I just graduated with a computer engineering degree, and I worked my way through college as a sysadmin. College is a hard choice... yes, it is expensive and time consuming, but it opens possibilities that you probably won't get anywhere else.
Colleges are well known for clubs. Join them. College is where you start this thing called "networking"... not with wires, but with people you know. I got my job from a posting on the campus LUG mailing list. Aside from the social aspect, they can really pay off. College cities are full of companies willing to give a student a chance, and tend to be flexible on stuff like your work schedule.
Other than all that, many jobs want a degree as minimum. Some of them are willing to take experience as a substitute for a degree, but in the competitive market now, there aren't many. Consider college to be "time out" from the currently somewhat scary Real World.
Imagine this... one person in their office talking to their computer, telling it what to do.
Only, they don't have an office, they have a cubicle. And so do the other 15-20 people in the room, telling their computers what to do. And theres the phones, the boss walking by for a bit of a chat about that late report, and if the poor voice recognition system could even HEAR you over the background noise, the disgruntled ex-co-worker shows up with the megaphone:
"REFORMAT DRIVE C!"
... people say "Oh wow, this is cool" but the whole concept is completely impractical, except maybe for a small business or the CEO in his quiet office.
Realistically, all the necessary legislation is in place. Existing copyright law already protects against copying, what else do companies have the right to stop if they wish to still call the law "copyright"?
Perhaps this whole mess should be forwarded to the NRA, and they could throw their weight behind it. They have the experience in fighting laws that outlaw tools that _might_ be used illegally.
If you boycott something you need, it makes a greater statement. People don't go on hunger strikes to improve their figure, you know. By choosing not to use adobe, you say "This issue is important enough to me that I am willing to sacrifice for it". Otherwise, we might as well all go boycott Rolls Royce cars or something.
Of course, your idea of letter writing is valid as well, at least by snail mail. In email form, it probably wouldn't even get opened before its marked for deletion.
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I just graduated with a computer engineering degree, and I worked my way through college as a sysadmin. College is a hard choice... yes, it is expensive and time consuming, but it opens possibilities that you probably won't get anywhere else.
Colleges are well known for clubs. Join them. College is where you start this thing called "networking"... not with wires, but with people you know. I got my job from a posting on the campus LUG mailing list. Aside from the social aspect, they can really pay off. College cities are full of companies willing to give a student a chance, and tend to be flexible on stuff like your work schedule.
Other than all that, many jobs want a degree as minimum. Some of them are willing to take experience as a substitute for a degree, but in the competitive market now, there aren't many. Consider college to be "time out" from the currently somewhat scary Real World.
Imagine this... one person in their office talking to their computer, telling it what to do.
Only, they don't have an office, they have a cubicle. And so do the other 15-20 people in the room, telling their computers what to do. And theres the phones, the boss walking by for a bit of a chat about that late report, and if the poor voice recognition system could even HEAR you over the background noise, the disgruntled ex-co-worker shows up with the megaphone:
"REFORMAT DRIVE C!"
... people say "Oh wow, this is cool" but the whole concept is completely impractical, except maybe for a small business or the CEO in his quiet office.
Realistically, all the necessary legislation is in place. Existing copyright law already protects against copying, what else do companies have the right to stop if they wish to still call the law "copyright"?
Perhaps this whole mess should be forwarded to the NRA, and they could throw their weight behind it. They have the experience in fighting laws that outlaw tools that _might_ be used illegally.
If you boycott something you need, it makes a greater statement. People don't go on hunger strikes to improve their figure, you know. By choosing not to use adobe, you say "This issue is important enough to me that I am willing to sacrifice for it". Otherwise, we might as well all go boycott Rolls Royce cars or something.
Of course, your idea of letter writing is valid as well, at least by snail mail. In email form, it probably wouldn't even get opened before its marked for deletion.