That's funny, I just saw a comic about this on Monday. Who would have though this would be such an obvious thing to do? (OK the WIB version is funnier...)
Actually, I was a history major and I just got a raise at my IT job! It's true, while I was in college I got a student slave job with my university IT department, which I used to get hired for a help desk job in real life, where I got real world experience and taught myself a lot of stuff on the side (and went to *tons* of training).
Anyway, this story was very common when I graduated in '99, but those days are over, man. I know I'm extremely lucky to be working at a real company and not to have been swept up by a dot-com like so many of my laid-off classmates. The downside is that to stay competitive now I have to struggle through a part-time CS Master's degree or nobody in IT would ever look at my resume again.
See, I always liked computers and I was gonna be a CS major, but I really didn't like the idea of going four years without seeing a girl...
Sorry for the repost, but that URL has a space in it and there were some other typos:
Well, I agree that it's stability is fantastic, but when I posted that comment I was thinking about my own company as an example. We happen to be doing just this. However, I agree that more documentation is appropriate so here's an article explaining that Novell itself is dropping Netware: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1552521,00.as p
(I got that from Slashdot 3 days ago.) Note that Novell will continue to support Netware. Frankly, I like Netware a lot too, but most opinions are that the writing is on the wall: Novell's new stuff is going to be Linux-centric.
Well, I agree that it's stability is fantastic, but when I posted that comment I was thinking about my own company as an example. However, I agree that more documentation so here's an article explaining that Novell itself is dropping Netware: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,155 2521,00.as p
(I got that from Slashdot 3 days ago.) Note that Novell will continue to support Netware. Frankly, I like Netware a lot too, but most opinions are that the writing is on the wall: Novell's new stuff is going to be Linux-centric.
Yes, IBM is huge. They retooled as a consulting company so they deliver "solutions" more than hardware, and that is why they've been big on Linux. Basically, there are a ton of little Linux consultants out there but for top-tier corporations you would only hire a company of large standing. IBM is really the only player in this type of (growing) Linux market (although Sun is moving in that direction, but my boss thinks that Big Blue will want to buy them out.)
IMO, IBM could be thinking about buying Novell. A move like this helps them suss that out, but the acquisition of their own Linux distribution combined with a surprisingly large Netware install base is pretty attractive. Especially since just about all of the Netware sites are looking to move out of it there's a real opportunity for IBM to come in and make that happen on Linux before they go Microsoft.
Centrino is not a chip. It is a "system" comprised of three parts:
Intel(R) Pentium M processor
Intel(R) 855 Chipset Family
Intel(R) PRO/Wireless Network Connection Basically, Intel repackaged and "branded" some existing technologies in an effort to squeeze out other wireless hardware manufacturers (if it ain't Intel WiFi, you can't call it "Centrino," and a successful branding campign makes people want Centrino whether or not they know what it actually is).
Anyway, your question is stil valid, but to technically nitpick it's really about the Pentium M processor.
More info: http://intel.com/products/mobiletechnology/ demo/wo rks.htm?iid=ipp_demworks+tab&
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What, you think they'll be garbage-collected? Not in C++, my friend:)
Next question (asked by Indians I spoke to): "Where is the government going to get the money?"
To answer this question (since it was posed) the Indian government will have a hard time coming up with enough money to do anything for 1 billion people when the very lucky ones are only pulling down $10,000/year. See, according to my paystub, the answer *would* be taxes, but here in the US we have a much lower unemployment rate and I personally pay enough in taxes to support two full-time programmers in India, or to put that in even starker perspective, I give enough money to the US government to hire and retain almost 50 Indian household servants.
And I couldn't come close to affording one here in the states. In fact, I don't make much at all. In other words, here in the US we are not expecting the government to build us a new economy, and yet middle-class folks like me are funding the government with much bigger sums of money to provide baseline social services to a much smaller population.
It seems to me that while a homegrown IT market is a great and important plan, the Indian government will not find it easy to create an entire economy based on that alone. But why does everyone have to work in the tech industry? Take a tip from FD Roosevelt's "New Deal" plan to get the US out of its depression back in the 1930's. It goes like this: (people who need homes) + (people who need jobs) = (lots of jobs building houses). All kinds of infrastructure can be created this way, building roads, office complexes, etc., and once everyone's on their feet they will continue to benefit from all of these public works projects taht were created during the hard times.
Right but there's still that huge population, so who's going to pay for all that? Easy, one more lesson in US public funding: DEFICIT SPENDING. It's simple, if you don't have the cash, spend it anyway. When will you pay it back? We haven't figured that out yet, but it sure beats begging. Like my Dad always says, I'd rather owe it to you than cheat you out of it;)
This was rated funny, but it's precisely what the article is. They want everybody on Slashdot to read it an then register with their site so we can give it a big fat negative rating.
Perhaps, but keep in mind that the general population in the US has a higher standard of living than that of India. In other words, the lifestyle of our average administrative asssistant (roughly $36,400/year) looks quite atractive in the third world, even if you or I would expect more.
