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The Unhappy World of IT Professionals
npistentis writes "According to an article on ZDNet.com, only 1 in 7 IT professionals rate themselves as "very happy" with their chosen profession- which stands in stark contrast to one in three hairdressers, plumbers and chefs, and one in four florists. But then again, very few plumbers have to deal with users who consistently download BonziBuddy, blindly click on suspicious email attachments and use their cd trays as cupholders." Of course, it should be noted that by and large IT professionals earn more money then most other jobs - which I suppose is once again a warning of money != happiness.
Cup Holder, top slot
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It works out really well when you pc sits about chair high. Oh and just to stay on topic. I love my job as a software analyst. I find it rewarding and the pay/stress level is better then my admin and programming jobs.
Of course, it should be noted that by and large IT professionals earn more money then most other jobs
Q. What is the difference between then and than?
A. These two words are quite different!
Their only similarity is in the way they sound. Than is used to compare or contrast things, as in "He is a lot smaller than his older brother." Then refers to time or consequence: "And the Canaanite was then in the land" (Gen. xii. 6.); "If all this be so, then man has a natural freedom" (Locke). So if one thing follows or results from another, use then.
Than is also used before a pronoun, as in "Paul loves pizza more than me."
Than or Then?
Than is a conjunction used with comparisons. It rhymes with pan.
Then is an adverb that refers to time. It rhymes with pen.
Examples: He likes you more than me.
First you take a cup of flour, and then you sift it.
Oh, it's entirely possible that a specific distro could run the user as root by default -- IIRC, Lindows already does this, which strikes me as an incredibly bad idea, but that's Michael Robertson's problem. And given that fact that Lindows has so far generated a lot of publicity but very few sales, I'm not too worried about it. Let a thousand flowers bloom; most will wither and die.
What I hope to see happen is for desktop-oriented Linux distros to follow the Mac OS X model. Apple has done a beautiful job of integrating Unix security with the Mac's traditional ease of use. The key features are:
- The first user on the machine is set up as admin by default; this is not the same as root. Other new accounts on the machine are by default standard user accounts.
- Root access is disabled by default, and requires a few minutes of work by somewhat who knows what they're doing to enable. Once enabled, it's available by the usual "su" at the command line. Note that there is just about nothing you can do from the GUI that requires root access, ever.
- 99% of normal operations never require admin access. About the only common task that does is installing software that modifies security or other vital system settings. A dialog box pops up and asks for the admin password. Non-admin users don't get to do this, of course, but the idea is that someone with access to the machine is an admin and can take care of it.
The result is a secure, easy-to-use system that blocks just about anything dangerous coming in from the outside world, but lets users do everything they need to do. IMO any Linux distribution that adopts this model, and implements it well, will do very well in the market.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Hmm. I've always thought that good steak speaks for itself. Still, I'll have to try it. Thanks.
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An amusing antedote comes to mind:
In my consultant days I did some work for McGrawHill Corporate. I started a project in perl and the person who took over (after I moved on) extended it greatly. Mainly a targeted mail log parser. THey absolutely loved it but couldn't accept it until they "bought" perl. Mostly to have somebody to sue if something went wrong. I told them to send larry wall a couple hundred bucks but that didn't go over so well. They ended up finding some company w/ an impressive looking sales pitch they could pay to get support.