we start raising our public education standards to allow students to compete with 3rd-world countries. It's just a shame that it's the public education system itself that still can't compete.
This government, the same one who has no problem allowing China to take hundreds of thousands of jobs away from Americans simply by our failed international trade policies, wants us to worry about national security issues related to 1 corporation. What about all the other national security issues that are caused by trade w. China, or any other socialist/communist country for that matter? What about all the (60%+) staff @ Los Alamos?? Lenovo is the least of my concerns, at this point.
Instead of challenging my brain, they left me bored, which led to me being 'disruptive' in class (like the class clown type), which led to me being labeled with 'behavioral problems', which led to me simply being suspended/expelled everyday (practically), rather than educated properly.
I eventually found an 'alternative education' program at my high school, which was almost like a 'continuation' school, but allowed kids to get an actual diploma. The teachers in that program worked individually with students, in classes of no more than 10 students, which allowed each student to receive the attention they required. Most of the curriculum was geared towards individual-level, rather than group-level, and that proved to be VERY affective, albeit required more effort on the part of the teacher *god forbid*.
There are so many problems with the public education system, it's almost beyond repair at this point. I'd rather educate my children myself, via online-learning, at this point. The anti-social aspect of it, is about the only downside that I can see, if any. Not that I have children, though, yet.
I may be one of the few people who still appreciate Slackware, and wouldn't really change much about it, despite the differences between it and other distros. Those differences are what sets it apart! (imo)
Then most of what you're learning in school, will probably be worthless in the real-world (as is a lot of the times the case), unless your idea of 'real world' involves working as a.NET developer, in which case, I feel for you. =p
IRC, mailing lists, and LUG/SIGs are a great way to get familiar with things, especially IRC, since it's a real-time international discussion.
Find some applications with bugs. Fix the bugs and submit them to the project's BDOL.
If I may suggest, one project that I am particularly fond of, and would like to see it further developed, is multi-aterm.
I was getting anywhere between 3-10 calls (+ emails) per day from recruiters. I specifically listed the 2 cities that I was willing to work, and the technologies that I work with (linux/bash/perl/php/mysql/oracle/etc.), yet 1/5 of most of the calls were for.NET related jobs (which I have no interest or background in), and 98% of the time, the jobs were far from the cities that I specifically stated I'd work in. 2/5 of the time, the jobs were out of state.
Recruiters are the leeches of the IT world, no doubt!
I've met perhaps 3 (out of about 50, over the years) that actually took the time to understand the differences in the technologies and job descriptions that they are recruiting for. I've been sent on wild-goose-chase interviews, and have endured verbal harassment in a few cases by a few IRATE/over-caffeinated recruiters who would be far better off working in a used car lot.
One recruiter from Manpower Professional (I don't remember his name, but that company I won't forget), called me about 2-3 times a day, for 3 days straight. He left 1 message each day, and by the 3rd day, he was yelling and cursing my voice mail for me not calling him back. I'm sorry, but that's just pathetic. Get a new job, buddy.
Since removing my resume from Dice.com, I now receive perhaps 2-5 offers/week (but still don't fit the criteria I'm looking for), and I've since given-up trying to find a new job (for now).
Good riddance, psycho over-caffeinated dice recruiters! Good luck!
Ads on every page from the same centralized (user-tracking) source (i.e. google, doubleclick, etc.)
SEO decepticons. (i.e. blogs)
User Interfaces have changed slightly, but they're still broken.
What was once considered 'immature' designs or 'designs for the mentally challenged' (i.e. huge text, bevels and gradients, huge icons, etc.) are now considered to be the defacto 'standard' for most of these 'bleeding-edge' web 2.0 sites.
I can understand the dumbing-down to meet the mass appeal (as the mass is rather intellectually challenged, and hence, web-challenged), but dumbing-down the development community with 'web 2.0' marketing hype, is another story.
when doing (non-'real-time'-critical) migrations... I find it much less troublesome to just scp the files and then run mysqlcheck to repair the tables on the new server (if required).
As someone who has been wrongfully 'punished' in class (consistantly throughout the years) for expressing vasts depths of intellectual superiority, rather than 'assessed' and properly placed in a program for others like me, who ended-up being educationally-abandoned by the wonderful world of the Academia, I salute you all the bird.
