I'm 31 and left my "career" in IT sales last year to finish my BS in MIS (yeah, it's not CS, but similar). I was recently turned down for an internship in the IT org of a major financial institution because I was "overqualified."
I'm still not really sure how to take that - does my sales experience overqualify me to intern as an IT analyst, or is "overqualified" just a nice way of saying that I'm too old. If anything, I'd say that I'm underqualified: I know some Java, C#, SQL, UML, etc. However, even with a 4.0 GPA, I don't feel like I'm learning enough in the classroom to comfortably slide in to a full-time IT position. It leaves me questioning what exactly recruiters are looking for and if I'm overqualified, I feel bad for the people who end up working with some of the dumbasses that are less qualified than me.
I really don't think the fines would keep large corporations in line. look at all the stuff you see big business doing that they know is illegal and that they know will land them big fines if they get caught. Software piracy is no different. In fact it's probably easier to use a pirated piece of software than it is to dump illegal chemicals or defraud investors. You can manage the exposer.
Having acted in an advising capacity on a software license management project currently underway at one of the worlds largest financial institutions (400k employees), I disagree. Purchased software is an asset on the books and needs to be tracked. Pirated software is a risk and even the largest companies will occasionally be brought to court for "over implementation."
The main hurdle with Software Asset Management (SAM) is the complexity of the licenses involved, and the multitude of way in which it can be obtained. Some examples: is the license perpetual or subscription based; is it a "named user" license or is it assigned to the org; does it include maintenance (upgrade rights); if it includes maintenance is the maint co-termed with the other licenses that the org owns; if it includes maintenance, what was the most current version at the time the maintenance expired; does the current version allow for "downgrades" and how many version prior can be downgraded; what previous versions qualify for an upgrade license and which would need a full new version; can the licenses be transferred within the org; can they be transferred globally; does the license allow for home use; does the license allow for portable device use; just to name a few.
If large corporations were willing pirates, you would not see them making their annual multi-million dollar payments to Microsoft for their Enterprise Agreements. You wouldn't see them spending millions on risk management/mitigation consultants or conducting their own software audits. There are people out there getting paid piles of cash to implement a working SAM system.
It's unavoidable that a large corporation will be under-licensed. However, they spend big bucks to mitigate the risk that this opens them up to.
Friedman goes through great effort to explain how and why jobs are being outsourced, and also provides some guidance on what we can do to survive in a "flat" world. I would call this book required reading for anyone working in any level of IT.
If you're not the reading type, there's a video of Friedman at MIT where he coveres much of the first three chapters.
Every subscriber of the game has a two 10-day buddy keys to share. Just find someone with a key, download the client, and you've got 10 days free to play.
I find LOTRO to be nearly flawless when compared to other MMOs. LOTRO had about as smooth a launch as one could hope for and put other MMOs to shame in this regard. Also, allowing characters to transfer from Beta to Live, and discounted pricing for pre-orders, is a welcome "innovation."
The Epic quest series, which follows the hobbits progress in the books, is amazing. The scripted story events are highly immersive and impressive.
Sure, the economy could use some work, and other tweaks can be made. But, a more polished MMO I have not seen on launch, and the potential for expansion is huge.
NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE forces ANYONE to use windows. My boss forces me to use Windows. My school forces me to use Windows. I work for a company that sells IT to Federal and State governments, with a focus on the military, and 99% of my customers are forced to use Windows. NO ONE is a lot less than pretty much every employee of the state and federal government, employee at a Windows-using corporation or small business, and student who is required to use Windows for their schoolwork.
Maybe at home you're correct - unless you take your work home with you or need to access IE only websites or use Windows only programs for school. Or you could argue that people voluntarily work for or go to schools that require Windows, and they can always leave... but that's not entirely practical now, is it?
Sure, we could go to four cores next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, three worked out pretty well, and four is the next number after three. So let's play it safe. Let's make a larger cache and call it the AMD 64 X2Super. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why!
You think it's crazy? It is crazy. But I don't give a shit. From now on, we're the ones who have the edge in the multi-core game. Are they the best a man can get? Fuck, no. AMD is the best a man can get.
