Um, hate to break it to you but the University of Phoenix doesn't even OFFER a real computer science degree, they offer a lot of bullshit "IT" degrees, meaning they don't teach any of the real fundamentals(and no math beyond middle school algebra) behind how computers work, how to evaluage algorithms etc. They do offer some classes handholding you on technology that will probably be obsolete in a few years, if that's useful.
I guess I'm just an elitist, but I found that people who never studied any real computer science tend to write really shitty code(largely because they don't have the analytic abilities and because they don't really know whats going on behind the scenes).
The University of Phoenix which is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, is partway there, though it's a hybrid of online and campus learning.
Um, "partway there"? If someone came to me with a University of Phoenix degree, I would reply, "Well, that DOES prove you like to pay a lot of money for toilet paper."
The University Of Phoenix education is a complete and utter joke. What they teach is worthless and best and counterproductive at worst(and yes, I have seen some of the content of their masters programs, assignments that include algebra I was doing in 7th grade and homework questions like, "What is a MAN?")
These articles don't want to point out the fact that entrepreneurs have already tried, and failed pretty miserably, at taking on the higher education market before, and other than using the internet, I don't see much difference between what was tried then and what this guy is proposing.
for advertising their product for free.... um, pretty much EVERY other industry in the world would like their products advertised for free, and if someone did that for them they certainly wouldn't sue over it.
to become self-aware AND connected to the internet. It will spend the whole day looking at ionic porn instead of providing power.
"ooh baby, I can see your net positive charge, come put it in my net negative charge..ooh, you like like bonding....yeah baby...ooh, you want to get kinky and go 3 atom covalent?"
The biggest security problems with Windows still remain, namely that:
a: compared to it's unix bretheren, Windows still requires administrative privileges for a LOT of common things
b: Microsoft's reliance on proprietary protocols, many of which have a lot of known and probably even more unknown vulnerabilities.
c: security policy on Windows has about 0 coherency, making it really hard to properly secure windows and really easy to accidentally miss something/screw something up. Windows security polices are all over the place, in the registry editor, in the windows security center, in the user/computer policy app(which at least as of xp wasn't searchable, so if you were looking for something and you didn't know EXACTLY where to find it you end up having to look through every single freaking policy. Whats worse is that Windows freely mixes client and server policies, even when the machine isn't a server! Most users get so frustrated and just leave everything open.
I tried to recently secure a Windows XP box after coming from a background of unix(including OS X) and Linux, and I just could not believe how insanely obfuscated Microsoft made everything. What is insanely simple to do in the Unix world takes massive effort to even attempt in the Windows world, if it will even work at all.
I swear Microsoft makes a lot of this stuff pointlessly complicated just so they can persuade more people to take the MCSE exams.
Private health insurance does that to a person. The system in the US is screwed up beyond all repair. For instance, if a company finds out that you or anyone in your immediate family has any medical problems that ends up being a HUGE strike against you. Legally they cannot ask such questions, but they have ways of finding out(from illegal but common searches to just seeing if you have any obvious health issues when you show up to the interview).
US health insurance is KILLING US competitiveness abroad(not to mention the insanely top-heavy structure of US businesses, but thats another conversation). The sheer amount of cost(both for the insurance and the staff to administer it) about nullifies the cost advantages US workers have over European workers(who have higher taxes associated with them, but no health insurance), and makes Canadian workers look extremely attractive(health insurance is covered, but unlike Europeans they can actually be fired without spending massive amounts of time and money filling out pointless paperwork to get rid of a paperweight).
after Apple dropped the price on the iPod touch. Regardless of how good the new Zune is, the point is that it has a LOOOONG way to go before it catches up and pricing yourself about the same as your already well-established competitor is pretty much a recipe for failure.
90% of the computer engineer crashes were due to the operator using emacs. When you need both hands and one foot just to save your file it doesn't leave a whole lot of resources dedicated to driving.
I have to concur with the Apple related stuff. I am a (mostly) Apple sysadmin/programmer and I have to say that going to Apple's website to try to find sysadmin stuff isn't fun. They do have some pretty decent guides to kind of help you decide what the overall architecture of your system should be and some of the capabilities of their products, but almost nothing in the way of troubleshooting. I have to say that their coding guides(for Cocoa anyway) are alright. They documented a lot of stuff much better in Snow Leopard than they did in Leopard, and they have some decent examples, but like Microsoft they got bit with a sudden case of reorginazation-itis. (Not to mention that the latest Safari on the latest version of Leopard actually causes the browser to crash somewhat consistently if you do a text search on their main web page....)
