Honestly flying coach and flying business/first class are totally different experiences, as someone who flies both rather regularly. As a coach passenger you are really treated more akin to luggage. The upper classes come with automatic respect (except of course from the coach passengers). Even the TSA experience is usually better, though shoes come off so they can better grab your sack no matter what your ticket says.
One interesting observation, in the articles photo he is flanked by two attractive flight attendants. So all it takes is 10M miles?
As opposed to a LiveCD I would recommend installing it on a flash drive instead. The flash drive can be written to, so it can behave more like a real OS (allow you to persist files and settings after a reboot) and its just quicker than CD/DVD.
Presumably the "market" (as if there is one) for this would be (1) end of the world crowd when their is really no alternative (2) a replacement for tofurkey and the like. In option 1 I choose death. In option 2 I would just like to point out that I eat meat, if you take my "left overs" and turn that into "meat alternative" then you still have meat, albeit pre-digested.
Nothing good can come from this research. I don't care if it cures cancer, still not worth it.
Dental examination is a bit of work, a far easier way would be to see if she wants to have sex with you... If she is (1) eager or (2) willing then she is a cop and going to arrest you. Seriously we are on slashdot.
You are correct it is quite possible and even easy to put a large amount of data into a small amount of data, but my point really goes towards the usefulness of transfer that raw information with random people. Besides Twitter already does that...
Though on the plus side. This solution does allow you to casually plug your computer into a brick while hanging out in a random alley with people either looking to mug you or simply waiting their turn for the brick.
Also it doesn't exactly sound fun trying to support the netbook/laptop with one hand while trying to operate it with the other.
Yeah I actually have a 64GB and a 128GB Patriot xporter. But that is not my point. In the article there are linked pictures, where it actually shows the devices, prior to them being just a connector sticking from the wall and based on their small size they could not be any bigger than 4-8GB.
However my point is that there is no real functionality to be gained from sharing small form factor information (read:text) with people you do not know. I am assuming text because you really aren't sharing if the next guy is just going to overwrite your stuff with his stuff, so you have to be able to upload and download freely without having to worry about deleting others files first. But I digress, the point being that without a targeted purpose the usefulness of this thing is nearly non-existent. And yes there are the obvious security issues with this.
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Seriously I think it'd be great if the RIAA started messing with this guys "Dead Drops" I mean it is seriously labor intensive, not only that but the base idea is useless to begin with so what real functionality are they robbing from us?
Seriously, when I first read this I thought, hey that is a pretty good idea. But then it occurred to me, what possible usefulness could come out of this? I guess I just pictured something a little more grandiose (some sort of actual storage instead of the 4-8GB that could be in that thumb drive max). And don't even get me started on the fact that some laptops would require a cord to connect up to those (ones with recessed usb, I even have one which has usb in the back vertically).
I have a really hard time feeling sympathy for students who are unable to adapt to simple calculators. I think providing simple calculators is a fair compromise, though I do think it is sad that the professor's only real option is to self-fund this endeavor.
However I'm pretty sure there have been a couple people over the history of mankind who have sailed around the world without internet access.
Yes, for example Columbus. Since he had no internet access, he could not just look up his coordinates in Google Earth to find out where he was, and therefore he thought he were in India when he wasn't. Also a quick check in Wikipedia would have shown him that true Indians look quite different, and he would not have mistaken the native Americans for Indians.
So you see, having internet access is quite important when sailing.
To be honest, Columbus' limitation was not so much the lack of internet access; it was the under-developed state that the Global Positioning System was in at the time (which of course rendered Google Earth nearly worthless). That said you are quite right that a cursory check of Wikipedia would have proven quite helpful in the whole Indian != Indian situation. Imagine the sheepish look on Columbus' face when he asked his hosts for Curry and he was instead offered Corn.
Fire doesn't randomly spread. It spreads fairly predictably, in fact.
I am just imagining how fun random fire would be. Although it is not truly random if there is no possibility that you face can light you a$$ on fire.
Also, wouldn't a crate that you can blow a hole through make for a pretty useless piece of cover? Given that your adversaries can blow holes right back...
We will of course implement the same mildly retarded AI that is currently used. So if they cannot see you then you are not there. Even if the box you are crouching behind is shooting them.
