Waiting for hardware to improve in light of today's slow phone makers just puts things in their hands. Users are lots faster at switching back from an annoyingly slow phone than the company making it is to silently upgrade that product line with faster hardware. Outside of academia, JS and Flash became alternatives over the hardware hungry Java Applet segment. Google must be the party best-aware of how fragmentation and lack of telco UPDATES put a hamper on the Android name. That they are stating they want the fragmented market to uniformly float up to levels where the worst phones are not unusably slow just shows that they are not evaluating the markets right. Netbooks have been out ~5 years, yet hardware never got past 1GB of RAM and speeds never got near the raw power to watch Youtube that low-end laptops have had for years.
The tech will be handy, but until you don't need to *ask* if it's included on your next bargain PC's purchase (like we expect ballmice, and now laser mice) it will be an expensive extra purchase. Not every tech gets ported even if it IS wildly useful. Exhibit a) Smartphone Touch screens.
and the difference is about as subtle as a dump truck driving through your living room
Aren't car analogies are getting a bit violent here on/. ?:)
Thanks for both of your posts with two Youtube hardware-acceleration links. I am pretty impressed and saddened by the demonstrations, since I'm stuck with Vista. Since I had turned Aero off, I never really noticed that an OS CAN move windows without tearing, till my latest distro finally accepted Compiz. I use it only to move windows across the screens.
The fastest LCD I've had at home is 75hz, and I don't know why the IT industry refuses to upgrade my laptop to enjoy at least that much more, so I'm stuck with 60hz on my laptop, which is annoying because that is my main computer. A simple peripheral-vision glimpse at 60hz reveals flicker, especially on Cathode ray tubes like 19 inchers and even old TV sets. I did play around with a mac lab at 120 hz a decade ago. At that speed things look like they're printed on a wall.
Viruses aside, System 8 is pretty decent, though 6 is black and white, and stretching your sanity;).
Even if Windows admins worldwide could suddenly enjoy security-through-small-marketshare status, they would hit the hidden brickwall of Web 1.5 to Web 2.0. You and non-geek home users stuck with 15-year-old PCs at home just realize their computer is a filing cabinet with marginal use
Hotmail and Yahoo are daily sites you would need, but they use underhanded "comment tags that by recent convention really should execute" scripts... back 7 years, all I could do on the 266Mhz Mac was use iCab 2, since FF required OS 9 and wouldn't be born for another few years... IE got forever stuck on 5 and pre-carbon Netscape sucked on JS speed and functionality. This is the real reason home users upgrade nowadays --speed problems and broken compatibility with website standards. Nobody even sees a first generation cellphone browser seriously. One day IE6 and IE7 will be so broken that XP will reek of inadecuacy and decade-old PC's will get binned for Windows 8 desktops so they can enjoy HTML5+Web3.0
The man's work is impresive, but what sorely stuck out is a lack of programmers who could have saved that man time, figuring out how to digitize and analyze their telescopes' raw data. How about they get the SETI clusters crunching it? Or at the very least the scientists can recruit Anonymous (who's been bored & out of "black-faxing work" since the holidays) in exchange for a some hot science-lady pics.
I want to see duals in Androids as much as you do, but laptops took forever to get dual cores compared to desktops, and netbooks are a year or two older, but are *still* waiting for that tech (and they're waay underpowered and under-RAM'd as is.)
Cellphones, which don't have "core fever" due to different marketting than PCs, will take forever to justify the performance/battery life drawbacks. Forever, unless phones REALLY become just another PC running full-blown Windows. We do not want to go back to Windows on the smartphone market after all the progress Apple and Android caused (eg: touchscreens and app centers.)
Thanks. On your question about what I meant about MIT, it is that people simply find schools with big names even if the school is not known for a strong program in our field and is inadequate for training a programmer.
The name MIT was a bad example for me to have used in the earlier post, since they have CS, Programming, CE and Software Engineering, probably. Let me fix that with another example... I had a choice between applying to DeVry and New York University more than a decade ago. IIRC, NYU only had plain vanilla CS and I had no idea programming required trade schools and non-CS degrees during those highschool years. NYU has more renown than DeVry, and I applied to it completely ignoring DeVry. The latter being a trade school, would have been better equipped with more than plain CS degrees, even if NYU has more fame.
