Otherwise my respect for UT @ austin will have greatly diminished.
Whats so wrong with printed books? I know Harvard is converting everything to ebook as well and will probably go the same route.
Still I use the library at almost a daily basis when I am at school. There is no other quite place to do homework and having loud annoying teenagers sipping lattes while I do my calculus does not appeal to me. Let them hang out at the lounge or a local starbucks.
HR wants someone with a CS degree who also knows business and coding.
They dont want a CS student from America. In India they are required to actually learn to program and are taught business skills. Something that the American universities lack because they want to teach *theory* instead.
But what good is a great cs degree with knowledge of engineering problems when employers dont give a shit?
Employers want someone who can fix their problems. Thats it.
Sadly HR feels a cs degree is still required to troubleshoot computers and do tech support that a trade school wont teach you.
Indians are trained business skills and programming skills alot more compared to their more expensive American counterparts. This is the value employers see.
Science degrees are useless you want to be come a researcher in the real world.
The market is just overeacting from the.com bubble when they had to lay off everyone in IT and save costs.
The pendelumn is now swaying back where businesses that do not have their IT aligned with their bussiness processes are not being competitve.
Many IT systems installed in 1999 for the year 2000 bug are aging and need some maintaince.
They are hiring again and what some guy's book that focuses on short term view of business where things happen in quarters is irrelevant.
More than likely sanity will be restored in another year or so and a ballance will be reached. Keep in mind IT is supposed to save a company money. Not cost it. Right?
Watch as the bean counters start seeing IT upgrades to business processes as a money saving proposition.
Does an employer give a shit about hte science or about someone who can code well to solve its various problems?
No wonder these no name certification schools in India are attractive? They actually learn how to program.. shock.. and many are MBA students who have a solid business background. Geeks do not understand business buzzwords that those who pay them to write the code.
Why do I want to help hollywood and Microsoft create virtual monopolies while they control and take over devices that we purchased?
The RIAA once phrased "..if we can not control it, then we dont own it."
Well now they own it and the machines we buy and we dont? More than likely it will be used to kill opensource and force monopolies through drm in the name of security and anti-piracy of course.
So drm is coming whether we like it or not? So what? Why help them? Open or not its still drm.
We will learn to accept it but we surely should not help out renting equipment we bought.
Most in IT today agree that Linux is great on a server in some circumstances but the Microsoft Salesmen come into the picture to our bosses with glossy brochures about TCO studies of costs being lower in Windows.
They also count in retraining costs and the fact that an MCSE is cheaper than a unix admin.
Many in IT are convinced that Windows is cheaper as well since its an integrated platform with VS and all the windows desktops.
Its a tough sell these days and now the MS salesmen are trained to scare CIO's about liability and lawsuits and lvoe to cite SCO.
There was talk early in the year about Linux forking if you read slashdot.
The issue was non GPL binary drivers in the kernel and module support.
First off its Powell and the FCC and not greedy capitalists making the decisions to stay closed with wifi. Its required infact to be a licensee of the FCC to have permission to sell your product.
Now the greed has spread to all markets in computers as the FCC could change its rules for any product that produces EMI. Also greed and the length it takes to file a patent makes closed source drivers attractive to protect their IP. Their shareholders demand it.
Its a mess but at least wireless companies are legally obligated to stay closed source for that reason. Someone hacking on a wifi router could wreck havoc for things like airplanes and other equipment utilizing radio waves.
AOL for now has moved many jobs from INdia back to the US for call support because the value was not worth it. People who speak english and who wont hang up from angry users comes at a price.
Still firms that are inept deserve to be sued while their smarter competitors will have a competitive advantage.
I can see where this trend to save money came in. I.T. was insane in the 90's and most projects gave little in return and should not have been implemented in the first place. But now the pendelium is swinging too far away in the other direction. I hope it reverses soon.
People view computers now as support or worse HR material where IT is in many fortunate 1000 companies. Many companies forget I.T vital to their operations in this information age economy. Especially with legal resources and implementations to business processes.
Let this moron be fired and lets hope the company gets sued.
I have seen many clients where I used to work switch from FBSD to Linux after 5.x came out. Even with Linux threads in mysql its still buggy.
I used to be a BSD zealot for years and now slowly switching back to Linux.
It would be nice if the kernel designers would fix the many problems with the locks and threading and use a simplier design like DragonFLY's BSD model.
5.x is a mess and it looks like 6.x will be based off it.
Fedora Core 4 is bleeding edge to the extreme and is a bug.
The etherpro's I have seen work flawlessly and cutting edge distro's are loaded with bugs. Infact Linus himself recommended the etherpro's because of their low cpu utilization.
And yes my Athlon heats up the whole room. The PIV is not alone in this.
