As in the case of the grandparent, I to have college loan debt. I couldn't qualify for any scholarships and so had the full cost of my education. I refinanced to get my rampant college loans under control. By the time I'm done I could have bought a house or sports car with the money I'll have paid. In fact since the recession started and IT locally became a toilet (only being flushed out), I went back to school (I incur interest, but don't have to repay debt I can't repay). I'll owe more, but maybe I'll get a nice pay increase out of it... Maybe...
Oddly I had the same issue... 10 years ago... Ran out of money for my final year at DeVry... All this talk now makes me feel I so wasted all that money I've been paying back since...
You seriously never learned programming in comp sci? Because that is what it sounds like your trying to say, that 'comp sci' is all abstract concepts of math and algorithms? Because my Comp Sci degree had some of those, as well as things like programming, structure of databases, fundamentals of networking, etc. My School taught those and yet comp sci is part of the 'math and computer science' department.
You also want find 'Information Technology' or 'Software Engineering' degrees offered by a 4 year college anywhere around where I live. I do however have a associates degree in Computer Information Systems: Networking which I got earlier on. I think maybe you have a stick up your ass about what comp sci is?
Even so the guy in question had trouble with adding and subtracting, he's no math major. I'd bet serious money that he paid other people to do his classwork, because 'competent' is the last thing he ever was.
Funny. Though seriously she is my ex for a reason, but these days the 'path to marriage' is getting pretty crappy with very few people that will even say they are interested... "I'll date you, but pick a number." Is becoming all to common. Heck some female coworkers of mine were dating 2 or 3 guys at once! With no intention to settle for any of them.
ironically the last place I worked had a human resources director with a comp sci degree... Yet oddly he knew nothing about computers. He certainly couldn't program, and he had no concept of the basic principals of networking... So what sort of computer science degree can you get and not know at least one of the two if not both?
Luckily for him his mommy was on the board and just so happens to work as the HR director of her company....
With over 50% of births being a unmarried women in the US, how exactly do you propose who 'counts' as having a child? And further what happens when the condom breaks/birth control fails? Do we now fine them? Require, dare I say it, abortions?
While birthrate limits make sense and even (usually) work in countries like China, the places it works have strong family values. Values we now lack as men are considered worthless to a increasing portion of the population when it comes to childrearing.
If we make the quota on women only it not only becomes 'sexist', but in situations like the one I had with my ex it causes alot of problems. My Ex had two kids before we started dating, to two different men (both of whom have other kids) due to 'accidents' with contraceptives. I however have never had any kids. So if we put a limit on that says 'women can only have 2 children' then I would have been screwed.
The opposite option is possible as well limiting children by men then we tie their tubes. But then what happens if you finally find your soul mate woman who has never had kids and wants them badly, but you fucked up and already have two? Easy marriage ender situation there.
So then we have the true fuck up of trying to track children between couples when in fact marriage today is fairly broken...
No matter how we do it we have other social issues to fix first or they just do not work.
We self-select leaders of these companies to be sociopaths, that comes pretty close to 'amoral monster'. Maybe if we didn't want them to be we should create mechanisms to keep that from happening...?
lol, where have you been? Both of those are tossed around all the time and for little or no reason... Now formally saying that to say... the police, doens't happen nearly as often as people accuse others of it in public.
Those were their Home & SOHO linksys gear... Exactly how many ISP support IPv6 to the home or small business user...? Not many at all. So why add a feature that has zero demand?
ISPs have it a bit differently, they know they demand and just prefer to ignore it until they can't.
Um... I seriously doubt one could claim copyright on a first draft of any type. Usually copyright applies to something once it's been made.
"Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. Copyright does not protect ideas, only their expression." is the very first lines about copyright on wikipedia. Which agrees with me that until something is released in some form copyright doesn't exist.
'Developing works' as you label them are effectively treated like secrets until a release in some form. Also of note is that different variations can be copyrighted at different times. So a book can be released in say 1995 and a movie in 2009 and each is copyrighted separately. This is true today, though due to the scope of copyright to move to a new form of media often requires licensing of the copyright of the first work to produce the second, which is then copyrighted itself.
It can easily take $100k/year to be 'middle class' in much of the US, but in a place like NYC or LA $250k/year probably is 'middle class'... It takes A minimum of a $60-70k/year job where I live to be able to afford a moderate house.
