I couldn't have said it better myself. In my situation, the guy we ended up hiring took the position for the rate we were offering. He was also employed at the time and left his job to come work for us. Salary was not a barrier to attracting qualified talent (once we found the talent).
It took me three plus months of searching to find a good IT employee to help me with my workload. I'm at a company that has tripled its revenue in the last two years. I have more work than I can handle on my own, but I need someone competent to do it... not someone who I need to train and hold their hand. I need to be more productive, not less productive. I need someone I can delegate work to and know that they will do it just as well or better than I can. Those people are not easy to find. I had to sort through a whole slew of unqualified candidates before finding the guy I hired.
And right after I hired him, I asked for a raise because going through the hiring process made me realize just how limited the supply of qualified technical workers really is. They gave it to me, because the company knows it too.
There is a serious problem with Americans. Too many people think that they deserve a high paying job. They think they can go "get an education" and get hired by a company that will give them a career track.
Most of the people I know who are doing well are doing what they enjoy. They are in IT and they like computers. They are doctors and they are fascinated by life and the body. They are engineers and they are complete geeks for building things. They are into biochem and are thrilled to be working with the building blocks of life. They all have passion and they work hard and are constantly thinking about work... not because they have to, but because their brains are wired that way. They enjoy it. It fascinates them.
Too many people get too focused on being "successful". They do not realize that success comes from excelling at what you do. The drive to excel only comes from passion. Either passion about the task, or passion about the reward. People who are passionate about the task will be successful their entire lives. People who are passionate about the rewards will eventually burn out.
No amount of training is going to bridge the shortage of skilled workers in the USA.
Exactly. I can only speak for IT, but it has been hard to find qualified candidates for mid-level positions. The guy I ended up hiring is mostly self taught and loves the work. The large majority of the candidates all wanted to be IT managers and were very light on technical skills.
When Windows Update was introduced, the first thought to go through my mind was, "I wonder how long until someone compromises this and uses it to push out malware." It took a lot longer than I thought.
I have been building computers since the early 1990s. There has always been a segment of the community that prefers AMD to (Intel / Nvidia / etc) and I have never understood why. I have tried both AMD CPUs and video cards over the years and always end up going back to Intel, and more recently Nvidia. It seems like AMD just cannot get it right when it comes to the gaming market. They often win on pricepoint, but completely fail on issues like what this article mentions.
Why do people continue to support AMD? All I can figure is that it has to do with an irrational hatred of Intel. Intel is monopolistic. Intel is anti-competitive. Intel is expensive. So, rather than supporting Intel and getting the best products on the market, people go with AMD and suffer in smug self-righteousness for doing the "right thing" and not supporting the companies that are dominating the field.
On the other hand, you end up spending a lot of money for the perceived benefits of virtualization (hardware abstraction, portability, etc).
We virtualized SQL Server 2008 R2 and ended up going back to Microsoft clustering. With clustering we still get HA but do not have to pay for VMware licenses. On VMware we were dedicating entire hosts to a single guest due to the high RAM utilization. In addition we were also taking the virtualization hit on the resource level by abstracting out disk and CPU access.
"a woman who came into possession of a block of IPv4 address in the early '90s and now, 'She's in her 70s, and she's going to have a windfall."
Whoever said that lurking in your parent's basement and dorking around with computers all day and night would never amount to anything is going to be eating humble pie now!!
How else would a 50 year old woman come into a block of IPv4 addresses if not for a basement dwelling son who was trading IPs for groceries and rent?
I am dealing with this as well, albeit on a different scale. About a year ago, the powers that be decided that they were going to develop a private cloud for the company. Nobody really considered how to migrate 500+TB of data from three separate sites into the new cloud. We are doing a mixture of over the wire replication (for sites with 100Mb+ of bandwidth), physical replication (using NAS devices and tape), and synchronization using DoubleTake for the SQL data and Vice Versa Pro for file system data. It is a massive undertaking, made even more difficult by the fact that we are working with production systems with locked in SLAs that need be maintained.
