Milennials don't support Socialism. They support being given everything they want without having to work for it and expecting someone else to pay for it.
If you ask a Milennial "How will we pay for giving everyone free homes, cars, food, education, power, water, heat, lights, gasoline/electricity charging, massages or whatever else they decide they want today" the answer will either be "increase taxes on "the rich" (let someone else pay for it)" or "I don't know/that's a good question.".
I support the concept that every high school graduate should serve 2 years in the military. Make them understand what it means to work and give them a true sense of pride in the Country they are blessed to live in.
After this THEN they should be given a College Education. Then make them work for a small business owner for the exact same salary they earned in the military. THEN they will see what the Military really deserves and what a small business owner has to deal with both the trials and the successes. They will also learn that the only way to become a big business owner is to start as a small business owner and to work hard and earn your success.
My 2014 Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk with the Advanced Technology Group brings adaptive cruise control, forward-collision warning and mitigation, and blind-spot monitoring with cross-path detection with "lane assist" that will keep you in your lane and sound a warning and vibrate the wheel.
Simple! Send a presidential alert. Force your phone to "check in" at your 3 closest cells towers and BOOM! You have been triangulated. No warrant required. And the data all goes into the NSA data repository. No muss. No fuss.
co-authored with Kevin J. Anderson http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4845.Kevin_J_Anderson which has a number of Antagonists, among which is "the clockmaker" who takes over society through the creation and a massive influx of "artificially created" gold. The second primary antagonist has created "artificially created" diamonds. Quite timely I believe. Well played Mr. Peart! Well played!
According to the Dragon Ball Z timeline, it occurred in 774.
- Buu destroys Earth - Porunga restores the Earth - Vegeta's life is restored when all "good" people who diedon Earth are wished back to life - Goku destroys Kid Buu with the Super Spirit Bomb
I ask on the first phone interview, "how much is this paying." To hell with "etiquette" Stop wasting my time and yours.
I literally get 3-5 recruiter calls and 20-30 recruiter emails DAILY. My first question to every one of them is "What is the maximum hourly rate/salary this role will support?" If the answer isn't at least 15-20% higher than what Im making now I wish them the best of luck in their search.
Only after clearing this hurdle will I even start asking about where the role is, what they are looking for, travel, etc.
OK, let me ballpark what "I" would expect for this role, since Im sure you probably also asked for CISSP and/or additional certifications with your requirements and I will assume you are looking for contract rather than full time employee. 1) network operations back ground - this is $100K/$50.00 hour minimum requirement with 1-2 years experience. Add at least $10.00/hr for every additional year of experience 2) minor software development - depending on languange and the definition of "minor" this could be $40-50.00/hour on its own. As an add-on, you are looking for software development experience in one or more languages on top of someone with network operations experience. These technology tracks are normally diametrically opposed. You should seperate out development requirements as a separate role. A Network operations and security guy isnt going to want to write code and I wouldnt want a code developer managing my network. 3) A security clearance - this means they have either worked for the government, a government supplier or they are ex-military. They will know the value of a security clearance. Add $30.00/hr. 4) strong network security (packet/protocol level) - Now we are talking EXPERIENCED Network operations personnel with knowledge of packet/protocol sniffers, firewalls, probably reverse proxies and security policies and best practices. +$50-75.00/hour.
If you aren't looking to pay $125-150.00/hour for a contractor and $180-200K base salary for employee, you should now understand why you have had your role open for 6 months. If you still don't understand, don't expect to get anyone else willing to waste the time for your interviews for the next 6 months. My.02.
Maybe someone out there thinks $38K salary with full holidays, vacation, benefits and matching 401K is a "good salary".
Since the vast majority of the people being hired for that level role isn't even getting the "employee" moniker, they are being hired as contractors, I wouldn't take that job for $30.00/hour or about $60K.
I took my first Unix job in 1991 for $35.00/hour and after a year of experience I bumped to $65.00/hour.