Didn't the new Nasa chief fire like 50 people? Most of them were just paper pushers and beacracy creators but my guess is the poor leadership group could be part of the group that got outcasted when Okeefe left.
Sadly in my pessimistic view Americans would have riots if the government did do anything because its ungodly socialism which would cost jobs.
I do not identify with my own country anymore really. Why is it that monopolies = good and economic growth while government intervention = bad and socialism?
Because the automotive industry has lobbied to destroy public transporation to force us to buy cars.
This then led to the suburbs and a car being required in order to survive. In order to save costs many folks now with cars were willing to drive far from work. This created the freeways and suburbia hell that you see in LA. Its not as bad in other American cities that have good transporation.
Its about corruption. Standard Oil and Ford is why I have to spend over half of my income on my car that I should not need if I am a college student and work part time. Its rediculious
Every company has a few dudes. The pentiumIV was designed to run at a faster mhz for marketing purposes but its a fine processor. The pentiumM processor really rocks and is one of Intel's finer products. I can not wait for a new powerbook laptop with one.
Intel chips right now own the blade market not because they are faster but because they are reliable (better chipsets then AMD, VIA, etc), and run on much less power then AMD chips.
I still use Athlon's for my home pc's but Intel can make good products. Also I loved their ethernet cards which had Linux support before kernel 2.0.
Apple has their own os engineers at their disposal and have tons of BSD source code from the internet to use. Also they believe in drm and openBSD's crypto filesystem might be nice on an ipod.
They can lock things up and not have to worry about licensing from MS. UFS + cryptology might be a nice idea. Its not complex or hard to do.
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Otherwise my respect for UT @ austin will have greatly diminished.
Whats so wrong with printed books? I know Harvard is converting everything to ebook as well and will probably go the same route.
Still I use the library at almost a daily basis when I am at school. There is no other quite place to do homework and having loud annoying teenagers sipping lattes while I do my calculus does not appeal to me. Let them hang out at the lounge or a local starbucks.
HR wants someone with a CS degree who also knows business and coding.
They dont want a CS student from America. In India they are required to actually learn to program and are taught business skills. Something that the American universities lack because they want to teach *theory* instead.
But what good is a great cs degree with knowledge of engineering problems when employers dont give a shit?
Employers want someone who can fix their problems. Thats it.
Sadly HR feels a cs degree is still required to troubleshoot computers and do tech support that a trade school wont teach you.
Indians are trained business skills and programming skills alot more compared to their more expensive American counterparts. This is the value employers see.
Science degrees are useless you want to be come a researcher in the real world.
Things are improving for IT workers.
.com bubble when they had to lay off everyone in IT and save costs.
The market is just overeacting from the
The pendelumn is now swaying back where businesses that do not have their IT aligned with their bussiness processes are not being competitve.
Many IT systems installed in 1999 for the year 2000 bug are aging and need some maintaince.
They are hiring again and what some guy's book that focuses on short term view of business where things happen in quarters is irrelevant.
More than likely sanity will be restored in another year or so and a ballance will be reached. Keep in mind IT is supposed to save a company money. Not cost it. Right?
Watch as the bean counters start seeing IT upgrades to business processes as a money saving proposition.
Does an employer give a shit about hte science or about someone who can code well to solve its various problems?
No wonder these no name certification schools in India are attractive? They actually learn how to program.. shock.. and many are MBA students who have a solid business background. Geeks do not understand business buzzwords that those who pay them to write the code.
"CS isn't computer programming. CS is computer science."
You just stated the problem.
What does a powerpc G4 use? 25 watts? I think?
This is insane and something is fishy if x86 hardware is this demanding.
Are the components filled with gobs of transistors and poor quality capacitators which use more power?
To me anything over 300 watts should not exist for a pc. After all the new PS3 which is about as powerfull as a pc if not more uses what? 90 watts?
Why do I want to help hollywood and Microsoft create virtual monopolies while they control and take over devices that we purchased?
The RIAA once phrased "..if we can not control it, then we dont own it."
Well now they own it and the machines we buy and we dont? More than likely it will be used to kill opensource and force monopolies through drm in the name of security and anti-piracy of course.
So drm is coming whether we like it or not? So what? Why help them? Open or not its still drm.
We will learn to accept it but we surely should not help out renting equipment we bought.
Sadlt yes
Most in IT today agree that Linux is great on a server in some circumstances but the Microsoft Salesmen come into the picture to our bosses with glossy brochures about TCO studies of costs being lower in Windows.
They also count in retraining costs and the fact that an MCSE is cheaper than a unix admin.
Many in IT are convinced that Windows is cheaper as well since its an integrated platform with VS and all the windows desktops.
Its a tough sell these days and now the MS salesmen are trained to scare CIO's about liability and lawsuits and lvoe to cite SCO.
