax revenue will go to some generic slush fund anyways. It's just another way to raise government funding via pulling of the heart strings and playing the sympathy violin. Only the suckers will demand an encore. Yet, another swell idea by your elected officials at work.
I was driving home on a major interstate at 4am when a fat-n-juicy spider decided to repel down my rear view mirror. Freaked me the hell out! Jerking the steering wheel only made matters worse when it caused the spider to sway back and fourth. I eventually lost track of it and was nervous driving the rest of the way home. Never can tell when or where it will make its next grand apperience.
Wha! Say it ain't so! We are....we are....we're LIFE GIVERS to the planet. SUVs are the savior's instruments of choice. How the fuck do you like them apples eh?! I just love irony when it tastes so delicious!
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Honestly, I don't know what the "truth" is regarding the absolute makeup of our universe. No one does. There are countless papers on the subject. I'm simply saying that perhaps you should keep an open mind, that's all.
Which is why America is hemorrhaging wealth. Tickle-up and tickle-down policies won't do squat when we're facing a trickle-out of opportunity to other nations.
You're assuming for a moment that there is even a natural "unit" of time yet to be discovered as though the universe's space and time are made up of some natural resolution that can be calculated. I'm simply stating that it's perhaps infinite in the true sense of the word.
The universe is what you make of it. Is that what your telling me? Let me flip the question back at you. By what extraordinary claim and on what evidence is the universe "grainy" (granular of a finite calculation)?
You know. Some say the Big Bang happened. Some say it not only happened, but in fact is continuing. Time just dilates the passage of time the closer to the present you observe from.
True, but NotQuiteReal's comment was quite salient. Irregardless of who had the better bow and arrow, all it takes is for a nation of guns to render the debate moot. We can play "what ifs" all night long. But his point was correct. Once you have a weapon that renders you invincible, nothing else matters in the grand scheme of things.
The smallest amount of time that can be measured is a Planck unit. And with regards to energy and mass, there may not be any limitation as to how small each unit can be. In fact, the resolution may be as infinite as calculating out Pi. So most assuredly, any "unit" that makes up the universe is purely a concept invented by man. Sorry, but I'm afraid it's turtles all the way down.
I live in Texas by choice. A right to work state. I don't believe in the Union system, but it's also none of my business if you wish to join one.
Here's the real problem we (American's) face. We are simply too overvalued compared to the rest of the world. It's an entitlement mentality that must be expunged from our minds. What do you think will happen if every American works for a Union starting tomorrow? Every fucking job that can be outsourced will be outsourced the day after. At least far faster that it is now.
My advice. You want job stabiliy with livable wages? Pick up a profession that works only at the local level. Plumbers, mechanics, Doctors are all good examples to start. Don't get involved in software development or anything that can literally be outsourced at the speed of light.
Just so I'm understanding this correctly. The actual act observing is what triggers final observational results. Correct? That is to say, the results are always there regardless of whether or not you decide to observe?
I'm not sure how much of the following is true. Rumor had it that from the mid-90s on back, the NSA and FBI would monitor a random selection of local telco phone calls (analog POT line for the younger readers). The purpose was seek out certain key words by computer and then flag the call for further review by an agent eavesdropping on it. They say if you heard a "click" after speaking one of these key words or phrases, someone just tapped into your line due to the change in voltage caused by this.
A meeting once a week where I work. Lasts anywhere from an hour to an hour and half. For what we do, I'd say that's optimal. I guess I fall in the lucky few group.
Depend on how much free time he had. Money opens up that opportunity. It could also be that he's just an active guy that lives for the weekends and is a workaholic during the week.
China doesn't want a unified Korea for several reasons.
1. China wants a pit bull keeping the US and allies from getting too close to its border.
2. The fall of N. Korea would mean potentially millions of refugees flooding into China.
3. China is no longer in the position to play in role of Good-Cop Bad-Cop. Geopolitically, it makes them look bad to not have a neighbor that's far worse.
The fall of the N. Korea regime wouldn't be the end of the world. I doubt China would put up too much of a stink about it. But if given the option, China would rather have N. Korea to stick around a bit longer.
When I became of age, my first part time job was working at Kroger as a sacker. Being the naive teenager that I was, I let myself get duped into signing for the union. The signup meeting among all employees was full of "rah rah rah", you'll never get fired because we will be there for you. Come first few paychecks, I noticed a substantial amount detected to pay for the union dues. As a teen looking for spare income from a suck-ass job, I was pissed.