I forget my monthly check once in a while, so I can confirm this. Yahoo Mail has a 4-month wipe countdown, but you need to pay for POP3 access if you want to slurp the mail.
Thank you. That's the one that lingered in my mind. So the time-bomb failures are 1) Sony PS3 leap-year bug in 2010 2) Microsoft Zune bug 2 Januaries ago 3) An iPhone DST bug for Europe in November 2010 4) The latest iPhone's January 2011 one-time alarm bug
All are large companies and don't account for the indie app bugs we don't get to hear about on the front page. This furthers my point that something is seriously wrong with developer training in the past 5 years, both degree-less and degree-holding.
Most of the new degree students coming in have no knowledge of your explanation. People in their teens go into a CS degree thinking it is the ONLY path to get college-trained for Programming, for Information Technology. Few actually seek out CS fully knowing at their inexperienced ages about the definition of CS you gave. But incorrect choice of "Programmer vs. CS holder" training is only a small part of the systemic flaw. Most public and private colleges only have "CS," but like you said, it DOES train you on the other three.
People on/. who themselves are industry-savvy geeks worldwide that still mistake the degrees all the time, assume that ALL teenagers know to just research tradeschools for their sub career from your post. In reality, trade schools like DeVry aren't more renowned than MIT, and people may choose a more recognized name granting them more interviews even if they only offer the "wrong" field.
So people just grit their teeth and get locked into "CS." Sometimes they can't get accepted into their trade school. Right, you won't always make it into that well-researched school that does offer your CE or SWE or Prog program. And in spite of everything, only 20% of people are college-trained. Other disciplines tend to force the degree requirements while ours usually waves it off for 2 years of "equivalent" experience.
In any case, after my OP nobody cared that 80% of the people out there have no degree and still release code that is mission critical (for non-business values of "critical" where consumers are average Joes.) If I were to tell people on the current thread that 20% of their doctors and their president are certified by a degree, there'd be switching and complaining regarding the poor state of such "loose" and dangerous health-care and legal systems. This shows that defenders of the non-degree IT career path are field-biased. It's just more than a blessing for them to be in that 80% "unlicensed but perfectly employable" group when so many other fields ensure that equivalent mistakes as the Apple calendar bug are properly prevented, prepared against and systemically fixed to avoid disaster.
Very few millions of people 20 years ago were downloading shareware. Cellphones, on the other hand, have an explosion with millions of Apps being marketted, and it's now cool and mainstream to pay cash for programs from sources who barely know how to code. Our world is being overrun again by easy-money coders who never passed a CS101 course or never got a full programming education. They are likely people programming in Visual Basic made obsolete by the new niche we call the Apps world. 7 years ago the New York Times said only 10-20% of IT workers in the US had a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (4 year studies.)
The rest just wing it; never mind that not every CS degree makes you a programmer. Some untrained people are good, but from the rest we have buggy code like these alarms; nobody tests their products well because updates are "easy."
Last year, IIRC, there was a problem with Playstations (or PSP's or some MS hardware product) with the change of date for the New Year. As GOOD programmers get older, none of the fresh programmers care to learn how to avoid the old mistakes, probably because of details in my above rant. These bugs could have happened to wipe their phone data too, and the day we start seeing that is when people will realize that Apps are just like shareware code. Then, they'll return to ignoring things from untrusted or unproven sources.
Eventually, Google may have to realize that some of their products actually require customer support.
This topic comes up a much after Google released the Nexus. Ad agencies have no customer support.
"Products" never receive any tech support... their owners do. Let me further remind us all that we aren't the real "customer;" that's actually the telcos, and we can't hear them asking for any help on our behalf so far.
It seems you consider sending personal data to the wrong destination "not a security issue." Messages are information. Login details routinely travel over them, like when you're resetting a password or something... now you can't know if it really travelled to the right person. If this were SSL you'd be yelling "man in the middle" attack.
Have stopped posting OR re-registered, like me and lots of other/. people. Personal friends mention apathy to posting while logged in or registering. Being unable to resurrect old accounts so we can go by those old but well-known handles is another things that would come in handy to some.
