Speaking of outrageous, how about you people going through my tiny comment history to old stories to mod me down? What's the point? Who's going to read this anyway, except overly dilligent moderators like yourself?
"Everyone is giving you the positives of going to college," said Matthew G. Newell, the 20-year-old chief information officer at a startup in Detroit. "But when you look around, what you see are the positives of making $80,000 a year."
In reality, Mr. Newell is making $35,000 a year, but he hopes to hit it big financially...
So we have someone making a fairly low salary convinced that foregoing college is the smart move. And in the short run, and for the lucky who get rich quick, it may be.
But let's face the facts.
The internet boom is dying. No longer will there be endless venture capital for startups. The computer marketplace will consolidate into big multinationals like every other industry.
Startups are meritocratic, but big companies don't like people without college degrees. As supply meets demand, more people will go into IT with college degrees, meaning there won't be a shortage anymore.
I shudder to think of the day even sysadmins will be expected to have a college degree, but it may be coming. I give it a decade.
Have RMS's complaints about different liscences (anything other than pure 100% GPL) ever done a damn thing for open source?! I don't want to label him a fanatic, but it really doesn't encourage the adoption of open source to insist on a particular liscense scheme (the flaws of the GPL have been discussed ad nauseum so I won't bother enumerating them).
All statements like this accomplish is stir up conflict in the community. (And endless liscense flamewars on slashdot.) There's no point in expecting him to stop this sort of thing, but we can hope.
Moreover, information is shared between the two services. I never ordered from Amazon.co.uk before, yet when I wanted to buy a recent book unavaliable in the US, I was able to login the same way, my address and credit card info unchanged.
Presumably a reverse process is at work for UK customers. What about people in the UK (or elsewhere) who ordered at the US site? How are they distinguishing the data internally--by home address or website? Which leads to the question of whether they would, in fact, sell UK (or German at amazon.de) user information.
Also, if a European customer orders from an American site (with or without international holdings) do the privacy protections of their home countries apply?
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Speaking of outrageous, how about you people going through my tiny comment history to old stories to mod me down? What's the point? Who's going to read this anyway, except overly dilligent moderators like yourself?
I didn't know you could spam and karma whore simultaneously. Hail to thee, Shakespeare Guy.
Seriously, can we keep it to on-topic trolls? Spamming Shakespeare and Emily Dickenson was funny. For about 2 posts.
So we have someone making a fairly low salary convinced that foregoing college is the smart move. And in the short run, and for the lucky who get rich quick, it may be.
But let's face the facts.
The internet boom is dying. No longer will there be endless venture capital for startups. The computer marketplace will consolidate into big multinationals like every other industry.
Startups are meritocratic, but big companies don't like people without college degrees. As supply meets demand, more people will go into IT with college degrees, meaning there won't be a shortage anymore.
I shudder to think of the day even sysadmins will be expected to have a college degree, but it may be coming. I give it a decade.
All statements like this accomplish is stir up conflict in the community. (And endless liscense flamewars on slashdot.) There's no point in expecting him to stop this sort of thing, but we can hope.
And you explain the success of Robert Jordan's godawful shit how?
Jordan, like his rabid hero Rand Al'Thor, needs some crack. An overdose. Let Piers Anthony finish the Wheel of Time.
Goddamned Christians. Gas a few more, why don't you.
And learn to spell. Jews usually get that much right, at least.
Agreed. This is flamebait.
Moreover, information is shared between the two services. I never ordered from Amazon.co.uk before, yet when I wanted to buy a recent book unavaliable in the US, I was able to login the same way, my address and credit card info unchanged.
Presumably a reverse process is at work for UK customers. What about people in the UK (or elsewhere) who ordered at the US site? How are they distinguishing the data internally--by home address or website? Which leads to the question of whether they would, in fact, sell UK (or German at amazon.de) user information.
Also, if a European customer orders from an American site (with or without international holdings) do the privacy protections of their home countries apply?