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Hmm
Since when did Juniper owe anything to BSD users?
FreeBSD is partially tax funded and likewise Juniper pays taxes and should do what it wants.
Juniper users get a fine high quality os that any FreeBSD user can use and a lower price tag for consumers which helps everyone out.
There was talk early in the year about Linux forking if you read slashdot.
The issue was non GPL binary drivers in the kernel and module support.
First off its Powell and the FCC and not greedy capitalists making the decisions to stay closed with wifi. Its required infact to be a licensee of the FCC to have permission to sell your product.
Now the greed has spread to all markets in computers as the FCC could change its rules for any product that produces EMI. Also greed and the length it takes to file a patent makes closed source drivers attractive to protect their IP. Their shareholders demand it.
Its a mess but at least wireless companies are legally obligated to stay closed source for that reason. Someone hacking on a wifi router could wreck havoc for things like airplanes and other equipment utilizing radio waves.
THen they get what they paid for. No offense
AOL for now has moved many jobs from INdia back to the US for call support because the value was not worth it. People who speak english and who wont hang up from angry users comes at a price.
Still firms that are inept deserve to be sued while their smarter competitors will have a competitive advantage.
I can see where this trend to save money came in. I.T. was insane in the 90's and most projects gave little in return and should not have been implemented in the first place. But now the pendelium is swinging too far away in the other direction. I hope it reverses soon.
People view computers now as support or worse HR material where IT is in many fortunate 1000 companies. Many companies forget I.T vital to their operations in this information age economy. Especially with legal resources and implementations to business processes.
Let this moron be fired and lets hope the company gets sued.
I have seen many clients where I used to work switch from FBSD to Linux after 5.x came out. Even with Linux threads in mysql its still buggy.
I used to be a BSD zealot for years and now slowly switching back to Linux.
It would be nice if the kernel designers would fix the many problems with the locks and threading and use a simplier design like DragonFLY's BSD model.
5.x is a mess and it looks like 6.x will be based off it.
Fedora Core 4 is bleeding edge to the extreme and is a bug.
The etherpro's I have seen work flawlessly and cutting edge distro's are loaded with bugs. Infact Linus himself recommended the etherpro's because of their low cpu utilization.
And yes my Athlon heats up the whole room. The PIV is not alone in this.
Didn't the new Nasa chief fire like 50 people? Most of them were just paper pushers and beacracy creators but my guess is the poor leadership group could be part of the group that got outcasted when Okeefe left.
Nasa is a mess
Sadly in my pessimistic view Americans would have riots if the government did do anything because its ungodly socialism which would cost jobs.
I do not identify with my own country anymore really. Why is it that monopolies = good and economic growth while government intervention = bad and socialism?
Because the automotive industry has lobbied to destroy public transporation to force us to buy cars.
This then led to the suburbs and a car being required in order to survive. In order to save costs many folks now with cars were willing to drive far from work. This created the freeways and suburbia hell that you see in LA. Its not as bad in other American cities that have good transporation.
Its about corruption. Standard Oil and Ford is why I have to spend over half of my income on my car that I should not need if I am a college student and work part time. Its rediculious
I disagree.
Every company has a few dudes. The pentiumIV was designed to run at a faster mhz for marketing purposes but its a fine processor. The pentiumM processor really rocks and is one of Intel's finer products. I can not wait for a new powerbook laptop with one.
Intel chips right now own the blade market not because they are faster but because they are reliable (better chipsets then AMD, VIA, etc), and run on much less power then AMD chips.
I still use Athlon's for my home pc's but Intel can make good products. Also I loved their ethernet cards which had Linux support before kernel 2.0.
So when your pc or laptop becomes obsolete go upgrade to a powerbook. Partition the drive and install XP and then install OSX on the other partition.
The pentium-M is nice and I want an apple laptop.
Why can't Apple write a driver to format the ipod for HFS+ under Windows?
My point is Apple has the ability by having their own OS writers to ignore the MS patent and do their own thing.
It should not be hard to develop another FS.
Apple has their own os engineers at their disposal and have tons of BSD source code from the internet to use. Also they believe in drm and openBSD's crypto filesystem might be nice on an ipod.
They can lock things up and not have to worry about licensing from MS. UFS + cryptology might be a nice idea. Its not complex or hard to do.
The FBSD team had 2 fucking years to do it.
Its flakey, and the mutex with threading, as well as the small locks is too buggy to run on a server.
I left FBSD about 6 months ago since 5.x became a disaster and the dragonflyBSD project never came out of alpha.
Unless this strangely similiar pic is also true about the commodore64 port?
It seems to me Newegg did this due to fear of litigation from these companies recieving negative reviews.
If the bold disclaimer is also printed my guess is perhaps this was a settlement of some lawsuit.