My guess is less enrollment in CS programs is due to understanding that the job you are going to get is most likely has little to do with science. Like maintaining the code, or even developing your own. Nothing glamorous about it. It is should be properly called 'IT' - information technology. Note that more and more universities have programs in CS and programs in IT. May be IT enrollment goes up? At least if you're enrolled in IT, you know exactly what you are getting it and what kind of job you can expect.
Oh, the whole story is truly Dilbert-like. You wouldn't even believe such a thing could happen. But it does - in a very large company.
My boss, Dave, hired the 'early arriving guy', Dan, and later on realized Dan was a real dumbass. Of course firing him immediately after hiring wouldn't reflect well on my boss, so he decided sort of 'just to let it go', realizing it is better for Dan to do nothing than to screw up something. So Dan ended up doing nothing from 7 to 9 am, and doing 'almost nothing' through the rest of the day. Dave used to tell me, only half-jockingly: Can you check what Dan's doing and tell him to stop?
I have a funny recollection about one programmer I've worked with. He's just got hired. He asked to allow him to arrive to work *really* early so to beat the traffic, and got ok. So he was coming to work around 7 am. The rest of the bunch was showing up sometime between 9 and 10. From 7 to 9 am the guy was practically doing nothing, and I mean nothing: reading newspapers and playing Solitair on PC (that was the time before the company got connected to Internet). Of course he was always promptly leaving at 3 pm. So not only he's managed to beat the traffic but had about 2 hours at work doing nothing. He was so successful in that that eventually he became a consultant (in the same company). No kidding.
IBM had (and still has) LPAR, microcode-based solution that allows multiple guests on the main-frames. I saw some presentation on IBM site regarding LPAR vs VM - LPAR is quicker, of course, but less flexible: you have to predefine beforehand how you want to partition the hardware resources on your mainframe.
but that Lenovo is Chinese company with some connections to Chinese govenment. I remember reading the news story that Lenovo tried to blackmail the state they had manufacturing plant. They have asked the state govenment to implement some courses that favorably view the current Chinese social/political system, or something like that. Would you want to deal with the company that forces you to carry little red book together with your laptop. I remember after reading that news story I've decided not to touch ThinkPad ever in my life. (I did have T23 at some point.)
I've worked for several insurance/investement companies, and everyone switched from a Token Ring to Ethernet. I can think of several reasons. The first one is cost. The ethernet equipment is cheaper. The second is management. With ethernet hubs, you get all the management capabilities you need and none of the disadvantages of the token-ring (e.g.,. situation with the 'lost token'. The 3rd: ethernet switching is predominant (vs collision based classical ethernet), so you have a constaant response time as well. The 4th: token-ring based bridging protocol is a bitch to manage/integrated with ethernet and TCP/IP.
That does not mean that a token-ring based protocols are dead. A ring configuration is still a viable option, say, to connect multiple routers over large distances, say 50-100 km. But as a LAN, token ring is pretty much dead.
An interesting titbit. I was working for IBM at that time (a few years ago, around 2000), a highly confidential message came from the top: "IBM is migrating internally from Token-Ring to Ethernet.". And then I knew Token-Ring was *really* dead.
that the Timecube is *not* a Flying Spaghetti Monster. Most likely, Timecube is the 4th dimensional manifestation of FSM (or other way around. I wonder if hyperstring... eh, hyperspaghetti theory has to do with it)
So China is a typical totalitarian oppresive state, right, whereas US is a free country. Well, a few more years of Bushism, and see if anyone can tell the difference, eh?
something you write about yourself, isn't it? If this is the social faux pas to write about yourself, than all autobiographies are faux pas. (unless they are written by the host writer which is apparently not a faux pas). I'm confused.
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postings, so let me add my 2 cents. I use LaTeX on a regular basis and was looking for good TeX file editor, regardless of the platform. Found quite a few written for Windows, but every one of them had some problems, mostly with parsing the file for the proper syntax highlighting. The one with the least problems --- and that's what I've been using for over a year and love it is AUCTEX which is written in LISP and fully integrated into Emacs. AUCTEX has a large following in LaTeX community, so count them as Emacs users.
Perl, with its 'do the same thing gazillion different ways' is a perfect language to write completely unmaintaintable code.
I've leared that the hard way, by starting my Perl education maintaining the code written by someone else. I've fought back by writing the number of apps in Perl, as well. Poor suckers kept calling me at my new job, long after I quit.
At least, not purchasing their electronic products is very simple. There are lots of competing companies. As to CDs --- well, get one and rip it, on Linux, of course:-).
This is not correct. Tier 1 ISP has nothing to do with leasing or own telco. I have worked for Tier 1 ISP which did not own any of its telco lines. Everything was leased from different companies: MCI, AT&T, GTE. (hint: that ISP had AS 1).
The way Tier 1 ISP is defined is mostly by its magnitude. At the time I've worked for that ISP, the rough rule of tumb was that Tier 1 ISP must have a few large capacity pipes from coast to coast at least. Must carry enough traffic so other Tier 1 ISPs can exchange the traffic (peer-to-peer) with this entity. Not strict rules as you can see, but in reality it works well.
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My guess is less enrollment in CS programs is due to understanding that the job you are going to get is most likely has little to do with science. Like maintaining the code, or even developing your own. Nothing glamorous about it. It is should be properly called 'IT' - information technology. Note that more and more universities have programs in CS and programs in IT. May be IT enrollment goes up? At least if you're enrolled in IT, you know exactly what you are getting it and what kind of job you can expect.
we need printed books that are slowly f...f...f... fade away.