My point in that regard was that Linux serves its own market, then the fanboybase complains that "ZOMG teh sheeplez don't use our superior OS and choose the easier M$ Windoze instead!". It's the elitism without seeing the other perspectives, like the guy above suggesting everyone "just script it out", that makes me cringe when it comes to these discussions.
I think you are missing a minor but very important detail. Fanboys don't contribute, people who actually contribute to Open Source (not just download the latest copy of Ubuntu) really don't care if you use their code. A contributor has to have the realistic expectation that you cannot write software that will do everything for everyone, and if you try, you will fail (either that or you just created skynet and we are all going to die). Nobody likes fanboys, but we are talking about contributors here, not fanboys.
If we're talking about average home users, UPnP works well enough, if they even need it which many don't. On the other hand, if your "end users" are system admins managing large, complex networks, then there just isn't going to be a one-size-fits-all solution. The more complex and specialized your demands on the system are, the more effort you're going to have to put into configuring it.
Reason number 1,456,930 why not to use UPnP.
The whole idea behind UPnP is that you can have any program dynamically change configuration on your router/firewall (read: open/close ports, create NAT entries). Do you see any problem with this? If not perhaps searching for "Problems with UPnP" will make things more clear.
Ease of use and the user interfaces on routers haven't improved one bit for consumers from the Belkin I had in 2002; why the should a market completely stagnate in user friendliness for that long?
Not that I completely disagree with your point of routers needing to be simpler, however I think we are dealing with another issue here. Game companies stopped writing games to be firewall friendly, and documenting the ports that are needed for connections. Then the move from dedicated servers to peer-to-peer matchmaking has made that even more difficult. I remember playing many games online around 2000 that had well defined ports which needed to be opened or NAT'd. Now-a-days good luck, the companies just defer to UPnP (which is not used by anyone who understands the inherent risk in having a program open ports on your firewall without any sort of authentication).
Also it is important to note that the majority of the open-source community is contributed by hobbyists, hobbyists do not care about market share. Also to be honest most don't care about designing software for the masses, they care about designing software which does what it does and does it well (most likely the function it performs is something that the contributor needs or finds neat). Then if users have a need to do what your software does then they can use it... Users need to learn to use software, software doesn't need to learn how to use people (sounds a bit Matrix-like).
The reason people don't get insurance is that they can't pay for it.
I could not disagree with you more. The vast majority of these people who "can't pay for insurance" still manage to pay for an iPod or a Cell Phone or a form of reliable transportation (read: new car in most cases 2). The issue is a simple lack of responsibility, most people do not write a budget for the money they spend. Because of that they run out of money before they run out of month (obviously our governments at all levels are doing this - which simply shows how ingrained in our society that this practice is). This is the core of the problem.
The most offensive thing about this entire argument is that American's have NO IDEA what poverty is (myself included). In America we have "a social safety net" part of which is government provided and part of which is privately provided. The fact is that if you get hit by a bus someone will stitch you up. If you are hungry you can go to a food bank/soup kitchen or enroll in WIC or food stamps or if you have kids we will buy your kids breakfast and lunch at school.
America does not have a healthcare problem. We do have a health-funding problem. But it is mostly on an individual basis and this cannot be solved at a governmental level.
All addons are installed from https://addons.mozilla.org/ so block it. This way they only get the addons that you have previously installed. You can also look at Firefox ADM to see what group policy settings you can control. Or you can let the users choose what they want. The fact is that if it works for them why would you want to stand in the way of that. On some of my machines I have vanilla firefox, and on some I have firefox with 15+ addons. I personally have never had an issue with broken addons ending my browsing experience (though I have seen some people have this happen).
Regardless of if Microsoft and anyone at the company had any sort of under-the-table arrangement... The fact is that IT should never drive the business in a Public or Private organization. IT exists to facilitate the organization not the other way around. If the IT department can better facilitate the organization using only MS products then so be it. However it is clearly not the case that they are "facilitating" by uninstalling the preferred web browser simply because it exists (not to say that the use of Firefox should be supported). When IT starts trying to drive your business that it is when a regime change is in order. Now if the policies that IT are enforcing are coming from higher than IT, then the problem is usually related to the leaders of the business not understanding enough about IT (and the leadership of IT not providing the education to them so that they can make intelligent decisions). Good Luck you are in what I would call a pickle.
