ummmmm, dumbass thing to do, unless I know who controls the router with default settings I keep away from it. You ever heard the term honeypot? while you were re-routing a honeypot they were logging your mac and setting root kits on your '1337' hacking box.
Needless to say, don't dick around with other peoples APs some are wide open just to bait script kiddies like yourself.
As I said I used to be a firewire fan, ran it whenever I could for many of the reasons in this thread. What happened in my world? I and most of my clients stopped using it. I really dont know why, could have been the whole MS pushing it, or it could have been its cheap implementation. I miss 1394, however, unless you get into AV, or are a heavy OSX user you just dont see it that much in my world. When the situations call for it, and eSata is not available, chances are you are probably in a situation where CAT-5 is the option. No I dont do much with video cameras and high end audio. My phone, PDAs, Printers, small electronic devices of pretty much any kind all deal with USB. Firewire wont die for a long time, it has its corner. So in that aspect I mispoke because it doesnt flat out beat firewire anymore than VHS flat out beat Beta, or Blueray flat out bead HD (OK bad example). But as the business world goes, walk into any corporate office and do a survey, and unless it is a mac office, or a AV company, chances are you will be very hard pressed to find many devices that use Firewire.
Of course not much of this really matters because the world is heading to one or another wireless technologies, but physical connectors will probably always be used for AV, which means, long term firewire will win the cable battle.
Firewire is great because it gets its tech out just a little faster than USB, but USB is always right on its heels. With more and more mobile devices becoming USB dependent you will see manufacturers start cutting costs on video cameras and Motherboards by not including the niche only firewire. I used to be a huge firewire fan but when it comes down to it, USB just flat out beats the 1394 standards.
Thanks for the pedantic preface:) evidentially it is true "tell a lie often enough...." I get caught with the basic misdemeanor.
But you are definitely correct, at one time I was looking at upgrading to a better vid card but for $150 more I could get a new processor, mobo and vid card and RAM. But then I found a decent AGP card for cheap and that blew my potential upgrade out of the water:)
Just because someone needs to correct you. You can still get an AGP version of many great video cards, it is just cheaper to get PCI-X. Many MOBOs come with PATA-SATA connectors and if they don't they are readily available and very inexpensive. Almost all video cards I know of come with a DVI to analog connector so new monitor is out. You either are not familiar with PC hardware or just don't know any better so you are excused.
But just like consoles, yes you have to do a major upgrade of your PC every once in a while. You might have to spend $300-$500 on new parts, but when you figure that with my gaming PC (still AGP btw) is about 5-6 years old and can keep up with most games today I am getting a pretty good bang for my buck. With the X-box you probably bought one in in 2001 and didn't see a performance upgrade until 2005 and here we are in 2008 with the x-box slowly falling behind again in hardware.
However, you are correct, multi player requires multiple PCs but hell PC gamers have been doing multi player over the net since the early 90s. Multi player on console required you to share a room until recent years.
That all being said. I am all for this new era of extra powerful semi PC consoles. I can see consoles getting to the point where PCs are where they become modular and you just upgrade parts. The N64 started doing that with memory expansions, but the only console I have owned since then has been a Wii:)
Well put my good sir, the problem with any ideology is that when the fanboys forget that people are greedy gluttonous creatures that will exploit a system to their advantage given any chance. I read Ryand, it is a decent idea but just like any other idology will never work. Blended ideas and systems are the only way things will work...but this may just be anothe ridology...
You must be under 30 because what you just described sounds like the 60's and 70s to me....maybe just a smidge into the 80s (you did mention Nixon I will concede). Oh hell, pretty much this whole last century. But being the anti-conservative you are, post AC, making outlandish fanboy emotional claims that really...really are getting old. BTW I am not Republican nor do I ever intend on registering as one but whoever you are makes me ashamed to be lumped in with liberals and this mindset that will turn on you when we get our liberal president this election thus giving liberals the clout they have been whining about not having all these years. soon all the propaganda will be bitch slapping politics putting you on the defense complaining on how the next president's term is going so badly because of how jacked up the GOP made things....it is a wonderful cycle.
Being a die hard believer myself I agree with you, it sucks being in a group that is largely made up of people who would take a several million dollar hit because 3 words were incorrect in a new revision of the book of Concord, but wont take 5 minutes to think about old earth vs new earth philosophy. Or study the different areas of evolution; macro, micro, or adaptation. It is so easy to crush these strawmen that Christianity puts up, people no longer take the religion seriously even though there is a lot of good stuff in the Theology.