Wow, thanks! I just looked for "slashdot EULA cash" and found the/. story. I google and never bother with/.'s own search system, because it doesn't work.
It's the worst thing when you're stuck with a locked out or defunct job/company e-mail and unable to destroy or update settings. I now register or replace unreachable e-mails under my oldest Yahoo account instead of, job X's domain.
Oh, I too had a 6-digit ID back in '05 that I barely use. It's sobering to see how throughout this decade the 2,3,4,5 and first quarter million 6 digit ID's have abandoned us or just stopped posting.
Me too, but it is vexing that AFAIK without owning an iPhone or Android, they do not provide a preferences screen that makes these warnings silently fail / succeed. Yahoo Widgets and Google Chrome lack that feature and I'm bothered every time I'm installing Chrome adblock, for example that "it needs to collect net data" and so on.
It's all or nothing: click "no" and there's no way to use the app with your "choices" forced down the app's throat. When did it come to that? What's next, my firewall rules uninstalling legit copies of Photoshop because I don't wanna let it phone home and check my lan for "rogue" licenses?
I'm not sure if it was the same as what you recalled, but let me highlight the key points I found:
After four months and more than 3,000 downloads, one person finally wrote in. That person, by the way, got a check for $1,000 proving, at least for one person, that it really does pay to read EULAs
(Googled "eula cash reward" without the quotes for a link and a more in-depth article about eulas from that eula reward's maker, PCpitstop.)
Step 3 alone deserves this AC be modded up! First-world markets are already cutthroat enough as it is, and you cannot find any device past 18 months still sitting on shelves brand new unless it is super, extremely popular. If you compare the success and support of your quickcams or blackberries, which are slightly different and each have their own idiosyncracies (remember the one that never got Win2K support when random other ones did.)
Now, if we throw in an unstable mix of producers who get threatened to remove things in half that 18 months, or keep them stuck forever because litigation rather than innovation is the only thing in their sights, then we might as well not play the game. We already have enough Apple Newtons et al; we don't need 10 more of those great products. We need just one that we don't need to put on ebay every year to pave the way for a supported, full price version of the one we're selling.
No. HR could not care less, just like when you complain on their demand for "5 years of experience on Windows Vista and 7." Even your specific target department (assuming IT) actually asking to see your presence doesn't care about it --they're only snooping for whether you'll be a problem to avoid. Anyone serious already keeps a non-Myspace/non-FB/non-Twitter website dedicated to their REAL technology presence, completely under their control, or sometimes a leased account on a blog.
We're all IT people, and anyone interviewing for a company 10 years ago didn't have to provide social networking details to be hired. I've been to plenty interviews the past 3 years, and none have even asked me for Myspace/FB/twitter on their paper applications. Not even on the interviews. E-mail and personal phone numbers is as far as they go, because that has 20+ years presence and is less likely to be an empty datafield in their HR database.
Regardless, people asked for FB presence as a requirement do so by their pick of non-IT career, and not every plain secretary job benefits from a FB presence. It makes sense only for Television, radio, sales, sales research or marketting presence job were you're supposed to be a well-known entity outside of your 9to5pm hours, like salesmen, presidents, actors and reality TV people like those Jersey Shore guys. Those are good candidates for a presence mostly because it's free 24/7 self-press, away from cameras and sky-high fees that come with them.
The scarcity confusion is because nobody is using the power of a phone analogy: "Sir, if you'll arrive at our town in 5 years, your NEW landline phone won't have your OLD trusty area code. You're fine since your current number is enough and can be ported, but neighbors coming out of poverty and getting their FIRST phone in 5 years WILL be alienated: nobody will be aware of their area code at first."
The difference between the analogy and reality is that unlike IPv6, we seamlessly call from the legacy 212) Manhattan area code to Manhattan's 347) area and vice versa... we port any nombers without "upgrading" or tweaking a single telephone or telco closet. V6 requires that we leave XP behind (yeah, yeah, I mean in the out-of-box experience sense,) requires that reality turns from "only about 10 routers" to "ALL but about 10 routers." With hundreds of options lacking support, accretion can take another 10 years. With that foundation in place, THEN companies will start to route v6 traffic to customers. Upgrade costs aren't something they want to invest in until this world economy, and they'll wait till we're all already equiped, kinda like what happened with non-HDTV transmissions and how long we have to go till we don't see the black bars in our TV screens.
