...that IT people are, in general, smarter than average; whereas the people on the business side are generally dumber than average.
And before you all flame me, I'm talking generally. Let's face it, what percentage of all the Marketing/Business Administration majors would you call really clever. Now compare that with the IT side.
The fact is, most of the soft jobs in a large corporation - Marketing, junior management, etc. - are almost entirely unnecessary; yet the same cannot be said of the IT jobs.
Mutationem motus proportionalem esse vi motrici impressae, et fieri secundum lineam rectam qua vis illa imprimitur -- and -- An Arby's Roast Beef (tm) sandwich.
I can tell (or at least surmise) from the nature of your post that the decision to teach to a certification is not yours. This is a shame - as so many other posters have indicated in no uncertain terms. While I *generally* agree with their sentiments, perhaps this advice will help as well:
Don't be afraid to push the boundaries of what you have been tasked to do.
An unlicensed auto may not appear - on the surface - to be a major issue. In fact because it is unlicensed, it theoretically has no owner. I'll leave it to your imagination to figure out what that means. The fact that the vehicle is parked on the road, instead of off-road is yet another inconvenience for other people. It is a hazard to navigation (on the road), and presents another opportunity for an accident. All these things add up. Sure, an isolated incident of littering is essentially insignificant, but when everybody litters it becomes a hazard. Your complacency towards 'minor transgressions' while touchingly warm and fuzzy does little to help curb the spread of lawless activity in any form. If people would simply behave, we would need no laws at all, sadly this is not the society we live in. Instead - since we can't even rely upon people to figure out how to take care of a freaking car (WTF is wrong with this shit-head anyway) - we need to resort to a situation where any old ass-hat can buy a license to fine minor transgressions. 20 years from now, when society has remembered how to behave, we can do away with the concept.
Oh, I forgot, living in a house automatically implies you drive a car.
Face it, you live in one of the smallest (geographically speaking) countries in the world, you don't *need* a car, you choose to have one. Your choice of housing doesn't seem to take into account the other demands of your lifestyle. Do you also have a large dog, and no garden ? Perhaps you play the trumpet after midnight and you live in a 1960 terraced house with paper thin walls. I don't know, but it's clear you didn't actually do any planning about your automobile.
I agree councils make plenty of bad decisions about housing with lack of associated infrastructure - parks, schools, local shops, etc. - but your assumption that all houses should have off street parking is simply idiotic.
...or maybe you really need to spend more time reading books...
I read constantly.
Here is what I was refering to in your original post: Unstabilized spikes of power, will soon render demand, due to malfunctioning(consumer) equipment.Is that a complete sentence ? What's the first comma for ?
The Integrated Transmission System(ITS), was declared at full capacity in the mid nineties.Again, what's with the comma ?
And then you have the "good-ole boy" co-ops selling the stupid idea of "owning your own lines & poles," but not providing routine vegetation management(the cause of most winter & summer storm outages), and crooks like the TVA under $25billion dollar debt.There are at least two distinct ideas in this run-on sentence.
Living in Tennessee, I miss Georgia Power...Great paying contractors, few outages, low energy bills...They have their act together!Strange use of.... Punctuation And random Use, of capitalization Is.... Very confuSing !
Sure, but there's a huge difference between talented and incompetent. Surely this database can't be so complicated that it requires almost 500 tables - I bet I could design a database for the Encyclopaedia Britannica with fewer tables than that
...those of us who have kids are shouldering an enourmous burden financially and socially that EVERYONE...
Only if you raise your children well, otherwise you are adding to the burden for those of us who are.
Just having and rearing children is not enough, you need to build them into concientious, responsible, truthful citizens who have many of the same qualities you seem to have. Keep up the good work, though. I, for one, and quite happy to let your child wipe my arse.
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I have only ......hah hah snort ......one thing ........hah giggle snort sniff...............to .......haar splat snort giggle sniff........say.
Damn couldn't control my laughter there for a moment. I think you get the point.
... this would be a non-issue of they operated on some kind of Open Source model. There's no documentation as good as the code itself.
Who do you suppose Plato was paraphrasing ?
...that IT people are, in general, smarter than average; whereas the people on the business side are generally dumber than average.
And before you all flame me, I'm talking generally. Let's face it, what percentage of all the Marketing/Business Administration majors would you call really clever. Now compare that with the IT side.
The fact is, most of the soft jobs in a large corporation - Marketing, junior management, etc. - are almost entirely unnecessary; yet the same cannot be said of the IT jobs.
..... making a back-up of their shitty OS for personal use isn't innocuous, it's theft.
You've never been to SeaLand, have you ?
...my eyeballs dried up while I was reading the article. Is this possibly the most boring Slashdot story ever ?