Sincerely, Some high-school drop-out who is (actually) succeeding in life, despite the discouragement and misguidance of the public education system.
I've conformed to cellphone-contract slavery only because all the providers in my area who don't require contracts, simply suck (dropped calls, unattainable service, etc). I'm glad that there are alternatives, but unfortunately they don't provide the quality of service I need/expect.
I also have Cable TV+Net, and am also a victim of said 'bundle' deal from my cable provider. If I switch to DSL, I'll save myself $20/mo if I were to base the cost of cable-net vs. dsl, but since it's in a package, that $20 difference would account for the increase in cost of my remaining items included in that package, so it leaves me w/ no sensible alternative.
I could say 'f U' to it all and move back in to the 1800's way of life, which I'll probably have to do after another year of this unsustainable global economic model that has been thrown in our laps thanks to our short-sighted political and corporate overlords.
Or send her to the NPO I work for. We can (gladly) make her work-off her sentance by making her sit in our NOC and fix all of our broken HP products, or at least get (some of) them to work. =p
What we need are people like Phillip Morris to go out and put cute tux ads near all the candy in liquor stores so that kids will become subliminally addicted to computer science.
The problem isn't free-access to information, the problem is that they won't profit from that free-access, thus causing their capitalistic minds to panic, and spread misinformation to confuse uneducated individuals in to thinking it's 'bad' or 'a socialist/communist agenda', instead of them facing reality and re-thinking (or adjusting) their business model.
This is very similar to what happened with RIAA and Piracy, and how the frail business model (not the piracy) caused Tower Records to go bankrupt.
I worked at home for over 3 years doing telecommuting for a small start-up, and enjoyed every minute of it, despite some of the cons.
Pros:
> work your own schedule > wear whatever you want (even your boxers, only) > Save money on gas > Increased productivity due to isolation > Listen to music as loud as you want/can! > no boss breathing down your neck (but rather via IM instead) > no sick co-workers infecting you with their germs > no office-politics
Cons:
> Anti-social behavioural patterns > Distractions (TV, Telemarketers, Fridge) > Consuming your life with your work > Consuming your work with your life > No benefits (if 1099) > get treated like a contractor (even if you are technically an employee)
Some of the note-worthy issues that made me switch from telecommuter/contractor to FT in-house cubicle farm slave...
1) I was working on average of 10-16 hour days, from home, to prove that I was not only doing my job, but accountable for my time and hours.
2) When I asked for an increase in my salary, I was told that because I am working from home, that I am 'unaccountable' for my time and efforts, even though the managers knew damn-well that I was working 10-12 hour days, and the work I did (err, product I made for them) transformed their 4 man start-up to a 120man multi-national, multi-million dollar corporation.
For the most part, I still prefer to work at home, on my own, with no distractions or office politics/strife.
However, it's not something I can do forever (nor is being a full-time cubicle farmer), and it's not for everyone.
I think that 'work ethics' need to evolve. This is a digital age, and face-time is a 20th century excuse for an archaic work-force mentality that is no longer relevent in this globalized economic structure.
I've interviewed, hired, and trained people with less qualifications than people who (may) have had a lot of experience and skills but were cursed with egotistical (geek-snob/fanboy/greek-god-like) attitudes. You're no world star, get over yourself. I don't expect everybody to know everything, all of the time. I'd much rather train someone who needed a bit of direction, rather than work side-by-side with someone who wanks to the mirror chanting quotes from WoW all day.
Slashdot Mirror
we start raising our public education standards to allow students to compete with 3rd-world countries. It's just a shame that it's the public education system itself that still can't compete.
Slashdot gets Two Millionth *Pointless* Article... ...more to come.
This government, the same one who has no problem allowing China to take hundreds of thousands of jobs away from Americans simply by our failed international trade policies, wants us to worry about national security issues related to 1 corporation. What about all the other national security issues that are caused by trade w. China, or any other socialist/communist country for that matter? What about all the (60%+) staff @ Los Alamos?? Lenovo is the least of my concerns, at this point.
Instead of challenging my brain, they left me bored, which led to me being 'disruptive' in class (like the class clown type), which led to me being labeled with 'behavioral problems', which led to me simply being suspended/expelled everyday (practically), rather than educated properly.