I have a Dlink825. DLinks aren't a cheap $40; that's only some netgears and linksys --poetmatt doesn't know what he's talking about. That said, things have a long way to go on both my ISP side (DHCPv6 can only work after the ISP sends their own advertisements, and Verizon doesn't, apparently.)
Searches for support under Verizon show they semi-officially deployed v6 on FIOS and I suppose it will take a couple years before it reaches maturity and moves to a home coverage. The DHCPv6 option never worked for me; freenet6 tunnels ain't friendly to us who prefer using a router to manage things.
The only thing I've seen work is 6to4 at the router level. A forum said that 6to4 is known for routing difficulties, and in my experience the new 2.03NA firmware adds a hurdle by not auto-filling out the anycast address for those of us who are new to IPv6 --stupid, since it's 192.88.99.1. The router has serious issues expanding zeroes in valid addresses like 2001::1 to 2001:0:0:[...]:1 and forums are full of people asking why "illegal address" is the error when pasting a perfectly valid IP, or when the field for anycast needs to be entered in IPv6 format instead of IPv4. v6 is a very old tech, but it's at both hardware and software levels as unpolished as IE HTML5 support.
Keyword searches include words like [$YOUR own ISP] dlink825 6to4 tunel ipv6 routing. Assistance mostly comes from the dlink forum, your tunnel provider and broadbandreports. Too many useless results because only about 5 consumer routers even try to support this off the self. There's no "just do DHCP" and leave me alone option. Progress will only come when all routers read start putting big v6 ready stickers since "draft N" support isn't their pet buzz feature anymore.
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Waiting for hardware to improve in light of today's slow phone makers just puts things in their hands. Users are lots faster at switching back from an annoyingly slow phone than the company making it is to silently upgrade that product line with faster hardware.
Outside of academia, JS and Flash became alternatives over the hardware hungry Java Applet segment. Google must be the party best-aware of how fragmentation and lack of telco UPDATES put a hamper on the Android name. That they are stating they want the fragmented market to uniformly float up to levels where the worst phones are not unusably slow just shows that they are not evaluating the markets right. Netbooks have been out ~5 years, yet hardware never got past 1GB of RAM and speeds never got near the raw power to watch Youtube that low-end laptops have had for years.
The tech will be handy, but until you don't need to *ask* if it's included on your next bargain PC's purchase (like we expect ballmice, and now laser mice) it will be an expensive extra purchase. Not every tech gets ported even if it IS wildly useful. Exhibit a) Smartphone Touch screens.
and the difference is about as subtle as a dump truck driving through your living room
Aren't car analogies are getting a bit violent here on /. ? :)
Thanks for both of your posts with two Youtube hardware-acceleration links. I am pretty impressed and saddened by the demonstrations, since I'm stuck with Vista. Since I had turned Aero off, I never really noticed that an OS CAN move windows without tearing, till my latest distro finally accepted Compiz. I use it only to move windows across the screens.
The fastest LCD I've had at home is 75hz, and I don't know why the IT industry refuses to upgrade my laptop to enjoy at least that much more, so I'm stuck with 60hz on my laptop, which is annoying because that is my main computer. A simple peripheral-vision glimpse at 60hz reveals flicker, especially on Cathode ray tubes like 19 inchers and even old TV sets. I did play around with a mac lab at 120 hz a decade ago. At that speed things look like they're printed on a wall.
Viruses aside, System 8 is pretty decent, though 6 is black and white, and stretching your sanity ;).
