I'm interested in how this works with prior case law. For instance, a helicopter scanning neighborhoods doesn't require a warrant since you do not own the airspace above your home, and anything the helicopter can see can be used against you in a court. If this legislation would be passed, I'd think it would also impact the ability for law enforcement to do their jobs (unless they included some weasel clauses to allow for it).
What exactly are you looking for? The entire source code for the mach kernel? The fact is they're giving back to the community when and where they are pulling from currently available open source software. If you want more open source look at opendarwin and puredarwin. Both are apple projects.
Honestly, when dealing with someone who is managing a large project, it is way better to have someone appear rude but be very frank and transparent on where they stand. It's way, WAY more difficult dealing with folks from either families or heritages which keep them silent about things they don't like until you suddenly have to redo half of a project because they didn't speak out, or chastize someone in a way that was necessary to keep the problem from festering.
I wish I worked with people who were intelligent enough to read a sentence about dick-sucking and know that it wasn't necessarily a homophobic statement, but rather a negative statement against appeasing and showing fealty to microsoft. But hey, folks are idiots, they like their lack of contextual understanding almost as much as they like their straw men, and I am too busy to really care.
A lot of places will do CentOS in dev environments, and for prod environments will use RHEL because of the support that is offered. When something is down and you are under pressures of regulatory compliance, customer experience, or mission critical systems you need a vendor you can reach out and talk to. A forum or mailing list don't count because if you have a very esoteric problem you'll more than likely never hear a response. Directors at our company don't want to have to sit in front of a congressional hearing and say, "Well, we thought we'd just support it ourselves, and no one answered my question on serverfault..."
That was always the Suse thing though - they wanted to be a direct competitor with Red Hat by offering support along with their own kool-aid soaked Linux (not implying it is a bad thing, they did some really COOL things like offering free linux training to my high school though I bet after the Novell purchase that stopped). That's the really big deal here - support. (Insert your favorite open source OS here) is great until something breaks in the middle of the night and the poor sod who is on call has no one to contact for tech support. Red Hat and Suse both offer this which is why we like them for production environments.
Not to threadjack, but my sole reason for disliking debian in a prod environment is support - how do you guys get support from the vendor when shit breaks at 3am on a sunday morning? In our environment we use Scientific Linux or CentOS in development, and RHEL in prod (also working for a fortune 100 company). We can call or open a support ticket with RedHat and usually we have a response within an hour. Do you guys work with a 3rd party vendor? Do you get support from canonical?
I think there is also a "silent expectation" that the young person is cheaper to hire, will be more up to date on technology, and will be more malleable since they have less experience and can be taught. Is it fair? Nope. I don't like it either. I could never grasp the rationale behind a lot of decisions HR makes, and that's why I'm an R and D engineer and not an HR person:)
This is an excellent response. The sad truth is most companies handling tech positions are not going to look for someone who has a retirement window in the next 10 years. They're looking for young folks who are largely free of family or social obligations, and who are willing to be on call for weeks at a time, or for programmers who are willing to put in 60-80 hour weeks. While this may or may not describe your obligations, as an older worker, they will assume that this is an issue for you.
Combine this with a lack of experience (you mentioned changing into this career), and you are going to find a very unfriendly job market.
I would recommend you start helping a bunch of friends with computer issues, train up on some technical certifications, and go into consulting. It will not be steady, but it would let you get some resume fodder if you really have your heart set on such a position. Another option would be to go into a similar position to the one you have now, but at a small office which will afford you the opportunity to handle technical work. Just be careful that it doesn't end up putting you in a "job creep" situation where you suddenly find yourself responsible for two different jobs.
Sadly this is true. This would be a golden moment for the right side of the house to start flipping out. However, they've cried wolf too many times whining about socialism and birth certificates.
You should look at the quests for legendary weapons in World of Warcraft, and then come back and talk some more about how "the most game changing certs" should require so little work to obtain.
Wow, so you haven't actually played the game I see. I beta tested for the past 8 months. No such issue exists. They took a rock/paper/scissors approach with the weapons. So, you can side-grade to a different weapon with a higher ROF, but lower damage output and lower accuracy. Or you could get a super-accurate rifle with lower ROF and medium damage output. Or you could get something with rediculous damage output, but low ROF and moderate accuracy. The benefits of one over the other is highly situational (higher ROF may help if you're with a group of folks who all open fire at the same time, maybe). You can't really say one is better than the others, it just doesn't work that way.
Most efficient way of getting certs is putting together a light armor column with a party bus and a decent galaxy pilot - this requires an outfit, but even the smaller ones can pull it off relatively easily. Then just steamroll through bases.
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I really hate people who automatically associate intelligence with political alignment. Google "non sequitur."
I'm interested in how this works with prior case law. For instance, a helicopter scanning neighborhoods doesn't require a warrant since you do not own the airspace above your home, and anything the helicopter can see can be used against you in a court. If this legislation would be passed, I'd think it would also impact the ability for law enforcement to do their jobs (unless they included some weasel clauses to allow for it).