A Russian moon base that "accidentally" happens to have offensive moon based warheads, lasers, magnetic rail guns or any other type of threatening technology facing the Earth.
"The source of this post is this 10 page IEEE paper, Launch to Space With an Electromagnetic Railgun by Ian R. McNab, Senior Member, IEEE The cost of electricity for a launch will be negligible, as shown below. Barrel life is central to the successful economics for this system. A system might cost $1.3 billion and launch for $500/kg. Recent tests fired 7 pound projectiles at 5637 mph. Lunar escape velocity is 5,324 mph. So the truck sized system is already good enough to launch from the surface of the moon. Classic science fiction "the Moon is Harsh Mistress" by Heinlein could become reality."
"Yes, Europeans and Asians tend to compete between each other in good-hearted sports." In the immortal words of Indigo Montoya "I do not think this means what you think it means."
Actually it was the max throughput of a 24 channel channelized T1 at 64Kbit/channel (64Kbps * 24 = 1.536Mbps T1/ 24 channels)=64Kbps-8Kbps per channel. The overhead necessary to frame a T1 is 8Kbps. If you channelize all 24 channels, you lose 8Kbps per channel. Geeks were so anal about the reality of performance they wouldn't let you get away with the current bandwidth blasphemy we have today with DSL so they called a 64kbps modem a 56.6kbps modem because that was the best you would ever really get from it.
First, just to be clear, the only thing you can hold your ISP truly accountable for is what you are actually paying for, which is your first HP latency, that is from the point the packet leaves your local network and enters their network. Typical latency by connection type: Ethernet:.3ms Analog Modem:100-200ms ISDN:15-30ms DSL/Cable:10-30ms Stationary Satellite:>500ms, mostly due to high orbital elevation DS1/T1:2-5ms
I have had DSL for about 9 years. I have had MRTG monitoring my link to the local DSL router, the remote DSL end point, ATT.com and dslreports.com for pretty much all of that 9 years.
For the last year these are my stats to the far side of my DSL link: (Max/Average/Current )
High: 957.0 ms 28.0 ms 27.0 ms
Low: 907.0 ms 27.0 ms 25.0 ms
I am 1127feet to my C/O which is about as good as it gets. Anything over 30-35ms and I would be raising holy hell.
In the case of a two-way satellite system, when you request something by clicking on a link, or any other way, that message travels 44,600 miles just to get to the NOC. The stuff coming back to you must travel the reverse route, so the round trip is 89,200 miles. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second in a VACUUM,slower through the atmosphere. But even if you assumed 186,000 mps then the total time taken in space travel is about 480ms. Given the atmosphere problem, it is actually more like 500ms. Add to that the terrestrial internet latency, which should be about 100ms. Also you can add delays through transponders, gateways, proxies, etc.
At 300ms your packets are going to a NOC to a Satellite, back and to another NOC for your first hop.
You can see ATT to CenturyLink Latency here and their current average is ~35ms
here.
You need to wake up to the reality. The teachers in the district that I live in are legally barred from striking. They are barred from collective bargaining. The do not have "tenure". In their first three years they can be fired for no reason other than "We don't want you anymore". Past that, it only takes some form of documented failure, where that failure can simply be a verbal report by a supervisor. They don't have three months of vacation. They have eight weeks of mandatory furlough. They've had their salaries frozen for three years now (despite the fact that the average person's salary continues to rise) and have zero recourse to complain about it.
Flame on...
Perhaps you don't realise that for most people in the REAL world, the private sector, that is people who don't live their lives off of other peoples taxes, aren't members of any union, get fired for looking the wrong way at their boss after 20 years of service (what the hell is tenure?). They MIGHT get 2 weeks vacation. They MIGHT actually get all government holidays off. They probably have to work the stupid government only ones. They not only haven't gotten a raise in 10 YEARS they probably took a 10-20% pay CUT at LEAST once in the last 2-3 years and if you complain about it they tell you to pound sand and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Heres MY plan for ALL teachers. You work 12 months out of the year. Every year your percentage of students grades and graduation are factored against your salary. 100% graduation with 100% A's and you get 100% of your salary the next year.Sure, the special education teachers will get a break and the "bad school districts" will ask for a break "because our students are at a disadvantage". BS. You want to TEACH? TEACH. You want to warm a seat? Screw tenure. You get paid on your performance, just like the rest of us in the REAL WORLD. In the summer, you teach summer school. You tutor. You paint class rooms. You scrub desks. You TEACH. Or you don't get paid. And you strike, you get fired. And you suck, you get fired. And you don't like it? Get a job in the REAL world.