Even if Windows admins worldwide could suddenly enjoy security-through-small-marketshare status, they would hit the hidden brickwall of Web 1.5 to Web 2.0. You and non-geek home users stuck with 15-year-old PCs at home just realize their computer is a filing cabinet with marginal use
Hotmail and Yahoo are daily sites you would need, but they use underhanded "comment tags that by recent convention really should execute" scripts ... back 7 years, all I could do on the 266Mhz Mac was use iCab 2, since FF required OS 9 and wouldn't be born for another few years... IE got forever stuck on 5 and pre-carbon Netscape sucked on JS speed and functionality. This is the real reason home users upgrade nowadays --speed problems and broken compatibility with website standards. Nobody even sees a first generation cellphone browser seriously. One day IE6 and IE7 will be so broken that XP will reek of inadecuacy and decade-old PC's will get binned for Windows 8 desktops so they can enjoy HTML5+Web3.0
Sure! Oh hi, I'm low on cash but can't find anything yet... ;)
I'll submit Pluto and call it a night
The man's work is impresive, but what sorely stuck out is a lack of programmers who could have saved that man time, figuring out how to digitize and analyze their telescopes' raw data.
How about they get the SETI clusters crunching it? Or at the very least the scientists can recruit Anonymous (who's been bored & out of "black-faxing work" since the holidays) in exchange for a some hot science-lady pics.
I want to see duals in Androids as much as you do, but laptops took forever to get dual cores compared to desktops, and netbooks are a year or two older, but are *still* waiting for that tech (and they're waay underpowered and under-RAM'd as is.)
Cellphones, which don't have "core fever" due to different marketting than PCs, will take forever to justify the performance/battery life drawbacks. Forever, unless phones REALLY become just another PC running full-blown Windows. We do not want to go back to Windows on the smartphone market after all the progress Apple and Android caused (eg: touchscreens and app centers.)
Thanks.
On your question about what I meant about MIT, it is that people simply find schools with big names even if the school is not known for a strong program in our field and is inadequate for training a programmer.
The name MIT was a bad example for me to have used in the earlier post, since they have CS, Programming, CE and Software Engineering, probably. Let me fix that with another example... I had a choice between applying to DeVry and New York University more than a decade ago. IIRC, NYU only had plain vanilla CS and I had no idea programming required trade schools and non-CS degrees during those highschool years. NYU has more renown than DeVry, and I applied to it completely ignoring DeVry. The latter being a trade school, would have been better equipped with more than plain CS degrees, even if NYU has more fame.
I forget my monthly check once in a while, so I can confirm this.
Yahoo Mail has a 4-month wipe countdown, but you need to pay for POP3 access if you want to slurp the mail.
Thank you. That's the one that lingered in my mind. So the time-bomb failures are
1) Sony PS3 leap-year bug in 2010
2) Microsoft Zune bug 2 Januaries ago
3) An iPhone DST bug for Europe in November 2010
4) The latest iPhone's January 2011 one-time alarm bug
All are large companies and don't account for the indie app bugs we don't get to hear about on the front page. This furthers my point that something is seriously wrong with developer training in the past 5 years, both degree-less and degree-holding.
Most of the new degree students coming in have no knowledge of your explanation. People in their teens go into a CS degree thinking it is the ONLY path to get college-trained for Programming, for Information Technology. Few actually seek out CS fully knowing at their inexperienced ages about the definition of CS you gave. But incorrect choice of "Programmer vs. CS holder" training is only a small part of the systemic flaw. Most public and private colleges only have "CS," but like you said, it DOES train you on the other three.
People on /. who themselves are industry-savvy geeks worldwide that still mistake the degrees all the time, assume that ALL teenagers know to just research tradeschools for their sub career from your post. In reality, trade schools like DeVry aren't more renowned than MIT, and people may choose a more recognized name granting them more interviews even if they only offer the "wrong" field.
So people just grit their teeth and get locked into "CS." Sometimes they can't get accepted into their trade school. Right, you won't always make it into that well-researched school that does offer your CE or SWE or Prog program. And in spite of everything, only 20% of people are college-trained. Other disciplines tend to force the degree requirements while ours usually waves it off for 2 years of "equivalent" experience.
In any case, after my OP nobody cared that 80% of the people out there have no degree and still release code that is mission critical (for non-business values of "critical" where consumers are average Joes.) If I were to tell people on the current thread that 20% of their doctors and their president are certified by a degree, there'd be switching and complaining regarding the poor state of such "loose" and dangerous health-care and legal systems. This shows that defenders of the non-degree IT career path are field-biased. It's just more than a blessing for them to be in that 80% "unlicensed but perfectly employable" group when so many other fields ensure that equivalent mistakes as the Apple calendar bug are properly prevented, prepared against and systemically fixed to avoid disaster.