I eventually found an 'alternative education' program at my high school, which was almost like a 'continuation' school, but allowed kids to get an actual diploma. The teachers in that program worked individually with students, in classes of no more than 10 students, which allowed each student to receive the attention they required. Most of the curriculum was geared towards individual-level, rather than group-level, and that proved to be VERY affective, albeit required more effort on the part of the teacher *god forbid*.
There are so many problems with the public education system, it's almost beyond repair at this point. I'd rather educate my children myself, via online-learning, at this point. The anti-social aspect of it, is about the only downside that I can see, if any. Not that I have children, though, yet.
I may be one of the few people who still appreciate Slackware, and wouldn't really change much about it, despite the differences between it and other distros. Those differences are what sets it apart! (imo)
Cheers
Then most of what you're learning in school, will probably be worthless in the real-world (as is a lot of the times the case), unless your idea of 'real world' involves working as a .NET developer, in which case, I feel for you. =p
IRC, mailing lists, and LUG/SIGs are a great way to get familiar with things, especially IRC, since it's a real-time international discussion.
Find some applications with bugs. Fix the bugs and submit them to the project's BDOL.
If I may suggest, one project that I am particularly fond of, and would like to see it further developed, is multi-aterm.
I was getting anywhere between 3-10 calls (+ emails) per day from recruiters. I specifically listed the 2 cities that I was willing to work, and the technologies that I work with (linux/bash/perl/php/mysql/oracle/etc.), yet 1/5 of most of the calls were for .NET related jobs (which I have no interest or background in), and 98% of the time, the jobs were far from the cities that I specifically stated I'd work in. 2/5 of the time, the jobs were out of state.
Recruiters are the leeches of the IT world, no doubt!
I've met perhaps 3 (out of about 50, over the years) that actually took the time to understand the differences in the technologies and job descriptions that they are recruiting for. I've been sent on wild-goose-chase interviews, and have endured verbal harassment in a few cases by a few IRATE/over-caffeinated recruiters who would be far better off working in a used car lot.
One recruiter from Manpower Professional (I don't remember his name, but that company I won't forget), called me about 2-3 times a day, for 3 days straight. He left 1 message each day, and by the 3rd day, he was yelling and cursing my voice mail for me not calling him back. I'm sorry, but that's just pathetic. Get a new job, buddy.
Since removing my resume from Dice.com, I now receive perhaps 2-5 offers/week (but still don't fit the criteria I'm looking for), and I've since given-up trying to find a new job (for now).
Good riddance, psycho over-caffeinated dice recruiters! Good luck!
*lose my #, plz. thx*
What a waste of time and tax payer resources.
Why didn't the owners/staff of the cafe simply ask him to not use their wifi?
If they did, and he continued to do it, THEN legal matters should have proceeded. I can't believe they actually pressed charges like that though. lame
Now he has a (felony) criminal record, which will affect him when applying for new jobs in the future. For what?
Ruining his career is more of a crime than anything he did. These people enforcing these laws are simply incapable of making rational decisions. =(
*looks around*
Looks like the same old web to me!
User Interfaces have changed slightly, but they're still broken.
What was once considered 'immature' designs or 'designs for the mentally challenged' (i.e. huge text, bevels and gradients, huge icons, etc.) are now considered to be the defacto 'standard' for most of these 'bleeding-edge' web 2.0 sites.
I can understand the dumbing-down to meet the mass appeal (as the mass is rather intellectually challenged, and hence, web-challenged), but dumbing-down the development community with 'web 2.0' marketing hype, is another story.
Kool-aid.2.0 - no thanks!
I guess that means the stock market won't crash for a long time! =p
Articles like this put slashdot up there in the 'digg.com' category of 'useless misinformation distribution' web sites, imho.
when doing (non-'real-time'-critical) migrations... I find it much less troublesome to just scp the files and then run mysqlcheck to repair the tables on the new server (if required).
http://www.seanodonnell.com/code/?id=66
That process prevents the syntax conversion issues, storage and bandwidth requirements, and processing-time requirements caused by using mysqldump.
As someone who has been wrongfully 'punished' in class (consistantly throughout the years) for expressing vasts depths of intellectual superiority, rather than 'assessed' and properly placed in a program for others like me, who ended-up being educationally-abandoned by the wonderful world of the Academia, I salute you all the bird.