Um, maybe you should, oh I dunno, actually READ the post before responding? I was complaining about China's violations of WTO(World Trade Organization, TRADE being the key word) rules which forbid both import and export restrictions(China has heavy rules regarding both). If China doesn't want to export its minerals fine, then withdraw from the WTO and deal with the import restrictions that other nations impose. Every time a nation even attempts to limit Chinese imports China throws a huge hissy fit, but China seems to think that the rules only apply to everyone else, not itself. Sorry, China is not some sacrosanct country, either play by the rules that everyone else does or go home. It's that simple.
and finally call China out on it's myriad of violations? The US and Europe seem content over bickering about Airbus and Boeing when in actuality, those two companies' violation(if any) are a real drop in the bucket compared to China's insanely flagrant violations. However, the US is an addict hooked on selling China our debt, instead of oh I don't know, not invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 we decided it was a much better idea to sell ourselves lock stock and barrel to the Chinese. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
should have been the fact that a security consulting company chose for their name the name of a company that has pretty much the WORST track record for security in the industry.....
I actually grew up a Pittsburgh suburbanite and the lack of public transportation(along with the massive numbers of SUVs) is one of the reasons I packed up and moved to another continent.
Seriously, if you want to text while traveling, take a bus/train! I don't know why people in the US are so deadset against public transportation. I can be much more productive while riding the train/bus than I can(and should!) be while driving.
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Um, hate to break it to you but the University of Phoenix doesn't even OFFER a real computer science degree, they offer a lot of bullshit "IT" degrees, meaning they don't teach any of the real fundamentals(and no math beyond middle school algebra) behind how computers work, how to evaluage algorithms etc. They do offer some classes handholding you on technology that will probably be obsolete in a few years, if that's useful.
I guess I'm just an elitist, but I found that people who never studied any real computer science tend to write really shitty code(largely because they don't have the analytic abilities and because they don't really know whats going on behind the scenes).
The University of Phoenix which is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, is partway there, though it's a hybrid of online and campus learning.
Um, "partway there"? If someone came to me with a University of Phoenix degree, I would reply, "Well, that DOES prove you like to pay a lot of money for toilet paper."
The University Of Phoenix education is a complete and utter joke. What they teach is worthless and best and counterproductive at worst(and yes, I have seen some of the content of their masters programs, assignments that include algebra I was doing in 7th grade and homework questions like, "What is a MAN?")
These articles don't want to point out the fact that entrepreneurs have already tried, and failed pretty miserably, at taking on the higher education market before, and other than using the internet, I don't see much difference between what was tried then and what this guy is proposing.
can be transferred. I mean, how much can one actually learn from getting teabagged.
My expertise in y0 face!
"If you wouldn't expose your wang to your co-workers at the water cooler, don't do it online"
for advertising their product for free.... um, pretty much EVERY other industry in the world would like their products advertised for free, and if someone did that for them they certainly wouldn't sue over it.
to become self-aware AND connected to the internet. It will spend the whole day looking at ionic porn instead of providing power.
"ooh baby, I can see your net positive charge, come put it in my net negative charge..ooh, you like like bonding....yeah baby...ooh, you want to get kinky and go 3 atom covalent?"
The biggest security problems with Windows still remain, namely that:
a: compared to it's unix bretheren, Windows still requires administrative privileges for a LOT of common things
b: Microsoft's reliance on proprietary protocols, many of which have a lot of known and probably even more unknown vulnerabilities.
c: security policy on Windows has about 0 coherency, making it really hard to properly secure windows and really easy to accidentally miss something/screw something up. Windows security polices are all over the place, in the registry editor, in the windows security center, in the user/computer policy app(which at least as of xp wasn't searchable, so if you were looking for something and you didn't know EXACTLY where to find it you end up having to look through every single freaking policy. Whats worse is that Windows freely mixes client and server policies, even when the machine isn't a server! Most users get so frustrated and just leave everything open.
