Seriously. Check your police blotter in the good old fashioned news paper.
How many incidents do you see of traffic stops with Hispanics that resulted in arrest because of either no license or no valid drivers license?
Last week I counted 10, there were 27 total police reports.
I'd dig further into population demographics, but for whatever reason I cannot find stats regarding licensed drivers in the US that breakdown by race.
That is the way education works today. Here are the tools, but no plan, no context, no path, no reality.
Then the real world slaps you in the face and you cry like a little girl who dropped her ice cream.
"No one told me what to do"
No IT manager is going to tell you what to do, because they were in your shoes 3-5 years ago. Finding a mentor in IT is a needle in a haystack. Find someone in their late 50's, someone who was a hobby programmer and got into the field not because they have a degree, but because they had the knowledge and the desire to do the work required.
All this really means your not done yet, time to learn a new lesson in a new school called the real world. You are going to flounder for the next 5 years and land in a place you don't want to be, under managers who are just as incapable as you, and you are going to bitch about it to everyone.
But there is money in IT! So what if you don't understand what your job is you get paid...
This is the reason the IT market is saturated with morons. Every day I see someone who fits this profile to a T.
It makes me sick.
UMM... doesn't a PMP require something like 4500 hours of work experience to acquire?
Category 1: With a baccalaureate degree
PMP candidates must:
1.Document at least three calendar years experience in project management (during the past six years), including at least 4,500 hours experience within the five recognized project management process groups.
2. Document at least 35 contact hours of formal training in project management.
3. Pass the PMP Certification Exam.
It's not something to go chase just because... its not like a MBA.
Don't forget the PMP also requires continuing education and renewals...
Pay is not that bad, if you find a specialty QA firm like Olenick & Associates in Chicago you will find pay is comparable to a developer.
QA Tools and the languages to craft such scripts take time to learn. HP/Mercury tools can be difficult to acclimate to, and the TSL is not quite C++
Unit testing is as close as you will get to using pure programming languages.
Load and performance testing are big QA areas to look into.
Strong DB and SQL knowledge will take you a long long way in QA.
Quality Assurance always needs qualified, experienced, knowledgeable IT personnel. We typically get all the leftovers that could not cut it as Devs/DBAs.
http://www.olenick.com/
The abuse of patents has become so widespread that it is time to drop the concept. If someone can implement a product or service, good for them. If they can sell that product or service and provide their customers to satisfaction, great.
But when some coat tailing company that filed a patent 3 years ago comes stomping in to collect on something they did nothing to produce, market, and support this is just wrong.
Costs of producing anything will continue to skyrocket because of this behavior. So why bother?
If I knew someone was going to come out of the woodwork to collect, I wouldn't bother, and the time necessary to investigate all potential patents that might infringe is too costly. Look at the video game industry, its amazing how they have been burned by this kind of activity.
Patents are wrong and are against all tenents of capital economies.
PS fanboys, eBay sellers, and those paid by unscrupulous business types, waiting out in the cold for days on end ALL get a bit cranky when you drive by at 2:00AM screaming Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
Sony dumped the PSP keyboard a few weeks back. Which was one of the reasons I bought a PSP in the first place. There was talk of a keyboard, and an office productivity suite... well guess what? I am now stuck with a device full of promise, but now just collects dust. Shame on Sony. I hesitated on buying a DS for months... finally caved and once the Opera browser hits I will be 1000% more satisified with my DS than my PSP. Props to Nintendo. Now I have to find a way to sell a dusty old PSP.
For me the mylo is tempting. I want something small and pocketable but that has a thumb board or keyboard, and that DOES NOT require a monthly service plan, like a Blackberry or God forbid a Q. Verizon screwed the pooch on that device.
Design is what is wrong with 99.999% of all software. No one ever spends the time, effort, and money to make sure that their system is designed correctly. Rarely do they update the initial requirements during development, or test the system against the requirements. This is why MS has failed before. They keep throwing money at the problem and never addressing the process that is really the problem. I can tell just by looking at the MSDN documentation that MS has no clue how a good majority of their software works. Definitions of object properties are pathetic. You can have a property called "htmlid" and the definition is the ID of the html... ?!? really... but what does it DO?
Further investigation of Visual Studio Team System shows that the process is nothing more than a few high level diagrams. When you work at that level you miss the details... that is where the problem exists. An OS is so massive that the details are crucial. MS created the beast and they are responsible for taming it. Can you imagine the cost to MS of actually developing Vista the correct way... it would take YEARS and hundreds of billions of dollars... The interative process of refining the requirements the correct way would have cost them twice what they are claming Vista has already cost them.