I need Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access and Visio. The first 3 are probably 95% of the 75% of the business community being referenced. Yes, there are OpenSource compatible equivalents for Word and Excel. There are rudimentary equivalent for Access (Base, Wavemake, Kexi, Glom) but none will import an Access DB directly so transition will be difficult for the enterprise. There is also not treal USEABLE equivalent to Visio. The closest equivalent wouldprobably be either "Open Office Draw" or DIA http://dia-installer.de/index.html.en and there are others (StarUML, ArgoUML, Kivio) however it is not Visio.vsd format compatible for import/export so transition will be problematic and none of the style/templates are going to work so it will be starting from scratch. You would first need to convert everything to UML.br
Could they convert? Yes. Is it EASY to convcert? No. Is it cost prohibitive to convert? For a small company with a TB of data, no. For an enterprise class customer with a few PB (petabyte) of MS Office application documents, it will be incredibly expensive to convert from an application that they get 70-80% discount on enterprise class licenses and 15 years of historical data that would require conversion. This is the FUD presented to the likes of Ford, GM, Chrysler, Boeing, the Government, etc, al the really BIG companies when this discussion arises.
The holy war quickly devolves into a legacy conversion discussion.
So Google Earth got slammed for tracking Wifi Hostpots but APple uses every iPhone to do it for them. Im sure AT&T would love to get their hands on the "whats my closest ATT WiFi hotspot" data.
I wish these MacOS fanbois created a version for Windows/Linux/Java/other.
Does it sit on an IT managed network? Connected to IT managed switches? Does it use IT managed/owned internet access? Did you get approval from IT to connect a server to their managed network and deploy an unapproved service from them before plugging it into the IT managed network?
Im willing to bet the answer to all of the above is "no". You should be prepared for the WWE type smackdown. You should also re-read the Acceptable use policy for your enterprise/organization and you should very politely offer them watever access they desire to allow your unauthorized service on their managed network.
If Microsoft knows a company is using a pirate copy of their software, I have no responsability for A) tracking another entities software use or B) their licensing status. I find this not just rediculous. It is placing Microsoft's burden on companies that may not even be Microsoft's customers. But I can tell you this. Im a Global Architect at a huge US car company. If this passes, I will be making it known on a daily basis that my employer should explore alternative solutions to Microsoft products. Now the MSGM relationship really isn't an appropriate model for this dicussion since GM probably requires indemnification from any lawsuits from any vendor as part of their standard terms and conditions before allowing any product in as a standard. So even in MS did get this passed, GM probably wouldn't care because MS would indemnify GM from MS's suit. The rest of you are all phucked.
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Milennials don't support Socialism. They support being given everything they want without having to work for it and expecting someone else to pay for it.
If you ask a Milennial "How will we pay for giving everyone free homes, cars, food, education, power, water, heat, lights, gasoline/electricity charging, massages or whatever else they decide they want today" the answer will either be "increase taxes on "the rich" (let someone else pay for it)" or "I don't know/that's a good question.".
I support the concept that every high school graduate should serve 2 years in the military. Make them understand what it means to work and give them a true sense of pride in the Country they are blessed to live in.
After this THEN they should be given a College Education. Then make them work for a small business owner for the exact same salary they earned in the military.
THEN they will see what the Military really deserves and what a small business owner has to deal with both the trials and the successes.
They will also learn that the only way to become a big business owner is to start as a small business owner and to work hard and earn your success.