Sincerely,
Some high-school drop-out who is (actually) succeeding in life, despite the discouragement and misguidance of the public education system.
I've conformed to cellphone-contract slavery only because all the providers in my area who don't require contracts, simply suck (dropped calls, unattainable service, etc). I'm glad that there are alternatives, but unfortunately they don't provide the quality of service I need/expect.
I also have Cable TV+Net, and am also a victim of said 'bundle' deal from my cable provider. If I switch to DSL, I'll save myself $20/mo if I were to base the cost of cable-net vs. dsl, but since it's in a package, that $20 difference would account for the increase in cost of my remaining items included in that package, so it leaves me w/ no sensible alternative.
I could say 'f U' to it all and move back in to the 1800's way of life, which I'll probably have to do after another year of this unsustainable global economic model that has been thrown in our laps thanks to our short-sighted political and corporate overlords.
Nothing a bit of TOR or some creative proxying can't circumvent, assuming they can access the WAN at all.
Albeit most (mortals) don't know what TOR or Proxies are, but the ones you should worry about, probably do. =p
Or send her to the NPO I work for. We can (gladly) make her work-off her sentance by making her sit in our NOC and fix all of our broken HP products, or at least get (some of) them to work. =p
What we need are people like Phillip Morris to go out and put cute tux ads near all the candy in liquor stores so that kids will become subliminally addicted to computer science.
never to argue with handicapped or mentally-challenged people who advocate the use of firearms, even if it's just online!
I think that is more of the shocker here.
The problem isn't free-access to information, the problem is that they won't profit from that free-access, thus causing their capitalistic minds to panic, and spread misinformation to confuse uneducated individuals in to thinking it's 'bad' or 'a socialist/communist agenda', instead of them facing reality and re-thinking (or adjusting) their business model.
This is very similar to what happened with RIAA and Piracy, and how the frail business model (not the piracy) caused Tower Records to go bankrupt.
So futile.
silly web2.0 fanboy, tags are for kids!
I worked at home for over 3 years doing telecommuting for a small start-up, and enjoyed every minute of it, despite some of the cons.
Pros:
> work your own schedule
> wear whatever you want (even your boxers, only)
> Save money on gas
> Increased productivity due to isolation
> Listen to music as loud as you want/can!
> no boss breathing down your neck (but rather via IM instead)
> no sick co-workers infecting you with their germs
> no office-politics
Cons:
> Anti-social behavioural patterns
> Distractions (TV, Telemarketers, Fridge)
> Consuming your life with your work
> Consuming your work with your life
> No benefits (if 1099)
> get treated like a contractor (even if you are technically an employee)
Some of the note-worthy issues that made me switch from telecommuter/contractor to FT in-house cubicle farm slave...
1) I was working on average of 10-16 hour days, from home, to prove that I was not only doing my job, but accountable for my time and hours.
2) When I asked for an increase in my salary, I was told that because I am working from home, that I am 'unaccountable' for my time and efforts, even though the managers knew damn-well that I was working 10-12 hour days, and the work I did (err, product I made for them) transformed their 4 man start-up to a 120man multi-national, multi-million dollar corporation.
For the most part, I still prefer to work at home, on my own, with no distractions or office politics/strife.
However, it's not something I can do forever (nor is being a full-time cubicle farmer), and it's not for everyone.
I think that 'work ethics' need to evolve. This is a digital age, and face-time is a 20th century excuse for an archaic work-force mentality that is no longer relevent in this globalized economic structure.
1) keep buying walmart/target 'made in china' products.
2) keep selling out your country for a short-term reward by offshoring/outsourcing.
3) watch your country's economy fall apart and while you learn to speak mandarin.
4) profit!!
Globalization is bad for Americans. Don't let these elitist conglomerates misinform you. Do the math.
I've interviewed, hired, and trained people with less qualifications than people who (may) have had a lot of experience and skills but were cursed with egotistical (geek-snob/fanboy/greek-god-like) attitudes. You're no world star, get over yourself. I don't expect everybody to know everything, all of the time. I'd much rather train someone who needed a bit of direction, rather than work side-by-side with someone who wanks to the mirror chanting quotes from WoW all day.
ioops, I did it again!