Outsourcing has a lot of associated problems, isn't universally applicable. If you want to churn a lot of mediocre code in a cubicle farm, then go for it - but if you are part of something small and creative, with higher ratio of thinking/coding, you have to either keep the operations "onshore" or get bogged down in communication delays and other outsourcing-related overheads.
I saw a beautiful quote somewhere: "Without in-house knowledge you get outhouse results."
Optimal situation is when you have a trustful manager just above yourself who listens to you, explains his/her decisions, and shields you from the management bullshit so you can stick with the technical work.
Unfortunately, those higher ability students do not have teaching certificates.
I thought teaching certificates aren't necessary for actual teaching (not talking about the version usually being committed by most lower-to-middle and some higher education institutions).
Screw the certificates. You can do a lot of great work even without the "bumazhka".
Bottom of the ladder? If it means being able to avoid management stuff for the price of sticking with technical work you like, the "bottom" suddenly doesn't look bad. Unless you happen to get pointy-haired management, which means it's time to move on.
You can build a decent self-esteem in "geeky" areas as well. Do research, publish, publish, publish. Do programming, publish. Every time you are quoted in others' work you can feel better. Besides, it's pretty useful for the career building.
When you have enough of good luck and get the right people, team work is a breeze. Smart people are good for R&D kind of work, where expert discussions are necessary. Less smart but docile people are optimal for tasks with a menial component; lab work is a good example - they then wash the glass and write down what you dictate and draw the graphs, and are happy you do what's the "hard work" from their point and that your part ensures good grades for the whole team.
Until recently, I thought I am bad in team work. Turned out I just didn't get the right team before.
If it is OK to pick on others, why it is not OK to lash out back? Why are the "school killers" demonized, while the real pains-in-the-asses
can continue without even a light slap on their wrists?
You are right there are whole industries built around what is fashionable. Maybe you are even aware they employ armies of top-grade specialists who attempt to design the meaning of "cool", so you - the parent - have to shell out some more bucks just to not let your kid getting ostracized because s/he doesn't wear the One True Brand. Tell me, is the world based on peer pressure really what you want to support? What if it suddenly becomes "cool" to smoke crack? Will you still tell your kid that following the peers' opinions is a good idea?
Another way is helping selected bullies with tests and homeworks. Once the word goes around, preferably spread by the sound of crunched noses, that the local geek has a personal "gorilla", the harrassment ends rather quickly. Noncanonical fighting techniques help as well; a heavy keyring swung on a suitably long keychain is a formidable weapon.
At school, knowledge can be the currency suitable for buying mercenaries.
The sound is apparently mixed into the input signal from the mic before it gets into the codec. It is annoying and disruptive, but it apparently isn't designed to be a pleasant background for long calls, but as a confirmation of the reason you claim when you want to make the call short.
Maybe that'll teach the people how to use cash again, and to remember that there are local stores too. Or, how to build the more "specific" equipment from basic parts and plans downloaded from the Internet. DirecTV can't find anybody who made a smartcard reader/writer from the parts, as they are mostly WAY too generic to hint about their use.
First they have to catch you. As long as there is 4th Amendment at least somehow in force, and as long as you pay for the necessary equipment in cash, you should be fairly safe.
At least there will be fewer privacy-ignorant people with "nothing to hide".
You also have the option to buy a hacked/hackable one. Of course it's illegal - but once the laws don't serve the people anymore, they lose the reason to be followed, and only the risk of enforcement/prosecution remains. Which is pretty slim, unless you buy the mod chips with a creditcard.
The FCC decision about broadcast flag is that import/use/ownership (or whatever) of non-flag-compliant equipment will be considered an FCC offense. However, I never found what it does mean, if broadcasting or EM emissions aren't involved. What are the penalties supposed to be? What's the planned mechanism of enforcement? Isn't it another kind of nearly undetectable pseudo-crime that's going to happen in every other house?
Even if hard drives could do this (the original idea was rather a kind of tamper-resistant storage accessible only by certain applications, which I suppose could be eavesdropped on by either tapping the IDE channel, or by tracing the syscalls of the processes), the trivial workaround is to use any kind of encrypted filesystem.
You can be aware about both kinds of kills, if you watch something more than "Fair-and-Balanced" news, and read more than sports pages from the newspapers. Then you see they are quite related, plusminus some baseline "looney bomber noise".
My not-really-fat ass is safe more because my country doesn't tend to meddle much into the affairs of others. (Additional advantage for the taxpayers is that it's cheaper.)
