As an American, I've been wondering that myself. Our country seems obsessed with looking at our past glories and bitching about our present state, and only blames others (it used to be Japan, now it's China) for our current mess. As a country, we need to pull our heads out of our asses, figure out how to solve our problems, and execute on the solutions. Will we do it? I don't know. I hope so.
Not when India and China are full of workers...
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just waiting to take your job. Unions only work when labor is scarce. Labor in the IT markets are not scarce. For an idea of what the market would look like, check out the union vs. non-union auto industry. The non-union jobs are actually growing in the U.S. by thousands every year. The union jobs are shrinking by the tens of thousands every year. Unionizing is the fast track to unemployment. Keep your skills up to date, diversify the number of industries you work in, and always keep your eye on the next gig.
which is then savagely generalized to come up with the unwarranted conclusion that systems like ours are rare. They've got 250 systems observed, wrote a model to match that observation, then decided that the computer model is now the new thinking behind planet formation. It's only a computer model, and we have billions of more datapoints to collect. It ain't time to generalize yet.
COBOL is not that hard. Really. I guess I'm one of the 90,000, but graduating in '91 and working for EDS meant that I did a lot of COBOL before changing companies and learning Java/C#, etc... It isn't COBOL that is difficult, but the supporting technologies can trip you up.
You can learn COBOL in a day. SQL for DB2 is a bit different than SQL for Oracle or SQL Server, but not THAT different.
IMS is a hierarchical database that can flummux you when you are first learning it. Watch out for sparse keys! If you work on a site with IMS, demand CA's IMSxpert. You cannot really work effectively without it.
JCL. Oh, JCL sucks. It sucks long, and hard. You will hate it. It hates you. JCL's syntax is based on an 80 column punch card. No kidding. As with IMS, if you are stuck working with JCL, make damned sure that AbendAid is installed.
This advice may be a bit dated, but you can google successor products if IMSxpert and AbendAid are not available.
Worst legacy joke ever: Q: What is a SOC4? A: To keep your feet warm!
I use it right now, on a Kubuntu host, to run XP. I run VS 2008 and Sql Server 2005 for development. I love it. I get the economic benefits of using windows when necessary, but don't have to put up with windows as my main O.S. Bravo to Sun and InnoTek.
How will Congress punish institutions? By eliminating funding, of course! That will help to attract more people and maintain top-notch institutions. The cynical S.O.B. in me wants to suggest that hokum places like the Creation Science museum should hire a bunch of girls and apply for NSF funding, just to accelerate the process. As soon as science-by-politics crashes, we can rebuild a new system on the ashes. Or just move to Europe.
God, this is stupid. Quotas and Quality are antithetical.
Actually, I quite enjoy driving my Jeep Wrangler. I work from home and can pick and choose when to drive it. Plummeting resale value? Why the hell would I sell it? I assure you that my vehicle is not useless, and I can drive it when I choose. I merely make an economic decision as to when and how to drive it. Your post borders on histrionic. There are plenty of drivers out there who will choose to keep their vehicles. Even at $10 a gallon, it is cheaper to keep my paid off Jeep then to buy a new Pious. If someone was stupid enough to purchase a new vehicle in the first place and not pay cash for it, they may be in dire straights. I guarantee that a $500 car payment for a Pious, plus insurance and gas, costs far more than the $150 to $200 I'll pay for gas in a month if I drive my jeep a lot. I can invest the rest and financially end up waaay ahead of you people with more self-righteousness than financial sense.
It is awesome that Sony has made the PS3 so upgradable. What sucks, though, is that you have less than 256 megs to play with, X is too slow to really be usable, and you don't get access to the RSX engine. All in all, though, it is pretty cool. Here is a guide to not only install linux, but actually start programming with the Cell: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-linuxps3-1/
in several industries, especially the financial industries. Programs are written specifically to monitor outbound communications to make sure that brokers are making fraudulent promises, etc...
IIRC, the Supreme Court settled this law years ago. Corporate email is the corporations, and they may do with it as they wish. Want your communications to be more private? Use a wireless device that you pay for. It isn't a guarantee of privacy, but it will avoid the corporate network sniffers.
If you negotiate residuals or higher fees, then good for you. If you can't, try going on strike. If the work stoppage sticks it to The Man and you get residuals or higher fees, then good for you. If neither tactic works, then you are being paid your market rate and really don't have any recourse other than to find a new job or industry.
awhile. I was hoping that Sun would reverse that trend. It sounds like they are keeping the base package free (for now), but that high end add ons will be closed/commercial. That is fine, but it is also enough of a closed-source move for me to start looking at alternatives. I wish them the best of luck, but I will make sure I do what is best for me and my clients. Maybe I'll use MySQL, maybe I won't, it will depend on license, price, functionality, and community support.
