It must be really tough being a victim for 3 hours a week.
It was six hours a week. I took black social studies and women lit in the same semester. But I wasn't playing the victim game; I only accepted the burden of being a white male.
Everyone knows racism, sexism, etc don't count against straight white cis males.
Unless you're the only white guy in a black social studies or women lit class. Then you bear the responsibility for 400+ years of racism (American slavery) and 6,000+ years of sexism (Adam's rib). Fortunately, my instructors protected me from being lynched or castrated by my fellow classmates.
Why did the college need a MS license to teach C++?
Because employers demanded that students know how to use Microsoft Visual Studios. The department dean was more than happy to teach C++ on Linux, but the administration overruled him. He did teach some C++ in the Linux administration courses. Ironically, when the site license got renewed, none of the computers could run VS.NET and money for new computers took longer.
Then, too, far too many HR departments think the flavor of the day is a checklist for employability.
The only time I run into the HR checklist is for a job is the Red Hat GUI thing. I've got plenty of command line experience in Linux, but I generally use a minimalist window manager for terminal and web browser windows. I'm willing to learn the Red Hat GUI thing. Since none of my Linux experience matches the Red Hat GUI thing on the checklist, the recruiter hangs up on me.
Interesting, but I think what they meant was "we should have more passenger rail in the US".
The majority of traffic on the railroads is freight. Passenger railroad often means high-speed rail, which has become something of a joke. For example, the high speed line between San Francisco and Los Angeles should have run straight up the coast. The line is currently being built through the Central Valley to connect one end with the other end. Amtrak already has a service line in place that does job at a better price.
This business model makes sense for Google since they can essentially sublease this fiber that they are leasing for more than they are paying.
Google owns those fiber optic lines, they're neither leasing nor subleasing those lines. They made a 15 year bet that the market would someday turn around for excess fiber lines that were built and left for dark following the dot com bust.
Running fiber in a handful of high population cities is not 'all over the country'.
Goggle bought tons of fiber optic lines that ran across the country and around metropolitan areas during the aftermath of the dot com bust, often paying pennies on the dollar in bankruptcy proceedings. The vast majority of those lines laid dark for the last 15 years. What Google haven't done until now is to build out "the last mile" in the local markets.
We got enough railroads. What don't have is new boxcars to replace old boxcars at the end of their 50-year lifecycle.
The number of boxcars in service in North America fell by 41% in the past decade to just under 125,000 last year as 101,600 cars were scrapped and only about 13,800 replacement were added. That downsizing accelerated a decades long shift by railroads to more specialized railcars and intermodal carriers that allow shipping containers to hop from trucks to trains.
In what school district is science not a requirement?
Special Ed. I had the misfortune of being a well-behaved idiot for eight years in Special Ed because I got declared mentally retarded due to an undiagnosed hearing loss in one ear in kindergarten. After I graduated from the eighth grade, I skipped high school and spent four years at the community college (two years for remedial courses, two years for associate degree). I technically should not have graduated but a counselor figured that intro electronics could substitute for biology with lab.
Plumbing and welding jobs will go to illegal immigrants.
The illegal immigrants have gone home and probably won't come back. Many schools send students straight to college without ever offering a look at the skilled trades.
Most IT jobs will go offshore. The IT jobs that cannot be offshored will go to visa workers.
That will change in the next 20 years as baby boomers retire, the US workforce (tax base) shrinks, and immigrants stay home to enjoy a middle class lifestyle without leaving the country.
Just because our cars today move so much faster, have commonly air condition, and so on, does not mean that the physics has changed in the last century.
Actually, the physics have changed quite a bit for cars. Anyone can build a Model A with the right machining tools. No one can build a modern car without wind tunnels, lightweight materials and crash dummies.
Now imagine they had taught you that in high school!
I skipped high school and went to college. I did take intro electronics in college. Burning up the electronics was usually the result of installing a part in backwards.
He *is* a plumber and lots of what he does is computerized these days.
My late father had a sixth-grade education from the 1950's but ran circles around many college-educated architects when they were called to the site to explain a problem with the blueprints. He would take out his pencil to do the calculations on the blueprint to prove that the architect was off by a quarter-inch. Most of the time, this wasn't a big deal. One time he found a mistake that cost the developer a million dollars to fix.
I think the OP meant Cisco Access Point (CAP). When I worked at Cisco, I accidentally smoked a $500 AP by plugging in the wrong power cable. Older APs required a 48-volt DC, newer APs required a 24-volt DC. A little detail that my boss forgot to mention.
From my experience as a help desk technician over the years, it seems like too many computer scientists don't know enough about hardware. One person at Google called the help desk because no one was standing around to turn on his computer. I explained to him that a cubicle farm wasn't a computer lab, and, yes, he needed to turn on his own computer because no one else was going to turn it on for him.
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We had matriarchal societies as recently as 1500 years ago, you don't have to carry the other 4500 years.
Unless you're a Christian and follow the Bible, then you're responsible for Eve coming from Adam's rib.
You can't shout "Fire" in a crowded theatre. And you shouldn't be able to use racial and sexist profanities to intimidate people.
Since you volunteered, tell that to Mr. Trump.
It must be really tough being a victim for 3 hours a week.
It was six hours a week. I took black social studies and women lit in the same semester. But I wasn't playing the victim game; I only accepted the burden of being a white male.
My employer made me and everyone in the department (that's thousands of people) take a microagressions training session.
Sensitivity training was quite popular in the 1990's, especially when the only women in the entire company worked in HR.
Everyone knows racism, sexism, etc don't count against straight white cis males.
