... or tomahawks missiles for that matter. I presume that they meant: launched from a submerged submarine and landed without destroying anything.
For some reason it reminds me the minisub from the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
I was requested to do a 1 year masters degree as a condition on my employment. The company paid me that year to do it, and I did finish a Masters in Computer Sciences and I do not regret it.
However, the following has been true for me.
It got me a job and a nice salary bump when I started after completion, because of the conditions of my employment.
It did not help me to get promoted later on as a manager. That takes politics. You'll be better off getting the PMP rather than a Masters, if that's what you want in life.
It looks nice on the resume and your business card.
It's not as relevant after several years in the industry. Oddly enough, certification gets more wight, unless you're a PhD going to Academia. It also depends where you work. For instance, if I were going to work in Puerto Rico, an EIT or PE it's more useful than a Masters, but that's because the PR job market is license crazy.
If you do your masters mid-career does not equate a change in responsibility or salary. But, you can use it to find a new and better job being that you can create a relationship with the career center. (Sometimes, in retrospect, I should've considered that). I've known folks that the company paid for their MBA and continued performing the same job after graduation.
You get a better sense on Academia. You learn how to work in complex projects and prepares you for research and in some cases, dissertation. That'll help you when you have to defend your design or proposal against your peers or supervisors.
I did it when I had the chance, if you're in no rush to start working, have money to pay for it and you know which area of interest you're going to pursue, go ahead and do it. Later in life it'll be harder (but not impossible).
I do not know. My company have a good way to handle these guys.
Follow the Method of Operation.
or... find another job.
Follow the code of conduct.
or... fine another job.
These issues need to be solved straight away, nobody, and I mean nobody, is good enough for this kind of behavior. The reason why he managed to fixed the code in an hour is because he was the only one that understood his crappy code. The only reason he meet the deadlines, is because he writes crappy code.
There's no need for those losers in an organization.
In your case, you might be stuck the VZ. I swapped from Verizon to Cablevision after dealing with some guy in Taiwan in a lousy VOIP line after spending 2 hours with a guy in India asking me to turn on or off my DSL modem. The problem was already documented from their tech that my line was too far from the central office and the DSL link was unreliable. It was clearly an SS7 problem, but those drones did not want to hear about it.
The day I disconnected from them there was a meek satisfaction hearing the sales rep. begging for me to stay.
Although I understand the intention of the newscast to help this young lady, I feel that the overall reporting was overall biased. It's not the first time I've seen this kind of "behavior" on the local or smaller news outlets. One time while reading El Nuevo Dia, they were looking for "Linux" to refute a story they wrote.
I guess that the silver lining is that at least its some publicity...
I almost got mugged in Newark, near the train station, I managed to outsmart the guy by getting into the bus while the doors were closing (hey, they do the same to snag a chain before the subway closes door). I do not think that it will not work, and how people are extremely PO'ed with Corzine and all the spending all over the state, I think that this is helping who knows who's pocket rather than fighting crime. The city of Cayey, Puerto Rico put a lot of cameras all over town.
Two weeks ago the FBI nabbed 70 people living in public housing that were selling drugs for the past 16 years. Did it help? No, people in Cayey do not feel any safer, and complain downtown has become a shooting gallery.
I doubt that will help...
1. Product Testing, Quality Assurance.
2. Systems engineering, requirements gathering
3. Database administration.
4. Project Management
5. Product/Brand Management
6. Pre-sales Engineering/Architect
7. Product Support (help desk)
8. Project Management
9. Solutions Architect.
10. System Administrator.
You could also look for each sub category for more options.
Good Luck!
I went to the Mini-ITX route myself. Although my system is not very small, about 1/2 of a pizza box, the price ended up being about the same as a Mac Mini (give and take). The EPIA-M that I got has no 3D acceleration and although the performance is adequate, it's certainly not fast.
With that learned, I would buy a cheap big clunker (i. e. the 200 dollars WalMart system) rather that go through the Mini-ITX route, or just buy a used Mac Mini.
I was thinking about this a couple of nights ago, and the only thing that came up to me was the following:
1. A "drivable airplane" makes sense. In the way that you do not have to pay for hangar space and keep it safe and cozy at home. You just store it at home. You just "drive" the vehicle to the airport, put it together, do your pre-check inspection, fly, do your post-check inspection, fold, drive to destination. It's not the "Jetson's" concept, you have to be a licensed pilot, but it's, in a sense, practical enough for use.
