Not really. I find it very easy to find a job. I have recruiters sending me e-mail every week although I have been off the market for over
I'm gainfully employed, but in the last month or two I've seen an uptick in unsolicited "position available" emails from head hunter companies I'd used in the past.
IT is viewed as a cost center; as if it were some kind of corporate parasite preying on the profitable activities of the company. It is tolerated, but not celebrated.
Which is of course, ironic, since (as we've seen in many an article) not only are the IT folks generally the most practically responsible for the continued operations of the company on both a day-to-day and long-term level, but the loss of institutional memory when letting go IT people in cost cutting measures can quietly cost the company a ton of money in loss productivity hours. Add that to the havoc a disgruntled one can cause, and you'd think companies would treat them better simply out of self-interest.
But, of course, this rarely happens, because any monkey can be a great systems engineer, right?
Pretty much. I have a hybrid 4year from the CS dept (first two years were essentially the same as the CS lower division, then upper division changed to more "IT" vs "CS" -- essentially instead of re-implementing TCP from scratch, we learned how it worked (in painful detail), why it worked, and how to break it), and I can tell you the education makes it so much easier for me to easily ramp up for just about anything, plan ahead, think of exceptions that will be problematic, etc.
There's tons of people who come out of vocational backgrounds that just don't have that breadth of experience and education to draw from, and it shows in their work.
Why do Slashdotters who do this hate so much to give a reference to the movie/book/etc they're referring to? Would it interfere with you and a few others having an obscure-reference circle-jerk if you added less than one line of text describing where it came from?
If you're posting on/. and don't know Red Dwarf... I dunno what can be done for you, if anything at all...
Yes, you have successfully backpedaled into a mostly rational statement instead of the irrational, simplistic one you were endorsing before. Congratulations, here's a cookie.
I am saying that subsidizing industries is not a de facto indicator of corruption, which (amongst other things) is what your simplistic line reasoning was implying.
Assuming any of it was factual, which is debatable.
Even if we assume that the synoptic gospels are accurate, it's made clear that that Romans didn't really give a rat's ass about Jesus. It was the Jewish clerical aristocracy that had the beef.
Christians in general, on the other hand, tended to make nuisances of themselves in a variety of ways (though, in spite of the common perception, Christians were mostly irrelevant for quite a bit). The Romans were typically very eager to stomp out nuisances in their jurisdictions.
Just because someone with power may do things that you don't agree with or you don't quite understand the motivation for, does not mean they are corrupt.
Not saying that corruption doesn't exist, but your explanation for what constitutes "corruption" in politics is essentially the same as someone throwing out the "activist judge" charge, simply because they consistently make rulings that make them angry or that they disagree with.
Nice troll there. I have several users that employ Vmware Server quite efficiently.
And the Windows "infected" thing is irrelevant to the OP's question, since he knows it is a risk, but a huge amount of educational online-class software only works really, truly properly with IE. Deal with it.
Probably the same reason that the most popular Office 2007 torrent on TPB has exactly two serials included with it, neither of which has been blacklisted by MS.
One can theorize as to why, but i personally suspect its a mixture of "getting people used to using it as a standard, in order to get paying customers down the road" and there being some ridiculously long time to achieve an acceptable ROI after spending tons of time implementing actually useful and comprehensive DRM.
It just keeps the low-techs from swapping ala Napster. Nothing is going to keep the tech-enabled population from circumventing it with the right amount of effort.
Symantec Corporate used to be pretty decent, but the client is so "heavy" compared to things like clamwin that I just can't bring myself to install it on anything anymore.
I think it would be interesting to see what the "casual" Rock Band player thinks of the covers.
By and large, in an actual live music cover band setting, people don't really care if it is the original band. The like the song, and so long as the performance is close to what they remember (and in GH/RB they tend to be VERY close, particularly if you don't know the original very well) they're happy as clams.
No you don't. The problem with what you're saying is that people compare the *possibility* of getting a cheap PC with the cheapest model that Apple offers. This is an apples and oranges comparison. Apple just doesn't offer low end computers.
You tend to pay more when it comes to memory and upgraded hard drives. Apple is no different than most system makers in that regard. The rest of the parts, YMMV.
One thing I see with "Engrish Teachers" getting passed up for promotion is that their English is good, but the Teaching part is not. (Which is to be expected... how many gaijin English teachers in Japan do you know that have had adequate training to become a teacher? A number very close to ZERO would be the answer.) That may not be the teacher's fault considering the way these teachers are recruited, but it is certainly a valid reason why the promotions may not be moving in their favor.
Well, seeing as programs like JET seem to prefer little Japanese language training in their applications (AFAIK), that'd be a good place to start the search. No requirement that they have any teaching experience or credentials doesn't help, either.
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Microsoft may be the largest single employer, but that does not mean they employ the majority of the H1-B's.
Your anecdote is meaningless without a survey of all H1-B's, as compared to their equivalent permanent resident/citizen position pay scales.
Not really. I find it very easy to find a job. I have recruiters sending me e-mail every week although I have been off the market for over
I'm gainfully employed, but in the last month or two I've seen an uptick in unsolicited "position available" emails from head hunter companies I'd used in the past.
IT is viewed as a cost center; as if it were some kind of corporate parasite preying on the profitable activities of the company. It is tolerated, but not celebrated.
