i'm downloading something from torrent right now. 1394.1 MB, it was slow at first, but now i'm steady at around 22kb.
Thing thats cool about BT is it's very easy to become a seed node. I d/l the FBSD 5 iso's from a FTP source before finding the BT source. Since i'm such a nice guy I shared my ISO's simply by clicking the link on the FBSD BT page and saved it where my previously d/l iso's were. Whammo I was a BT seed for 24hrs.
Electing Jobs as president makes as much sense as electing Bill Gates. Why? It wasn't that long ago Jobs called Bill asking for money "Because you understand what it's like".
Despite Jobs making the coolest home computers *EVER* he's not responsible for the design, coding, or the PCB of the hardware. He is a marketing man pure and simple, while this may be great for getting elected, it does nothing for running the country.
Neither Gates nor Jobs would be good for the computer industry as a whole. Gates would try to have apple and linux eliminated, Jobs would nuke windows and the PC platform as we know it. Consumer choice would go away and computers would go back into the hands of the very wealthy.
If you want to rebut that last statement with "Imac's cost $500" well go ahead. Sure there will be lots of surplus old hardware, but whatever new eye candy the wizards at Id or Adobe can dream up wont run on it, or it's performance will be shit. So if you're going to want to run Premiere 20 you will have to upgrade.
With the amount of Fab facilities closing down, and the economy in the shitter, i've been watching prices slowly creep up over the last 2 years. We enjoyed brand new $500 dollar systems for a while now, but it won't last unless we see an economic U turn.
On top of all the "tech" reasons why we wouldn't want either as president, there's one more i'd like to point out.
Right now our Goverment enjoys a sort of "naiveness" towards technology. Despite it having it's bads "Let the RIAA and MPAA tell us!" It does have it's goods in the sense that it keeps the goverment from meddling in our affairs. Unfortunately the.gov is getting wiser to technologies impact on industry, and are stepping on YRO now more than ever. There's talk of banning crypto, allowing the RIAA to access logs of pirates, and tire companies installing RDIF tags.
Here is what I really want in a president..
Someone who is such a nice person that he/she never pisses anyone off. Someone without an ulterior motive and just wants america to be a country we can be proud of again. Someone who wants to show the world that we can all exist and play nice together. Flex our technological muscle by inventing cheap alternatives to Oil.
Unfortunately this is politics we're talking and not fairy lala land. I can wish all I want but the chances of getting a good person into office are about as good as getting charles manson to be declared sane again.
I've read all the comments about the limitations on the PCI bus, basically there's no way around the lack of bandwidth.
What if he wanted to do distributed capture though?
Think about it, you have 4 machines capturing alternating frames. Machine 1 does frame 1,5,9 machine 2 does 2,6,10, machine 3 does 3,7,11 ect.
This thought occurred to me last night while doing some kazaa downloading. Maybe a better P2p capture system would involve each client downloading 1 frame per movie, and sharing that with the world. The clients could assemble the movie from a distributed network, much like a frame server does in premiere.
The real advantage to doing this would be movies that are stored in a lossless format.
Just a side note for those who already have the iso's from ftp or other sources.
If you would like to spare some bandwidth to the cause, click the torrent links on the page and save the file where your already existing iso files are. It won't overwrite the files (unless the md5 is off) Once it has completed checking the MD5 you'll go into upload mode (i'm currently uploading 8kb w00t!)
Top left is the same mobo i'm currently using. Plenty of room on it, remember we're only taking up the same amount of space as any add on card.
Mid left, so you have to leave about an inch open on the bottom of the cooler, again not a problem.
Bottom left, you would have to channel the exhaust back into the case, if you have adequate air flow, not a problem.
Top right, We agree here, but I did say that slot 1's were no longer manufactured so that was a moot point.
Bottom right, come to think of it, a internally exhausting fan wouldn't present a problem here either as long as the cooler had adequate clearance over the ram.