Sigh... thus is the plight of the educated christian.
Oh I agree! Checklists are a staple of my everyday life. However, when you have to detail your checklists to, press start go to programs, click on admin tools....etc rather than just saying add the user to Domain users group X. My lists assume a certain lvl of expertise based on the target user. But if another company wants to maintain lists for coworkers without any experience then that is their prerogative.
Of course I am a big fan of scripting so the point is moot:)
Regardless of if the market is tight or not. Hubris is a serious detriment to any company. Just as bad as any other bad personality trait such as laziness or social ineptness. Why would I hire the socially inept or a lazy person?
If you ARE that good, then your interview and resume will show it. You don't need to push it over the top with a bad attitude.
1) A gaming PC will cost you $500, last time I checked consoles cost about the same.
2) Consoles frequently have OS and hardware issues as well, difference being, you dont have to ship a PC to Taiwan to get a part repaired.
3) PC games unlike console games get fixed and patched quickly, with consoles you just live with the bug, oh and the graphics are about 2 generations behind. With PC games sure they are buggy but you get them about 18 months faster. Considering that once the game has been out long enough that it would actually be on the console it is all patched up isnt too bad of a deal. What if you got the chance to play halo 4 a year in advance but there was a couple minor flaws in it?
4) Consoles have improved but the games have yet to tap them, also when you upgrade a console you spend a good $600 to buy the new console and controllers, with PCs you spend $150 on a new graphics card.
Of course all this is moot because in my opinion PCs arent supposed to be for gaming, they are for a plethora of other things. Keep the games on the consoles and Computers will run much better because the kiddies wont be on the PC dicking it all up.
Well in my world that is why almost every posting I know of is BS or equivalent work experience. A BS usually shows follow through but not necessarily. I will hire a non BS with a resume to back it up over the crappy BA in Social Sciences crap that I used to work for.
In the interviews I hold, 90% of it is the attitude the individual has. If you are an elitist jerk who gives em the impression you are doing me a favor by interviewing. I will never hire. Ever. However if you have a positive attitude, smile during the interview, and have a good background, I will hire you over the elitist BS anyday. This is coming from a guy who has hired $40/hr employees fwiw.
And I will second that, I am sure in other parts of the country, skilled IT are a dime a dozen. But where I am at (Midwest) actual skilled IT people are hard to find. Sure you can find the guy/girl who was promoted to IT from accounting back in the 90s but that doesn't make them a skilled pro. Show me a cross reference of IT folks who actually know what they are doing, have a passion for it, and I bet that subset is really small. I have no need for joe basement dweller who runs his guild website and knows how to install a video card. I also dont have any need for dilbert principle folks who are in waaaay over their heads and cannot configure a server without serious handholding or an in depth checklist.
As for Numerical, I was getting rather tired of Math until I took that class. Probably one of the greatest learning experiences for me in my CS program was finally getting what math was. Before you are following patterns and regurgitating them. Finally in Numerical you see math in a new light and start seeing logic in a whole new way, at least for me that is the way it was.
I started off as one of those, "what the hell does CS have to do with the real world? Im bored and this is doign me no good" kids. Wasnt until over halfway through my Sophomore year did I start to figure out what my profs were saying. then at the end my my Jr Year that if I was going to get a job in the Computer field, I had better get some experience or I was screwed:) I guess good thing for us the world hasnt figured out that a BS in CS doesnt give you any knowledge in the business sector. However, chances are that if you are bright enough to make it through the CS program you are a lot quicker in learning new concepts and people wont notice your lack of skills:) I know I accellerated waaaay past people in the job I took who had been working there 5 years before me within a few months. Now 6 years out of college I have a lot of experience under my belt and a lot of wisdom gathered from my CS days under me, which is noticable to my supervisors/CFOs that evaluate me every year.
The need for excessive math and science that you mention will become clear when you bind it with a class like Numerical Analysis. The level of math involved in things like raytracing, encryption algorithms, and pathfinding are impressive. Hell, even in your Metasploit project there is an insane amount of math involved in making sure each exploit runs at an optimum efficiency. Studied big O'h notation yet?
The programming classes should bore you out of your gord if algorithm analysis doesn't tickle your fancy though. CS doesn't teach you how to program, it teaches you how to think computationally. I am a sys admin now and I use my CS knowledge as much as any developer would or a hardware engineer would.
That being said, back to your math comment, I would say that CS is probably a lot more about math than programming. Programming is just a tool to show how to use the computational Sciences work on mechanical devices today.
