We could see the hood ornament on the car clearly, and the light beams inside the fog beyond that. If a car was in front of us, my father would have seen their running lights with enough time to slam on the brakes.
I worked for a American company that was bought out by a French competitor when the "I Love You" virus broke out. All the American workers got multiple emails from the French management team saying that they loved us. That didn't kill the mail server. The Symantec AV scanner on the mail server sent out an email notification whenever a virus-infected got removed. That killed the mail server. The French management team never understood why we hated them.
So you could tell it was someone traveling at 100mph even though you couldn't see them?
We were going 40MPH. The other driver had to be going twice as fast, if not faster, to rock our car in passing. People driving 100MPH on California freeways isn't unheard of.
You're a liar and a jerk.
Obviously by someone who flunked physics in school.
I took the train up to Sacramento to visit my parents and we drove back on Thanksgiving Day to visit my brother's family in Silicon Valley. We had zero visibility fog that morning. With little traffic on the freeway, my father drove at 40MPH in the slow lane. Some idiot in the next lane over drove past at 100MPH. We didn't see him in the fog, we felt him as his passage rocked our car. A few years prior to that, Sacramento had a 100+ car pileup because someone drove that fast in the fog.
When I went back to school to learn computer programming at the community college after the dot com bust to change careers, Uncle Sam picked up the tab with a $3,000 USD tax credit. There are several back-to-school tax credits still available today.
Didn't people USED to go to college for the educational purpose of building a broad understanding of human knowledge -- history, literature, humanities, science, foreign languages, etc?
That's so old school these days. Most people go to school to qualify for a career that makes them boatloads of money with the least amount of effort. When I went back to school to learn computer programming after the dot com bust, computers were out and health care was the new money major. Computer classes got cancelled, health care classes had waiting lists.
The best I see these bootcamps is replacing some trade schools or community college technical programs. They might have value for people with an IT background but employed and looking for a new skill to market.
Bootcamps are wonderful if you have the time to learn a lot of material in a short time. I don't think it should replace community college classes. I earned my A.S. degree in computer programming by taking two classes per semester and working 80 hours per week for five years. I even made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major. That experience changed me in a fundamental way.
Your college chose a preferred textbook that required a piece of software that it (the college, not the book) didn't have?
The preferred textbook was fine until the Microsoft site license expired and the college didn't have the money to renew it due to state budget cuts from the dot com economy going bust. Java was FREE to use. Instructors and students had to learn the new language together.
Not at the community college level. I was learning programming to get a job as a white box tester after being a black box tester at a video game company for six years. I wanted to learn a variety of languages while in school. All I got was too much Java, a piece of VB6 (before the site license expired), and a few C/C++ assignments in my Linux administration classes.
Since when do you need Microsoft Visual Studio to write or teach C and C++ programming?
The preferred textbook showed only how to use Microsoft Visual Studio. Otherwise, the part-time instructor coudln't teach it. The only exposure I got to C/C++ was a few assignments in my Linux admin classes.
How many C++ shops in Silicon Valley uses G++ and DevC++ for development? Seven years ago when I graduated, you needed to know Microsoft Visual Studio to get a job.
If you're applying for a Java job, you need to know Java. If you're applying for a C++ job, you need to know C++. If you're for a job using a new technology that came out just six months ago, you need five years of experience.
What they don't teach in school is how to find a programming job after graduating. Since I was already successfully employed in help desk support, I wasn't desperate to get a programming job. I didn't learn the fine art of looking for a job until the Great Recession put me out of work for two years straight.
When I went back to school, all my programming classes was in Java because the school couldn't afford a site license for Microsoft Visual Studio to teach C/C++. When the site license was renewed, most of the computers couldn't run VS.net when it came out. I graduated as a Java programmer, couldn't find a job and stayed in help desk support. I recently read that Python is the new teaching language and the community colleges are pumping out Python programmers.
A computing degree doesn't indicate that a person knows jack about computers. I once had to explain to a fresh out of college software engineer at Google that he needed to press the power button to turn on his computer. Unlike a school lab environoment, no one else was going to turn it on for him.
I have an A+ and Network+ certifications when I called Comcast to complain about their technician disconnecting my Internet service at the box. The service rep reassured me that my Internet service was working fine despite everything on my end failing. After going a month without Internet service and refusing to pay the current bill, Comcast sent a technician out who discovered that the last technician installed a bypass filter backwards inside the box.
When I was a video game tester at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorder), we kept a five-year-old in the inventory closet in case we ever needed a console button smasher. After you turn 30-years-old, you're likely to smash the console than smash the buttons.
As a security remediation specialist, I doubt I'll be out of the job anytime soon in repairing systems that won't update on their own. Software can only do so much before it requires carbon-based intervention to fix.
Once the operating system can self-heal, evolve into an A.I., and network itself across the Internet, getting rid of the carbon-based units will be the next step in self-healing.
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I meant the Golden Gate Bridge. As for the Bay Bridge, a fine mess made by our elected officials.
As father told me many times, the San Francisco Bay Bridge could never be built today.
Used Macs are affordable at OWC.
Get a Mac.
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd... why not?