Very few millions of people 20 years ago were downloading shareware. Cellphones, on the other hand, have an explosion with millions of Apps being marketted, and it's now cool and mainstream to pay cash for programs from sources who barely know how to code. Our world is being overrun again by easy-money coders who never passed a CS101 course or never got a full programming education. They are likely people programming in Visual Basic made obsolete by the new niche we call the Apps world. 7 years ago the New York Times said only 10-20% of IT workers in the US had a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (4 year studies.)
The rest just wing it; never mind that not every CS degree makes you a programmer. Some untrained people are good, but from the rest we have buggy code like these alarms; nobody tests their products well because updates are "easy."
Last year, IIRC, there was a problem with Playstations (or PSP's or some MS hardware product) with the change of date for the New Year. As GOOD programmers get older, none of the fresh programmers care to learn how to avoid the old mistakes, probably because of details in my above rant. These bugs could have happened to wipe their phone data too, and the day we start seeing that is when people will realize that Apps are just like shareware code. Then, they'll return to ignoring things from untrusted or unproven sources.
Eventually, Google may have to realize that some of their products actually require customer support.
This topic comes up a much after Google released the Nexus. Ad agencies have no customer support.
"Products" never receive any tech support... their owners do. Let me further remind us all that we aren't the real "customer;" that's actually the telcos, and we can't hear them asking for any help on our behalf so far.
It seems you consider sending personal data to the wrong destination "not a security issue." Messages are information. Login details routinely travel over them, like when you're resetting a password or something... now you can't know if it really travelled to the right person. If this were SSL you'd be yelling "man in the middle" attack.
Thanks!
You too.
Have stopped posting OR re-registered, like me and lots of other /. people. Personal friends mention apathy to posting while logged in or registering. Being unable to resurrect old accounts so we can go by those old but well-known handles is another things that would come in handy to some.
Wow, thanks! I just looked for "slashdot EULA cash" and found the /. story. I google and never bother with /.'s own search system, because it doesn't work.
It's the worst thing when you're stuck with a locked out or defunct job/company e-mail and unable to destroy or update settings. I now register or replace unreachable e-mails under my oldest Yahoo account instead of, job X's domain.
Oh, I too had a 6-digit ID back in '05 that I barely use. It's sobering to see how throughout this decade the 2,3,4,5 and first quarter million 6 digit ID's have abandoned us or just stopped posting.
Now off to read!
Me too, but it is vexing that AFAIK without owning an iPhone or Android, they do not provide a preferences screen that makes these warnings silently fail / succeed. Yahoo Widgets and Google Chrome lack that feature and I'm bothered every time I'm installing Chrome adblock, for example that "it needs to collect net data" and so on.
It's all or nothing: click "no" and there's no way to use the app with your "choices" forced down the app's throat. When did it come to that? What's next, my firewall rules uninstalling legit copies of Photoshop because I don't wanna let it phone home and check my lan for "rogue" licenses?
I'm not sure if it was the same as what you recalled, but let me highlight the key points I found:
After four months and more than 3,000 downloads, one person finally wrote in. That person, by the way, got a check for $1,000 proving, at least for one person, that it really does pay to read EULAs
(Googled "eula cash reward" without the quotes for a link and a more in-depth article about eulas from that eula reward's maker, PCpitstop.)
Step 3 alone deserves this AC be modded up!
First-world markets are already cutthroat enough as it is, and you cannot find any device past 18 months still sitting on shelves brand new unless it is super, extremely popular. If you compare the success and support of your quickcams or blackberries, which are slightly different and each have their own idiosyncracies (remember the one that never got Win2K support when random other ones did.)
Now, if we throw in an unstable mix of producers who get threatened to remove things in half that 18 months, or keep them stuck forever because litigation rather than innovation is the only thing in their sights, then we might as well not play the game. We already have enough Apple Newtons et al; we don't need 10 more of those great products. We need just one that we don't need to put on ebay every year to pave the way for a supported, full price version of the one we're selling.