Unless you're the only white guy in a black social studies or women lit class. Then you bear the responsibility for 400+ years of racism (American slavery) and 6,000+ years of sexism (Adam's rib). Fortunately, my instructors protected me from being lynched or castrated by my fellow classmates.
Technocrat middle class white males, the persecuted minority within a persecuted minority.
Only if you work at Cisco and don't like vegan pizza.
Why did the college need a MS license to teach C++?
Because employers demanded that students know how to use Microsoft Visual Studios. The department dean was more than happy to teach C++ on Linux, but the administration overruled him. He did teach some C++ in the Linux administration courses. Ironically, when the site license got renewed, none of the computers could run VS .NET and money for new computers took longer.
Then, too, far too many HR departments think the flavor of the day is a checklist for employability.
The only time I run into the HR checklist is for a job is the Red Hat GUI thing. I've got plenty of command line experience in Linux, but I generally use a minimalist window manager for terminal and web browser windows. I'm willing to learn the Red Hat GUI thing. Since none of my Linux experience matches the Red Hat GUI thing on the checklist, the recruiter hangs up on me.
cite or gtfo
I got a better idea. Learn how to search the Internet or GTFO.
This is confusing.
I was a special snowflake for all the wrong reasons. But no one bothered to give me a special reward for my effort.
Who uses boxcars nowadays?
Probably manufacturing companies that still have a railroad siding next to the warehouse.
Interesting, but I think what they meant was "we should have more passenger rail in the US".
The majority of traffic on the railroads is freight. Passenger railroad often means high-speed rail, which has become something of a joke. For example, the high speed line between San Francisco and Los Angeles should have run straight up the coast. The line is currently being built through the Central Valley to connect one end with the other end. Amtrak already has a service line in place that does job at a better price.
This business model makes sense for Google since they can essentially sublease this fiber that they are leasing for more than they are paying.
Google owns those fiber optic lines, they're neither leasing nor subleasing those lines. They made a 15 year bet that the market would someday turn around for excess fiber lines that were built and left for dark following the dot com bust.
Running fiber in a handful of high population cities is not 'all over the country'.
Goggle bought tons of fiber optic lines that ran across the country and around metropolitan areas during the aftermath of the dot com bust, often paying pennies on the dollar in bankruptcy proceedings. The vast majority of those lines laid dark for the last 15 years. What Google haven't done until now is to build out "the last mile" in the local markets.
We got enough railroads. What don't have is new boxcars to replace old boxcars at the end of their 50-year lifecycle.
The number of boxcars in service in North America fell by 41% in the past decade to just under 125,000 last year as 101,600 cars were scrapped and only about 13,800 replacement were added. That downsizing accelerated a decades long shift by railroads to more specialized railcars and intermodal carriers that allow shipping containers to hop from trucks to trains.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/shortage-of-railroad-boxcars-has-shippers-fuming-2015-06-21
In what school district is science not a requirement?
Special Ed. I had the misfortune of being a well-behaved idiot for eight years in Special Ed because I got declared mentally retarded due to an undiagnosed hearing loss in one ear in kindergarten. After I graduated from the eighth grade, I skipped high school and spent four years at the community college (two years for remedial courses, two years for associate degree). I technically should not have graduated but a counselor figured that intro electronics could substitute for biology with lab.
Plumbing and welding jobs will go to illegal immigrants.
The illegal immigrants have gone home and probably won't come back. Many schools send students straight to college without ever offering a look at the skilled trades.
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/09/21/how-immigration-has-contributed-to-the-construction-worker-shortage/
Most IT jobs will go offshore. The IT jobs that cannot be offshored will go to visa workers.
That will change in the next 20 years as baby boomers retire, the US workforce (tax base) shrinks, and immigrants stay home to enjoy a middle class lifestyle without leaving the country.
The students were expected to learn something rather then just being told how special they were
I once went to a school where everyone got award for no special reason — except I didn't get one. And the teachers wondered why I hated school.
Just because our cars today move so much faster, have commonly air condition, and so on, does not mean that the physics has changed in the last century.
Actually, the physics have changed quite a bit for cars. Anyone can build a Model A with the right machining tools. No one can build a modern car without wind tunnels, lightweight materials and crash dummies.
You are mistaking Computer Science for IT.
You're not bothered that a computer scientist is incapable of turning on his own computer?
It's like mistaking the ability to add and multiply for mathematics.
Never mind that computers use addition to multiply a number.
Now imagine they had taught you that in high school!
I skipped high school and went to college. I did take intro electronics in college. Burning up the electronics was usually the result of installing a part in backwards.
You never heard of Daisy Wheel?
My electronic typewriter had a daisy wheel. If I had $200 at the time, I could have bought the parallel interface to turn it into daisy wheel printer.
He *is* a plumber and lots of what he does is computerized these days.
My late father had a sixth-grade education from the 1950's but ran circles around many college-educated architects when they were called to the site to explain a problem with the blueprints. He would take out his pencil to do the calculations on the blueprint to prove that the architect was off by a quarter-inch. Most of the time, this wasn't a big deal. One time he found a mistake that cost the developer a million dollars to fix.
I think the OP meant Cisco Access Point (CAP). When I worked at Cisco, I accidentally smoked a $500 AP by plugging in the wrong power cable. Older APs required a 48-volt DC, newer APs required a 24-volt DC. A little detail that my boss forgot to mention.
None of which is a change in computer science.
From my experience as a help desk technician over the years, it seems like too many computer scientists don't know enough about hardware. One person at Google called the help desk because no one was standing around to turn on his computer. I explained to him that a cubicle farm wasn't a computer lab, and, yes, he needed to turn on his own computer because no one else was going to turn it on for him.