We could see the hood ornament on the car clearly, and the light beams inside the fog beyond that. If a car was in front of us, my father would have seen their running lights with enough time to slam on the brakes.
I worked for a American company that was bought out by a French competitor when the "I Love You" virus broke out. All the American workers got multiple emails from the French management team saying that they loved us. That didn't kill the mail server. The Symantec AV scanner on the mail server sent out an email notification whenever a virus-infected got removed. That killed the mail server. The French management team never understood why we hated them.
So you could tell it was someone traveling at 100mph even though you couldn't see them?
We were going 40MPH. The other driver had to be going twice as fast, if not faster, to rock our car in passing. People driving 100MPH on California freeways isn't unheard of.
You're a liar and a jerk.
Obviously by someone who flunked physics in school.
I took the train up to Sacramento to visit my parents and we drove back on Thanksgiving Day to visit my brother's family in Silicon Valley. We had zero visibility fog that morning. With little traffic on the freeway, my father drove at 40MPH in the slow lane. Some idiot in the next lane over drove past at 100MPH. We didn't see him in the fog, we felt him as his passage rocked our car. A few years prior to that, Sacramento had a 100+ car pileup because someone drove that fast in the fog.
Let's not forget the ASCII cover art.
When I went back to school to learn computer programming at the community college after the dot com bust to change careers, Uncle Sam picked up the tab with a $3,000 USD tax credit. There are several back-to-school tax credits still available today.
Didn't people USED to go to college for the educational purpose of building a broad understanding of human knowledge -- history, literature, humanities, science, foreign languages, etc?
That's so old school these days. Most people go to school to qualify for a career that makes them boatloads of money with the least amount of effort. When I went back to school to learn computer programming after the dot com bust, computers were out and health care was the new money major. Computer classes got cancelled, health care classes had waiting lists.
The best I see these bootcamps is replacing some trade schools or community college technical programs. They might have value for people with an IT background but employed and looking for a new skill to market.
Bootcamps are wonderful if you have the time to learn a lot of material in a short time. I don't think it should replace community college classes. I earned my A.S. degree in computer programming by taking two classes per semester and working 80 hours per week for five years. I even made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major. That experience changed me in a fundamental way.
Your college chose a preferred textbook that required a piece of software that it (the college, not the book) didn't have?
The preferred textbook was fine until the Microsoft site license expired and the college didn't have the money to renew it due to state budget cuts from the dot com economy going bust. Java was FREE to use. Instructors and students had to learn the new language together.
Not at the community college level. I was learning programming to get a job as a white box tester after being a black box tester at a video game company for six years. I wanted to learn a variety of languages while in school. All I got was too much Java, a piece of VB6 (before the site license expired), and a few C/C++ assignments in my Linux administration classes.
Since when do you need Microsoft Visual Studio to write or teach C and C++ programming?
The preferred textbook showed only how to use Microsoft Visual Studio. Otherwise, the part-time instructor coudln't teach it. The only exposure I got to C/C++ was a few assignments in my Linux admin classes.
How many C++ shops in Silicon Valley uses G++ and DevC++ for development? Seven years ago when I graduated, you needed to know Microsoft Visual Studio to get a job.
If you're applying for a Java job, you need to know Java. If you're applying for a C++ job, you need to know C++. If you're for a job using a new technology that came out just six months ago, you need five years of experience.
What they don't teach in school is how to find a programming job after graduating. Since I was already successfully employed in help desk support, I wasn't desperate to get a programming job. I didn't learn the fine art of looking for a job until the Great Recession put me out of work for two years straight.
When I went back to school, all my programming classes was in Java because the school couldn't afford a site license for Microsoft Visual Studio to teach C/C++. When the site license was renewed, most of the computers couldn't run VS .net when it came out. I graduated as a Java programmer, couldn't find a job and stayed in help desk support. I recently read that Python is the new teaching language and the community colleges are pumping out Python programmers.
Air Raid Precautions were essential during WW2, but I'm not sure what their relevance is to IT workers in 2014.
You don't want your hard drives overheating from a lack of air circulation inside the RAID box.
A MS cert does not trump a computing degree.
A computing degree doesn't indicate that a person knows jack about computers. I once had to explain to a fresh out of college software engineer at Google that he needed to press the power button to turn on his computer. Unlike a school lab environoment, no one else was going to turn it on for him.
I have an A+ and Network+ certifications when I called Comcast to complain about their technician disconnecting my Internet service at the box. The service rep reassured me that my Internet service was working fine despite everything on my end failing. After going a month without Internet service and refusing to pay the current bill, Comcast sent a technician out who discovered that the last technician installed a bypass filter backwards inside the box.
When I was a video game tester at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorder), we kept a five-year-old in the inventory closet in case we ever needed a console button smasher. After you turn 30-years-old, you're likely to smash the console than smash the buttons.
As a security remediation specialist, I doubt I'll be out of the job anytime soon in repairing systems that won't update on their own. Software can only do so much before it requires carbon-based intervention to fix.
Once the operating system can self-heal, evolve into an A.I., and network itself across the Internet, getting rid of the carbon-based units will be the next step in self-healing.
He choose poorly on page 42.