That sounds good in theory, but many organizations have job descriptions standards set by Human Resources, not the hiring manager. If the job description states that a degree is required, you'll never even get an interview in that case.
This is coming from someone with 12 years of IT consulting experience, and is finally finishing their degree in September.
My point is that if you can't convince the HR folks that you are the right person for the job then why should you be able to talk to the Hiring Manager? Besides when was the last time that you saw a job description that did not say "or equivalent experience" right after the degree requirement.
That said a degree is not a bad thing, however if you have 1 year of help desk experience and you think a Masters will fix your career then you are sadly mistaken. Also correct me if I am wrong but if after 12 years of IT consulting experience you plan on getting a degree to do the same job I would think that would be a huge mistake since for a consultant degrees do not add a lot of market value.
As to your original point of if a degree is required then you will never get an interview, this is perhaps true but that assumes that you will be playing by HRs rules for the hiring process, assuming you are more than qualified for the position, a quick conversation with the hiring manager to introduce yourself and explain the situation would be more than enough to get an interview regardless of HRs willingness in most companies.
The bottom line is that companies will hire without education, but they will not hire without experience (even someone with education). If you do run into a company that is requiring a degree (specifically). Then the problem is that they do not understand the job well enough to hire someone into it. It is your job at that point to sell yourself to them, show them why they were wrong in requiring a degree by explaining your experience, and also that this experience cannot be taught in school. I have found that most people understand that experience is far more important than education (after all keg-stands and beer bongs bring very little value to a company - unless of course your company sells kegs and beer bongs). Fact is that there is no job on this planet that is not attainable school or not, you just need to be able to convince the other guy that you can do it better than anyone with an attendance sheet from a University.
If you are truly motivated and it is time for a move, hit your resume hard (biggest recommendation here is to cut out the fluff - all of it), start shopping for jobs, and start showing up for interviews (a lower paying job in this economy will pay dividends if you get some experience).
I would disagree with getting his MSc, based on the information provided since at this point he has no experience to speak of. All we know is that he has one year of helpdesk experience, now add that with a MSc and what is he really qualified for? I would say he would be overqualified for the helpdesk (with a MSc comes the expectation of a certain amount of $$$), however in a traditional Sysadmin/Architecture all the way up to Director/VP role companies are looking for someone who has experience, an MSc with 1 year of helpdesk will not meet these expectations, so without knowing someone you won't get the job, and to be honest if you knew someone you would already have the job.
Now the fact is that companies are hiring much to the contrary of what is being reported. Many companies are using this as an opportunity to acquire extremely intelligent and motivated people, since there is less competition for a given candidate. So if you do not have a BS I would recommend going for it IF you can go and maintain a job at the same time (because it is the experience you need). If you cannot manage both, experience is much more important in this market, and at this point you should keep your job and maintain and grow your skillset, which does not prevent you from a little self-study. Companies that are at that size are rife with opportunities for projects which would look very good on your resume, do everything with the goal of reducing expenitures and/or improving productivity in some sort of quantifiable way. This is the way to get the attention of the boss (not whining about your current position).
I agree with the premise of your post, however I have a pet peeve about quoted statistics that are not properly cited. That said (assuming the accuracy of your uncited statistics) I do find it ironic that as an adult I am more likely to be killed in some tragic tricycle related accident then cleaning my gun... It is kind of comforting.
Basically: given two people of equal knowledge, one with a college degree and one without, barring any personality concerns, I'll pick the university degree over the person without one any day.
I would agree with you 100%, even though I do not have a degree and I am very well paid in IT. That said, the easiest way to get around the 'degree = better' mindset is to make sure that someone can NEVER take you and another applicant with a degree and compare you both apples to apples. Be the orange. The only way to do this is to be smarter than the other guy, and all the smarts in the world are not going to get you the job if you come off like an idiot, so you will need to be able to speak and sell yourself too. If you do this you will never lose to someone of equal knowledge with a degree. Also keep in mind that if this is how you are going to job search in this manner you have to be selective. Don't apply for jobs with a shotgun (otherwise you will be applying for jobs that you are not 100% qualified - which means you will not be the orange). Pick your jobs and follow them through to the end.
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Honestly flying coach and flying business/first class are totally different experiences, as someone who flies both rather regularly. As a coach passenger you are really treated more akin to luggage. The upper classes come with automatic respect (except of course from the coach passengers). Even the TSA experience is usually better, though shoes come off so they can better grab your sack no matter what your ticket says.