My 2014 Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk with the Advanced Technology Group brings adaptive cruise control, forward-collision warning and mitigation, and blind-spot monitoring with cross-path detection with "lane assist" that will keep you in your lane and sound a warning and vibrate the wheel.
Simple! Send a presidential alert. Force your phone to "check in" at your 3 closest cells towers and BOOM! You have been triangulated. No warrant required. And the data all goes into the NSA data repository. No muss. No fuss.
The Percussionist Neil Peart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Peart of the band Rush http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_(band) released a book "Clockwork Angels" http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13592828-clockwork-angels
co-authored with Kevin J. Anderson http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4845.Kevin_J_Anderson which has a number of Antagonists, among which is "the clockmaker" who takes over society through the creation and a massive influx of "artificially created" gold. The second primary antagonist has created "artificially created" diamonds. Quite timely I believe. Well played Mr. Peart! Well played!
Buy 8 x 4TB drives + this enclosure
http://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-H8R2-SU3S2-ProRaid-External-Enclosure/dp/B005GYDMYQ
Satellite Internet? I guess Im being too simple...
As I stated previously, it was not "nuked". It was "Spirit Bomb"ed.
http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/vegetapride/Timeline.html
According to the Dragon Ball Z timeline, it occurred in 774.
- Buu destroys Earth
- Porunga restores the Earth
- Vegeta's life is restored when all "good" people who diedon Earth are wished back to life
- Goku destroys Kid Buu with the Super Spirit Bomb
http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/vegetapride/Timeline.html
Single question. Cut the crap. EXACTLY what are you offering to pay for the role?
I ask on the first phone interview, "how much is this paying." To hell with "etiquette" Stop wasting my time and yours.
I literally get 3-5 recruiter calls and 20-30 recruiter emails DAILY. My first question to every one of them is "What is the maximum hourly rate/salary this role will support?" If the answer isn't at least 15-20% higher than what Im making now I wish them the best of luck in their search.
Only after clearing this hurdle will I even start asking about where the role is, what they are looking for, travel, etc.
OK, let me ballpark what "I" would expect for this role, since Im sure you probably also asked for CISSP and/or additional certifications with your requirements and I will assume you are looking for contract rather than full time employee.
1) network operations back ground - this is $100K/$50.00 hour minimum requirement with 1-2 years experience. Add at least $10.00/hr for every additional year of experience
2) minor software development - depending on languange and the definition of "minor" this could be $40-50.00/hour on its own. As an add-on, you are looking for software development experience in one or more languages on top of someone with network operations experience. These technology tracks are normally diametrically opposed. You should seperate out development requirements as a separate role. A Network operations and security guy isnt going to want to write code and I wouldnt want a code developer managing my network.
3) A security clearance - this means they have either worked for the government, a government supplier or they are ex-military. They will know the value of a security clearance. Add $30.00/hr.
4) strong network security (packet/protocol level) - Now we are talking EXPERIENCED Network operations personnel with knowledge of packet/protocol sniffers, firewalls, probably reverse proxies and security policies and best practices. +$50-75.00/hour.
If you aren't looking to pay $125-150.00/hour for a contractor and $180-200K base salary for employee, you should now understand why you have had your role open for 6 months. If you still don't understand, don't expect to get anyone else willing to waste the time for your interviews for the next 6 months. .02.
My
Maybe someone out there thinks $38K salary with full holidays, vacation, benefits and matching 401K is a "good salary".
Since the vast majority of the people being hired for that level role isn't even getting the "employee" moniker, they are being hired as contractors, I wouldn't take that job for $30.00/hour or about $60K.
I took my first Unix job in 1991 for $35.00/hour and after a year of experience I bumped to $65.00/hour.