For the average person, and even most enterprises, I honestly believe the best way to get into "the cloud" is by following a well planned out, phased approach. The first phase should be using the cloud as a DR target. Only when both sides of the equation are balanced and able to operate independently of each other can you consider doing away with one and moving to the other.
I didn't even notice until you said something. I went to check, and the app is gone on my phone too (Droid Razr on Verizon). Those scum sucking bastards.
The best is when the MBA types decide to do nothing, without bothering to fully evaluate what the true cost of doing nothing is. Then when the reality of doing nothing begins to settle in, it is too late to effectively do something due to insane lead times.
Does the heat generated as it passes through the atmosphere kill off any organisms that might have been traveling along with it as it flew through the galaxy? Having passed through the cosmos for who only knows how long, would a meteorite chunk be radioactive at all?
The best place they could have done this was in SWTOR for their space combat.
+1
I was very disappointed when space combat in SWTOR was not like X-wing or Tie Fighter. I figured that would be a gimme. They already own all of the IP and have developed the code. They could have just refreshed the graphics and called it a day. It would be ground breaking to have a "real" flight simulator / space combat game built into an MMO. It would be a nice distraction from questing / raiding.
The only reason that you can speak of good is because of evil. If there were not evil, good would not be good because there would not be a "not good" to compare it to. It simply would be what is.
What was that dirty hippy living off of welfare going to change and reform? He was leeching off of the very system that is broken. He reminds me of those OWS cry babies who think they are sticking it to the system by refusing to pay their student loans. The guy was not a revolutionary leader. He was someone who failed to make it in society and became bitter with the very system that he allowed himself to become dependent upon.
How does this work though? It seems to me that if the only people buying the underpinnings of the dollar is the country that uses the dollar internally (the Federal Reserve), then the rest of the world has effectively moved away from the dollar and it is worthless.
My understanding is that the rest of the world buys T-bonds because they conduct their trade in dollars, and definitely buy oil in dollars. Therefore the T-bond is a decent safe haven investment because it can be cashed in for dollars, even if the interest rates on the investment are close to 0. If nobody is buying the bonds, they are doing so because they have better things to do with their money than invest it in the dollar.
Or put another way, if the only group buying US Government debt is the US Government (and don't give me that crap about the Fed not being the government), then the United States is screwed. An entity in debt cannot issue further debt and buy that debt itself. The whole point of debt is to get other entities to purchase it. If an entity is the only group buying debt, then there is no point in generating the debt in the first place. Debt simply lets one country get resources and/or goods from another country by promising to pay more for it in the future.
The author is right, nobody would have ever thought that the kind of people who lurk in the computer underground would ever use open source tools or methods to develop their malware. We all thought that "those people" were paying Microsoft for copies of Visual Studio and writing all of their code based explicitly on MSDN code samples.
It is not so much about hating Apple as it is that Apple is the perfect example of monetary imbalance. They made BILLIONS of dollars in profit LAST QUARTER. Three months, BILLIONS OF DOLLARS (13.06 billion according the article I read). They made those profits on the backs of slave laborers, working in harsh conditions. People with one shred of a social conscience recognize that those profits are obscene and morally wrong.
If Apple cannot produce their products in the US, they can at least improve the standard of living for the people who do make their products. I bet that one of those multiple billions that Apple made, divided evenly among the Foxconn workforce would equal one hell of a bonus check for the employees.
Of course it won't happen. Apple does not give two shits about their workers. They are not alone in that. They are just a bright, shining example of how capitalism is skewed in favor of the employer and away from the people who actually make the goods.
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Not everyone else. Just a sizeable minority.
I couldn't have said it better myself. In my situation, the guy we ended up hiring took the position for the rate we were offering. He was also employed at the time and left his job to come work for us. Salary was not a barrier to attracting qualified talent (once we found the talent).
What field do you work in?
