You don't normally step out of school with 20 years seniority and experience already under your belt...
That's why the best schools for IT/Tech related fields aren't the ones that teach you C and Networking and will fast track you with a fancy name. THe good one are the ones that offer Co-op programs and job placements. If you finish with a Master in 4 years cuz you worked you butt off, great. If you finished in 7 with you bachelors but with 5 years of experience at a local company doing any crap work they give you (my co-op had me breaking boxed my first six months then wring VB apps/SQL code the last years). I think the latter is the better option.
As my religion professor said "The best place to view college is from a rear-view mirror"
What's to misunderstand? When companies are looking for Mid to High level IT staffing and all they can find in the pool is low level that they'd have to train up or the mid level that doesn't quite work of course they're going to call shortage of skills. Find me a senior level Vax Admin in the midwest and you're going to be SOL but I assure you there are companies there that would use them.
there's an ever-present shortage of skilled IT workers to fill the industry's demand
The key there is SKILLED. Most of the skilled IT people are already at work for a company or for themselves. What you have left in the pool is a bunch of low level first year grads who haven't seen the environments that these companies offer.
So, yes it's a myth that there are not enough people to fill IT positions, there are lots of code monkeys willing to pound keys for their banana but what are the skilled IT people that these larger companies are looking for out of the box and where will we find them right now?
noui consilia et ueteres quaecumque monetis amici,
"pone seram, cohibe".
sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes
cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor
"I hear always the admonishment of my friends:
'Bolt her in, and constrain her!'
But who will watch the watchmen?
The wife arranges accordingly, and begins with them."
Lewis Blacks Rules of Enragement: He's talking about Cheney's $31 million goodbye present from Haliburton, and how it was wrong of Cheney to keep the money when he left Haliburton to become the VP. Black says "And at that point I said 'Uh, Vice President Cheney, I think you should return the money,' and he said 'Uh, Lewis, I think you should go fuck yourself.'"
Actually he passed on the information he wanted to change to other editors so that they could change the article without a conflict of interest.
He still passed it on for change even if he knew it was wrong or misleading or about someone he knows personally? Basically saying it's up to the editors to catch it before. I'm just asking, if it's good enough for Jimbo to just say "I'm going to make this change and X person/company/subject even if it is not 100% accurate" even though he went through the other editors to do it, why not us?
I appreciate that, this being Slashdot, you didn't do anything so radical as actually, you know, RTFA.
Thank you, I try my best to give the Slashdot community my whole half-assed, misspelled, and blatantly wrong opinions based solely off RTFS. As soon as I can figure out how to give every post a meme spin or can analogy I'm in!
I acted completely consistently with Wikipedia policy. I did the right thing: I passed along my work to date for other editors to deal with
So basically, he's saying that yes you can write anything and it's up to the editors to catch it and make sure you're true. If my boss says "write us a shinny burb on Wikipedia!" I can say I was going with their policy because the editors should of caught my writing?
Yeah, people like to point out that the stereotypical male gamer geek is still in abundance
I cringed listening to NPR last night during their coverage on Gygax passing. They had the audacity to ask that very question. Instead of focusing on the mans life and legacy they though to ask that question about the gender divide? Which BTW the person they interview said it may be due to the fact that Gygax based some ideas off playing Cowboys and Indians/Cops and Robbers as a kid... which girls didn't do when he was young...
I notice the frequent use of "she" in the PHB to talk about characters. I wonder if Hasbro was thinking MMRPGs? (Many Men Role Playing Girls)
nformation ? TV is more biased than any other source, and nowadays the net fulfill that better than Tv will ever do
Here Here! I Unplugged the idiot box and have actually become better informed. Between my downtime at work and drive to/from said employment I get a lot of information not presented in the regular infotainment.
If your curtains are open, then you do not have an expectation of privacy.
And that actually plays into the article. We feel we must ALWAYS keep our curtains drawn or that we're being watched and if that the curtains are drawn that something naughty or wrong is taking place behind them.
What takes place is my home is my business, windows open or not. You should not be looking in unless you want other looking in your home as well. If we've reached that point then it's too late and google is the least of our worries.
But if your windows are open, people are free to look in.
I have a feeling we've gone down this road before, but... If my curtains are open and I see someone I have the option of closing them or calling the cops. I can expect privacy in my own home. With the Google van driving by unknown to me how do I close my curtains?
is if they were concerned about parrot splitting the market.
They're pythons! The parrot's dead... 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies!'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! 'E f-in' stuffed it!
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And to those who think the american form is not I submit
Exhibit A)Sandman
Exhibit B)The Watchmen
I love the software that says "Can be run on Windows2000 or Greater" Which includes Linux and OSX but not Vista...
As my religion professor said "The best place to view college is from a rear-view mirror"
So, yes it's a myth that there are not enough people to fill IT positions, there are lots of code monkeys willing to pound keys for their banana but what are the skilled IT people that these larger companies are looking for out of the box and where will we find them right now?
noui consilia et ueteres quaecumque monetis amici,
"pone seram, cohibe".
sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes
cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor
"I hear always the admonishment of my friends:
'Bolt her in, and constrain her!'
But who will watch the watchmen?
The wife arranges accordingly, and begins with them."
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I think someone hit the Python Reruns...
Lewis Blacks Rules of Enragement: He's talking about Cheney's $31 million goodbye present from Haliburton, and how it was wrong of Cheney to keep the money when he left Haliburton to become the VP. Black says "And at that point I said 'Uh, Vice President Cheney, I think you should return the money,' and he said 'Uh, Lewis, I think you should go fuck yourself.'"
Gratz! Yur teh 3rd grammer Nazi! You getz teh gold redudant star of typos the greek godz of speeling eroors
Then again that's just my $0.02
As soon as I can figure out how to give every post a meme spin or can analogy I'm in!
I notice the frequent use of "she" in the PHB to talk about characters. I wonder if Hasbro was thinking MMRPGs? (Many Men Role Playing Girls)
Oh! Well, learn something everyday, don't we? Danke!
but is it per cent or percent? Are we paying for this too?
Besides, gave me time to catch up on my reading
What takes place is my home is my business, windows open or not. You should not be looking in unless you want other looking in your home as well. If we've reached that point then it's too late and google is the least of our worries.
If my curtains are open and I see someone I have the option of closing them or calling the cops. I can expect privacy in my own home. With the Google van driving by unknown to me how do I close my curtains?
What are you trying to say? That just because I think they're all out to get me doesn't mean that they aren't?
Okay... Here ya go You wanna find the google girls, do ya own leg work...
What would you prefer Michael Palin and Eric Idle? I'm not sure they're any good with Java.