As long as you are sharp, and either program is halfway decent, go to wherever you want. I've met programmers from famous engineering schools as well as programmers from famous liberal arts schools who have all been excellent. How much work are you willing to put into becoming a great programmer? You will get out of either program whatever you put into it. Extra hours spent hacking, screwing around with various open source programs, and doing other related work will matter more in the long run. Also, if you don't have a boyfriend or girlfriend and are looking, you will find more guys at the tech school and more chicks at the liberal arts school. Head for the target-rich environment.
The great thing about Amateur Radio is that it allows people to connect in far-flung places. In an area as large as the Malay Archipelago, I have to believe that good, clear radio contact would take precedence over a technology that has been tried and abandoned in several different areas. No one thinks about the HAM radio guys, until a disaster strikes. Then they are the first ones on the air, delivering status reports and relaying information about what is needed where.
Seriously. This would be a huge PR boost for some company. Having "Coca Cola" written in the Martian soil is a small price to pay for funding the mission.
For starters, given a choice between a bone marrow tap and a ride on the love rocket, I feel confident that 99.999% of women would choose a ride on the love rocket. Secondly, who is going to mow the lawn and shovel the driveway in winter? So there you have it. At a minimum, our gender is guaranteed a future as domestic servant/love slave. And what will we do while our supposed female overlords are making the world better with group hugs? We'll drink beer, play golf, and watch football. Whether or not we remain a patriarchal dominated society, I'm confident that we have a future.
and was amazed to find that it was Songbird. And though the GPL was prominently acknowledged, there was also a part of the licensing agreement that says I won't distribute the downloaded client. I'm pretty sure that the stipulation is a violation of the GPL in the first place, in that you aren't allowed to place any downstream restrictions on GPL'd software. You can view their catalog, but you can't play it and can't download music. So they have no music, their client (as far as I can tell) is distributed using a license already in breach, and the only ad I ever saw was for a samsung telephone. Their server completely crapped out last night. Continuing their tactic of marketing one piece of software as another, the broken server claimed to be an Oracle web server, but the error message sure as hell looked like it was generated in Apache. Yeah, I know that the BSD license allows that, but it made me chuckle. I think QTrax is going to go away very soon.
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As an American, I've been wondering that myself. Our country seems obsessed with looking at our past glories and bitching about our present state, and only blames others (it used to be Japan, now it's China) for our current mess. As a country, we need to pull our heads out of our asses, figure out how to solve our problems, and execute on the solutions. Will we do it? I don't know. I hope so.
do not drink the powdered milk!
just waiting to take your job. Unions only work when labor is scarce. Labor in the IT markets are not scarce. For an idea of what the market would look like, check out the union vs. non-union auto industry. The non-union jobs are actually growing in the U.S. by thousands every year. The union jobs are shrinking by the tens of thousands every year. Unionizing is the fast track to unemployment. Keep your skills up to date, diversify the number of industries you work in, and always keep your eye on the next gig.
which is then savagely generalized to come up with the unwarranted conclusion that systems like ours are rare. They've got 250 systems observed, wrote a model to match that observation, then decided that the computer model is now the new thinking behind planet formation. It's only a computer model, and we have billions of more datapoints to collect. It ain't time to generalize yet.
COBOL is not that hard. Really. I guess I'm one of the 90,000, but graduating in '91 and working for EDS meant that I did a lot of COBOL before changing companies and learning Java/C#, etc...
It isn't COBOL that is difficult, but the supporting technologies can trip you up.
You can learn COBOL in a day. SQL for DB2 is a bit different than SQL for Oracle or SQL Server, but not THAT different.
IMS is a hierarchical database that can flummux you when you are first learning it. Watch out for sparse keys! If you work on a site with IMS, demand CA's IMSxpert. You cannot really work effectively without it.
JCL. Oh, JCL sucks. It sucks long, and hard. You will hate it. It hates you. JCL's syntax is based on an 80 column punch card. No kidding. As with IMS, if you are stuck working with JCL, make damned sure that AbendAid is installed.
This advice may be a bit dated, but you can google successor products if IMSxpert and AbendAid are not available.
Worst legacy joke ever:
Q: What is a SOC4?
A: To keep your feet warm!
I use it right now, on a Kubuntu host, to run XP. I run VS 2008 and Sql Server 2005 for development. I love it. I get the economic benefits of using windows when necessary, but don't have to put up with windows as my main O.S. Bravo to Sun and InnoTek.
that can create monopolies on a whim is abusing that power? I'm shocked.
How will Congress punish institutions? By eliminating funding, of course! That will help to attract more people and maintain top-notch institutions.
The cynical S.O.B. in me wants to suggest that hokum places like the Creation Science museum should hire a bunch of girls and apply for NSF funding, just to accelerate the process. As soon as science-by-politics crashes, we can rebuild a new system on the ashes. Or just move to Europe.