2. Terrfugia's CEO state that the materials are not available to make it practical. I certainly hope so. Folding, flying, driving it's going to put a lot of stress to a lot of parts on the vehicle. Flying or driving is bad enough to cause problems to components, combining both in one vehicle it's going to make matters worst.
I sincerely wish them luck.
You know, that's exactly why the "companion Windows CE laptops" failed. Because they were expensive, as big as a laptop with stripped down applications.
(well, they did boot fast).
Must be an European train. I tried to use a laptop in the Acela (NJ to Washington DC) and got dizzy:-S. This was with a normal Dell laptop, I just can imagine doing my homework for 2 hours without a barf bag.
Hmm. Interesting. Perhaps you have a different view because you're on the "other coast":). You're right, if you are doing that type of work, you should be using those.
Not quite. Big installations replace they seldom replace the hardware. They go through different longer cycles compared to Windows servers. When you start talking about zOS, big HP or big Sun servers, they may not replace the hardware unless there is a real need to, which is usually end of life for the hardware or because there is a genuine business need for it. That's the marketing reason of the blade systems, in this way their "investment is secured because you're replacing a small piece of your equipment".
Small hardware (PC's, Laptops) are taken off the book rather quickly because they lost their depreciation value. Cycles for those devices is usually every 5 years.
:). Try PL/1, then we'll talk.:) BTW, I coded PL/1 when I started my job.
C is used a lot, but if you look around, everybody is going to C#, Java and all those other "cool and hip" languages. There might be new projects being started in C, but they're few and far between.
Agreed, but you'll have to place them in different positions to be effective:
Psychology - Systems Engineer, Usability
Sociology and Anthropology - Usability, Third tier Customer Support, Forensics, Tester
American History - Systems Engineer, Testers, Solution Architect, Product Manager, Sales
World History - same as above
Business - Product Management, Sales, Program Management, Project Management
Accounting - Systems Engineering, Testing, Program Management
Law - Program Management, Project Management
You still need people with strong coding background and in depth knowledge in computers. When the things get tough, those are the ones that will fix the challenging problems. I agree that having an overall education is important, but must be relevant to your interests. If you have a person that spent time taking macrame and ice fishing in college, do not expect that person to be able to solve driver problems, most likely does not have the knowledge or the inclination to fix it in the first place.
... or migrate the system to a "modern one", which by itself it might be a pricy proposition. But if on the long run, saves you money in staff, it might be worth to look at. My 2 cents.
FWIW. In Puerto Rico do a lot of certifications that are not used in the US, which may be useful to raise the standard. For example, I'm a computer engineer with an EIT certification (yes, the same one for Civil, Mechanicals and Chemial). I spent four hours crammed in an auditorium without AC in one of the hottest places in the island (Ponce, nice place to visit though, but hot) just for motivation. I know that I have to start working on the PE but being that I reside in NJ, I really do not have a lot of motivation to go through the bureaucracy of doing it. Same goes with Chemist. My wife is working as a chemist in J&J. He's a competent chemist, but no certification required. In PR you do need a chemist license to work as a chemist.
It is a two edge sword. You may raise the standards for entry, but you are also controlling the supply. This would also make of shoring more attractive.
C is not longer an important language to learn in College. If you want to get a good C programmer, you're looking for somebody of the ages of 38 to 52 years of age. If you're stuck keeping up with legacy systems, that's what you're going to find out.
Now programmers learn Java in fancy IDE's. Never having to learn a pointer or a pointer re-direction. Make sure that you're not maintaining PL/1, COBOL or Assembly... if you have someone decent maintaining that code, make sure that he/she is happy.
You have to keep in mind that a lot of those folks come out of 2 year colleges or with the liberalism in today's universities, many of them spent their time taking macrame or latin literature as part of their CS degree.
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... or tomahawks missiles for that matter. I presume that they meant: launched from a submerged submarine and landed without destroying anything. For some reason it reminds me the minisub from the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
I did it when I had the chance, if you're in no rush to start working, have money to pay for it and you know which area of interest you're going to pursue, go ahead and do it. Later in life it'll be harder (but not impossible).
Follow the Method of Operation.
or... find another job.
Follow the code of conduct.
or... fine another job.
These issues need to be solved straight away, nobody, and I mean nobody, is good enough for this kind of behavior. The reason why he managed to fixed the code in an hour is because he was the only one that understood his crappy code. The only reason he meet the deadlines, is because he writes crappy code.