As for the folks who are full time employees in the Kroger union. Well... Let's just say they're mentally disadvantaged. I'm not talking down on them. I'm simply stating that I did not belong with that group of people if I wished to further my life's goals. God bless them.
Don't let an MCSE lower your expectations. You're focusing on the experience of break/fix. An MCSE is about planning and implementation along with -proper- use of MS products. It's more about deployment and proactive planning of feature sets and their implementation. You can't just hire someone that has a firm grasp of "Google fu" and expect them to meet proper goals with the intended use of a Microsoft product on the fly as though it was a break/fix issue. If you think otherwise, I dare you to roll out a proper enterprise Exchange environment (one that will scale with cost and not box you in a corner) or some other MS clustered solution without proper product knowledge beforehand.
Simply put, you would never hire a software developer or break/fix technician to roll out a MS enterprise solution for a Fortune 500 company. You want employees or entire teams to have the necessary MS certification to take on a more wholistic view with the knowledge of reasonable product expectations.
Depends on the job and its level. For entry-level positions and tier 2 support, an MCP will get you far in the hiring process. Both Dell and TimeWarner's TSR departments highly value MS certs from a support standpoint. If your job in IT deals with specialized vertical market applications and development or pure academic CS theory, probably not. YMMV. Whether you're looking for your first job out of college, or someone older looking for a complete career change, you need to start somewhere. Obtaining certification in any product is a good place to start.
In my case, I work for a MSP (Managed Service Provider). It's a fancy way of saying that we provide outsourced IT support for small to medium businesses. Anyways, to maintain our Microsoft partnership that includes all sorts of marketing and resale benefits, employees need certification to score the required points MS is asking of our company. They've raised the bar considerably last year as though they're purposefully trying to squeeze out small MSP based companies and focus purely on the home office and enterprise markets exclusively. I doubt their SBS server linage will be around much longer, instead they're focusing SMBs on Office 365. Currently both products are marketed as complementary to each other.
BTW, the company not only pays for the tests, but I also get a salary increase for each cert earned.
Correct. But the same could be said of any other certification too.
Let's be frank about it. Certifications don't replace experience on a resume' despite what they may have you believe. If anything, it's the other way around. Certifications are obtained to augment someone with existing product experience. In my view, they're a resume' enhancement when combined with experience. Clueless HR people want them. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Hi. MCITP, MCSE, and MCDST here.
Microsoft certifications are about proof of concept and best practices along with familiarity of the product in question. That's it. It does not teach best business practices or optimization. It also doesn't teach advanced troubleshooting beyond looking up event logs and searching KB articles.
You took the test. There was nothing deceptive about them that should have astounded you. Perhaps your false expectations were raised too high? Not to be snarky here, but seriously. How does Microsoft differ from any other company's product certification in this regard?
Simply put, WiFi airspace is severely crowded. ISPs practically give away WiFi routers for free (Uverse and those damn 2Wire units). My guess is that a WiFi admin's purpose is to scope deployment and ensure a good SNR level for proper coverage without blowing the budget. Also to troubleshoot and isolate interference. Poor SOB. That's got to be a frustrating job.
To the Feds, it's not about priorities. It's about taking action to justify their department and funding necessary to maintain the status quo (and then some). It's precisely why the go after the low hanging fruit first and foremost.
I suppose you could say their priorities are self-serving. Screw dealing with violent offenders and crime. That just too dangerous and politically incorrect.
Exactly. No, the additional tax revenue will go to some generic slush fund anyways. It's just another way to raise government funding via pulling of the heart strings and playing the sympathy violin. Only the suckers will demand an encore. Yet, another swell idea by your elected officials at work.
I was driving home on a major interstate at 4am when a fat-n-juicy spider decided to repel down my rear view mirror. Freaked me the hell out! Jerking the steering wheel only made matters worse when it caused the spider to sway back and fourth. I eventually lost track of it and was nervous driving the rest of the way home. Never can tell when or where it will make its next grand apperience.
Na, it's as legal as a sting operation.
Circling cars? Where I'm from, we call em land sharks.
You make it sound like rock climbing as though you are constantly adjusting your safety harness while ascending.
Wha! Say it ain't so! We are....we are....we're LIFE GIVERS to the planet. SUVs are the savior's instruments of choice. How the fuck do you like them apples eh?! I just love irony when it tastes so delicious!