Correct! A $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11 paid for my A.S. degree in computer programming and I went from being a lowly paid video game tester to a highly paid IT support technician.
Hooray for the non-leeches who pay their taxes!
If only millionaires and billionaires would pay their fair share...
They only have the hardware if the drive is encrypted and the user is using a decent password.
Encrypted hard drives for the desktop is coming to my work this year (laptops are already encrypted). Users need to have their badge (something they have) and PIN (something they know) to access their laptop or workstation. The only local data users may have is their Outlook archive.
It seems like our uber powerful dev machines are turning into expensive terminals and the ESX cloud is our new time sharing mainframe.
From a security point of view, it should be that way. If the laptop or workstation gets physically compromised (i.e., lost at the airport or stolen in shipment), the thieves will only have the hardware.
I get 20 PTO days per year and last year I got an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus. But I work in IT support. I also work in government IT. Never mind.
At some of the Fortune 500 companies I've worked at, MacBook Pros were standard issue for having the Mac OS with Unix command line and the ability to run Windows or Linux in VM or multi-boot. Engineers loved them.
I really don't see why they wouldn't just mothball the bitch and maintain it in orbit.
Without proper maintenance and periodic boosts into higher orbit, "mothball the bitch" will eventually fall back to earth and smack Australia again. Those kangaroos don't like being bitch slapped.
try understanding them on the phone...not gonna happen.
Most Indian recruiters read from a checklist where all the answers are "yes" except for one question. Even if I don't understand what the person is saying, I can say "yes" until the recruiter sound confused, changed my answer to "no," and then keep answering "yes" to the remaining questions. Surprisingly, I've gotten a few interviews that way.
And yet you're frequently complaining about how underpaid you are while living in Silicon Valley.
I'm frequently pointing out that I can live in Silicon Valley on $50K per year by living a modest lifestyle. Most people who want big cars, big house, big wife and big kids will find Silicon Valley very expensive. Some people think I'm underpaid relative to everyone else who want the American Dream of having it all. BTW, in my blue-collar family, I'm the highest wage earner.
I read a study after the dot com bust that the IT industry will have a shortage of 1M skilled workers by 2030, when all the baby boomers are retired and foreign workers return home to build a middle class lifestyle. A more recent study put the shortage at 1M+ by 2030. I went back to school after the dot com bust to get into IT support. Best career choice I ever made.
I've noticed in my dealings with Indian shops that they usually have one guy, per project, that knows his shit, and then you have 10 people underneath him that couldn't code their way out of an if statement.
The first time I've ran into an Indian shop was at a Fortune 500 company in 2005. they had 21 Indians inside a small conference room. While 20 sat at tables that faced the wall, one guy sat at the center and screamed at the top of his lungs to be heard over the chatter for a conference call.
Then don't be a video game tester. After six years of being a resource, I went into IT Support and became an asshole. Someday I'll go into management and become a prick.
I've heard stories of Silicon Valley engineers saving up their money, moving down to Mexico or Central America, build what the locals would consider to be a mansion, and then marrying an underage girl from the local village that the elders allow because the village will inherit everything eventually.
I did my testing a long time ago on an ATI Radeon 3750 512MB video card with the Dark Places Quake engine. I haven't tried it on my current Nvidia 750 1GB video card.
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Yay! Free taxpayer money, right?
Correct! A $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11 paid for my A.S. degree in computer programming and I went from being a lowly paid video game tester to a highly paid IT support technician.
Hooray for the non-leeches who pay their taxes!
If only millionaires and billionaires would pay their fair share...
They only have the hardware if the drive is encrypted and the user is using a decent password.
Encrypted hard drives for the desktop is coming to my work this year (laptops are already encrypted). Users need to have their badge (something they have) and PIN (something they know) to access their laptop or workstation. The only local data users may have is their Outlook archive.
It seems like our uber powerful dev machines are turning into expensive terminals and the ESX cloud is our new time sharing mainframe.
From a security point of view, it should be that way. If the laptop or workstation gets physically compromised (i.e., lost at the airport or stolen in shipment), the thieves will only have the hardware.
I use PyCharm IDE for Python.
I get 20 PTO days per year and last year I got an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus. But I work in IT support. I also work in government IT. Never mind.
At some of the Fortune 500 companies I've worked at, MacBook Pros were standard issue for having the Mac OS with Unix command line and the ability to run Windows or Linux in VM or multi-boot. Engineers loved them.
As my father once told me, "A wife is an attachment you screw on the bed to get the housework done."
They move to the Philippines.
If you're ex-military.
I really don't see why they wouldn't just mothball the bitch and maintain it in orbit.
Without proper maintenance and periodic boosts into higher orbit, "mothball the bitch" will eventually fall back to earth and smack Australia again. Those kangaroos don't like being bitch slapped.
Burn, baby, burn.
The only way to win is not to play.
The only way to win is become rich or stay poor. The middle class pays for the rich (tax breaks) and the poor (tax credits).
try understanding them on the phone...not gonna happen.
Most Indian recruiters read from a checklist where all the answers are "yes" except for one question. Even if I don't understand what the person is saying, I can say "yes" until the recruiter sound confused, changed my answer to "no," and then keep answering "yes" to the remaining questions. Surprisingly, I've gotten a few interviews that way.
Are you speaking from personal experience?
Nope. I'm not an engineer. I do IT support work instead.
And yet you're frequently complaining about how underpaid you are while living in Silicon Valley.
I'm frequently pointing out that I can live in Silicon Valley on $50K per year by living a modest lifestyle. Most people who want big cars, big house, big wife and big kids will find Silicon Valley very expensive. Some people think I'm underpaid relative to everyone else who want the American Dream of having it all. BTW, in my blue-collar family, I'm the highest wage earner.
Long term you need a strategy.
I read a study after the dot com bust that the IT industry will have a shortage of 1M skilled workers by 2030, when all the baby boomers are retired and foreign workers return home to build a middle class lifestyle. A more recent study put the shortage at 1M+ by 2030. I went back to school after the dot com bust to get into IT support. Best career choice I ever made.
Engineers have a thing for underage girls....go figure.
FTFY
Alas, are you *sure* it's still not in the cloud? It probably is, somewhere.
That data wasn't as sensitive as the background investigative file for my security clearance that the Chinese stole from OPM a few years ago.
I've noticed in my dealings with Indian shops that they usually have one guy, per project, that knows his shit, and then you have 10 people underneath him that couldn't code their way out of an if statement.
The first time I've ran into an Indian shop was at a Fortune 500 company in 2005. they had 21 Indians inside a small conference room. While 20 sat at tables that faced the wall, one guy sat at the center and screamed at the top of his lungs to be heard over the chatter for a conference call.
Five people attended the meeting from India, only one person was actually working on the code.
When I worked in construction with my father, we saw four union officials in $1,000 Italian suits watch one work smooth out the cement with a trowel.
Then don't be a video game tester. After six years of being a resource, I went into IT Support and became an asshole. Someday I'll go into management and become a prick.
I've heard stories of Silicon Valley engineers saving up their money, moving down to Mexico or Central America, build what the locals would consider to be a mansion, and then marrying an underage girl from the local village that the elders allow because the village will inherit everything eventually.
You think?!
I pulled my data out of the cloud and put it on a file server. It doesn't need to live 24/7 on the Internet.
Microsoft = Job Security. I wouldn't have 20+ year old technical career without Microsoft. I don't expect that to change in the next 20+ years.
I did my testing a long time ago on an ATI Radeon 3750 512MB video card with the Dark Places Quake engine. I haven't tried it on my current Nvidia 750 1GB video card.
https://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/