I could also link to every mobo manufacturer where the installation instructions say "Install your CPU and RaM first" but i'm too lazy and I think you get the picture. If the cooler is properly designed it could accomidate %90 of all socket370 boards (sorry I don't do AMD so I can't speak for them there)
There is an extra slot to the right of the AGP slot, I have the area circled in white. Quick question for the/. crowd, how many other people out there have a case with an unusable slot on the right like me?? Seems to make perfect sense to put the fan there doesn't it?
How is that offtopic? The things the guy is asking for just isn't availiable with mozilla without jumping hoops through source code. The submitter sounds like a sysadmin and not a coder and probably doesn't want to learn C++ to customize his browser.
All I did was *suggested* that he gave it a try. It was ontopic despite what YOU think and judging from your past comments I think you just made that comment because of some deep felt M$ resentment.
You should never let your personal opinions get in the way of getting a task accomplished unless there is a moral dilmena contained within the solution. Arguably there might be a moral dilema in using IEAK, but getting his solution deployed quickly might actually outweigh any moral obligations he might feel.
As one COO put it to me once, it's just software, pick any of them.
I thought I'd take a picture and make a rebuttal to your statement. Gotta love digital.
In this pic there are 5 mobo's.
Intel 850GB
Some asus socket370 thing
Some soyo socket370 thing
Iwill BD100 slot1
Some intel socket370 thing
You will notice on the asus board I put a tape measure across as a reference. Now out of the 5 boards sampled, only 1 has no space for heatsinks on the right side. Also to note this board is a slot1, which is no longer in production.
On the other hand, every single semi modern board in this picture has more than adequate room for heatsinks on the right side.
So unless these newer cards are going into an outdated system, putting the fans/heatsinks on the right side shouldn't be a problem right? Simple enough solution without having to resort to heat pipes/water cooling or peizo electric cooling.
Ya I know, it isn't mozilla but here's how you do it with IE.
Download the Internet Explorer administrator kit IEAK
Customize it how you want, build the.exe, then you can either have the users install it from a share or use software group policies to push it out to the clients (if they're running win2k+) You can customize everything, from the little spinny icon to the graphics used for the buttons.
The only thing that costs money in that solution is a MS server (if you do a push install), other than that IEAK is free.
Actually, this goes out to all the video card manufacturers..
Why hasn't anyone put the GPU on the OPPOSITE side of the card yet? Every AGP card I see, the GPU is ALWAYS facing towards the PCI slots in the system where it.
A. Blocks out other PCI cards B. The fan causes noise and instability if it is running too close C. It exhaust the heat onto those other cards.
Instead of trying to put the carridge before the horse, why not just mount the GPU on the opposite side? There's no PCI slots to get in the way, and you could fit a HUGE cooling solution there.
Hey Nvidia if you want to hire someone with more common sense design tips like this i'm availiable. I'll slap your engineers with a cluestick for ya.
My friend and I are opening a business, we were thinking of turning the 40+ computers we have into some kind of rentable cluster.
We came across the United Devices website. Basically you run this distributed client (ala seti@home) on your machines, and when they're not in use you get paid for your underutilized CPU time. The bank loves it because it means we make enough for rent without even having to rely on our primary business.
For a small private school in maine, this means more money for the labs that could be used to pay for a bigger pipe to the internet, better equipment, ect. I hope the schools sysadmin sees this.
I would ask what the severance package is, make sure they put it in writing, and maybe try and squeeze the relocating costs out of them.
Maybe not though, they might not give you anything if you do that. Think of it this way, you just gotta work 3 months to qualify for unemployment again, so in the very least you could use it to qualify for unemployment again (man what a redundant sentance that was)
I'd do it in a heartbeat if I wasn't married and paying a mortgage.
*Note i'm recycling this post I made a few weeks back*
At the bottom of my sig, you'll see the mag I donate my webmastering skills too. We're a local zine for the silicon valley music scene.
Before ppl ask "SV has a music scene?" remember, bands like green day come out of here. Our music scene is totally different than that of L.A.'s a.k.a. Hollywood. I can't describe it, because I see everything as data, but I can tell you what the musicians are fearing.
So today, i'm riding around delivering the latest issue of Zero with one of our big bosses. Boss delivering zines you ask? It's hard times, everyone is pulling double effort.