In a sense it is worse then that. Companies demand 4 year or great college degrees when the task is more suited to a 2 year associates degree, but the 2 year targeted and focused training degree isn't 'worth' what a bachelors degree is. Not to mention they want a typical of 5 years of experience with certain technologies. It becomes closer to wanting a full 4 year bachelor's degree + a 2 year training course done back to back.
Of course the businesses don't want to pay for that and so they don't get it. But regardless it is what they expect.
The check to the three branches is meant to be the 'will of the people', they expected if government failed we would do much as they had and revolt. However many things have happened that they could never think of... For one they had no idea how little one person with a gun (nor how military and 'civilian' guns could get so far apart) could do in a modern world. Second they didn't realize that the american civil war would ever happen. States were meant to be able to leave the union at the will of the people, we were not meant to declare war on such a state and take it back. The Civil War ended the time of the state and ruined our last real hope fixing things if they go to far.
I'm with you right up til you start talking about mandatory password changes. Research has pretty well proved by now that making people change their passwords regularly means they write them down. A written down password provides a worthless level of protection from from almost every attempt to get into a system. Statistically a person with a secure password they can remember is far more secure then any number of new passwords they cannot.
I don't know about you, but where I live the weather reporters are right more than once in 8,400 days... And I think my high school's sucky baseball team managed more than 10 wins in 84,000 tries... Maybe you need to move to somewhere better...?
Ok this is funny... I was IT for several places I worked and loved suggesting alternatives to the IE+outlook+MS office bundle when I could. Management was the ones that wouldn't 'buy in'. They wanted things to work like they had always worked. MS apps do that, because it is what they have always used. They don't want to change. I couldn't even get them to support buy in for switching browsers...
Saying that IT people don't want to leave MS products and outlook in particular is frankly silly.
I had an uncle who was my martial arts instructor as a kid. He had no problem telling me or anyone else that we sucked and needed to shape up or get out. Though that may have alot to do with being a special forces instructor in the marines... It never seemed to effect how many of us he was working with though...
As someone with an associates degree in my field and who can't get a damn job now since the minimum has become a bachelors degree, I'll tell you now a company doesn't give a shit about trade school or career specific training. What they want is a box they can check off on a hiring form.
Once upon a time less than a bachelors was ok, today it's not. If anything my experience is showing that less than an undergraduate degree is seen by business as a waste. Which is funny, as most of those specifically teach the skills, and just the skills, needed for the job in question. That doesn't matter though, they aren't looking for training in the field, they are instead looking at a checkbox on a form. Why? Because it's one more reason _not_ to hire someone. Most times they already know someone they want to give a job to, but they can't just go to that person and say 'do you want this job?' instead they point said person to apply and then find reasons not to hire anyone else.
You may not feel it, but the issue is very much regional. I live in PA and not near Pittsburgh or Philly, and their is no tech market to speak of. I'm lucky to see 2 jobs per week (across job search websites and in the paper) that can even be called 'tech'. Most of which tend toward requirements It's rare to find... Like 5 years experience with 'medical app X' that is key to the business looking for people. Half the jobs are medical related, but medical IT is practically a foreign topic. I mean seriously, who went to school for CS and then decides to get a certification or associates degree in medical records? The chances have to be super low.
I'd suggest you start telling people to look in places they don't have offices and allow employees to work from home. Their are plenty of people who just can't move to an area with more work. In my case it's two aging parents.
While heading an IT department for 3 years I tried to get us off of IE, but the rest of the administration saw no reason and things like 'security and less time spent dealing with IE support issues' only meant something to me. Personally I ran Chrome or Firefox my whole time there and suggested to the more competent that they let me install something other than IE for them to use. Most didn't' care or were just to used to IE...
My last position was as the network admin for a school district and they always said "You don't communicate with us", when by "us" they meant the CAO (Chief Academic Officer, a superintendent most other places who don't prefer 'fancy' titles). I sent weekly status emails, I tried to get sit down appointments (always canceled on me since I wasn't 'important'), I called his secretary enough hers was the only phone extension I remembered... But somehow I didn't 'communicate' enough what I was doing and what we needed to do...