MS made themselves the industry leader and they should be responsible for maintaining their position appropriately. Instead we will get yet another half complete OS, with hundreds of updates every year, and never ending reports of defects. We will suffer and MS will continue to control the OS market.
I would even go so far as to say if MS was a responsible company and did their job we would see far less defects in every other application that depends on Windows. I have found errors in the Windows IIS server through a.NET app. The developers swore it was their application but I persisted and we found the error was MS's fault. MS release a patch after months of investigation.
I wonder how often a defect fix is just a workaround of a bug that MS created in the first place?
PHISHERS! That's who would benefit... and the security companies that lie and say they can protect you, your data, and your computer for 49.99 a month.
You think phishing attacks are bad now? JUST WAIT...
a core dump puller... maybe even one of those nice windows that tells you that your application has crashed and asks if you would like to send the details to Microsoft.
But then again if the hardware is what crashed the XBOX 360 in the first place what is the point?
How long will this argument go on? Apples and Oranges I say. More marketing propaganda to buffer the bottom line. Technology will only move forward when we stop arguing over what is better and start working towards a common goal.
Bad parts are one thing. Bad design and lack of testing is another. If your testing for a production release you test with the production unit. Not some dev kit terminal.
Let's wait for the raw numbers to come out and see how many are defective. Once that happens and Microsoft releases a statement this will show who is right.
Why are we talking about NINTENDO anyway... what's wrong? Is your dream system turning into a nightmare... this is about Microsoft... lets stay on the topic instead of talking about a system that doesn't even exist yet.
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Seriously. Check your police blotter in the good old fashioned news paper. How many incidents do you see of traffic stops with Hispanics that resulted in arrest because of either no license or no valid drivers license? Last week I counted 10, there were 27 total police reports. I'd dig further into population demographics, but for whatever reason I cannot find stats regarding licensed drivers in the US that breakdown by race.
Mexican's won't get a drivers license... do you think they will get a scrappers license? I'm going to say NO.
It's called PEX. Its been used in the UK for years. US home builders finally realized it is cheaper, but still not up to code in some areas.
And Program Manager != PMP
PgMP is for Program Managers
PMP is for Project Managers
Read, understand, know, and THEN respond...
You cannot have a PMP and no experience!
PMP requires 4500 hours of PM experience, and PMI will check credentials.
That is the way education works today. Here are the tools, but no plan, no context, no path, no reality.
Then the real world slaps you in the face and you cry like a little girl who dropped her ice cream.
"No one told me what to do"
No IT manager is going to tell you what to do, because they were in your shoes 3-5 years ago. Finding a mentor in IT is a needle in a haystack. Find someone in their late 50's, someone who was a hobby programmer and got into the field not because they have a degree, but because they had the knowledge and the desire to do the work required.
All this really means your not done yet, time to learn a new lesson in a new school called the real world. You are going to flounder for the next 5 years and land in a place you don't want to be, under managers who are just as incapable as you, and you are going to bitch about it to everyone.
But there is money in IT! So what if you don't understand what your job is you get paid...
This is the reason the IT market is saturated with morons. Every day I see someone who fits this profile to a T.
It makes me sick.
And it takes forever to acquire... see post above.
UMM... doesn't a PMP require something like 4500 hours of work experience to acquire?
Category 1: With a baccalaureate degree PMP candidates must:
1.Document at least three calendar years experience in project management (during the past six years), including at least 4,500 hours experience within the five recognized project management process groups.
2. Document at least 35 contact hours of formal training in project management.
3. Pass the PMP Certification Exam.
It's not something to go chase just because... its not like a MBA.
Don't forget the PMP also requires continuing education and renewals...
Pay is not that bad, if you find a specialty QA firm like Olenick & Associates in Chicago you will find pay is comparable to a developer. QA Tools and the languages to craft such scripts take time to learn. HP/Mercury tools can be difficult to acclimate to, and the TSL is not quite C++ Unit testing is as close as you will get to using pure programming languages. Load and performance testing are big QA areas to look into. Strong DB and SQL knowledge will take you a long long way in QA.