Anyways, this cat is a musician, and.5 owner of the zine. When we went to the different bay area wherehouse music stores today, we found out some alarming news.
All Wherehouse music stores around our area are shutting down... We have noticed a trend too, less people in other music stores.
So who's to blame? Napster? The economy? Pirates?
Well, my partner started asking questions about the technology. He's what I would call a reforming luddite (yeah strong words but he'd agree with me) "Isn't there some way they could make a CD so it's uncopyable?" he asked. I explained to him as long as there was some sort of digital, to a speaker coil coversion, the RIAA will never be able to stamp out piracy.
"Well who the fuck would want to download a shitty copy of a song then!" he chirped.
"The same fucks that would bring a camera into AOTC's, compress it to mpeg and share it over kazaa" I replied.
Stumped, he went back to his first question. After repeating that there had to be some way of doing it 3 times I answered..
"Yeah, if they could convince everyone to replace their ears with DRM enabled digital implants, then yeah the RIAA has a chance"
Well, he got the point after that. So he moved onto "How do you stamp out P2P?"
I put it into another analogy for him. Napster with it's central peer topology is much like a football team with 1 quarterback. You sack the quarterback.. You sack the network.
"So the RIAA can just sack kazaa right?"
"No, Kazaa would be the equivelent of every player on the team being both QB and reciever"
See, our zine stays alive by record lables having the money to buy adspace from us. If the record lables are losing money from P2P it affects us because they've yet to evolve to the net.
"What should they do?"
Personally, I think the record lables should ditch CD production altogether now. They should make songs freely downloadable. Fuck it, cut their losses.
But rather than look at it like a loss, the record industry should take a Las Vegas approach to it. Just use the music as a "comp" to milk money out of people in other ways.
For instance, that $50 dollar green day ticket, fuck it, if people won't buy the albums anymore, double it. I think people wouldn't care if they had to pay more for live performances. I'm biased because I do get in for free, and don't have any money to pay for tickets anyways. I'm 30 years old in feburary and am perfectly content to staying at home.
The market is really for 14-25 year olds. Those are the people with expendable cash. They live at home, don't have a mortgage, and can afford $100 bucks to see a live performance. With the rate of inflation over the last 10 years, $100 doesn't really seem like a lot to me to see a big headliner band if I had no financial obligations.
I'm the oldest of 6, my youngest siblings are more at home in the computer enviroment than I ever was at their age. The RIAA doesn't realize this yet, but their biggest age group has a huge understanding of internet distribution, and they will never be able to beat it. That's just an unfortunate fact about it.
So to recap the RIAA should...
Cut back CD production, Raise the price of live performances Focus on promotion more than CD distribution.
Well, it's 3:30, and after a night of bouncing 300lb pac islanders from my karaoke bar, I need some sleep. Slash you in the morning and I hope your friday was as fun as mine.
Funny thing is, I know american coders who after 2 years of unemployment would LOVE to be paid $5@hr (i'm guessing thats what an equivelent indian would cost)
They just love what they do, if money were the issue they would get jobs flipping burgers. Hehe, I got turned down by McDonalds, they told me they didn't think I would stick around too long. Oh well.
I tried runnin it under XP, it looks like its doing something for a second then it poops out. Can't delete the folder cause it says files are in use....sigh
i have been to india, hell i work for an outsourcing company who has offices in both the US and india.
Wow, actually someone from inside the outsourcing industry. Mind if I ask a few questions??
Do you think foriegn outsourcing of development tasks is a good or bad thing for the American economy?
My opinion on foriegn outsourcing is , I can understand a companies obligation to it's shareholders to stay in business, but I also feel if you HQ yourself here, you need to hire people from here.
Because there is a difference between development and laying down a network...
With networks, there is a clear way of doing things. RFC's, topologies, protocols, they all have a straight set of rules of how to set things up and where to look when things go wrong. Setting up networks is more of a repatitive task that does not involve a lot of creativity. IT problems can be catalogged in a vantive database till eventually all IT problems can be cataloged and indexed.