This got worse when the old CAO died and they put two people into the CAO spot (joint command as it was) and at best a sit down meeting with both would never happen... They shared the former secretary, whose extension I still knew well, and I had an even harder time trying to get them to sit down with me. I ended getting wrote up and given a week without pay for an issue I tried every way I could to make them aware of... But yet again I wasn't 'communicating the situation' to them. Yet the only thing I didn't do was stand outside their office doors and yell out the situation to them...
Some how I don't think that was my fault... On the other hand after three years of 'excellent' (their words not mine) service, they went behind my back and outsourced me. I was already looking for a new job, but unfortunately the market where I am has had nothing for nearly 2 years now... I'm always 'overqualified' or 'underqualified' for any jobs I can find... A massively annoying position.
I had a Subaru I was borrowing from my parents while my car was in the shop a bit ago and the battery failed (needed a jumpstart, seemed fine for maybe 5 minutes) and once it was going the entire electrical system from headlights, gauges, heater, radio, gear shifting, etc, etc failed to work... In fact the engine barely kept going unless accelerating and feeding the engine more gas (very inefficiently since I doubt the fuel injectors were working correctly). If was snowing, under 0 degrees out, and I was at work 20 miles from home... Not the place I want to worry about my cars electrical load and not somewhere I can just decide to wait with no heat until a tow truck could show up. At work I'd already waited 1.5 hours for the dang toy truck, everyone was getting stuck/needing a jump that day. And once on my way for even 5 minutes their isn't a nice building to wait inside while the toy truck comes...
'not a huge load' had differing meanings in certain situations... Freezing to death because it's 0 to -20 degrees out is a bad thing. And personally I'd rather the car not had to worry about how big an electrical load it had....
Farscape had massive budgets problems though... I still remember the channel complaining about 'million dollar episodes'... I don't think there was any reasonable way with traditional tv to keep Farscape. Firefly though had a much much lower cost per episode...
Make that 4.. I thought it had potential (though needed a bit of work at times) and I watched it regularly. Though since I don't own cable tv (not enough on it I want to actually watch), I watched it on Hulu... Until Season 2 started and they nuked Hulu support (wait a month between episodes, wow yeah that's a great idea)... Then I was left to watch it less legally online...
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As in the case of the grandparent, I to have college loan debt. I couldn't qualify for any scholarships and so had the full cost of my education. I refinanced to get my rampant college loans under control. By the time I'm done I could have bought a house or sports car with the money I'll have paid. In fact since the recession started and IT locally became a toilet (only being flushed out), I went back to school (I incur interest, but don't have to repay debt I can't repay). I'll owe more, but maybe I'll get a nice pay increase out of it... Maybe...
Oddly I had the same issue... 10 years ago... Ran out of money for my final year at DeVry... All this talk now makes me feel I so wasted all that money I've been paying back since...
You seriously never learned programming in comp sci? Because that is what it sounds like your trying to say, that 'comp sci' is all abstract concepts of math and algorithms? Because my Comp Sci degree had some of those, as well as things like programming, structure of databases, fundamentals of networking, etc. My School taught those and yet comp sci is part of the 'math and computer science' department.
You also want find 'Information Technology' or 'Software Engineering' degrees offered by a 4 year college anywhere around where I live. I do however have a associates degree in Computer Information Systems: Networking which I got earlier on. I think maybe you have a stick up your ass about what comp sci is?
Even so the guy in question had trouble with adding and subtracting, he's no math major. I'd bet serious money that he paid other people to do his classwork, because 'competent' is the last thing he ever was.
Funny. Though seriously she is my ex for a reason, but these days the 'path to marriage' is getting pretty crappy with very few people that will even say they are interested... "I'll date you, but pick a number." Is becoming all to common. Heck some female coworkers of mine were dating 2 or 3 guys at once! With no intention to settle for any of them.
ironically the last place I worked had a human resources director with a comp sci degree... Yet oddly he knew nothing about computers. He certainly couldn't program, and he had no concept of the basic principals of networking... So what sort of computer science degree can you get and not know at least one of the two if not both?
Luckily for him his mommy was on the board and just so happens to work as the HR director of her company....
With over 50% of births being a unmarried women in the US, how exactly do you propose who 'counts' as having a child? And further what happens when the condom breaks/birth control fails? Do we now fine them? Require, dare I say it, abortions?
While birthrate limits make sense and even (usually) work in countries like China, the places it works have strong family values. Values we now lack as men are considered worthless to a increasing portion of the population when it comes to childrearing.