Oh, the whole story is truly Dilbert-like. You wouldn't even believe such a thing could happen. But it does - in a very large company.
My boss, Dave, hired the 'early arriving guy', Dan, and later on realized Dan was a real dumbass. Of course firing him immediately after hiring wouldn't reflect well on my boss, so he decided sort of 'just to let it go', realizing it is better for Dan to do nothing than to screw up something. So Dan ended up doing nothing from 7 to 9 am, and doing 'almost nothing' through the rest of the day. Dave used to tell me, only half-jockingly: Can you check what Dan's doing and tell him to stop?
I have a funny recollection about one programmer I've worked with. He's just got hired. He asked to allow him to arrive to work *really* early so to beat the traffic, and got ok. So he was coming to work around 7 am. The rest of the bunch was showing up sometime between 9 and 10. From 7 to 9 am the guy was practically doing nothing, and I mean nothing: reading newspapers and playing Solitair on PC (that was the time before the company got connected to Internet). Of course he was always promptly leaving at 3 pm. So not only he's managed to beat the traffic but had about 2 hours at work doing nothing. He was so successful in that that eventually he became a consultant (in the same company). No kidding.
Apple decided not to use Microsoft software in the future version of their OS. The shares of Microsoft promptly went down by 50%.
IBM had (and still has) LPAR, microcode-based solution that allows multiple guests on the main-frames. I saw some presentation on IBM site regarding LPAR vs VM - LPAR is quicker, of course, but less flexible: you have to predefine beforehand how you want to partition the hardware resources on your mainframe.
but that Lenovo is Chinese company with some connections to Chinese govenment. I remember reading the news story that Lenovo tried to blackmail the state they had manufacturing plant. They have asked the state govenment to implement some courses that favorably view the current Chinese social/political system, or something like that. Would you want to deal with the company that forces you to carry little red book together with your laptop. I remember after reading that news story I've decided not to touch ThinkPad ever in my life. (I did have T23 at some point.)
and mine was Red Hat (I couldn't even install SUSE), and somebody else had the best experience with Ubuntu, etc, etc. As always, YMMV.
I've worked for several insurance/investement companies, and everyone switched from a Token Ring to Ethernet. I can think of several reasons. The first one is cost. The ethernet equipment is cheaper. The second is management. With ethernet hubs, you get all the management capabilities you need and none of the disadvantages of the token-ring (e.g.,. situation with the 'lost token'. The 3rd: ethernet switching is predominant (vs collision based classical ethernet), so you have a constaant response time as well. The 4th: token-ring based bridging protocol is a bitch to manage/integrated with ethernet and TCP/IP.
That does not mean that a token-ring based protocols are dead. A ring configuration is still a viable option, say, to connect multiple routers over large distances, say 50-100 km. But as a LAN, token ring is pretty much dead.
An interesting titbit. I was working for IBM at that time (a few years ago, around 2000), a highly confidential message came from the top: "IBM is migrating internally from Token-Ring to Ethernet.". And then I knew Token-Ring was *really* dead.
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to eliminate the toxic toads. Of course, then they would need to import razor fish to get rid of sponge monkeys ...
on Internet noone knows you are a dog.
that the Timecube is *not* a Flying Spaghetti Monster. Most likely, Timecube is the 4th dimensional manifestation of FSM (or other way around. I wonder if hyperstring ... eh, hyperspaghetti theory has to do with it)
Apparently you were not-so-giant octopus in your prior life.
but wouldn't Ballmer doing gorilla dance while stomping on iPod make him a 'Microsoft iPod killer'?
of course, that's a silly question, because the answer is always "Yes".
So China is a typical totalitarian oppresive state, right, whereas US is a free country. Well, a few more years of Bushism, and see if anyone can tell the difference, eh?
something you write about yourself, isn't it? If this is the social faux pas to write about yourself, than all autobiographies are faux pas. (unless they are written by the host writer which is apparently not a faux pas). I'm confused.
postings, so let me add my 2 cents. I use LaTeX on a regular basis and was looking for good TeX file editor, regardless of the platform. Found quite a few written for Windows, but every one of them had some problems, mostly with parsing the file for the proper syntax highlighting. The one with the least problems --- and that's what I've been using for over a year and love it is AUCTEX which is written in LISP and fully integrated into Emacs. AUCTEX has a large following in LaTeX community, so count them as Emacs users.
In american english, the word "blak" means "afrikan-amerikan".
dude, make it 'repeatedly iterating'.
Perl, with its 'do the same thing gazillion different ways' is a perfect language to write completely unmaintaintable code.
I've leared that the hard way, by starting my Perl education maintaining the code written by someone else. I've fought back by writing the number of apps in Perl, as well. Poor suckers kept calling me at my new job, long after I quit.
dinosaurs ate cows. But of course, since it's India, that evidence was suppressed.
At least, not purchasing their electronic products is very simple. There are lots of competing companies. As to CDs --- well, get one and rip it, on Linux, of course :-).
This is not correct. Tier 1 ISP has nothing to do with leasing or own telco. I have worked for Tier 1 ISP which did not own any of its telco lines. Everything was leased from different companies: MCI, AT&T, GTE. (hint: that ISP had AS 1).
The way Tier 1 ISP is defined is mostly by its magnitude. At the time I've worked for that ISP, the rough rule of tumb was that Tier 1 ISP must have a few large capacity pipes from coast to coast at least. Must carry enough traffic so other Tier 1 ISPs can exchange the traffic (peer-to-peer) with this entity. Not strict rules as you can see, but in reality it works well.