There's no need for those losers in an organization.
yeap, it is call The Sopranos school of envelope management :)
The day I disconnected from them there was a meek satisfaction hearing the sales rep. begging for me to stay.
Although I understand the intention of the newscast to help this young lady, I feel that the overall reporting was overall biased. It's not the first time I've seen this kind of "behavior" on the local or smaller news outlets. One time while reading El Nuevo Dia, they were looking for "Linux" to refute a story they wrote. I guess that the silver lining is that at least its some publicity...
I almost got mugged in Newark, near the train station, I managed to outsmart the guy by getting into the bus while the doors were closing (hey, they do the same to snag a chain before the subway closes door). I do not think that it will not work, and how people are extremely PO'ed with Corzine and all the spending all over the state, I think that this is helping who knows who's pocket rather than fighting crime. The city of Cayey, Puerto Rico put a lot of cameras all over town. Two weeks ago the FBI nabbed 70 people living in public housing that were selling drugs for the past 16 years. Did it help? No, people in Cayey do not feel any safer, and complain downtown has become a shooting gallery. I doubt that will help...
Well... who knows. some people with electroshock fetish might even pay a premium.. ;)
1. Product Testing, Quality Assurance. 2. Systems engineering, requirements gathering 3. Database administration. 4. Project Management 5. Product/Brand Management 6. Pre-sales Engineering/Architect 7. Product Support (help desk) 8. Project Management 9. Solutions Architect. 10. System Administrator. You could also look for each sub category for more options. Good Luck!
With that learned, I would buy a cheap big clunker (i. e. the 200 dollars WalMart system) rather that go through the Mini-ITX route, or just buy a used Mac Mini.
1. A "drivable airplane" makes sense. In the way that you do not have to pay for hangar space and keep it safe and cozy at home. You just store it at home. You just "drive" the vehicle to the airport, put it together, do your pre-check inspection, fly, do your post-check inspection, fold, drive to destination. It's not the "Jetson's" concept, you have to be a licensed pilot, but it's, in a sense, practical enough for use.
2. Terrfugia's CEO state that the materials are not available to make it practical. I certainly hope so. Folding, flying, driving it's going to put a lot of stress to a lot of parts on the vehicle. Flying or driving is bad enough to cause problems to components, combining both in one vehicle it's going to make matters worst. I sincerely wish them luck.
You know, that's exactly why the "companion Windows CE laptops" failed. Because they were expensive, as big as a laptop with stripped down applications. (well, they did boot fast).
This will be different than a Jornada 820 because...?
It also baaahs like a goat :)
I guess I'm old.
Hmm. Interesting. Perhaps you have a different view because you're on the "other coast" :). You're right, if you are doing that type of work, you should be using those.
Small hardware (PC's, Laptops) are taken off the book rather quickly because they lost their depreciation value. Cycles for those devices is usually every 5 years.
I'm not surprised... I got harassed by TSA while carrying my Tadpole Sparcle. Perhaps they thought that it was a weapon of mass destruction.
C is used a lot, but if you look around, everybody is going to C#, Java and all those other "cool and hip" languages. There might be new projects being started in C, but they're few and far between.
Luis
I guess that's better than brush up my JCL :).
You still need people with strong coding background and in depth knowledge in computers. When the things get tough, those are the ones that will fix the challenging problems. I agree that having an overall education is important, but must be relevant to your interests. If you have a person that spent time taking macrame and ice fishing in college, do not expect that person to be able to solve driver problems, most likely does not have the knowledge or the inclination to fix it in the first place.
Well, a misplaced 220 volts cable may be able to solve that ;).
... or migrate the system to a "modern one", which by itself it might be a pricy proposition. But if on the long run, saves you money in staff, it might be worth to look at. My 2 cents.
It is a two edge sword. You may raise the standards for entry, but you are also controlling the supply. This would also make of shoring more attractive.
C is not longer an important language to learn in College. If you want to get a good C programmer, you're looking for somebody of the ages of 38 to 52 years of age. If you're stuck keeping up with legacy systems, that's what you're going to find out.
Now programmers learn Java in fancy IDE's. Never having to learn a pointer or a pointer re-direction. Make sure that you're not maintaining PL/1, COBOL or Assembly... if you have someone decent maintaining that code, make sure that he/she is happy.
You have to keep in mind that a lot of those folks come out of 2 year colleges or with the liberalism in today's universities, many of them spent their time taking macrame or latin literature as part of their CS degree.
My 2 cents...