If we make the quota on women only it not only becomes 'sexist', but in situations like the one I had with my ex it causes alot of problems. My Ex had two kids before we started dating, to two different men (both of whom have other kids) due to 'accidents' with contraceptives. I however have never had any kids. So if we put a limit on that says 'women can only have 2 children' then I would have been screwed.
The opposite option is possible as well limiting children by men then we tie their tubes. But then what happens if you finally find your soul mate woman who has never had kids and wants them badly, but you fucked up and already have two? Easy marriage ender situation there.
So then we have the true fuck up of trying to track children between couples when in fact marriage today is fairly broken...
No matter how we do it we have other social issues to fix first or they just do not work.
We self-select leaders of these companies to be sociopaths, that comes pretty close to 'amoral monster'. Maybe if we didn't want them to be we should create mechanisms to keep that from happening...?
lol, where have you been? Both of those are tossed around all the time and for little or no reason... Now formally saying that to say... the police, doens't happen nearly as often as people accuse others of it in public.
Those were their Home & SOHO linksys gear... Exactly how many ISP support IPv6 to the home or small business user...? Not many at all. So why add a feature that has zero demand?
ISPs have it a bit differently, they know they demand and just prefer to ignore it until they can't.
Um... I seriously doubt one could claim copyright on a first draft of any type. Usually copyright applies to something once it's been made.
"Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. Copyright does not protect ideas, only their expression." is the very first lines about copyright on wikipedia. Which agrees with me that until something is released in some form copyright doesn't exist.
'Developing works' as you label them are effectively treated like secrets until a release in some form. Also of note is that different variations can be copyrighted at different times. So a book can be released in say 1995 and a movie in 2009 and each is copyrighted separately. This is true today, though due to the scope of copyright to move to a new form of media often requires licensing of the copyright of the first work to produce the second, which is then copyrighted itself.
It can easily take $100k/year to be 'middle class' in much of the US, but in a place like NYC or LA $250k/year probably is 'middle class'... It takes A minimum of a $60-70k/year job where I live to be able to afford a moderate house.
In a sense it is worse then that. Companies demand 4 year or great college degrees when the task is more suited to a 2 year associates degree, but the 2 year targeted and focused training degree isn't 'worth' what a bachelors degree is. Not to mention they want a typical of 5 years of experience with certain technologies. It becomes closer to wanting a full 4 year bachelor's degree + a 2 year training course done back to back.
Of course the businesses don't want to pay for that and so they don't get it. But regardless it is what they expect.
Don't forget Outcasts! It's a brief run series (7 episodes, of which 5 are out), but I've found it quite watchable.
The check to the three branches is meant to be the 'will of the people', they expected if government failed we would do much as they had and revolt. However many things have happened that they could never think of... For one they had no idea how little one person with a gun (nor how military and 'civilian' guns could get so far apart) could do in a modern world. Second they didn't realize that the american civil war would ever happen. States were meant to be able to leave the union at the will of the people, we were not meant to declare war on such a state and take it back. The Civil War ended the time of the state and ruined our last real hope fixing things if they go to far.
I'm with you right up til you start talking about mandatory password changes. Research has pretty well proved by now that making people change their passwords regularly means they write them down. A written down password provides a worthless level of protection from from almost every attempt to get into a system. Statistically a person with a secure password they can remember is far more secure then any number of new passwords they cannot.
I don't know about you, but where I live the weather reporters are right more than once in 8,400 days... And I think my high school's sucky baseball team managed more than 10 wins in 84,000 tries... Maybe you need to move to somewhere better...?
Ok this is funny... I was IT for several places I worked and loved suggesting alternatives to the IE+outlook+MS office bundle when I could. Management was the ones that wouldn't 'buy in'. They wanted things to work like they had always worked. MS apps do that, because it is what they have always used. They don't want to change. I couldn't even get them to support buy in for switching browsers...
Saying that IT people don't want to leave MS products and outlook in particular is frankly silly.
I had an uncle who was my martial arts instructor as a kid. He had no problem telling me or anyone else that we sucked and needed to shape up or get out. Though that may have alot to do with being a special forces instructor in the marines... It never seemed to effect how many of us he was working with though...