On the other hand, development "read coders" have to be more lateral in their thinking. They cannot simply look at the debugger and have it tell them "This is what you should have written!" because debuggers only point out mistakes, and there's no way for it to know your intentions. It's a very creative process that involves keen concentration in the very least to get it accomplished.
Most coders I know want nothing to do with the PHB's having problems with their PPT presentations, which makes me wonder if you're just not a coder, but a troll biting for me.
Well, either way, that's the difference between IT and Development. Sure there's many different type of "coders" from device driver to web application people, but they need their concentration all the same.
If he's really crazy enough to want a job in a disappearing profession like American IT, he should move to India. Then he can either come back as an H-1B or L-1 or stay in India and get one of the outsourced jobs.
Lol I was thinkin the same thing awhile back:) I guess it really depends on how much you love your work.. I mean shit, i'm starting to think it's not such a 1/2 baked idea now.
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Funny,
i'm downloading something from torrent right now. 1394.1 MB, it was slow at first, but now i'm steady at around 22kb.
Thing thats cool about BT is it's very easy to become a seed node. I d/l the FBSD 5 iso's from a FTP source before finding the BT source. Since i'm such a nice guy I shared my ISO's simply by clicking the link on the FBSD BT page and saved it where my previously d/l iso's were. Whammo I was a BT seed for 24hrs.
Electing Jobs as president makes as much sense as electing Bill Gates. Why? It wasn't that long ago Jobs called Bill asking for money "Because you understand what it's like".
.gov is getting wiser to technologies impact on industry, and are stepping on YRO now more than ever. There's talk of banning crypto, allowing the RIAA to access logs of pirates, and tire companies installing RDIF tags.
Despite Jobs making the coolest home computers *EVER* he's not responsible for the design, coding, or the PCB of the hardware. He is a marketing man pure and simple, while this may be great for getting elected, it does nothing for running the country.
Neither Gates nor Jobs would be good for the computer industry as a whole. Gates would try to have apple and linux eliminated, Jobs would nuke windows and the PC platform as we know it. Consumer choice would go away and computers would go back into the hands of the very wealthy.
If you want to rebut that last statement with "Imac's cost $500" well go ahead. Sure there will be lots of surplus old hardware, but whatever new eye candy the wizards at Id or Adobe can dream up wont run on it, or it's performance will be shit. So if you're going to want to run Premiere 20 you will have to upgrade.
With the amount of Fab facilities closing down, and the economy in the shitter, i've been watching prices slowly creep up over the last 2 years. We enjoyed brand new $500 dollar systems for a while now, but it won't last unless we see an economic U turn.
On top of all the "tech" reasons why we wouldn't want either as president, there's one more i'd like to point out.
Right now our Goverment enjoys a sort of "naiveness" towards technology. Despite it having it's bads "Let the RIAA and MPAA tell us!" It does have it's goods in the sense that it keeps the goverment from meddling in our affairs. Unfortunately the
Here is what I really want in a president..
Someone who is such a nice person that he/she never pisses anyone off. Someone without an ulterior motive and just wants america to be a country we can be proud of again. Someone who wants to show the world that we can all exist and play nice together. Flex our technological muscle by inventing cheap alternatives to Oil.
Unfortunately this is politics we're talking and not fairy lala land. I can wish all I want but the chances of getting a good person into office are about as good as getting charles manson to be declared sane again.
I've read all the comments about the limitations on the PCI bus, basically there's no way around the lack of bandwidth.
What if he wanted to do distributed capture though?
Think about it, you have 4 machines capturing alternating frames. Machine 1 does frame 1,5,9 machine 2 does 2,6,10, machine 3 does 3,7,11 ect.
This thought occurred to me last night while doing some kazaa downloading. Maybe a better P2p capture system would involve each client downloading 1 frame per movie, and sharing that with the world. The clients could assemble the movie from a distributed network, much like a frame server does in premiere.
The real advantage to doing this would be movies that are stored in a lossless format.
If the moment I turn one of these laser keyboards on my cat will go nuts?
Just a side note for those who already have the iso's from ftp or other sources.