It took me three plus months of searching to find a good IT employee to help me with my workload. I'm at a company that has tripled its revenue in the last two years. I have more work than I can handle on my own, but I need someone competent to do it... not someone who I need to train and hold their hand. I need to be more productive, not less productive. I need someone I can delegate work to and know that they will do it just as well or better than I can. Those people are not easy to find. I had to sort through a whole slew of unqualified candidates before finding the guy I hired.
And right after I hired him, I asked for a raise because going through the hiring process made me realize just how limited the supply of qualified technical workers really is. They gave it to me, because the company knows it too.
There is a serious problem with Americans. Too many people think that they deserve a high paying job. They think they can go "get an education" and get hired by a company that will give them a career track.
Most of the people I know who are doing well are doing what they enjoy. They are in IT and they like computers. They are doctors and they are fascinated by life and the body. They are engineers and they are complete geeks for building things. They are into biochem and are thrilled to be working with the building blocks of life. They all have passion and they work hard and are constantly thinking about work... not because they have to, but because their brains are wired that way. They enjoy it. It fascinates them.
Too many people get too focused on being "successful". They do not realize that success comes from excelling at what you do. The drive to excel only comes from passion. Either passion about the task, or passion about the reward. People who are passionate about the task will be successful their entire lives. People who are passionate about the rewards will eventually burn out.
No amount of training is going to bridge the shortage of skilled workers in the USA.
Exactly. I can only speak for IT, but it has been hard to find qualified candidates for mid-level positions. The guy I ended up hiring is mostly self taught and loves the work. The large majority of the candidates all wanted to be IT managers and were very light on technical skills.
When Windows Update was introduced, the first thought to go through my mind was, "I wonder how long until someone compromises this and uses it to push out malware." It took a lot longer than I thought.
I have been building computers since the early 1990s. There has always been a segment of the community that prefers AMD to (Intel / Nvidia / etc) and I have never understood why. I have tried both AMD CPUs and video cards over the years and always end up going back to Intel, and more recently Nvidia. It seems like AMD just cannot get it right when it comes to the gaming market. They often win on pricepoint, but completely fail on issues like what this article mentions.
Why do people continue to support AMD? All I can figure is that it has to do with an irrational hatred of Intel. Intel is monopolistic. Intel is anti-competitive. Intel is expensive. So, rather than supporting Intel and getting the best products on the market, people go with AMD and suffer in smug self-righteousness for doing the "right thing" and not supporting the companies that are dominating the field.
What kind of problems have you run into? I've been running clusters on both Server 2003 and 2008 with SQL 2000/2005/2008 and it works great.
You're running clustered SQL servers, but VMware licensing was cost prohibitive ?
We already paid for enterprise licenses for Windows Server and SQL. Why add in the additional cost of VMware if it is not necessary to achieve HA?
I'm not bashing VMware or virtualization. We use it extensively. Just not for SQL.
We run Netbackup and we virtualized the master node, but the media servers are still physical.
On the other hand, you end up spending a lot of money for the perceived benefits of virtualization (hardware abstraction, portability, etc).
We virtualized SQL Server 2008 R2 and ended up going back to Microsoft clustering. With clustering we still get HA but do not have to pay for VMware licenses. On VMware we were dedicating entire hosts to a single guest due to the high RAM utilization. In addition we were also taking the virtualization hit on the resource level by abstracting out disk and CPU access.
"a woman who came into possession of a block of IPv4 address in the early '90s and now, 'She's in her 70s, and she's going to have a windfall."
Whoever said that lurking in your parent's basement and dorking around with computers all day and night would never amount to anything is going to be eating humble pie now!!
How else would a 50 year old woman come into a block of IPv4 addresses if not for a basement dwelling son who was trading IPs for groceries and rent?
I am dealing with this as well, albeit on a different scale. About a year ago, the powers that be decided that they were going to develop a private cloud for the company. Nobody really considered how to migrate 500+TB of data from three separate sites into the new cloud. We are doing a mixture of over the wire replication (for sites with 100Mb+ of bandwidth), physical replication (using NAS devices and tape), and synchronization using DoubleTake for the SQL data and Vice Versa Pro for file system data. It is a massive undertaking, made even more difficult by the fact that we are working with production systems with locked in SLAs that need be maintained.