I strongly recommend that anyone wishing to excel in any role read the
"21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership" by John C. Maxwell
A Russian moon base that "accidentally" happens to have offensive moon based warheads, lasers, magnetic rail guns or any other type of threatening technology facing the Earth.
http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/strategic-forces/156-electro-magnetic-rail-gun-2.html
Referncing this article:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/02/railguns-for-space-launch.html
"The source of this post is this 10 page IEEE paper, Launch to Space With an Electromagnetic Railgun by Ian R. McNab, Senior Member, IEEE The cost of electricity for a launch will be negligible, as shown below. Barrel life is central to the successful economics for this system. A system might cost $1.3 billion and launch for $500/kg. Recent tests fired 7 pound projectiles at 5637 mph. Lunar escape velocity is 5,324 mph. So the truck sized system is already good enough to launch from the surface of the moon. Classic science fiction "the Moon is Harsh Mistress" by Heinlein could become reality."
"Yes, Europeans and Asians tend to compete between each other in good-hearted sports."
In the immortal words of Indigo Montoya "I do not think this means what you think it means."
Lets see... Europeans who liked military, guns & killing people....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe
Asians who liked military, guns & killing people....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Asia
vs. North America:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_North_America
or just in U.S. History:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_States
I think DoubleSandwich needs to be renamed to DoubleSnobSandwich and shut his pie hole.
"the Airbus A330 suffered a crash during its development, but has gone on to sell over 1,000 examples since."
I think if I was going to buy an Airbus A330, I would want it more than as a crash example, but thats just me.
Its like sex without touching or sports without cheerleaders!
Actually it was the max throughput of a 24 channel channelized T1 at 64Kbit/channel (64Kbps * 24 = 1.536Mbps T1/ 24 channels)=64Kbps-8Kbps per channel. The overhead necessary to frame a T1 is 8Kbps. If you channelize all 24 channels, you lose 8Kbps per channel. Geeks were so anal about the reality of performance they wouldn't let you get away with the current bandwidth blasphemy we have today with DSL so they called a 64kbps modem a 56.6kbps modem because that was the best you would ever really get from it.
First, just to be clear, the only thing you can hold your ISP truly accountable for is what you are actually paying for, which is your first HP latency, that is from the point the packet leaves your local network and enters their network.
Typical latency by connection type:
Ethernet:.3ms
Analog Modem:100-200ms
ISDN:15-30ms
DSL/Cable:10-30ms
Stationary Satellite:>500ms, mostly due to high orbital elevation
DS1/T1:2-5ms
I have had DSL for about 9 years. I have had MRTG monitoring my link to the local DSL router, the remote DSL end point, ATT.com and dslreports.com for pretty much all of that 9 years.
For the last year these are my stats to the far side of my DSL link:
(Max/Average/Current )
High: 957.0 ms 28.0 ms 27.0 ms
Low: 907.0 ms 27.0 ms 25.0 ms
I am 1127feet to my C/O which is about as good as it gets. Anything over 30-35ms and I would be raising holy hell.
In the case of a two-way satellite system, when you request something by clicking on a link, or any other way, that message travels 44,600 miles just to get to the NOC. The stuff coming back to you must travel the reverse route, so the round trip is 89,200 miles.
The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second in a VACUUM,slower through the atmosphere. But even if you assumed 186,000 mps then the total time taken in space travel is about 480ms. Given the atmosphere problem, it is actually more like 500ms. Add to that the terrestrial internet latency, which should be about 100ms. Also you can add delays through transponders, gateways, proxies, etc.
At 300ms your packets are going to a NOC to a Satellite, back and to another NOC for your first hop.
You can see ATT to CenturyLink Latency here and their current average is ~35ms
here.
According to Microsoft all time started on Jan 1, 0001.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.ticks.aspx
No fricking wonder the "system idle process" uses 19% of a cpu. The OS is counting to a billion every second.
Ooops. But they still lots of things in 32bit land, too.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.aspx
Sir, YOU need to wake up to REALITY...
You need to wake up to the reality. The teachers in the district that I live in are legally barred from striking. They are barred from collective bargaining. The do not have "tenure". In their first three years they can be fired for no reason other than "We don't want you anymore". Past that, it only takes some form of documented failure, where that failure can simply be a verbal report by a supervisor. They don't have three months of vacation. They have eight weeks of mandatory furlough. They've had their salaries frozen for three years now (despite the fact that the average person's salary continues to rise) and have zero recourse to complain about it.