God, this is stupid. Quotas and Quality are antithetical.
Actually, I quite enjoy driving my Jeep Wrangler. I work from home and can pick and choose when to drive it. Plummeting resale value? Why the hell would I sell it? I assure you that my vehicle is not useless, and I can drive it when I choose. I merely make an economic decision as to when and how to drive it. Your post borders on histrionic. There are plenty of drivers out there who will choose to keep their vehicles. Even at $10 a gallon, it is cheaper to keep my paid off Jeep then to buy a new Pious. If someone was stupid enough to purchase a new vehicle in the first place and not pay cash for it, they may be in dire straights. I guarantee that a $500 car payment for a Pious, plus insurance and gas, costs far more than the $150 to $200 I'll pay for gas in a month if I drive my jeep a lot. I can invest the rest and financially end up waaay ahead of you people with more self-righteousness than financial sense.
is Google's business plan. You are nuts if you put your medical record on their databases. No freaking way I will do this.
It is awesome that Sony has made the PS3 so upgradable. What sucks, though, is that you have less than 256 megs to play with, X is too slow to really be usable, and you don't get access to the RSX engine. All in all, though, it is pretty cool.
Here is a guide to not only install linux, but actually start programming with the Cell:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-linuxps3-1/
in several industries, especially the financial industries. Programs are written specifically to monitor outbound communications to make sure that brokers are making fraudulent promises, etc...
IIRC, the Supreme Court settled this law years ago. Corporate email is the corporations, and they may do with it as they wish. Want your communications to be more private? Use a wireless device that you pay for. It isn't a guarantee of privacy, but it will avoid the corporate network sniffers.
If you negotiate residuals or higher fees, then good for you. If you can't, try going on strike. If the work stoppage sticks it to The Man and you get residuals or higher fees, then good for you. If neither tactic works, then you are being paid your market rate and really don't have any recourse other than to find a new job or industry.
awhile. I was hoping that Sun would reverse that trend. It sounds like they are keeping the base package free (for now), but that high end add ons will be closed/commercial. That is fine, but it is also enough of a closed-source move for me to start looking at alternatives. I wish them the best of luck, but I will make sure I do what is best for me and my clients. Maybe I'll use MySQL, maybe I won't, it will depend on license, price, functionality, and community support.
As long as you are sharp, and either program is halfway decent, go to wherever you want. I've met programmers from famous engineering schools as well as programmers from famous liberal arts schools who have all been excellent. How much work are you willing to put into becoming a great programmer? You will get out of either program whatever you put into it. Extra hours spent hacking, screwing around with various open source programs, and doing other related work will matter more in the long run. Also, if you don't have a boyfriend or girlfriend and are looking, you will find more guys at the tech school and more chicks at the liberal arts school. Head for the target-rich environment.
than "Paranoid" is the wrong adjective. The proper adjective is "normal".
The great thing about Amateur Radio is that it allows people to connect in far-flung places. In an area as large as the Malay Archipelago, I have to believe that good, clear radio contact would take precedence over a technology that has been tried and abandoned in several different areas. No one thinks about the HAM radio guys, until a disaster strikes. Then they are the first ones on the air, delivering status reports and relaying information about what is needed where.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-03-19-powerline_x.htm
Seriously. This would be a huge PR boost for some company. Having "Coca Cola" written in the Martian soil is a small price to pay for funding the mission.
I wonder if they could trigger apoptosis in cancer cells? That would be very cool
Bingo. IP is taxed when the owner makes money on it. It's called the Income Tax.
spam be far behind?
the White Collar Holler.
For starters, given a choice between a bone marrow tap and a ride on the love rocket, I feel confident that 99.999% of women would choose a ride on the love rocket. Secondly, who is going to mow the lawn and shovel the driveway in winter? So there you have it. At a minimum, our gender is guaranteed a future as domestic servant/love slave. And what will we do while our supposed female overlords are making the world better with group hugs? We'll drink beer, play golf, and watch football. Whether or not we remain a patriarchal dominated society, I'm confident that we have a future.
and was amazed to find that it was Songbird. And though the GPL was prominently acknowledged, there was also a part of the licensing agreement that says I won't distribute the downloaded client. I'm pretty sure that the stipulation is a violation of the GPL in the first place, in that you aren't allowed to place any downstream restrictions on GPL'd software. You can view their catalog, but you can't play it and can't download music. So they have no music, their client (as far as I can tell) is distributed using a license already in breach, and the only ad I ever saw was for a samsung telephone. Their server completely crapped out last night. Continuing their tactic of marketing one piece of software as another, the broken server claimed to be an Oracle web server, but the error message sure as hell looked like it was generated in Apache. Yeah, I know that the BSD license allows that, but it made me chuckle. I think QTrax is going to go away very soon.
We're all softer around the middle than we would like to think.