Has Cringely ever been right with one of his predictions/theories? I like the guy a lot, and his ideas are always pretty interesting, but somehow I never hear a follow up where someone says "Yep, he was right!"
Ceph was designed by Sage Weil (of WebRing fame), who is also one of the founders of DreamHost. They will likely be using it internally soon, if they aren't already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamHost
The article raises some very good points about the upbringing of individuals today, and how it is affecting their expectations of what a workplace is supposed to be like. I'd say this is heavily accentuated in the IT industry, given that most young people these days that are proficient with computers had parents that could afford them. That being the case, it is logical to assume that these people have had a mostly sane upbringing. As with everything, of course, there are exceptions.
Being a 21 year old working in a datacenter, I've already had my falsely high expectations thoroughly crushed by the reality of the situation. From my experienced, the reality is: unless you're extremely intelligent, talented, and well versed in whatever it is you're being paid to do, don't expect at all start treatment for being young and managing to get a job in IT. As the article pointed out, if your skill set is intermediate to advanced (with the top being: fucking brilliant), you're going to get the usual treatment everyone else has had: you find a place that you enjoy (this is tricky sometimes), and stick with it. While you're there, if at all possible, learn as much as your brain can soak up, and then spruce up the resume, and move on.
The true challenge that I've found is actually moving up within the same company. Most places love to tout how they hire and promote from within, but this is really a challenge. I've found it much easier to simply move onto another company with my acquired knowledge, and get my salary raises that way.
By this point, I'm rambling, but in the end, this is just the way it will be until we "millennials" become in charge of everything. Then, things might change. Or, we may just mature to the point where the cycle repeats itself with another younger generation working beneath us.
Verizon is opening it's network up as a response to the likely chance that Google is going to win the FCC run auction for the highly discussed 700MHz spectrum.
Google is going to open up that spectrum and forcibly alter how the cell phone industry works in the United States. Verizon, not wanting to be outdone, is sort of pre-empting this by saying they will now open up their own network.
The cell phone industry in this country is going to get shaken real soon, and it's going to be nothing short of awesome.
Gene Simmons is the product of the 80s hair band era where record companies were making money hand over fist. That era is completely gone, but his brain still functions with that time period in mind. In short, he's obsolete.
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Has Cringely ever been right with one of his predictions/theories? I like the guy a lot, and his ideas are always pretty interesting, but somehow I never hear a follow up where someone says "Yep, he was right!"
Ceph was designed by Sage Weil (of WebRing fame), who is also one of the founders of DreamHost. They will likely be using it internally soon, if they aren't already. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DreamHost
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94bb6e34-d890-4932-81a5-5b50c657de08&displaylang=en
Come and get it!
The article raises some very good points about the upbringing of individuals today, and how it is affecting their expectations of what a workplace is supposed to be like. I'd say this is heavily accentuated in the IT industry, given that most young people these days that are proficient with computers had parents that could afford them. That being the case, it is logical to assume that these people have had a mostly sane upbringing. As with everything, of course, there are exceptions.
Being a 21 year old working in a datacenter, I've already had my falsely high expectations thoroughly crushed by the reality of the situation. From my experienced, the reality is: unless you're extremely intelligent, talented, and well versed in whatever it is you're being paid to do, don't expect at all start treatment for being young and managing to get a job in IT. As the article pointed out, if your skill set is intermediate to advanced (with the top being: fucking brilliant), you're going to get the usual treatment everyone else has had: you find a place that you enjoy (this is tricky sometimes), and stick with it. While you're there, if at all possible, learn as much as your brain can soak up, and then spruce up the resume, and move on.
The true challenge that I've found is actually moving up within the same company. Most places love to tout how they hire and promote from within, but this is really a challenge. I've found it much easier to simply move onto another company with my acquired knowledge, and get my salary raises that way.
By this point, I'm rambling, but in the end, this is just the way it will be until we "millennials" become in charge of everything. Then, things might change. Or, we may just mature to the point where the cycle repeats itself with another younger generation working beneath us.
Verizon is opening it's network up as a response to the likely chance that Google is going to win the FCC run auction for the highly discussed 700MHz spectrum.
Google is going to open up that spectrum and forcibly alter how the cell phone industry works in the United States. Verizon, not wanting to be outdone, is sort of pre-empting this by saying they will now open up their own network.
The cell phone industry in this country is going to get shaken real soon, and it's going to be nothing short of awesome.
Gene Simmons is the product of the 80s hair band era where record companies were making money hand over fist. That era is completely gone, but his brain still functions with that time period in mind. In short, he's obsolete.
IE7 on Vista = no issues with the link provided.
Could be the fact it's been sandboxed on Vista though...