I don't care if it's only grandma's party slideshow on people's screensavers at school!
But whatever the choice, please have geeks refrain from bringing those mesmerizing xscreensavers to class :)
Thanks. I'll keep that wording in mind for the next "outburst" of this disease.
No. HR could not care less, just like when you complain on their demand for "5 years of experience on Windows Vista and 7." Even your specific target department (assuming IT) actually asking to see your presence doesn't care about it --they're only snooping for whether you'll be a problem to avoid. Anyone serious already keeps a non-Myspace/non-FB/non-Twitter website dedicated to their REAL technology presence, completely under their control, or sometimes a leased account on a blog.
We're all IT people, and anyone interviewing for a company 10 years ago didn't have to provide social networking details to be hired. I've been to plenty interviews the past 3 years, and none have even asked me for Myspace/FB/twitter on their paper applications. Not even on the interviews. E-mail and personal phone numbers is as far as they go, because that has 20+ years presence and is less likely to be an empty datafield in their HR database.
Regardless, people asked for FB presence as a requirement do so by their pick of non-IT career, and not every plain secretary job benefits from a FB presence. It makes sense only for Television, radio, sales, sales research or marketting presence job were you're supposed to be a well-known entity outside of your 9to5pm hours, like salesmen, presidents, actors and reality TV people like those Jersey Shore guys. Those are good candidates for a presence mostly because it's free 24/7 self-press, away from cameras and sky-high fees that come with them.
The scarcity confusion is because nobody is using the power of a phone analogy:
"Sir, if you'll arrive at our town in 5 years, your NEW landline phone won't have your OLD trusty area code. You're fine since your current number is enough and can be ported, but neighbors coming out of poverty and getting their FIRST phone in 5 years WILL be alienated: nobody will be aware of their area code at first."
The difference between the analogy and reality is that unlike IPv6, we seamlessly call from the legacy 212) Manhattan area code to Manhattan's 347) area and vice versa... we port any nombers without "upgrading" or tweaking a single telephone or telco closet. V6 requires that we leave XP behind (yeah, yeah, I mean in the out-of-box experience sense,) requires that reality turns from "only about 10 routers" to "ALL but about 10 routers." With hundreds of options lacking support, accretion can take another 10 years. With that foundation in place, THEN companies will start to route v6 traffic to customers. Upgrade costs aren't something they want to invest in until this world economy, and they'll wait till we're all already equiped, kinda like what happened with non-HDTV transmissions and how long we have to go till we don't see the black bars in our TV screens.
I have a Dlink825. DLinks aren't a cheap $40; that's only some netgears and linksys --poetmatt doesn't know what he's talking about. That said, things have a long way to go on both my ISP side (DHCPv6 can only work after the ISP sends their own advertisements, and Verizon doesn't, apparently.)
Searches for support under Verizon show they semi-officially deployed v6 on FIOS and I suppose it will take a couple years before it reaches maturity and moves to a home coverage. The DHCPv6 option never worked for me; freenet6 tunnels ain't friendly to us who prefer using a router to manage things.
The only thing I've seen work is 6to4 at the router level. A forum said that 6to4 is known for routing difficulties, and in my experience the new 2.03NA firmware adds a hurdle by not auto-filling out the anycast address for those of us who are new to IPv6 --stupid, since it's 192.88.99.1. The router has serious issues expanding zeroes in valid addresses like 2001::1 to 2001:0:0:[...]:1 and forums are full of people asking why "illegal address" is the error when pasting a perfectly valid IP, or when the field for anycast needs to be entered in IPv6 format instead of IPv4. v6 is a very old tech, but it's at both hardware and software levels as unpolished as IE HTML5 support.
Keyword searches include words like [$YOUR own ISP] dlink825 6to4 tunel ipv6 routing. Assistance mostly comes from the dlink forum, your tunnel provider and broadbandreports. Too many useless results because only about 5 consumer routers even try to support this off the self. There's no "just do DHCP" and leave me alone option. Progress will only come when all routers read start putting big v6 ready stickers since "draft N" support isn't their pet buzz feature anymore.