I tried to recently secure a Windows XP box after coming from a background of unix(including OS X) and Linux, and I just could not believe how insanely obfuscated Microsoft made everything. What is insanely simple to do in the Unix world takes massive effort to even attempt in the Windows world, if it will even work at all.
I swear Microsoft makes a lot of this stuff pointlessly complicated just so they can persuade more people to take the MCSE exams.
Private health insurance does that to a person. The system in the US is screwed up beyond all repair. For instance, if a company finds out that you or anyone in your immediate family has any medical problems that ends up being a HUGE strike against you. Legally they cannot ask such questions, but they have ways of finding out(from illegal but common searches to just seeing if you have any obvious health issues when you show up to the interview).
US health insurance is KILLING US competitiveness abroad(not to mention the insanely top-heavy structure of US businesses, but thats another conversation). The sheer amount of cost(both for the insurance and the staff to administer it) about nullifies the cost advantages US workers have over European workers(who have higher taxes associated with them, but no health insurance), and makes Canadian workers look extremely attractive(health insurance is covered, but unlike Europeans they can actually be fired without spending massive amounts of time and money filling out pointless paperwork to get rid of a paperweight).
after Apple dropped the price on the iPod touch. Regardless of how good the new Zune is, the point is that it has a LOOOONG way to go before it catches up and pricing yourself about the same as your already well-established competitor is pretty much a recipe for failure.
in a tub of Clorox. Pretty much guaranteed not to find any bacteria in there :P
90% of the computer engineer crashes were due to the operator using emacs. When you need both hands and one foot just to save your file it doesn't leave a whole lot of resources dedicated to driving.
It's the fucking flu!
Man, I would have never thought that chicks at PAX were that easy....
I have to concur with the Apple related stuff. I am a (mostly) Apple sysadmin/programmer and I have to say that going to Apple's website to try to find sysadmin stuff isn't fun. They do have some pretty decent guides to kind of help you decide what the overall architecture of your system should be and some of the capabilities of their products, but almost nothing in the way of troubleshooting. I have to say that their coding guides(for Cocoa anyway) are alright. They documented a lot of stuff much better in Snow Leopard than they did in Leopard, and they have some decent examples, but like Microsoft they got bit with a sudden case of reorginazation-itis. (Not to mention that the latest Safari on the latest version of Leopard actually causes the browser to crash somewhat consistently if you do a text search on their main web page....)
Tycho's past history of getting amorous with animals that are known carriers of dangerous strains of influenza.
Um, maybe you should, oh I dunno, actually READ the post before responding? I was complaining about China's violations of WTO(World Trade Organization, TRADE being the key word) rules which forbid both import and export restrictions(China has heavy rules regarding both). If China doesn't want to export its minerals fine, then withdraw from the WTO and deal with the import restrictions that other nations impose. Every time a nation even attempts to limit Chinese imports China throws a huge hissy fit, but China seems to think that the rules only apply to everyone else, not itself. Sorry, China is not some sacrosanct country, either play by the rules that everyone else does or go home. It's that simple.
and finally call China out on it's myriad of violations? The US and Europe seem content over bickering about Airbus and Boeing when in actuality, those two companies' violation(if any) are a real drop in the bucket compared to China's insanely flagrant violations. However, the US is an addict hooked on selling China our debt, instead of oh I don't know, not invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 we decided it was a much better idea to sell ourselves lock stock and barrel to the Chinese. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
You forgot phone number "867-5309"
Um, wouldn't you still need a video card for that? After all, the KVM isn't acting as a video card, is it? From the site:
WAN LAN Multifunction breakout cable port (connects to system Video, USB, Keyboard, Mouse & Video) External Power Adapter
Yes, but think how many 80s sitcom jokes about teenage girls tying up the phone lines are now incomprehensible to today's hip youth culture.
Unless the pigeon comes back it's certainly not TCP, more like Pigeon UDP.
should have been the fact that a security consulting company chose for their name the name of a company that has pretty much the WORST track record for security in the industry.....
I actually grew up a Pittsburgh suburbanite and the lack of public transportation(along with the massive numbers of SUVs) is one of the reasons I packed up and moved to another continent.
Seriously, if you want to text while traveling, take a bus/train! I don't know why people in the US are so deadset against public transportation. I can be much more productive while riding the train/bus than I can(and should!) be while driving.
won't be making it to Sweden then :P
I gotta go start chiseling naked women into rocks as a backup solution!