If you would like to spare some bandwidth to the cause, click the torrent links on the page and save the file where your already existing iso files are. It won't overwrite the files (unless the md5 is off) Once it has completed checking the MD5 you'll go into upload mode (i'm currently uploading 8kb w00t!)
as Paul Hogan at the Oscars
sorry but I had to LOL at that one :) Good crack at AMD
Top left is the same mobo i'm currently using. Plenty of room on it, remember we're only taking up the same amount of space as any add on card.
Mid left, so you have to leave about an inch open on the bottom of the cooler, again not a problem.
Bottom left, you would have to channel the exhaust back into the case, if you have adequate air flow, not a problem.
Top right, We agree here, but I did say that slot 1's were no longer manufactured so that was a moot point.
Bottom right, come to think of it, a internally exhausting fan wouldn't present a problem here either as long as the cooler had adequate clearance over the ram.
I could also link to every mobo manufacturer where the installation instructions say "Install your CPU and RaM first" but i'm too lazy and I think you get the picture. If the cooler is properly designed it could accomidate %90 of all socket370 boards (sorry I don't do AMD so I can't speak for them there)
I thought I would point one more
thing out
There is an extra slot to the right of the AGP slot, I have the area circled /. crowd, how many other people out there
in white. Quick question for the
have a case with an unusable slot on the right like me?? Seems to make
perfect sense to put the fan there doesn't it?
How is that offtopic? The things the guy is asking for just isn't availiable with mozilla without jumping hoops through source code. The submitter sounds like a sysadmin and not a coder and probably doesn't want to learn C++ to customize his browser.
All I did was *suggested* that he gave it a try. It was ontopic despite what YOU think and judging from your past comments I think you just made that comment because of some deep felt M$ resentment.
You should never let your personal opinions get in the way of getting a task accomplished unless there is a moral dilmena contained within the solution. Arguably there might be a moral dilema in using IEAK, but getting his solution deployed quickly might actually outweigh any moral obligations he might feel.
As one COO put it to me once, it's just software, pick any of them.
I thought I'd take a
picture and make a rebuttal to your statement. Gotta love digital.
In this pic there are 5 mobo's.
Intel 850GB
Some asus socket370 thing
Some soyo socket370 thing
Iwill BD100 slot1
Some intel socket370 thing
You will notice on the asus board I put a tape measure across as a reference.
Now out of the 5 boards sampled, only 1 has no space for heatsinks on the right
side. Also to note this board is a slot1, which is no longer in production.
On the other hand, every single semi modern board in this picture has more
than adequate room for heatsinks on the right side.
So unless these newer cards are going into an outdated system, putting the
fans/heatsinks on the right side shouldn't be a problem right? Simple enough
solution without having to resort to heat pipes/water cooling or peizo electric
cooling.
Ya I know, it isn't mozilla but here's how you do it with IE.
Download the
Internet Explorer administrator kit IEAK
Customize it how you want, build the .exe, then you can either have the users
install it from a share or use software group policies to push it out to the
clients (if they're running win2k+) You can customize everything, from the
little spinny icon to the graphics used for the buttons.
The only thing that costs money in that solution is a MS server (if you do a
push install), other than that IEAK is free.
Actually, this goes out to all the video card manufacturers..
Why hasn't anyone put the GPU on the OPPOSITE side of the card yet? Every AGP card I see, the GPU is ALWAYS facing towards the PCI slots in the system where it.
A. Blocks out other PCI cards
B. The fan causes noise and instability if it is running too close
C. It exhaust the heat onto those other cards.
Instead of trying to put the carridge before the horse, why not just mount the GPU on the opposite side? There's no PCI slots to get in the way, and you could fit a HUGE cooling solution there.
Hey Nvidia if you want to hire someone with more common sense design tips like this i'm availiable. I'll slap your engineers with a cluestick for ya.
My friend and I are opening a business, we were thinking of turning the 40+
computers we have into some kind of rentable cluster.
We came across the United Devices website.
Basically you run this distributed client (ala
seti@home) on your machines, and when they're not in use you get paid for
your underutilized CPU time. The bank loves it because it means we make
enough for rent without even having to rely on our primary business.