In this case the patch is actually to include microsoft PE binaries, so yes, microsoft is at fault. Just saying.
What exactly are you looking for? The entire source code for the mach kernel? The fact is they're giving back to the community when and where they are pulling from currently available open source software. If you want more open source look at opendarwin and puredarwin. Both are apple projects.
I don't get why people think Steve Jobs was so great. It's not like he came up with the cure for cancer or something.
You know, I had to google this because I'd never heard of it. Holy cow, I had no idea!
Honestly, when dealing with someone who is managing a large project, it is way better to have someone appear rude but be very frank and transparent on where they stand. It's way, WAY more difficult dealing with folks from either families or heritages which keep them silent about things they don't like until you suddenly have to redo half of a project because they didn't speak out, or chastize someone in a way that was necessary to keep the problem from festering.
I wish I worked with people who were intelligent enough to read a sentence about dick-sucking and know that it wasn't necessarily a homophobic statement, but rather a negative statement against appeasing and showing fealty to microsoft. But hey, folks are idiots, they like their lack of contextual understanding almost as much as they like their straw men, and I am too busy to really care.
VMWare owns SuSE? Novell owns them... unless somehow there's a weird corporate-overlord thing going on which includes both companies.
A lot of places will do CentOS in dev environments, and for prod environments will use RHEL because of the support that is offered. When something is down and you are under pressures of regulatory compliance, customer experience, or mission critical systems you need a vendor you can reach out and talk to. A forum or mailing list don't count because if you have a very esoteric problem you'll more than likely never hear a response. Directors at our company don't want to have to sit in front of a congressional hearing and say, "Well, we thought we'd just support it ourselves, and no one answered my question on serverfault..."
That was always the Suse thing though - they wanted to be a direct competitor with Red Hat by offering support along with their own kool-aid soaked Linux (not implying it is a bad thing, they did some really COOL things like offering free linux training to my high school though I bet after the Novell purchase that stopped). That's the really big deal here - support. (Insert your favorite open source OS here) is great until something breaks in the middle of the night and the poor sod who is on call has no one to contact for tech support. Red Hat and Suse both offer this which is why we like them for production environments.
Not to threadjack, but my sole reason for disliking debian in a prod environment is support - how do you guys get support from the vendor when shit breaks at 3am on a sunday morning? In our environment we use Scientific Linux or CentOS in development, and RHEL in prod (also working for a fortune 100 company). We can call or open a support ticket with RedHat and usually we have a response within an hour. Do you guys work with a 3rd party vendor? Do you get support from canonical?
The mach kernel.
O rly?
Except for very large and very small values of one.
Yup, I'm not that kind of mage :-P
I think there is also a "silent expectation" that the young person is cheaper to hire, will be more up to date on technology, and will be more malleable since they have less experience and can be taught. Is it fair? Nope. I don't like it either. I could never grasp the rationale behind a lot of decisions HR makes, and that's why I'm an R and D engineer and not an HR person :)
This is an excellent response. The sad truth is most companies handling tech positions are not going to look for someone who has a retirement window in the next 10 years. They're looking for young folks who are largely free of family or social obligations, and who are willing to be on call for weeks at a time, or for programmers who are willing to put in 60-80 hour weeks. While this may or may not describe your obligations, as an older worker, they will assume that this is an issue for you. Combine this with a lack of experience (you mentioned changing into this career), and you are going to find a very unfriendly job market. I would recommend you start helping a bunch of friends with computer issues, train up on some technical certifications, and go into consulting. It will not be steady, but it would let you get some resume fodder if you really have your heart set on such a position. Another option would be to go into a similar position to the one you have now, but at a small office which will afford you the opportunity to handle technical work. Just be careful that it doesn't end up putting you in a "job creep" situation where you suddenly find yourself responsible for two different jobs.
So proudly, in fact, that you posted as an anonymous coward. Your pride, sir, is astounding.
Sadly this is true. This would be a golden moment for the right side of the house to start flipping out. However, they've cried wolf too many times whining about socialism and birth certificates.
You must not be part of the US Congress. They can ignore their jobs and get raises!
You should look at the quests for legendary weapons in World of Warcraft, and then come back and talk some more about how "the most game changing certs" should require so little work to obtain.
The biggest problem with AMD processors is poor Planetside 2 optimization you mean ;)
Wow, so you haven't actually played the game I see. I beta tested for the past 8 months. No such issue exists. They took a rock/paper/scissors approach with the weapons. So, you can side-grade to a different weapon with a higher ROF, but lower damage output and lower accuracy. Or you could get a super-accurate rifle with lower ROF and medium damage output. Or you could get something with rediculous damage output, but low ROF and moderate accuracy. The benefits of one over the other is highly situational (higher ROF may help if you're with a group of folks who all open fire at the same time, maybe). You can't really say one is better than the others, it just doesn't work that way.
Most efficient way of getting certs is putting together a light armor column with a party bus and a decent galaxy pilot - this requires an outfit, but even the smaller ones can pull it off relatively easily. Then just steamroll through bases.