One interesting observation, in the articles photo he is flanked by two attractive flight attendants. So all it takes is 10M miles?
As opposed to a LiveCD I would recommend installing it on a flash drive instead. The flash drive can be written to, so it can behave more like a real OS (allow you to persist files and settings after a reboot) and its just quicker than CD/DVD.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
A couple of thoughts...
Presumably the "market" (as if there is one) for this would be (1) end of the world crowd when their is really no alternative (2) a replacement for tofurkey and the like. In option 1 I choose death. In option 2 I would just like to point out that I eat meat, if you take my "left overs" and turn that into "meat alternative" then you still have meat, albeit pre-digested.
Nothing good can come from this research. I don't care if it cures cancer, still not worth it.
Sounds like you are a professional lorry driver.
Dental examination is a bit of work, a far easier way would be to see if she wants to have sex with you... If she is (1) eager or (2) willing then she is a cop and going to arrest you. Seriously we are on slashdot.
Well you could try a more efficient OS... ;)
You are correct it is quite possible and even easy to put a large amount of data into a small amount of data, but my point really goes towards the usefulness of transfer that raw information with random people. Besides Twitter already does that...
Though on the plus side. This solution does allow you to casually plug your computer into a brick while hanging out in a random alley with people either looking to mug you or simply waiting their turn for the brick.
Also it doesn't exactly sound fun trying to support the netbook/laptop with one hand while trying to operate it with the other.
Yeah I actually have a 64GB and a 128GB Patriot xporter. But that is not my point. In the article there are linked pictures, where it actually shows the devices, prior to them being just a connector sticking from the wall and based on their small size they could not be any bigger than 4-8GB.
However my point is that there is no real functionality to be gained from sharing small form factor information (read:text) with people you do not know. I am assuming text because you really aren't sharing if the next guy is just going to overwrite your stuff with his stuff, so you have to be able to upload and download freely without having to worry about deleting others files first. But I digress, the point being that without a targeted purpose the usefulness of this thing is nearly non-existent. And yes there are the obvious security issues with this.
Seriously I think it'd be great if the RIAA started messing with this guys "Dead Drops" I mean it is seriously labor intensive, not only that but the base idea is useless to begin with so what real functionality are they robbing from us?
Seriously, when I first read this I thought, hey that is a pretty good idea. But then it occurred to me, what possible usefulness could come out of this? I guess I just pictured something a little more grandiose (some sort of actual storage instead of the 4-8GB that could be in that thumb drive max). And don't even get me started on the fact that some laptops would require a cord to connect up to those (ones with recessed usb, I even have one which has usb in the back vertically).
These are 500px wide...
If 640 is enough for everyone, 500 should be enough for 78% of the population.
I'm one of the 0.16% of the population with a 1 pixel display you insensitive clod.
I was like you Chris but recently I made the jump from 1px to 4px and I don't think I could ever go back everything is so crisp and fluid now...
I have a really hard time feeling sympathy for students who are unable to adapt to simple calculators. I think providing simple calculators is a fair compromise, though I do think it is sad that the professor's only real option is to self-fund this endeavor.
Yes, for example Columbus. Since he had no internet access, he could not just look up his coordinates in Google Earth to find out where he was, and therefore he thought he were in India when he wasn't. Also a quick check in Wikipedia would have shown him that true Indians look quite different, and he would not have mistaken the native Americans for Indians.
So you see, having internet access is quite important when sailing.
To be honest, Columbus' limitation was not so much the lack of internet access; it was the under-developed state that the Global Positioning System was in at the time (which of course rendered Google Earth nearly worthless). That said you are quite right that a cursory check of Wikipedia would have proven quite helpful in the whole Indian != Indian situation. Imagine the sheepish look on Columbus' face when he asked his hosts for Curry and he was instead offered Corn.
Fire doesn't randomly spread. It spreads fairly predictably, in fact.
I am just imagining how fun random fire would be. Although it is not truly random if there is no possibility that you face can light you a$$ on fire.
Also, wouldn't a crate that you can blow a hole through make for a pretty useless piece of cover? Given that your adversaries can blow holes right back...
We will of course implement the same mildly retarded AI that is currently used. So if they cannot see you then you are not there. Even if the box you are crouching behind is shooting them.
