> I'm just really interested to see if society > ever reaches an advertising saturation point.
Study for an MBA. First or second course is marketting.
If everybody had an MBA, everybody would understand how they are being manipulated, and then maybe they would actually buy shoes for comfort, cola for taste and OSs for stability.
> When the drop in enrolments first started to > appear, it was shored up by running industry > training courses, like MS and CISCO.... running > it at a university level is inappropriate.
To me the big difference between a tech-based course and an industry CERT is that your BSc is forever... your tech cert expires in X years.
I'm currently preparing the Cisco Certs (changing countries and changing languages... most Australian companies won't bother to read a ref's report in Spanish), and there is no way that they even approach the oft-stated "Doctor Of Networking".
The CCIE could almost be a post-graduate Masters by coursework, in the same catagory as an MBA. The biggest difference between this and any other cert (except maybe the RHCE) is that you need muscle memory. Many things that appear at the lower level course
The CCNP could be a post-grad diploma. CCNA is high-school or TAFE level. The design track is 50% sales... but then that's exactly what the sort of people who employ CCDPs are looking for. The biggest value in a Cisco cert is that Cisco Partners need to have X certified people on staff in order to maintain their wholesale discount.
Note.. I did start a doctorate (PhD), and in the 9 months I stuck with it, I covered a lot more ground than any of these tech certs.
But, to be fair, they are worth something. I'm delving a lot deeper into stuff than I really need to (call it procrasting), but looking at the maths behind MD5 digests and the evolution of tagged VLANs under the various IEEE working groups has been really interesting.
> In my experience, the girls who are avaiaible > after you hit your 30s are generally mothers or > just plain boring (not even the narcissitic > boring and at that point they often have esteem > issues).
Crap. The 18 year old college chick you lust after today will be replaced by another 18 year old college chick in 10 years time.
I, personally, am glad I waited. The difference in maturity between a 23 year old and a 28 year old (both men and women) is incredible. I'm 30, my fiancee is 32. We met when I was 28.
Up until then I had several years of exploring the "posibilities"... and have concluded that anybody under the age of 25 shits me to tears. Of course, when I was 23, anything over the age of 18 was fair game.
Sure, you can marry your high-school sweetheart now, but in 10 years time chances are she have the same maturity level of anybody else her age.
> The issue of whether homosexuals, women and > divorcees should be allowed.
I always thought that the bible concentrated more on sodomy than homosexuality... a practise that is obviously not limited to gays. Having said that, I haven't studied it in depth.
> I would say there is a vast bit more difference > than you imply
Even taking into account these things, the fundamental rules found in the bible... initially the 10 commandments and then the "love thy neighbor" rule, are common to all Christian faiths.
I don't know much about the baptists, but I was raised Anglican and my financee is Catholic. Her upbringing concentrated a lot more on guilt than mine did. They also don't talk directly to Jesus.. instead praying to Mary.
But the message is the same. The bibles are essentially the same. The differences between the different branches of Christianity largely do boil down to "Follow the gourd! Follow the Shoe! No, its a sandal!". However, that's where the obsession is.
When the fundamental message is "give your life to God, live by his rules and follow his teaching", why are the various churches so obsessed by, for example, whether a woman is as capable as a man to help spread that word?
> considering it doesn't mock Christ as much as > some might think...
With the exception of labelling Christ a "Bloody do-gooder", there is nothing againt him at all. He is shown first in the manger, then secondly giving the sermon on the mount.
Who is does mock, however, are those factions within the church (and politics in general) who spend all their time bickering about inconsequencial differences rather than presenting a common front based on the 95% of their beliefs that co-incide.
That's why some churches are dead against it.
Still.. my favourite scene is the "romans go home" conjugation.
Slashdot Mirror
> If we are trying to get people to move away
> from MD5 sums, what do we use? CRC?
Rot13 + DMCA
> But why did you bother reimplementing it?
If you need to ask.....
> Bring back hicks.
Sod hicks. Bring back Gough!
> I'm just really interested to see if society
> ever reaches an advertising saturation point.
Study for an MBA. First or second course is marketting.
If everybody had an MBA, everybody would understand how they are being manipulated, and then maybe they would actually buy shoes for comfort, cola for taste and OSs for stability.
> Note that both news services are currently in
> beta.
The difference being:
Google will take the beta label off their service when Google News is stable and usable.
Microsoft will take the beta label off their service when Google News is stable and usable.
> "When's your first born due?"
Obligatory "but this is Slashdot" comment.
> Slashdot is hardly representative of everybody.
You are obviously not using the correct definition of "everybody".
> But all i know was apple with this news their
> stock is at 26.87 up 1.37 / 5.37%
Quick!
Short Apple!
Oh, wait....