Thats's why I for one am inclined not to forget how lucky I am to live here even in a relatively weak US economy and have no malice toward those in any country who would work hard for less and appreciate what they have.
ISP's that do this are just plain lame, and your nbest defense is to threaten to switch to another provider. You'd be surprised how quickly they consider upgrading your service at no charge to you, and if they don't then switch for real.
That only works, of course, if you have another provider. I'm stuck with mine and I can only hope I don't have this problem.
I'm not going to flame this because a lot of your criticism is valid. However, the startling truth is that the USA was founded in the 18th century by wealthy colonizers, some of them slave owners, all raised in a British society that was severely more stratified socially and economically than the USA is today.
The truth is that the USA is actually *less* ruled by the rich than ever before -- but work remains to be done and there will always be resistance from the corporate folks you've mentioned. Also keep in mind that even a few decades ago we didn't have a news media pervasive enough to keep us up on all of the latest abuses, but you can be sure they were there.
True, there is legislation that threatens our civil liberties and perhaps that of others around the world, but ours is a nation where people like you and I can continue to voice our disent until we are either heard or convinced otherwise, and we can only hope that the struggle for liberty and equality can *continue* to get better. I don't think everything's perfect in this country right now, but I'm not ready to call it quits either.
OK, so hopefully some people are working to bring down the manufacturing costs. This is a good progress, but still theoretical (who wants a 150 MHz chip anyway?) Things like this have a way of converging, though, like Linux takng off on the cheap hardware we have available today. I think it's great that people are working on specs that hopefully we will be able to use some day, rather than waiting for that day when the manufacturing will be available and then trying to catch up on the processor design after the fact.
Uh, actually isn't the problem more that we're using geographic references to two-dimensional areas in descriptions of 3-dimensional objects? In other words, even we Americans (and I a Philadelphian, as a matter of fact) have to wonder how deep is Philadelphia??
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That's funny, I just saw a comic about this on Monday. Who would have though this would be such an obvious thing to do? (OK the WIB version is funnier...)
Exactly right, and I suggest furthermore that nobody is "as Loyal to Brand as Mac Owners." In other news, the sun came up today.
Actually, I was a history major and I just got a raise at my IT job! It's true, while I was in college I got a student slave job with my university IT department, which I used to get hired for a help desk job in real life, where I got real world experience and taught myself a lot of stuff on the side (and went to *tons* of training).
Anyway, this story was very common when I graduated in '99, but those days are over, man. I know I'm extremely lucky to be working at a real company and not to have been swept up by a dot-com like so many of my laid-off classmates. The downside is that to stay competitive now I have to struggle through a part-time CS Master's degree or nobody in IT would ever look at my resume again.
See, I always liked computers and I was gonna be a CS major, but I really didn't like the idea of going four years without seeing a girl...
Sorry for the repost, but that URL has a space in it and there were some other typos:s p
Well, I agree that it's stability is fantastic, but when I posted that comment I was thinking about my own company as an example. We happen to be doing just this. However, I agree that more documentation is appropriate so here's an article explaining that Novell itself is dropping Netware:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1552521,00.a
(I got that from Slashdot 3 days ago.) Note that Novell will continue to support Netware. Frankly, I like Netware a lot too, but most opinions are that the writing is on the wall: Novell's new stuff is going to be Linux-centric.
Well, I agree that it's stability is fantastic, but when I posted that comment I was thinking about my own company as an example. However, I agree that more documentation so here's an article explaining that Novell itself is dropping Netware:5 2521,00.as p
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,15
(I got that from Slashdot 3 days ago.) Note that Novell will continue to support Netware. Frankly, I like Netware a lot too, but most opinions are that the writing is on the wall: Novell's new stuff is going to be Linux-centric.
Yes, IBM is huge. They retooled as a consulting company so they deliver "solutions" more than hardware, and that is why they've been big on Linux. Basically, there are a ton of little Linux consultants out there but for top-tier corporations you would only hire a company of large standing. IBM is really the only player in this type of (growing) Linux market (although Sun is moving in that direction, but my boss thinks that Big Blue will want to buy them out.)
IMO, IBM could be thinking about buying Novell. A move like this helps them suss that out, but the acquisition of their own Linux distribution combined with a surprisingly large Netware install base is pretty attractive. Especially since just about all of the Netware sites are looking to move out of it there's a real opportunity for IBM to come in and make that happen on Linux before they go Microsoft.
:) Sounds like your wife must be beautiful :)
Hi, moron. Please read his/her follow-up where he/she corrects himself and says "Centrino" before you flame someone.
Did I mention that you're a moron?
Centrino is not a chip. It is a "system" comprised of three parts:
/ demo/wo rks.htm?iid=ipp_demworks+tab&
Intel(R) Pentium M processor
Intel(R) 855 Chipset Family
Intel(R) PRO/Wireless Network Connection
Basically, Intel repackaged and "branded" some existing technologies in an effort to squeeze out other wireless hardware manufacturers (if it ain't Intel WiFi, you can't call it "Centrino," and a successful branding campign makes people want Centrino whether or not they know what it actually is).