And now for the obligatory quote that needs to be restated every time there is a CS article on/. "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.-"
E. W. Dijkstra
Take that into consideration and enjoy your CS classes in a new light, if not, change colleges and go for a dev degree or an MIS, it might help you more (Honestly) than a CS degree will in your Professional career.
And dont ever forget to rule out the dilbert principle:
The Dilbert Principle refers to a 1990s satirical observation stating that companies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to management (generally middle management), in order to limit the amount of damage they're capable of doing.
or the Peter Principle
"In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
Exactly, in my opinion, once you find a good headhunter, it is much like a car salesman. Stick with em! A bad salesman can be written off pretty quick, a good one that matches your business is an incredible asset just like a reliable vendor.
Well so far I have stayed away from corporate headhunters. I stuck with smaller offices where they have great reviews from clients. The two I use currently consist of a Consulting/placement firm of abotu 8 people whose business won some local awards and are known for a very vigorous screening process. The other one was a pleasant experience that I got on chance. Sole owner/operator person very professional and charismatic. She understands what I am looking for and has matched several dev friends up with good companies. She also has me sold in her follow up and prep for interviews. Really cuts down interview time. Better to have someone else do the footwork when hiring or looking for a job.
I stay away from businesses where there are no feedback reviews, where I dont get personal contact and the headhunter obviously doesnt understand tech and is just faking it.
Ick, the hunters I go through are reasearched by me. If they arent up to par or exceeding it I dont bother. I lucked out with my first two. However I have seen headhunter factories where they just try to push out people as fast as possible as they get paid per client.
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Same way autorun works from a CD :) enjoy!
I am against letting users manage their own PCs unless you are in a tech firm. Because when user X loses a document guess who gets the blame ;)
It is already widely done, check out college campuses and any college student.
Needless to say, don't dick around with other peoples APs some are wide open just to bait script kiddies like yourself.
Of course not much of this really matters because the world is heading to one or another wireless technologies, but physical connectors will probably always be used for AV, which means, long term firewire will win the cable battle.
Firewire is great because it gets its tech out just a little faster than USB, but USB is always right on its heels. With more and more mobile devices becoming USB dependent you will see manufacturers start cutting costs on video cameras and Motherboards by not including the niche only firewire. I used to be a huge firewire fan but when it comes down to it, USB just flat out beats the 1394 standards.
But you are definitely correct, at one time I was looking at upgrading to a better vid card but for $150 more I could get a new processor, mobo and vid card and RAM. But then I found a decent AGP card for cheap and that blew my potential upgrade out of the water :)
But just like consoles, yes you have to do a major upgrade of your PC every once in a while. You might have to spend $300-$500 on new parts, but when you figure that with my gaming PC (still AGP btw) is about 5-6 years old and can keep up with most games today I am getting a pretty good bang for my buck. With the X-box you probably bought one in in 2001 and didn't see a performance upgrade until 2005 and here we are in 2008 with the x-box slowly falling behind again in hardware.
However, you are correct, multi player requires multiple PCs but hell PC gamers have been doing multi player over the net since the early 90s. Multi player on console required you to share a room until recent years.
That all being said. I am all for this new era of extra powerful semi PC consoles. I can see consoles getting to the point where PCs are where they become modular and you just upgrade parts. The N64 started doing that with memory expansions, but the only console I have owned since then has been a Wii :)
Well put my good sir, the problem with any ideology is that when the fanboys forget that people are greedy gluttonous creatures that will exploit a system to their advantage given any chance. I read Ryand, it is a decent idea but just like any other idology will never work. Blended ideas and systems are the only way things will work...but this may just be anothe ridology...
You must be under 30 because what you just described sounds like the 60's and 70s to me....maybe just a smidge into the 80s (you did mention Nixon I will concede). Oh hell, pretty much this whole last century. But being the anti-conservative you are, post AC, making outlandish fanboy emotional claims that really...really are getting old. BTW I am not Republican nor do I ever intend on registering as one but whoever you are makes me ashamed to be lumped in with liberals and this mindset that will turn on you when we get our liberal president this election thus giving liberals the clout they have been whining about not having all these years. soon all the propaganda will be bitch slapping politics putting you on the defense complaining on how the next president's term is going so badly because of how jacked up the GOP made things....it is a wonderful cycle.
Sigh... thus is the plight of the educated christian.
Of course I am a big fan of scripting so the point is moot :)
If you ARE that good, then your interview and resume will show it. You don't need to push it over the top with a bad attitude.