> It's been on MacRumors.com all day.
Because MacRumors is, by name and nature, a rumors site.
Slashdot only published hard news.
> Every time you use MS Office god kills a kitten.
> Think of the kittens.
I can't work out if you are advocating the use of MS office or not.
... running FreeBSD.
> When the drop in enrolments first started to .... running
> appear, it was shored up by running industry
> training courses, like MS and CISCO
> it at a university level is inappropriate.
To me the big difference between a tech-based course and an industry CERT is that your BSc is forever... your tech cert expires in X years.
I'm currently preparing the Cisco Certs (changing countries and changing languages... most Australian companies won't bother to read a ref's report in Spanish), and there is no way that they even approach the oft-stated "Doctor Of Networking".
The CCIE could almost be a post-graduate Masters by coursework, in the same catagory as an MBA. The biggest difference between this and any other cert (except maybe the RHCE) is that you need muscle memory. Many things that appear at the lower level course
The CCNP could be a post-grad diploma. CCNA is high-school or TAFE level. The design track is 50% sales... but then that's exactly what the sort of people who employ CCDPs are looking for. The biggest value in a Cisco cert is that Cisco Partners need to have X certified people on staff in order to maintain their wholesale discount.
Note.. I did start a doctorate (PhD), and in the 9 months I stuck with it, I covered a lot more ground than any of these tech certs.
But, to be fair, they are worth something. I'm delving a lot deeper into stuff than I really need to (call it procrasting), but looking at the maths behind MD5 digests and the evolution of tagged VLANs under the various IEEE working groups has been really interesting.
> You learn how to navigate ... emacs
But only if you pass notes in class or talk back to the teacher.
> In my experience, the girls who are avaiaible
> after you hit your 30s are generally mothers or
> just plain boring (not even the narcissitic
> boring and at that point they often have esteem
> issues).
Crap. The 18 year old college chick you lust after today will be replaced by another 18 year old college chick in 10 years time.
I, personally, am glad I waited. The difference in maturity between a 23 year old and a 28 year old (both men and women) is incredible. I'm 30, my fiancee is 32. We met when I was 28.
Up until then I had several years of exploring the "posibilities"... and have concluded that anybody under the age of 25 shits me to tears. Of course, when I was 23, anything over the age of 18 was fair game.
Sure, you can marry your high-school sweetheart now, but in 10 years time chances are she have the same maturity level of anybody else her age.
Wireless!
Huh. When I was a lad we had to run a piece of string between two tin cans if we wanted to listen to any other than our mother's snoring.
> Isn't that an oxymoron?
Not if you cluster them properly.
> The issue of whether homosexuals, women and
> divorcees should be allowed.
I always thought that the bible concentrated more on sodomy than homosexuality... a practise that is obviously not limited to gays. Having said that, I haven't studied it in depth.
> I would say there is a vast bit more difference
> than you imply
Even taking into account these things, the fundamental rules found in the bible... initially the 10 commandments and then the "love thy neighbor" rule, are common to all Christian faiths.
I don't know much about the baptists, but I was raised Anglican and my financee is Catholic. Her upbringing concentrated a lot more on guilt than mine did. They also don't talk directly to Jesus.. instead praying to Mary.
But the message is the same. The bibles are essentially the same. The differences between the different branches of Christianity largely do boil down to "Follow the gourd! Follow the Shoe! No, its a sandal!". However, that's where the obsession is.
When the fundamental message is "give your life to God, live by his rules and follow his teaching", why are the various churches so obsessed by, for example, whether a woman is as capable as a man to help spread that word?
> Wine has been around at least since Noah who was
> the first to plant a vineyard.
Yeah, but he didn't have a lot of luck.
Probably through overwatering.
> considering it doesn't mock Christ as much as
> some might think...
With the exception of labelling Christ a "Bloody do-gooder", there is nothing againt him at all. He is shown first in the manger, then secondly giving the sermon on the mount.
Who is does mock, however, are those factions within the church (and politics in general) who spend all their time bickering about inconsequencial differences rather than presenting a common front based on the 95% of their beliefs that co-incide.
That's why some churches are dead against it.
Still.. my favourite scene is the "romans go home" conjugation.
> Atari Portfolio
Best minature QWERTY keyboard every produced IMHO. You could actually touch type on it with a little practise.
Has yet to be surpased, and due to pen technology, probably never will.
You are correct, of course.
The correct construction for the compound infinitive verb is "To open sourcify".
> I cannot ever see myself talking to my web
> browser like another human being.
Thus, from today, you need to start talking to human beings as if they were web browers to be prepared for the new technology.
Thanks.
> To a chef, it's a vegetable.
I'm a chef.
A tomato is a fruit.
I prefer a Gooey