For the average person, and even most enterprises, I honestly believe the best way to get into "the cloud" is by following a well planned out, phased approach. The first phase should be using the cloud as a DR target. Only when both sides of the equation are balanced and able to operate independently of each other can you consider doing away with one and moving to the other.
I've been with Verizon since owning a Motorola Startac.
Are you sure about that? The Startac came out before "Verizon Wireless" was even incorporated.
I didn't even notice until you said something. I went to check, and the app is gone on my phone too (Droid Razr on Verizon). Those scum sucking bastards.
The best is when the MBA types decide to do nothing, without bothering to fully evaluate what the true cost of doing nothing is. Then when the reality of doing nothing begins to settle in, it is too late to effectively do something due to insane lead times.
Does the heat generated as it passes through the atmosphere kill off any organisms that might have been traveling along with it as it flew through the galaxy? Having passed through the cosmos for who only knows how long, would a meteorite chunk be radioactive at all?
The best place they could have done this was in SWTOR for their space combat.
+1
I was very disappointed when space combat in SWTOR was not like X-wing or Tie Fighter. I figured that would be a gimme. They already own all of the IP and have developed the code. They could have just refreshed the graphics and called it a day. It would be ground breaking to have a "real" flight simulator / space combat game built into an MMO. It would be a nice distraction from questing / raiding.
The only reason that you can speak of good is because of evil. If there were not evil, good would not be good because there would not be a "not good" to compare it to. It simply would be what is.
What was that dirty hippy living off of welfare going to change and reform? He was leeching off of the very system that is broken. He reminds me of those OWS cry babies who think they are sticking it to the system by refusing to pay their student loans. The guy was not a revolutionary leader. He was someone who failed to make it in society and became bitter with the very system that he allowed himself to become dependent upon.
Do any of you know any tools that I can feed a Cisco config file into and get a visual representation of the ACLs?
Just like root.
http://www.zazzle.com/root_is_a_state_of_mind_tshirt-235878823164589661
Exactly! Finally, someone speaking some sense in this thread.
How does this work though? It seems to me that if the only people buying the underpinnings of the dollar is the country that uses the dollar internally (the Federal Reserve), then the rest of the world has effectively moved away from the dollar and it is worthless.
My understanding is that the rest of the world buys T-bonds because they conduct their trade in dollars, and definitely buy oil in dollars. Therefore the T-bond is a decent safe haven investment because it can be cashed in for dollars, even if the interest rates on the investment are close to 0. If nobody is buying the bonds, they are doing so because they have better things to do with their money than invest it in the dollar.
Or put another way, if the only group buying US Government debt is the US Government (and don't give me that crap about the Fed not being the government), then the United States is screwed. An entity in debt cannot issue further debt and buy that debt itself. The whole point of debt is to get other entities to purchase it. If an entity is the only group buying debt, then there is no point in generating the debt in the first place. Debt simply lets one country get resources and/or goods from another country by promising to pay more for it in the future.
Or am I missing something here?
The author is right, nobody would have ever thought that the kind of people who lurk in the computer underground would ever use open source tools or methods to develop their malware. We all thought that "those people" were paying Microsoft for copies of Visual Studio and writing all of their code based explicitly on MSDN code samples.
It is not so much about hating Apple as it is that Apple is the perfect example of monetary imbalance. They made BILLIONS of dollars in profit LAST QUARTER. Three months, BILLIONS OF DOLLARS (13.06 billion according the article I read). They made those profits on the backs of slave laborers, working in harsh conditions. People with one shred of a social conscience recognize that those profits are obscene and morally wrong.
If Apple cannot produce their products in the US, they can at least improve the standard of living for the people who do make their products. I bet that one of those multiple billions that Apple made, divided evenly among the Foxconn workforce would equal one hell of a bonus check for the employees.
Of course it won't happen. Apple does not give two shits about their workers. They are not alone in that. They are just a bright, shining example of how capitalism is skewed in favor of the employer and away from the people who actually make the goods.