2) Consoles frequently have OS and hardware issues as well, difference being, you dont have to ship a PC to Taiwan to get a part repaired.
3) PC games unlike console games get fixed and patched quickly, with consoles you just live with the bug, oh and the graphics are about 2 generations behind. With PC games sure they are buggy but you get them about 18 months faster. Considering that once the game has been out long enough that it would actually be on the console it is all patched up isnt too bad of a deal. What if you got the chance to play halo 4 a year in advance but there was a couple minor flaws in it?
4) Consoles have improved but the games have yet to tap them, also when you upgrade a console you spend a good $600 to buy the new console and controllers, with PCs you spend $150 on a new graphics card.
Of course all this is moot because in my opinion PCs arent supposed to be for gaming, they are for a plethora of other things. Keep the games on the consoles and Computers will run much better because the kiddies wont be on the PC dicking it all up.
Ya how about that strawman....no mention of musicmatch, Winamp, or any of the many players that actually do give MP a run for its money.
All the above. Anything encompassed by Information Technology, besides this is /. generalizations are our game here.
In the interviews I hold, 90% of it is the attitude the individual has. If you are an elitist jerk who gives em the impression you are doing me a favor by interviewing. I will never hire. Ever. However if you have a positive attitude, smile during the interview, and have a good background, I will hire you over the elitist BS anyday. This is coming from a guy who has hired $40/hr employees fwiw.
And I will second that, I am sure in other parts of the country, skilled IT are a dime a dozen. But where I am at (Midwest) actual skilled IT people are hard to find. Sure you can find the guy/girl who was promoted to IT from accounting back in the 90s but that doesn't make them a skilled pro. Show me a cross reference of IT folks who actually know what they are doing, have a passion for it, and I bet that subset is really small. I have no need for joe basement dweller who runs his guild website and knows how to install a video card. I also dont have any need for dilbert principle folks who are in waaaay over their heads and cannot configure a server without serious handholding or an in depth checklist.
As for Numerical, I was getting rather tired of Math until I took that class. Probably one of the greatest learning experiences for me in my CS program was finally getting what math was. Before you are following patterns and regurgitating them. Finally in Numerical you see math in a new light and start seeing logic in a whole new way, at least for me that is the way it was.
I started off as one of those, "what the hell does CS have to do with the real world? Im bored and this is doign me no good" kids. Wasnt until over halfway through my Sophomore year did I start to figure out what my profs were saying. then at the end my my Jr Year that if I was going to get a job in the Computer field, I had better get some experience or I was screwed :) I guess good thing for us the world hasnt figured out that a BS in CS doesnt give you any knowledge in the business sector. However, chances are that if you are bright enough to make it through the CS program you are a lot quicker in learning new concepts and people wont notice your lack of skills :) I know I accellerated waaaay past people in the job I took who had been working there 5 years before me within a few months. Now 6 years out of college I have a lot of experience under my belt and a lot of wisdom gathered from my CS days under me, which is noticable to my supervisors/CFOs that evaluate me every year.
The programming classes should bore you out of your gord if algorithm analysis doesn't tickle your fancy though. CS doesn't teach you how to program, it teaches you how to think computationally. I am a sys admin now and I use my CS knowledge as much as any developer would or a hardware engineer would.
That being said, back to your math comment, I would say that CS is probably a lot more about math than programming. Programming is just a tool to show how to use the computational Sciences work on mechanical devices today.
And now for the obligatory quote that needs to be restated every time there is a CS article on /. "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.-"
E. W. Dijkstra
Take that into consideration and enjoy your CS classes in a new light, if not, change colleges and go for a dev degree or an MIS, it might help you more (Honestly) than a CS degree will in your Professional career.
The Dilbert Principle refers to a 1990s satirical observation stating that companies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to management (generally middle management), in order to limit the amount of damage they're capable of doing.
or the Peter Principle
"In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
Class A people hire class A people
Class B people hire class C people
I think that is spot on.
Exactly, in my opinion, once you find a good headhunter, it is much like a car salesman. Stick with em! A bad salesman can be written off pretty quick, a good one that matches your business is an incredible asset just like a reliable vendor.
I stay away from businesses where there are no feedback reviews, where I dont get personal contact and the headhunter obviously doesnt understand tech and is just faking it.
Ick, the hunters I go through are reasearched by me. If they arent up to par or exceeding it I dont bother. I lucked out with my first two. However I have seen headhunter factories where they just try to push out people as fast as possible as they get paid per client.