The coins were designed by some nitwit with no knowledge of physics. I heard it was possible to do even without hammer - excessively cold weather was enough to make the inner part shrink more than the ring, and fall out.
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I saw a beautiful quote somewhere: "Without in-house knowledge you get outhouse results."
Optimal situation is when you have a trustful manager just above yourself who listens to you, explains his/her decisions, and shields you from the management bullshit so you can stick with the technical work.
That's a good name. Eg, for a future lawyer.
Don't support drug dealers. Grow your own.
I thought teaching certificates aren't necessary for actual teaching (not talking about the version usually being committed by most lower-to-middle and some higher education institutions).
Screw the certificates. You can do a lot of great work even without the "bumazhka".
Bottom of the ladder? If it means being able to avoid management stuff for the price of sticking with technical work you like, the "bottom" suddenly doesn't look bad. Unless you happen to get pointy-haired management, which means it's time to move on.
You can build a decent self-esteem in "geeky" areas as well. Do research, publish, publish, publish. Do programming, publish. Every time you are quoted in others' work you can feel better. Besides, it's pretty useful for the career building.
When you have enough of good luck and get the right people, team work is a breeze. Smart people are good for R&D kind of work, where expert discussions are necessary. Less smart but docile people are optimal for tasks with a menial component; lab work is a good example - they then wash the glass and write down what you dictate and draw the graphs, and are happy you do what's the "hard work" from their point and that your part ensures good grades for the whole team.
Until recently, I thought I am bad in team work. Turned out I just didn't get the right team before.
You are right there are whole industries built around what is fashionable. Maybe you are even aware they employ armies of top-grade specialists who attempt to design the meaning of "cool", so you - the parent - have to shell out some more bucks just to not let your kid getting ostracized because s/he doesn't wear the One True Brand. Tell me, is the world based on peer pressure really what you want to support? What if it suddenly becomes "cool" to smoke crack? Will you still tell your kid that following the peers' opinions is a good idea?
At school, knowledge can be the currency suitable for buying mercenaries.
Knowledge is power.
Good idea! It's much less unpleasant way how to make a computer full of stinking crud than installing Windows on it!
Another possibility, for the cases you had to promise you won't switch your cellphone off: metallic briefcase, or wrapping the phone in tinfoil.
Don't worry, this is an excuse-maker, a getaway tool. People won't use this technology for the calls that have to last long.
The sound is apparently mixed into the input signal from the mic before it gets into the codec. It is annoying and disruptive, but it apparently isn't designed to be a pleasant background for long calls, but as a confirmation of the reason you claim when you want to make the call short.
It's a standard MP3. You can record your own :)
Maybe that'll teach the people how to use cash again, and to remember that there are local stores too. Or, how to build the more "specific" equipment from basic parts and plans downloaded from the Internet. DirecTV can't find anybody who made a smartcard reader/writer from the parts, as they are mostly WAY too generic to hint about their use.
Blair Witch Project. Star Wreck. Many more I don't remember.
At least there will be fewer privacy-ignorant people with "nothing to hide".
You also have the option to buy a hacked/hackable one. Of course it's illegal - but once the laws don't serve the people anymore, they lose the reason to be followed, and only the risk of enforcement/prosecution remains. Which is pretty slim, unless you buy the mod chips with a creditcard.
Or a DVD-RW, if the movie is expected to suck.
The FCC decision about broadcast flag is that import/use/ownership (or whatever) of non-flag-compliant equipment will be considered an FCC offense. However, I never found what it does mean, if broadcasting or EM emissions aren't involved. What are the penalties supposed to be? What's the planned mechanism of enforcement? Isn't it another kind of nearly undetectable pseudo-crime that's going to happen in every other house?
Already happened. See eg. "Wrapster".
China could be a close call, especially if allied with Russia.
Even if hard drives could do this (the original idea was rather a kind of tamper-resistant storage accessible only by certain applications, which I suppose could be eavesdropped on by either tapping the IDE channel, or by tracing the syscalls of the processes), the trivial workaround is to use any kind of encrypted filesystem.
My not-really-fat ass is safe more because my country doesn't tend to meddle much into the affairs of others. (Additional advantage for the taxpayers is that it's cheaper.)
The coins were designed by some nitwit with no knowledge of physics. I heard it was possible to do even without hammer - excessively cold weather was enough to make the inner part shrink more than the ring, and fall out.