What part of this don't you understand? If two cores is good, and cores blades is better, obviously five cores would make us the best fucking processor that ever existed. Comprende? We didn't claw our way to the top of the processor game by clinging to the two-core industry standard. We got here by taking chances. Well, five cores is the biggest chance of all.
I recently spent 3 months with Ubuntu (6.06 LTS) after moving from Win XP Pro. I use the PC primarily for gaming, but took the Linux plunge when a trojan forced a reinstall of Windows (Side note,the trojan was my own fault as I ran an exe intentionally when I figured the risk was worth the potential reward). Using Cedega, I was able to play WoW, SWG, HL2, Guild Wars, and others. However, while these games were able to run, they didn't run well, and didn't come close to the performance in Windows. Obviously, they shouldn't perform as well as in their native OS, but it's worth noting that while they work, they don't work well (WoW being the exception, due to it's use of OpenGL most likely).
I spent hours upon hours getting games to work, rather than actually playing them. And if a game had been released in the past 6 months, you may as well forget about it. By the time most games get around to being playable with WINE/Cedega, they're in the bargain bin at retail stores. So, I went back to Windows.
As much as I'd love to leave MS behind, it's just not practical. I'll be getting a Wii also, and have a 360 that I won, but I still prefer a PC to a console and until developers start porting their games to Linux, I'll be stuck with Win.
How much does the number of legal immigrants contribute to the growth?
My college level Environmental Science course says 3/5 of US pop growth comes from births, 2/5 from immigration. Also, the US has the highest growth rate out of all the developed nations - even though we are the "richest," we are more similar to a devloping nation with regard to population growth.
They have stage3 tarballs, which contain everything compiled already. You just have to partition the drive, install the stage tarball, compile the kernel, and install syslog, cron, and grub.
It's so easy, so simple, I don't know why more people don't run Linux. It's a good thing they don't, or they'd all be super villians.
Now I have more reason than ever to install trillian/gaim on newb computers.
AOL silliness aside, according to (my understanding of) TFA (and, yes, I am new here), this worm spreads by getting users to run a.com file which is disquised as a.jpg. The.com then infects the users System32 directory and the magic happens. Wouldn't GAIM and Trillian both be vulnerable to this, if they are running on Win machines?
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I'm 31 and left my "career" in IT sales last year to finish my BS in MIS (yeah, it's not CS, but similar). I was recently turned down for an internship in the IT org of a major financial institution because I was "overqualified."
I'm still not really sure how to take that - does my sales experience overqualify me to intern as an IT analyst, or is "overqualified" just a nice way of saying that I'm too old. If anything, I'd say that I'm underqualified: I know some Java, C#, SQL, UML, etc. However, even with a 4.0 GPA, I don't feel like I'm learning enough in the classroom to comfortably slide in to a full-time IT position. It leaves me questioning what exactly recruiters are looking for and if I'm overqualified, I feel bad for the people who end up working with some of the dumbasses that are less qualified than me.
Playland, the amusement park in Rye, New York, also shows up as blurred compared to the surrounding suburbs: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.248722,4.43965&spn=0.3,0.3&t=k&q=52.248722,4.43965
Cannot imagine why!
I don't know why this was modded as +5 Informative - the link doesn't even go to Rye, NY. Unless Rye, NY is now in Europe...
Zoom out at the location that is linked to and it is in Holland.
I really don't think the fines would keep large corporations in line. look at all the stuff you see big business doing that they know is illegal and that they know will land them big fines if they get caught. Software piracy is no different. In fact it's probably easier to use a pirated piece of software than it is to dump illegal chemicals or defraud investors. You can manage the exposer.
Having acted in an advising capacity on a software license management project currently underway at one of the worlds largest financial institutions (400k employees), I disagree. Purchased software is an asset on the books and needs to be tracked. Pirated software is a risk and even the largest companies will occasionally be brought to court for "over implementation."