Anyway, your question is stil valid, but to technically nitpick it's really about the Pentium M processor.
More info:
http://intel.com/products/mobiletechnology
What, you think they'll be garbage-collected? Not in C++, my friend :)
Next question (asked by Indians I spoke to): "Where is the government going to get the money?"
;)
To answer this question (since it was posed) the Indian government will have a hard time coming up with enough money to do anything for 1 billion people when the very lucky ones are only pulling down $10,000/year. See, according to my paystub, the answer *would* be taxes, but here in the US we have a much lower unemployment rate and I personally pay enough in taxes to support two full-time programmers in India, or to put that in even starker perspective, I give enough money to the US government to hire and retain almost 50 Indian household servants.
And I couldn't come close to affording one here in the states. In fact, I don't make much at all. In other words, here in the US we are not expecting the government to build us a new economy, and yet middle-class folks like me are funding the government with much bigger sums of money to provide baseline social services to a much smaller population.
It seems to me that while a homegrown IT market is a great and important plan, the Indian government will not find it easy to create an entire economy based on that alone. But why does everyone have to work in the tech industry? Take a tip from FD Roosevelt's "New Deal" plan to get the US out of its depression back in the 1930's. It goes like this:
(people who need homes) + (people who need jobs) = (lots of jobs building houses). All kinds of infrastructure can be created this way, building roads, office complexes, etc., and once everyone's on their feet they will continue to benefit from all of these public works projects taht were created during the hard times.
Right but there's still that huge population, so who's going to pay for all that? Easy, one more lesson in US public funding: DEFICIT SPENDING. It's simple, if you don't have the cash, spend it anyway. When will you pay it back? We haven't figured that out yet, but it sure beats begging. Like my Dad always says, I'd rather owe it to you than cheat you out of it
This was rated funny, but it's precisely what the article is. They want everybody on Slashdot to read it an then register with their site so we can give it a big fat negative rating.
Alas, they caught me before I even realized...
Well, that's interesting. I do the same thing when an Apple user walks in.
*ducks*
Perhaps, but keep in mind that the general population in the US has a higher standard of living than that of India. In other words, the lifestyle of our average administrative asssistant (roughly $36,400/year) looks quite atractive in the third world, even if you or I would expect more.
Thats's why I for one am inclined not to forget how lucky I am to live here even in a relatively weak US economy and have no malice toward those in any country who would work hard for less and appreciate what they have.
anyone wanna enlighten BSD users on bandwidth?
They're just not used to that much attention.
*ducks*
ISP's that do this are just plain lame, and your nbest defense is to threaten to switch to another provider. You'd be surprised how quickly they consider upgrading your service at no charge to you, and if they don't then switch for real.
That only works, of course, if you have another provider. I'm stuck with mine and I can only hope I don't have this problem.
I'm not going to flame this because a lot of your criticism is valid. However, the startling truth is that the USA was founded in the 18th century by wealthy colonizers, some of them slave owners, all raised in a British society that was severely more stratified socially and economically than the USA is today.
The truth is that the USA is actually *less* ruled by the rich than ever before -- but work remains to be done and there will always be resistance from the corporate folks you've mentioned. Also keep in mind that even a few decades ago we didn't have a news media pervasive enough to keep us up on all of the latest abuses, but you can be sure they were there.
True, there is legislation that threatens our civil liberties and perhaps that of others around the world, but ours is a nation where people like you and I can continue to voice our disent until we are either heard or convinced otherwise, and we can only hope that the struggle for liberty and equality can *continue* to get better. I don't think everything's perfect in this country right now, but I'm not ready to call it quits either.
OK, so hopefully some people are working to bring down the manufacturing costs. This is a good progress, but still theoretical (who wants a 150 MHz chip anyway?) Things like this have a way of converging, though, like Linux takng off on the cheap hardware we have available today. I think it's great that people are working on specs that hopefully we will be able to use some day, rather than waiting for that day when the manufacturing will be available and then trying to catch up on the processor design after the fact.
...imagine a Beowulf orchestra of those things!
Are you criticizing my WetJet? My WETJET?? Why don't you come over to my no-wax floor and say that, pal!
PS - What war??
...As workers in the nuclear industry are aging, and gone sterile from exposure to radiation, organisations have started Young Generation...
Uh, actually isn't the problem more that we're using geographic references to two-dimensional areas in descriptions of 3-dimensional objects? In other words, even we Americans (and I a Philadelphian, as a matter of fact) have to wonder how deep is Philadelphia??
Hey, I'm not even sick and twisted, but even my PC would become a serial carjacker.
Any relation to Dr. Clayton Forrester? I mean, cuz that guy was MAD. Deep hurting! DEEEEEP HURTING!
You mean like:
Q: How many companies does it take to replace the lightbulb?
A: Uh, three accordingto the article...
You're right, it's not as funny anymore.