Cutting managers is an attractive idea, but there are a few who are both competent and a pleasure to work for. (I can think of at least two.) The good ones should be encouraged, perhaps even to breed. The rest? Sterilize, and banish to the fringes.
Long ago, we used to get official-looking bills for listings in a worldwide Telex directory, for several hundred dollars a year. They were mailed from somewhere in Europe, I think, but the bills that reached us went straight into the bin. Looks like the scam has been updated.
I say take the chance, or risk looking back in ten years and wondering where your life went, seriously. Been there, done that. Cost at least $100K in lost pay to go back to university, took ten years to get pay in new career up to where it was before I jumped. I have no regrets.
Personally, I favor gerbils - they are great for shredding moderate amounts of printed data. They don't do much for the working copy on the hard drive, though.
Let's take this to the logical extreme and say that all laptops shall be scanned upon attempted entry to the USA. How? Develop automated search tools and hire a whole mess of junior-grade IT slaves to work them? This could halt rising unemployment and open new opportunities for residents of border states.
Take a good-size rock and throw it at a planet, say, at a few kilometers per second. Some of the target planet may be blasted into space, ending up in another gravity well. Hence, Martian debris shows up on Earth. I have no idea how much this has happened. Paging experts...
In 1971, with great ceremony, 64 kilobytes of core memory was added to our school's IBM 360. I remember the extra refrigerator-sized cabinet. I think that doubled the main memory. JCL and Fortran 4, yes.
Anyone who has lived at an isolated weather station, with just a few co-workers, knows the tensions that develop. Most of us survived the experience. There were all kinds of studies done on the effect of men in small groups. We used to joke that the perfect recruit for the stations would be an astronaut.
As soon as someone actually understands the universe, it is taken away and replaced with something more complicated. Evidently this has happened before, probably 42 times.
I've recruited many IT people over twenty+ years. I've never paid much attention to certification; I look more for attitude, and particularly the ability to realize that a problem may well have more than one solution. The fill-in-the-blanks kind of certification simply doesn't accomodate such choice.
Hey, the White House can silence whatever it likes. Global warming won't really be a problem for perhaps five years, by which time it will be so obvious that not even the next incumbent can ignore it, as he (she?) desperately seeks a second term.
My media PC has been replaced by an Oppo DVD - which plays just about everything. The few things that it won't can be fed to the TV via a cable from the den. I migrated the Slimp3 server to a mini-ITX system far from the TV.
I rarely use the PVR. I'm rebuilding the media PC for gaming.
Good point. Same applies to downloaded audio/video, or 20,000 35mm slides.
If you have a logical organization to your bookshelves, though, you can always call for help. "Honey, do we already have Debbie Does Dallas on the immature-comedy shelf in the east wing?"
I expect it's different for every dvd/tv combination. I have the same Oppo player hooked to a Panasonic HDTV; for me, the best picture is with the Oppo set to 1080i through its dvi output. The Oppo is a real gem. It's not true HDTV, but it makes Gilligan's Island look good.
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Cutting managers is an attractive idea, but there are a few who are both competent and a pleasure to work for. (I can think of at least two.) The good ones should be encouraged, perhaps even to breed. The rest? Sterilize, and banish to the fringes.
So do I, but try getting a nuke up and running in less than twenty years. Too many permits, too many regulations.
I thought the "Sarah Connor Chronicles" were fiction. My mistake.
Long ago, we used to get official-looking bills for listings in a worldwide Telex directory, for several hundred dollars a year. They were mailed from somewhere in Europe, I think, but the bills that reached us went straight into the bin. Looks like the scam has been updated.
I took a "Comparitive Programming Languages" course. The prof taught the entire thing without once mentioning BASIC. Showed taste...
Personally, I favor gerbils - they are great for shredding moderate amounts of printed data. They don't do much for the working copy on the hard drive, though.
Let's take this to the logical extreme and say that all laptops shall be scanned upon attempted entry to the USA. How? Develop automated search tools and hire a whole mess of junior-grade IT slaves to work them? This could halt rising unemployment and open new opportunities for residents of border states.
"You deserve a brick to-day..." Oh, sorry, that was Mcdonald's.
http://radio3.cbc.ca/ on web and Sirius, and good podcasts.
When I drink beer, I gain weight. When I don't, I lose weight. Damn.
Take a good-size rock and throw it at a planet, say, at a few kilometers per second. Some of the target planet may be blasted into space, ending up in another gravity well. Hence, Martian debris shows up on Earth. I have no idea how much this has happened. Paging experts...
What you mean is "you cannot dowse". Pity.
In 1971, with great ceremony, 64 kilobytes of core memory was added to our school's IBM 360. I remember the extra refrigerator-sized cabinet. I think that doubled the main memory. JCL and Fortran 4, yes.
That's Conservative Reform Alliance Party.
Anyone who has lived at an isolated weather station, with just a few co-workers, knows the tensions that develop. Most of us survived the experience. There were all kinds of studies done on the effect of men in small groups. We used to joke that the perfect recruit for the stations would be an astronaut.
As soon as someone actually understands the universe, it is taken away and replaced with something more complicated. Evidently this has happened before, probably 42 times.
I've recruited many IT people over twenty+ years. I've never paid much attention to certification; I look more for attitude, and particularly the ability to realize that a problem may well have more than one solution. The fill-in-the-blanks kind of certification simply doesn't accomodate such choice.
It's already too late.
I rarely use the PVR. I'm rebuilding the media PC for gaming.
If you have a logical organization to your bookshelves, though, you can always call for help. "Honey, do we already have Debbie Does Dallas on the immature-comedy shelf in the east wing?"
Perhaps Iain Banks should write the scripts? The Force meets The Culture...
Used bookstores and a damn good public library have a lot to do with it.
I expect it's different for every dvd/tv combination. I have the same Oppo player hooked to a Panasonic HDTV; for me, the best picture is with the Oppo set to 1080i through its dvi output. The Oppo is a real gem. It's not true HDTV, but it makes Gilligan's Island look good.