Quality Assurance always needs qualified, experienced, knowledgeable IT personnel. We typically get all the leftovers that could not cut it as Devs/DBAs. http://www.olenick.com/
http://www.korexz.com/2006/11/18/new-argument-cont ent-technology/
Why is the BBC more important than me ;)
The abuse of patents has become so widespread that it is time to drop the concept. If someone can implement a product or service, good for them. If they can sell that product or service and provide their customers to satisfaction, great. But when some coat tailing company that filed a patent 3 years ago comes stomping in to collect on something they did nothing to produce, market, and support this is just wrong. Costs of producing anything will continue to skyrocket because of this behavior. So why bother? If I knew someone was going to come out of the woodwork to collect, I wouldn't bother, and the time necessary to investigate all potential patents that might infringe is too costly. Look at the video game industry, its amazing how they have been burned by this kind of activity. Patents are wrong and are against all tenents of capital economies.
PS fanboys, eBay sellers, and those paid by unscrupulous business types, waiting out in the cold for days on end ALL get a bit cranky when you drive by at 2:00AM screaming Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
Sony dumped the PSP keyboard a few weeks back. Which was one of the reasons I bought a PSP in the first place. There was talk of a keyboard, and an office productivity suite... well guess what? I am now stuck with a device full of promise, but now just collects dust. Shame on Sony. I hesitated on buying a DS for months... finally caved and once the Opera browser hits I will be 1000% more satisified with my DS than my PSP. Props to Nintendo. Now I have to find a way to sell a dusty old PSP. For me the mylo is tempting. I want something small and pocketable but that has a thumb board or keyboard, and that DOES NOT require a monthly service plan, like a Blackberry or God forbid a Q. Verizon screwed the pooch on that device.
Design is what is wrong with 99.999% of all software. No one ever spends the time, effort, and money to make sure that their system is designed correctly. Rarely do they update the initial requirements during development, or test the system against the requirements. This is why MS has failed before. They keep throwing money at the problem and never addressing the process that is really the problem. I can tell just by looking at the MSDN documentation that MS has no clue how a good majority of their software works. Definitions of object properties are pathetic. You can have a property called "htmlid" and the definition is the ID of the html... ?!? really... but what does it DO? Further investigation of Visual Studio Team System shows that the process is nothing more than a few high level diagrams. When you work at that level you miss the details... that is where the problem exists. An OS is so massive that the details are crucial. MS created the beast and they are responsible for taming it. Can you imagine the cost to MS of actually developing Vista the correct way... it would take YEARS and hundreds of billions of dollars... The interative process of refining the requirements the correct way would have cost them twice what they are claming Vista has already cost them. MS made themselves the industry leader and they should be responsible for maintaining their position appropriately. Instead we will get yet another half complete OS, with hundreds of updates every year, and never ending reports of defects. We will suffer and MS will continue to control the OS market. I would even go so far as to say if MS was a responsible company and did their job we would see far less defects in every other application that depends on Windows. I have found errors in the Windows IIS server through a .NET app. The developers swore it was their application but I persisted and we found the error was MS's fault. MS release a patch after months of investigation.
I wonder how often a defect fix is just a workaround of a bug that MS created in the first place?
Good thing I have a 2GB stick... ;)
Yeah... someone smack this guy... GAIM is everything.... Trillian isn't bad... it used to be better.
Meh.. I can't read apparently... its not the suffix... its the domain... ok.. so WHO CARES?
PHISHERS! That's who would benefit... and the security companies that lie and say they can protect you, your data, and your computer for 49.99 a month.
You think phishing attacks are bad now? JUST WAIT...
THIS will be the downfall of the web.
WORST IDEA EVER!
a core dump puller... maybe even one of those nice windows that tells you that your application has crashed and asks if you would like to send the details to Microsoft. But then again if the hardware is what crashed the XBOX 360 in the first place what is the point?
How long will this argument go on? Apples and Oranges I say. More marketing propaganda to buffer the bottom line. Technology will only move forward when we stop arguing over what is better and start working towards a common goal.
MMMMM.... Kids crying on XMAS day... oh... and lets not even begin to talk about the day after XMAS returns line...
XBOX returns to the left... all other returns to the right
Bad parts are one thing. Bad design and lack of testing is another. If your testing for a production release you test with the production unit. Not some dev kit terminal. Let's wait for the raw numbers to come out and see how many are defective. Once that happens and Microsoft releases a statement this will show who is right.
Why are we talking about NINTENDO anyway... what's wrong? Is your dream system turning into a nightmare... this is about Microsoft... lets stay on the topic instead of talking about a system that doesn't even exist yet.