Which is of course, ironic, since (as we've seen in many an article) not only are the IT folks generally the most practically responsible for the continued operations of the company on both a day-to-day and long-term level, but the loss of institutional memory when letting go IT people in cost cutting measures can quietly cost the company a ton of money in loss productivity hours. Add that to the havoc a disgruntled one can cause, and you'd think companies would treat them better simply out of self-interest.
But, of course, this rarely happens, because any monkey can be a great systems engineer, right?
Pretty much. I have a hybrid 4year from the CS dept (first two years were essentially the same as the CS lower division, then upper division changed to more "IT" vs "CS" -- essentially instead of re-implementing TCP from scratch, we learned how it worked (in painful detail), why it worked, and how to break it), and I can tell you the education makes it so much easier for me to easily ramp up for just about anything, plan ahead, think of exceptions that will be problematic, etc.
There's tons of people who come out of vocational backgrounds that just don't have that breadth of experience and education to draw from, and it shows in their work.
Why do Slashdotters who do this hate so much to give a reference to the movie/book/etc they're referring to? Would it interfere with you and a few others having an obscure-reference circle-jerk if you added less than one line of text describing where it came from?
If you're posting on /. and don't know Red Dwarf... I dunno what can be done for you, if anything at all...
I'm curious as to what you think the "corruption of the financial elite" entails, exactly.
Yes, you have successfully backpedaled into a mostly rational statement instead of the irrational, simplistic one you were endorsing before. Congratulations, here's a cookie.
So, more Gibson than Gibson.
I am saying that subsidizing industries is not a de facto indicator of corruption, which (amongst other things) is what your simplistic line reasoning was implying.
Would have been more interesting. Social web. Feh. GET OFF MY LAWN.
(okay, so its Columbia, but hey)
Assuming any of it was factual, which is debatable.
Even if we assume that the synoptic gospels are accurate, it's made clear that that Romans didn't really give a rat's ass about Jesus. It was the Jewish clerical aristocracy that had the beef.
Christians in general, on the other hand, tended to make nuisances of themselves in a variety of ways (though, in spite of the common perception, Christians were mostly irrelevant for quite a bit). The Romans were typically very eager to stomp out nuisances in their jurisdictions.
Just because someone with power may do things that you don't agree with or you don't quite understand the motivation for, does not mean they are corrupt.
Not saying that corruption doesn't exist, but your explanation for what constitutes "corruption" in politics is essentially the same as someone throwing out the "activist judge" charge, simply because they consistently make rulings that make them angry or that they disagree with.
Nice troll there. I have several users that employ Vmware Server quite efficiently.
And the Windows "infected" thing is irrelevant to the OP's question, since he knows it is a risk, but a huge amount of educational online-class software only works really, truly properly with IE. Deal with it.
I can only imagine that this torrent happened before sp1, given the number of seeds and peers, but you could be right.
VMware Server is free.
It's more than up to the task you are trying to accomplish.
if they make so much money from the books and lose on every reader, why does Sony sell their readers for less money?
Because technologically, the Kindle 2 is a superior device to the Sony consumer offerings.
Probably the same reason that the most popular Office 2007 torrent on TPB has exactly two serials included with it, neither of which has been blacklisted by MS.
One can theorize as to why, but i personally suspect its a mixture of "getting people used to using it as a standard, in order to get paying customers down the road" and there being some ridiculously long time to achieve an acceptable ROI after spending tons of time implementing actually useful and comprehensive DRM.
It just keeps the low-techs from swapping ala Napster. Nothing is going to keep the tech-enabled population from circumventing it with the right amount of effort.
Symantec Corporate used to be pretty decent, but the client is so "heavy" compared to things like clamwin that I just can't bring myself to install it on anything anymore.
I was never really a huge fan of Circuit City I still miss Computer City, though. Was pretty good in my area.
I think it would be interesting to see what the "casual" Rock Band player thinks of the covers.
By and large, in an actual live music cover band setting, people don't really care if it is the original band. The like the song, and so long as the performance is close to what they remember (and in GH/RB they tend to be VERY close, particularly if you don't know the original very well) they're happy as clams.
No you don't. The problem with what you're saying is that people compare the *possibility* of getting a cheap PC with the cheapest model that Apple offers. This is an apples and oranges comparison. Apple just doesn't offer low end computers.
You tend to pay more when it comes to memory and upgraded hard drives. Apple is no different than most system makers in that regard. The rest of the parts, YMMV.
Btw, the Mac Mini is a pretty low end computer.
After reading the last 3-4 posts you put up in this thread, the only thing I've come away with is:
Man... it sure must be hard to walk around with that large of a chip on your shoulder.
One thing I see with "Engrish Teachers" getting passed up for promotion is that their English is good, but the Teaching part is not. (Which is to be expected... how many gaijin English teachers in Japan do you know that have had adequate training to become a teacher? A number very close to ZERO would be the answer.) That may not be the teacher's fault considering the way these teachers are recruited, but it is certainly a valid reason why the promotions may not be moving in their favor.
Well, seeing as programs like JET seem to prefer little Japanese language training in their applications (AFAIK), that'd be a good place to start the search. No requirement that they have any teaching experience or credentials doesn't help, either.