Flame on...
Perhaps you don't realise that for most people in the REAL world, the private sector, that is people who don't live their lives off of other peoples taxes, aren't members of any union, get fired for looking the wrong way at their boss after 20 years of service (what the hell is tenure?). They MIGHT get 2 weeks vacation. They MIGHT actually get all government holidays off. They probably have to work the stupid government only ones. They not only haven't gotten a raise in 10 YEARS they probably took a 10-20% pay CUT at LEAST once in the last 2-3 years and if you complain about it they tell you to pound sand and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Heres MY plan for ALL teachers. You work 12 months out of the year. Every year your percentage of students grades and graduation are factored against your salary. 100% graduation with 100% A's and you get 100% of your salary the next year.Sure, the special education teachers will get a break and the "bad school districts" will ask for a break "because our students are at a disadvantage". BS. You want to TEACH? TEACH. You want to warm a seat? Screw tenure. You get paid on your performance, just like the rest of us in the REAL WORLD. In the summer, you teach summer school. You tutor. You paint class rooms. You scrub desks. You TEACH. Or you don't get paid. And you strike, you get fired. And you suck, you get fired. And you don't like it? Get a job in the REAL world.
I need Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access and Visio. The first 3 are probably 95% of the 75% of the business community being referenced. Yes, there are OpenSource compatible equivalents for Word and Excel. There are rudimentary equivalent for Access (Base, Wavemake, Kexi, Glom) but none will import an Access DB directly so transition will be difficult for the enterprise. There is also not treal USEABLE equivalent to Visio. The closest equivalent wouldprobably be either "Open Office Draw" or DIA http://dia-installer.de/index.html.en and there are others (StarUML, ArgoUML, Kivio) however it is not Visio .vsd format compatible for import/export so transition will be problematic and none of the style/templates are going to work so it will be starting from scratch. You would first need to convert everything to UML.br
Could they convert? Yes. Is it EASY to convcert? No. Is it cost prohibitive to convert? For a small company with a TB of data, no. For an enterprise class customer with a few PB (petabyte) of MS Office application documents, it will be incredibly expensive to convert from an application that they get 70-80% discount on enterprise class licenses and 15 years of historical data that would require conversion. This is the FUD presented to the likes of Ford, GM, Chrysler, Boeing, the Government, etc, al the really BIG companies when this discussion arises.
The holy war quickly devolves into a legacy conversion discussion.
So Google Earth got slammed for tracking Wifi Hostpots but APple uses every iPhone to do it for them. Im sure AT&T would love to get their hands on the "whats my closest ATT WiFi hotspot" data.
I wish these MacOS fanbois created a version for Windows/Linux/Java/other.
Does it sit on an IT managed network? Connected to IT managed switches? Does it use IT managed/owned internet access? Did you get approval from IT to connect a server to their managed network and deploy an unapproved service from them before plugging it into the IT managed network?
Im willing to bet the answer to all of the above is "no". You should be prepared for the WWE type smackdown. You should also re-read the Acceptable use policy for your enterprise/organization and you should very politely offer them watever access they desire to allow your unauthorized service on their managed network.
My ,02.
If Microsoft knows a company is using a pirate copy of their software, I have no responsability for A) tracking another entities software use or B) their licensing status. I find this not just rediculous. It is placing Microsoft's burden on companies that may not even be Microsoft's customers. But I can tell you this. Im a Global Architect at a huge US car company. If this passes, I will be making it known on a daily basis that my employer should explore alternative solutions to Microsoft products. Now the MSGM relationship really isn't an appropriate model for this dicussion since GM probably requires indemnification from any lawsuits from any vendor as part of their standard terms and conditions before allowing any product in as a standard. So even in MS did get this passed, GM probably wouldn't care because MS would indemnify GM from MS's suit. The rest of you are all phucked.