And there were several clones of the Apple ][ series. Look up Franklin (sold to many schools, and had an early apple with upper & lower case support). And, the Laser//c clones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_family
I consider that I have a very broad background. But, I am having a lot of trouble in the current job market.
I've worked on large servers (think, all visa transactions) to fairly large financial projects ($6b/month) and biotech (front ends/db integration for BLAST). My projects have ranged from being based on supercomputers (Cray Y/MP) to hobby code on CP/M to embedded development (PSoS, bleh) to a wide variety of 'web' platforms. I am a decent DBA (installed Oracle twice, can code in SQL in anything from Oracle to PostreSQL, including Informix). I can program in a _wide_ variety of languages Perl, (Objective-)C(++), various ASMs, Cold Fusion, VB, COBOL, MUMPS (and several dozen others). I'm a strong sysadmin. I even have contributions to a number of OSS packages and a few book contributions to my name.
Oh, and just for the record... I'm 28 (I started with college programming courses at 13 and was a paid intern by 14) so it's not age bias.
Now, why am I having trouble? Basically, the 'new' market (at least for the duration) wants specialists. Companies can afford to hire 3 people for what they would have paid for my services 6 months ago. I'm not asking for 6 figures right now, but I'm not willing to take a $30k position (yet) after making (a good chunk over) $100k last year.
I can't get by most HR people. For example I'll see a job for a programmer/w 3-5 yrs of exprience in X. So let's assume I have 3+ yrs combined, so it's not a qualifications issues. I keep hearing things like 'well, they're looking for 3 years continuous experience...'. And to top it off, seems the people don't understand consuling and say 'You have so many short positions, why can't you keep a job for more than 3 months... oh, there's a couple of 9 months jobs in there'. So I explain how I, as a consultant, take a job... and finish it quickly and efficiently... saving companies money. Then I usually have to point out a number of repeat customers and explain the process.
So, why do colleges teach specialization... Because that is what most businesses understand. They don't 'get' how a wider view of the world could help them. All they see is someone that 'jumps around' in their field and in the view of your average HR/Hiring manager it makes them look unfocused. Most people in this world pick one thing and dig into it until they are in such a big hole that they can't see out. How many 'COBOL' programmers do you see that, once the market changed, could not pick up a different language and adapt.
Well, that was a lot more than I planned to say. Excuse the rambling, but hopefully it will give a little insight into what I've seen.
Oracle 8i Enterprise is $200 per Mhz. Dual P2-450 = $180,000 Support is extra, so is a bunch of other useful to necessary options. You need to get at least it, support and 'Programmer' to do anything useful. Fun fun fun. Other databases are also stratospherically priced. Informix is around $50K per CPU (for the new 2K version) And Sybase is pretty close to that, maybe a little more expensive. DB2 is $12K per CPU last time I looked. None of them are by any measure close to what would be considered cheap. Or, in most books, affordable.
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Folks, THAT is the new business model - "pay for custom slanted news!"
Since when is that a NEW business model?
There were GUIs and a mouse for the apple ][ series. There were also more powerful versions of the CPU, both in terms of speed and 16-bit (and 32-bit) address space.r _65816
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Design_Cente
And there were several clones of the Apple ][ series. Look up Franklin (sold to many schools, and had an early apple with upper & lower case support). And, the Laser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_family
Sorry to ruin your theories...
I consider that I have a very broad background. But, I am having a lot of trouble in the current job market.
/w 3-5 yrs of exprience in X. So let's assume I have 3+ yrs combined, so it's not a qualifications issues. I keep hearing things like 'well, they're looking for 3 years continuous experience...'. And to top it off, seems the people don't understand consuling and say 'You have so many short positions, why can't you keep a job for more than 3 months... oh, there's a couple of 9 months jobs in there'. So I explain how I, as a consultant, take a job... and finish it quickly and efficiently... saving companies money. Then I usually have to point out a number of repeat customers and explain the process.
I've worked on large servers (think, all visa transactions) to fairly large financial projects ($6b/month) and biotech (front ends/db integration for BLAST). My projects have ranged from being based on supercomputers (Cray Y/MP) to hobby code on CP/M to embedded development (PSoS, bleh) to a wide variety of 'web' platforms.
I am a decent DBA (installed Oracle twice, can code in SQL in anything from Oracle to PostreSQL, including Informix). I can program in a _wide_ variety of languages Perl, (Objective-)C(++), various ASMs, Cold Fusion, VB, COBOL, MUMPS (and several dozen others). I'm a strong sysadmin. I even have contributions to a number of OSS packages and a few book contributions to my name.
Oh, and just for the record... I'm 28 (I started with college programming courses at 13 and was a paid intern by 14) so it's not age bias.
Now, why am I having trouble? Basically, the 'new' market (at least for the duration) wants specialists. Companies can afford to hire 3 people for what they would have paid for my services 6 months ago. I'm not asking for 6 figures right now, but I'm not willing to take a $30k position (yet) after making (a good chunk over) $100k last year.
I can't get by most HR people. For example I'll see a job for a programmer
So, why do colleges teach specialization... Because that is what most businesses understand. They don't 'get' how a wider view of the world could help them. All they see is someone that 'jumps around' in their field and in the view of your average HR/Hiring manager it makes them look unfocused. Most people in this world pick one thing and dig into it until they are in such a big hole that they can't see out. How many 'COBOL' programmers do you see that, once the market changed, could not pick up a different language and adapt.
Well, that was a lot more than I planned to say. Excuse the rambling, but hopefully it will give a little insight into what I've seen.
Oracle 8i Enterprise is $200 per Mhz. Dual P2-450 = $180,000 Support is extra, so is a bunch of other useful to necessary options. You need to get at least it, support and 'Programmer' to do anything useful. Fun fun fun. Other databases are also stratospherically priced. Informix is around $50K per CPU (for the new 2K version) And Sybase is pretty close to that, maybe a little more expensive. DB2 is $12K per CPU last time I looked. None of them are by any measure close to what would be considered cheap. Or, in most books, affordable.
Yep, he'll just shoot himself... :P
:)
His problems will ALL go away
Actually, NT is convenient... With loads like Slashdot it reboots all by itself every few hours... So it eliminates these problems