-matt
My point in that regard was that Linux serves its own market, then the fanboybase complains that "ZOMG teh sheeplez don't use our superior OS and choose the easier M$ Windoze instead!". It's the elitism without seeing the other perspectives, like the guy above suggesting everyone "just script it out", that makes me cringe when it comes to these discussions.
I think you are missing a minor but very important detail. Fanboys don't contribute, people who actually contribute to Open Source (not just download the latest copy of Ubuntu) really don't care if you use their code. A contributor has to have the realistic expectation that you cannot write software that will do everything for everyone, and if you try, you will fail (either that or you just created skynet and we are all going to die). Nobody likes fanboys, but we are talking about contributors here, not fanboys.
-matt
If we're talking about average home users, UPnP works well enough, if they even need it which many don't. On the other hand, if your "end users" are system admins managing large, complex networks, then there just isn't going to be a one-size-fits-all solution. The more complex and specialized your demands on the system are, the more effort you're going to have to put into configuring it.
Reason number 1,456,930 why not to use UPnP.
The whole idea behind UPnP is that you can have any program dynamically change configuration on your router/firewall (read: open/close ports, create NAT entries). Do you see any problem with this? If not perhaps searching for "Problems with UPnP" will make things more clear.
-matt
Ease of use and the user interfaces on routers haven't improved one bit for consumers from the Belkin I had in 2002; why the should a market completely stagnate in user friendliness for that long?
Not that I completely disagree with your point of routers needing to be simpler, however I think we are dealing with another issue here. Game companies stopped writing games to be firewall friendly, and documenting the ports that are needed for connections. Then the move from dedicated servers to peer-to-peer matchmaking has made that even more difficult. I remember playing many games online around 2000 that had well defined ports which needed to be opened or NAT'd. Now-a-days good luck, the companies just defer to UPnP (which is not used by anyone who understands the inherent risk in having a program open ports on your firewall without any sort of authentication).
Also it is important to note that the majority of the open-source community is contributed by hobbyists, hobbyists do not care about market share. Also to be honest most don't care about designing software for the masses, they care about designing software which does what it does and does it well (most likely the function it performs is something that the contributor needs or finds neat). Then if users have a need to do what your software does then they can use it... Users need to learn to use software, software doesn't need to learn how to use people (sounds a bit Matrix-like).
-matt
The reason people don't get insurance is that they can't pay for it.
I could not disagree with you more. The vast majority of these people who "can't pay for insurance" still manage to pay for an iPod or a Cell Phone or a form of reliable transportation (read: new car in most cases 2). The issue is a simple lack of responsibility, most people do not write a budget for the money they spend. Because of that they run out of money before they run out of month (obviously our governments at all levels are doing this - which simply shows how ingrained in our society that this practice is). This is the core of the problem.
The most offensive thing about this entire argument is that American's have NO IDEA what poverty is (myself included). In America we have "a social safety net" part of which is government provided and part of which is privately provided. The fact is that if you get hit by a bus someone will stitch you up. If you are hungry you can go to a food bank/soup kitchen or enroll in WIC or food stamps or if you have kids we will buy your kids breakfast and lunch at school.
America does not have a healthcare problem. We do have a health-funding problem. But it is mostly on an individual basis and this cannot be solved at a governmental level.
All addons are installed from https://addons.mozilla.org/ so block it. This way they only get the addons that you have previously installed. You can also look at Firefox ADM to see what group policy settings you can control. Or you can let the users choose what they want. The fact is that if it works for them why would you want to stand in the way of that. On some of my machines I have vanilla firefox, and on some I have firefox with 15+ addons. I personally have never had an issue with broken addons ending my browsing experience (though I have seen some people have this happen).
Regardless of if Microsoft and anyone at the company had any sort of under-the-table arrangement... The fact is that IT should never drive the business in a Public or Private organization. IT exists to facilitate the organization not the other way around. If the IT department can better facilitate the organization using only MS products then so be it. However it is clearly not the case that they are "facilitating" by uninstalling the preferred web browser simply because it exists (not to say that the use of Firefox should be supported). When IT starts trying to drive your business that it is when a regime change is in order. Now if the policies that IT are enforcing are coming from higher than IT, then the problem is usually related to the leaders of the business not understanding enough about IT (and the leadership of IT not providing the education to them so that they can make intelligent decisions). Good Luck you are in what I would call a pickle.