As someone with an associates degree in my field and who can't get a damn job now since the minimum has become a bachelors degree, I'll tell you now a company doesn't give a shit about trade school or career specific training. What they want is a box they can check off on a hiring form.
Once upon a time less than a bachelors was ok, today it's not. If anything my experience is showing that less than an undergraduate degree is seen by business as a waste. Which is funny, as most of those specifically teach the skills, and just the skills, needed for the job in question. That doesn't matter though, they aren't looking for training in the field, they are instead looking at a checkbox on a form. Why? Because it's one more reason _not_ to hire someone. Most times they already know someone they want to give a job to, but they can't just go to that person and say 'do you want this job?' instead they point said person to apply and then find reasons not to hire anyone else.
You may not feel it, but the issue is very much regional. I live in PA and not near Pittsburgh or Philly, and their is no tech market to speak of. I'm lucky to see 2 jobs per week (across job search websites and in the paper) that can even be called 'tech'. Most of which tend toward requirements It's rare to find... Like 5 years experience with 'medical app X' that is key to the business looking for people. Half the jobs are medical related, but medical IT is practically a foreign topic. I mean seriously, who went to school for CS and then decides to get a certification or associates degree in medical records? The chances have to be super low.
I'd suggest you start telling people to look in places they don't have offices and allow employees to work from home. Their are plenty of people who just can't move to an area with more work. In my case it's two aging parents.
While heading an IT department for 3 years I tried to get us off of IE, but the rest of the administration saw no reason and things like 'security and less time spent dealing with IE support issues' only meant something to me. Personally I ran Chrome or Firefox my whole time there and suggested to the more competent that they let me install something other than IE for them to use. Most didn't' care or were just to used to IE...
My last position was as the network admin for a school district and they always said "You don't communicate with us", when by "us" they meant the CAO (Chief Academic Officer, a superintendent most other places who don't prefer 'fancy' titles). I sent weekly status emails, I tried to get sit down appointments (always canceled on me since I wasn't 'important'), I called his secretary enough hers was the only phone extension I remembered... But somehow I didn't 'communicate' enough what I was doing and what we needed to do...
This got worse when the old CAO died and they put two people into the CAO spot (joint command as it was) and at best a sit down meeting with both would never happen... They shared the former secretary, whose extension I still knew well, and I had an even harder time trying to get them to sit down with me. I ended getting wrote up and given a week without pay for an issue I tried every way I could to make them aware of... But yet again I wasn't 'communicating the situation' to them. Yet the only thing I didn't do was stand outside their office doors and yell out the situation to them...
Some how I don't think that was my fault... On the other hand after three years of 'excellent' (their words not mine) service, they went behind my back and outsourced me. I was already looking for a new job, but unfortunately the market where I am has had nothing for nearly 2 years now... I'm always 'overqualified' or 'underqualified' for any jobs I can find... A massively annoying position.
I had a Subaru I was borrowing from my parents while my car was in the shop a bit ago and the battery failed (needed a jumpstart, seemed fine for maybe 5 minutes) and once it was going the entire electrical system from headlights, gauges, heater, radio, gear shifting, etc, etc failed to work... In fact the engine barely kept going unless accelerating and feeding the engine more gas (very inefficiently since I doubt the fuel injectors were working correctly). If was snowing, under 0 degrees out, and I was at work 20 miles from home... Not the place I want to worry about my cars electrical load and not somewhere I can just decide to wait with no heat until a tow truck could show up. At work I'd already waited 1.5 hours for the dang toy truck, everyone was getting stuck/needing a jump that day. And once on my way for even 5 minutes their isn't a nice building to wait inside while the toy truck comes...
'not a huge load' had differing meanings in certain situations... Freezing to death because it's 0 to -20 degrees out is a bad thing. And personally I'd rather the car not had to worry about how big an electrical load it had....
Farscape had massive budgets problems though... I still remember the channel complaining about 'million dollar episodes'... I don't think there was any reasonable way with traditional tv to keep Farscape. Firefly though had a much much lower cost per episode...
Make that 4.. I thought it had potential (though needed a bit of work at times) and I watched it regularly. Though since I don't own cable tv (not enough on it I want to actually watch), I watched it on Hulu... Until Season 2 started and they nuked Hulu support (wait a month between episodes, wow yeah that's a great idea)... Then I was left to watch it less legally online...