Software Engineering vs. Systems Engineering?

An anonymous reader asks: "I recently graduated with a master's degree in computer engineering. I am currently a software engineer for a defense contractor. They (same company) have now offered me a position as a systems engineer. Any advice? What are the long and short term ramifications of the change, in respect to job duties, advancement, compensation? I am pretty much fresh out of college, with only a year of co-op experience. I am a little over whelmed by the choice with no experience to go by, but I also don't want to pass up a great opportunity. Thanks for the help."

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Re:neither

[delirium of disorder]

Our war in Iraq is "defensive"?.... Tell me when the Iraqi military attacked the USA! This is a war of US aggression.

I won't physically harm anyone of any religion, but I will tell anyone that their ideas are idiotic. Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in something in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

I did not get to vote for Bush or Kerry or Nader or Cobb or anyone else. I was under 18. If you really believe our electoral system is democratic, good for you. It's a stretch, but you might be able to defend that position. I'll give you democracy. But is representative democracy the best system of government? On August 19, 1934, 95% of the Germans who were registered to vote went to the polls and 90% (38 million) of adult German citizens voted to give Adolf Hitler complete and total authority to rule Germany as he saw fit. Only 4.25 million Germans voted against this transfer of power to a totalitarian regime. (No use invoking Godwin's law on /.)

Don't we have a duty to resist what the majority wants, if what they want is unethical? Even if we can't get every American to protest, stop working for the military, and stop paying income taxes, if we get enough to do some of those things, we can stop this war.