Yeah, I don't see any direct parallel between
Mutationem motus proportionalem esse vi motrici impressae, et fieri secundum lineam rectam qua vis illa imprimitur
-- and --
An Arby's Roast Beef (tm) sandwich.
I think Spock said it best when he said, "Sometimes the mass of the many does not outweigh the mass of the one"
... between a rock and a hard place.
I can tell (or at least surmise) from the nature of your post that the decision to teach to a certification is not yours. This is a shame - as so many other posters have indicated in no uncertain terms. While I *generally* agree with their sentiments, perhaps this advice will help as well:
Don't be afraid to push the boundaries of what you have been tasked to do.
An unlicensed auto may not appear - on the surface - to be a major issue. In fact because it is unlicensed, it theoretically has no owner. I'll leave it to your imagination to figure out what that means. The fact that the vehicle is parked on the road, instead of off-road is yet another inconvenience for other people. It is a hazard to navigation (on the road), and presents another opportunity for an accident. All these things add up. Sure, an isolated incident of littering is essentially insignificant, but when everybody litters it becomes a hazard. Your complacency towards 'minor transgressions' while touchingly warm and fuzzy does little to help curb the spread of lawless activity in any form. If people would simply behave, we would need no laws at all, sadly this is not the society we live in. Instead - since we can't even rely upon people to figure out how to take care of a freaking car ( WTF is wrong with this shit-head anyway ) - we need to resort to a situation where any old ass-hat can buy a license to fine minor transgressions. 20 years from now, when society has remembered how to behave, we can do away with the concept.
...housing without adequate off-road parking.
Oh, I forgot, living in a house automatically implies you drive a car.
Face it, you live in one of the smallest (geographically speaking) countries in the world, you don't *need* a car, you choose to have one. Your choice of housing doesn't seem to take into account the other demands of your lifestyle. Do you also have a large dog, and no garden ? Perhaps you play the trumpet after midnight and you live in a 1960 terraced house with paper thin walls. I don't know, but it's clear you didn't actually do any planning about your automobile.
I agree councils make plenty of bad decisions about housing with lack of associated infrastructure - parks, schools, local shops, etc. - but your assumption that all houses should have off street parking is simply idiotic.
I had it parked on the side of the road for 2 days ...
Sorry, mate, you are shit-out-of-luck. You may not park an unlicensed (taxed) vehicle in a public place. The law is quite clear on this point.
So, you have a vehicle with nowhere to park it, kind of short sighted of you, isn't it ?
Prior art is only one of many tests the Patent Office is supposed to apply - in this case I believe the 'Obvious' test would fail.
... not more action at a distance. I find the existing stuff difficult enough to conceptualize.
...or maybe you really need to spend more time reading books...
.... Punctuation And random Use, of capitalization Is .... Very confuSing !
I read constantly.
Here is what I was refering to in your original post:
Unstabilized spikes of power, will soon render demand, due to malfunctioning(consumer) equipment. Is that a complete sentence ? What's the first comma for ?
The Integrated Transmission System(ITS), was declared at full capacity in the mid nineties. Again, what's with the comma ?
And then you have the "good-ole boy" co-ops selling the stupid idea of "owning your own lines & poles," but not providing routine vegetation management(the cause of most winter & summer storm outages), and crooks like the TVA under $25billion dollar debt. There are at least two distinct ideas in this run-on sentence.
Living in Tennessee, I miss Georgia Power...Great paying contractors, few outages, low energy bills...They have their act together! Strange use of
..Can I have it back please, then.
You must have missed the day that they taught coherent writing skills.
Can you say 'Fire Hazard' ?
Sure, but there's a huge difference between talented and incompetent. Surely this database can't be so complicated that it requires almost 500 tables - I bet I could design a database for the Encyclopaedia Britannica with fewer tables than that
...I thought I might share my train of thought:
1.) Why are all Federal Government databases a complete mess ?
2.) Isn't it actually a good thing that all Federal Government databases a complete mess ?
3.) It's possible that somebody is ensuring that all Federal Government databases are a complete mess ?
4.) I for one welcome our new Federal Government Database Overlords !
I, for one, welcome our meme neutralizing slashdot editor-overlords, film at eleven
There, fixed that for you (which is, in fact, my favourite meme.)
Foolish, poorly designed, wasteful, corrupt Federal Database application fails to deliver on promises,
Film at eleven !
...those of us who have kids are shouldering an enourmous burden financially and socially that EVERYONE ...
Only if you raise your children well, otherwise you are adding to the burden for those of us who are.
Just having and rearing children is not enough, you need to build them into concientious, responsible, truthful citizens who have many of the same qualities you seem to have.
Keep up the good work, though. I, for one, and quite happy to let your child wipe my arse.
... we do wonder if the food supply and waste system are taken care for...
Anyone who has ever travelled in the middle east (outside of Israel) will laugh at this one.
Why change the habits of millenia ?