As one of the primary technical interviewers at my company, we've never been interested in grades. Rather, we're more interested in someone that can jump in and be productive quickly.
Excel is today's Emacs. It's being used everywhere for a number of insane things thatregularly really don't make much sense. One of the most common uses of Excel where I work is SQL code generation.
Last I checked, both MS and Kanye West are still doing very well financially. Neither gives things away for free. SQL Server Express 2005/2008? Visual Basic Express? Visual Web Developer Express? Visual C# Express?.NET?
My daughter's grade school still uses several Apple//e and ][+ computers in their daily activities. I set them up with AppleWin so that when the floppies finally die and they can't find any more, they can still use those educational games.
Oh please. One of my duties at my last job was to browse the firewall logs looking for links to sites and images that could be pornographic. Then I had to print them all to PDF and hand the file to the CEO who would then print them out and sit down with the offender for reprimanding or termination. It was one of the most time consuming and irritating jobs I did there, and it was not voluntary. People think it'd be fun to look at porn images all day, but when it's not stuff you're interested in, it's extremely tedious. Even when it is, it gets old really fast.
Every place I've worked, IT was mandated by upper management to prevent people from surfing porn and installing games. I'd hardly call that IT on a power trip.
That is, until clocking technology is invented, I suppose. When the big hand is on the 12 and the little hand is on the 1, then the satellite will be invisible!
I personally would like to see the Federal government get out of the education business, and leave it up to the States and local governments. I believe Ron Paul's views are similar to mine on this.
Based on his previous statements, I would say that unless we have intelligence data indicating China is going to build a massive battle station in space, then we have no reason to interfere. Certainly he wouldn't stand in the way of private corporations selling their products and services to help China get into space for peaceful reasons.
His aim is to prevent the Federal government from giving tax dollars to these countries in the form of foreign aid. (I assume he also has a plan to stop selling our debt to the Chinese, but I have not looked it up.)
If Americans still want to purchase Chinese made products, and thereby subsidize the Chinese government, then Ron Paul won't stand in their way. To interfere in that would be to interfere in the free market, and that's against his philosophy.
They're probably not military grade yet, so they could be more of a hindrance in the field. Usually on a farm you don't have to worry about people shooting at you, so the exoskeleton won't need to be bullet and fragment resistant.
The problem with the hard core "don't tax me bro" crowd is that they really really believe that there is no cost in letting people starve in the streets/have no education/have no health care.
Not quite. We recognize that in general, private charities are more efficient than government programs at providing services. Read "Why Government Doesn't Work" by the late Harry Browne for more information. Most libertarians are quite charitable, we just hate being forced to support some political crony's organization.
Dr Ray Stantz: You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909!
Louis: Felt great.
Dr. Egon Spengler: We'd like to get a sample of your brain tissue.
Louis: Okay.
So what you're saying is that it was a wasted effort to convert one desktop to Linux, and only means something if he got the entire company to switch. That's ridiculous. How many companies switch everything over at once based on the opinion of one lowly worker without proving that it works first?
I think it was an excellent idea, and this may convince other people to convert, since he proved it can be done.
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As one of the primary technical interviewers at my company, we've never been interested in grades. Rather, we're more interested in someone that can jump in and be productive quickly.
Of the 40,000 active oil fields in the world, not one of them is refilling itself.
Geochemist Says Oil Fields May Be Refilled Naturally http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE3D91530F935A1575AC0A963958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
Keeping developers pigeonholed is a great way to lower morale...
It grants precedence to how our military should conduct itself.
My daughter's grade school still uses several Apple //e and ][+ computers in their daily activities. I set them up with AppleWin so that when the floppies finally die and they can't find any more, they can still use those educational games.
Oh please. One of my duties at my last job was to browse the firewall logs looking for links to sites and images that could be pornographic. Then I had to print them all to PDF and hand the file to the CEO who would then print them out and sit down with the offender for reprimanding or termination. It was one of the most time consuming and irritating jobs I did there, and it was not voluntary. People think it'd be fun to look at porn images all day, but when it's not stuff you're interested in, it's extremely tedious. Even when it is, it gets old really fast.
Every place I've worked, IT was mandated by upper management to prevent people from surfing porn and installing games. I'd hardly call that IT on a power trip.
When the developers in your area all say "Ewww, I'm not touching that! That's as bad as COBOL!" That's when I knew it was time to get away from VB6.
You might be a Libertarian if you smoke pot while cleaning your guns.
I personally would like to see the Federal government get out of the education business, and leave it up to the States and local governments. I believe Ron Paul's views are similar to mine on this.
Based on his previous statements, I would say that unless we have intelligence data indicating China is going to build a massive battle station in space, then we have no reason to interfere. Certainly he wouldn't stand in the way of private corporations selling their products and services to help China get into space for peaceful reasons.
His aim is to prevent the Federal government from giving tax dollars to these countries in the form of foreign aid. (I assume he also has a plan to stop selling our debt to the Chinese, but I have not looked it up.) If Americans still want to purchase Chinese made products, and thereby subsidize the Chinese government, then Ron Paul won't stand in their way. To interfere in that would be to interfere in the free market, and that's against his philosophy.
They're probably not military grade yet, so they could be more of a hindrance in the field. Usually on a farm you don't have to worry about people shooting at you, so the exoskeleton won't need to be bullet and fragment resistant.
Home defense would only work if you were in fear of your life or the life of your family. I highly doubt a WiFi thief is that dangerous to you.
Except he never actually said that.
The problem with the hard core "don't tax me bro" crowd is that they really really believe that there is no cost in letting people starve in the streets/have no education/have no health care. Not quite. We recognize that in general, private charities are more efficient than government programs at providing services. Read "Why Government Doesn't Work" by the late Harry Browne for more information. Most libertarians are quite charitable, we just hate being forced to support some political crony's organization.
Dr Ray Stantz: You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909! Louis: Felt great. Dr. Egon Spengler: We'd like to get a sample of your brain tissue. Louis: Okay.
Have the only computer in the house hooked up to a 50" plasma or LCD screen in front of a window facing the street.
So what you're saying is that it was a wasted effort to convert one desktop to Linux, and only means something if he got the entire company to switch. That's ridiculous. How many companies switch everything over at once based on the opinion of one lowly worker without proving that it works first?
I think it was an excellent idea, and this may convince other people to convert, since he proved it can be done.
Actually, I recall Hormel suing Jim Henson for a Muppets character called Spa'am. Hormel lost because it was shown to be a parody.
I read somewhere that Turkey was looking to start their own internet. Maybe the UN should be part of that, then everyone would be happy. :)