That sounds good in theory, but many organizations have job descriptions standards set by Human Resources, not the hiring manager. If the job description states that a degree is required, you'll never even get an interview in that case. This is coming from someone with 12 years of IT consulting experience, and is finally finishing their degree in September.
My point is that if you can't convince the HR folks that you are the right person for the job then why should you be able to talk to the Hiring Manager? Besides when was the last time that you saw a job description that did not say "or equivalent experience" right after the degree requirement.
That said a degree is not a bad thing, however if you have 1 year of help desk experience and you think a Masters will fix your career then you are sadly mistaken. Also correct me if I am wrong but if after 12 years of IT consulting experience you plan on getting a degree to do the same job I would think that would be a huge mistake since for a consultant degrees do not add a lot of market value.
As to your original point of if a degree is required then you will never get an interview, this is perhaps true but that assumes that you will be playing by HRs rules for the hiring process, assuming you are more than qualified for the position, a quick conversation with the hiring manager to introduce yourself and explain the situation would be more than enough to get an interview regardless of HRs willingness in most companies.
-matt
The bottom line is that companies will hire without education, but they will not hire without experience (even someone with education). If you do run into a company that is requiring a degree (specifically). Then the problem is that they do not understand the job well enough to hire someone into it. It is your job at that point to sell yourself to them, show them why they were wrong in requiring a degree by explaining your experience, and also that this experience cannot be taught in school. I have found that most people understand that experience is far more important than education (after all keg-stands and beer bongs bring very little value to a company - unless of course your company sells kegs and beer bongs). Fact is that there is no job on this planet that is not attainable school or not, you just need to be able to convince the other guy that you can do it better than anyone with an attendance sheet from a University.
If you are truly motivated and it is time for a move, hit your resume hard (biggest recommendation here is to cut out the fluff - all of it), start shopping for jobs, and start showing up for interviews (a lower paying job in this economy will pay dividends if you get some experience).
-matt
I would disagree with getting his MSc, based on the information provided since at this point he has no experience to speak of. All we know is that he has one year of helpdesk experience, now add that with a MSc and what is he really qualified for? I would say he would be overqualified for the helpdesk (with a MSc comes the expectation of a certain amount of $$$), however in a traditional Sysadmin/Architecture all the way up to Director/VP role companies are looking for someone who has experience, an MSc with 1 year of helpdesk will not meet these expectations, so without knowing someone you won't get the job, and to be honest if you knew someone you would already have the job.
Now the fact is that companies are hiring much to the contrary of what is being reported. Many companies are using this as an opportunity to acquire extremely intelligent and motivated people, since there is less competition for a given candidate. So if you do not have a BS I would recommend going for it IF you can go and maintain a job at the same time (because it is the experience you need). If you cannot manage both, experience is much more important in this market, and at this point you should keep your job and maintain and grow your skillset, which does not prevent you from a little self-study. Companies that are at that size are rife with opportunities for projects which would look very good on your resume, do everything with the goal of reducing expenitures and/or improving productivity in some sort of quantifiable way. This is the way to get the attention of the boss (not whining about your current position).
-matt
You mean hammers aren't meant to be thrown at 10 yards?
I agree with the premise of your post, however I have a pet peeve about quoted statistics that are not properly cited. That said (assuming the accuracy of your uncited statistics) I do find it ironic that as an adult I am more likely to be killed in some tragic tricycle related accident then cleaning my gun... It is kind of comforting.
Basically: given two people of equal knowledge, one with a college degree and one without, barring any personality concerns, I'll pick the university degree over the person without one any day.
I would agree with you 100%, even though I do not have a degree and I am very well paid in IT. That said, the easiest way to get around the 'degree = better' mindset is to make sure that someone can NEVER take you and another applicant with a degree and compare you both apples to apples. Be the orange. The only way to do this is to be smarter than the other guy, and all the smarts in the world are not going to get you the job if you come off like an idiot, so you will need to be able to speak and sell yourself too. If you do this you will never lose to someone of equal knowledge with a degree. Also keep in mind that if this is how you are going to job search in this manner you have to be selective. Don't apply for jobs with a shotgun (otherwise you will be applying for jobs that you are not 100% qualified - which means you will not be the orange). Pick your jobs and follow them through to the end.
-matt