The main hurdle with Software Asset Management (SAM) is the complexity of the licenses involved, and the multitude of way in which it can be obtained. Some examples: is the license perpetual or subscription based; is it a "named user" license or is it assigned to the org; does it include maintenance (upgrade rights); if it includes maintenance is the maint co-termed with the other licenses that the org owns; if it includes maintenance, what was the most current version at the time the maintenance expired; does the current version allow for "downgrades" and how many version prior can be downgraded; what previous versions qualify for an upgrade license and which would need a full new version; can the licenses be transferred within the org; can they be transferred globally; does the license allow for home use; does the license allow for portable device use; just to name a few.
If large corporations were willing pirates, you would not see them making their annual multi-million dollar payments to Microsoft for their Enterprise Agreements. You wouldn't see them spending millions on risk management/mitigation consultants or conducting their own software audits. There are people out there getting paid piles of cash to implement a working SAM system.
It's unavoidable that a large corporation will be under-licensed. However, they spend big bucks to mitigate the risk that this opens them up to.
I would suggest reading The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman.
Friedman goes through great effort to explain how and why jobs are being outsourced, and also provides some guidance on what we can do to survive in a "flat" world. I would call this book required reading for anyone working in any level of IT.
If you're not the reading type, there's a video of Friedman at MIT where he coveres much of the first three chapters.
Every subscriber of the game has a two 10-day buddy keys to share. Just find someone with a key, download the client, and you've got 10 days free to play.
I find LOTRO to be nearly flawless when compared to other MMOs. LOTRO had about as smooth a launch as one could hope for and put other MMOs to shame in this regard. Also, allowing characters to transfer from Beta to Live, and discounted pricing for pre-orders, is a welcome "innovation."
The Epic quest series, which follows the hobbits progress in the books, is amazing. The scripted story events are highly immersive and impressive.
Sure, the economy could use some work, and other tweaks can be made. But, a more polished MMO I have not seen on launch, and the potential for expansion is huge.
My boss forces me to use Windows. My school forces me to use Windows. I work for a company that sells IT to Federal and State governments, with a focus on the military, and 99% of my customers are forced to use Windows. NO ONE is a lot less than pretty much every employee of the state and federal government, employee at a Windows-using corporation or small business, and student who is required to use Windows for their schoolwork.
Maybe at home you're correct - unless you take your work home with you or need to access IE only websites or use Windows only programs for school. Or you could argue that people voluntarily work for or go to schools that require Windows, and they can always leave... but that's not entirely practical now, is it?
Sure, we could go to four cores next, like the competition. That seems like the logical thing to do. After all, three worked out pretty well, and four is the next number after three. So let's play it safe. Let's make a larger cache and call it the AMD 64 X2Super. Why innovate when we can follow? Oh, I know why: Because we're a business, that's why! You think it's crazy? It is crazy. But I don't give a shit. From now on, we're the ones who have the edge in the multi-core game. Are they the best a man can get? Fuck, no. AMD is the best a man can get. What part of this don't you understand? If two cores is good, and cores blades is better, obviously five cores would make us the best fucking processor that ever existed. Comprende? We didn't claw our way to the top of the processor game by clinging to the two-core industry standard. We got here by taking chances. Well, five cores is the biggest chance of all.
I recently spent 3 months with Ubuntu (6.06 LTS) after moving from Win XP Pro. I use the PC primarily for gaming, but took the Linux plunge when a trojan forced a reinstall of Windows (Side note,the trojan was my own fault as I ran an exe intentionally when I figured the risk was worth the potential reward). Using Cedega, I was able to play WoW, SWG, HL2, Guild Wars, and others. However, while these games were able to run, they didn't run well, and didn't come close to the performance in Windows. Obviously, they shouldn't perform as well as in their native OS, but it's worth noting that while they work, they don't work well (WoW being the exception, due to it's use of OpenGL most likely). I spent hours upon hours getting games to work, rather than actually playing them. And if a game had been released in the past 6 months, you may as well forget about it. By the time most games get around to being playable with WINE/Cedega, they're in the bargain bin at retail stores. So, I went back to Windows. As much as I'd love to leave MS behind, it's just not practical. I'll be getting a Wii also, and have a 360 that I won, but I still prefer a PC to a console and until developers start porting their games to Linux, I'll be stuck with Win.
"Arrrr, me disks!"