For a small private school in maine, this means more money for the labs that
could be used to pay for a bigger pipe to the internet, better equipment, ect.
I hope the schools sysadmin sees this.
I would ask what the severance package is, make sure they put it in writing, and maybe try and squeeze the relocating costs out of them.
Maybe not though, they might not give you anything if you do that. Think of it this way, you just gotta work 3 months to qualify for unemployment again, so in the very least you could use it to qualify for unemployment again (man what a redundant sentance that was)
I'd do it in a heartbeat if I wasn't married and paying a mortgage.
This is like putting an M80 underneath a garbage can and watching it fly in the air when it goes boom.
*Note i'm recycling this post I made a few weeks back*
.5 owner of the zine. When we went to the different bay area wherehouse music stores today, we found out some alarming news.
At the bottom of my sig, you'll see the mag I donate my webmastering skills too. We're a local zine for the silicon valley music scene.
Before ppl ask "SV has a music scene?" remember, bands like green day come out of here. Our music scene is totally different than that of L.A.'s a.k.a. Hollywood. I can't describe it, because I see everything as data, but I can tell you what the musicians are fearing.
So today, i'm riding around delivering the latest issue of Zero with one of our big bosses. Boss delivering zines you ask? It's hard times, everyone is pulling double effort.
Anyways, this cat is a musician, and
All Wherehouse music stores around our area are shutting down... We have noticed a trend too, less people in other music stores.
So who's to blame? Napster? The economy? Pirates?
Well, my partner started asking questions about the technology. He's what I would call a reforming luddite (yeah strong words but he'd agree with me) "Isn't there some way they could make a CD so it's uncopyable?" he asked. I explained to him as long as there was some sort of digital, to a speaker coil coversion, the RIAA will never be able to stamp out piracy.
"Well who the fuck would want to download a shitty copy of a song then!" he chirped.
"The same fucks that would bring a camera into AOTC's, compress it to mpeg and share it over kazaa" I replied.
Stumped, he went back to his first question. After repeating that there had to be some way of doing it 3 times I answered..
"Yeah, if they could convince everyone to replace their ears with DRM enabled digital implants, then yeah the RIAA has a chance"
Well, he got the point after that. So he moved onto "How do you stamp out P2P?"
I put it into another analogy for him. Napster with it's central peer topology is much like a football team with 1 quarterback. You sack the quarterback.. You sack the network.
"So the RIAA can just sack kazaa right?"
"No, Kazaa would be the equivelent of every player on the team being both QB and reciever"
See, our zine stays alive by record lables having the money to buy adspace from us. If the record lables are losing money from P2P it affects us because they've yet to evolve to the net.
"What should they do?"
Personally, I think the record lables should ditch CD production altogether now. They should make songs freely downloadable. Fuck it, cut their losses.
But rather than look at it like a loss, the record industry should take a Las Vegas approach to it. Just use the music as a "comp" to milk money out of people in other ways.
For instance, that $50 dollar green day ticket, fuck it, if people won't buy the albums anymore, double it. I think people wouldn't care if they had to pay more for live performances. I'm biased because I do get in for free, and don't have any money to pay for tickets anyways. I'm 30 years old in feburary and am perfectly content to staying at home.
The market is really for 14-25 year olds. Those are the people with expendable cash. They live at home, don't have a mortgage, and can afford $100 bucks to see a live performance. With the rate of inflation over the last 10 years, $100 doesn't really seem like a lot to me to see a big headliner band if I had no financial obligations.
I'm the oldest of 6, my youngest siblings are more at home in the computer enviroment than I ever was at their age. The RIAA doesn't realize this yet, but their biggest age group has a huge understanding of internet distribution, and they will never be able to beat it. That's just an unfortunate fact about it.
So to recap the RIAA should...
Cut back CD production,
Raise the price of live performances
Focus on promotion more than CD distribution.
Well, it's 3:30, and after a night of bouncing 300lb pac islanders from my karaoke bar, I need some sleep. Slash you in the morning and I hope your friday was as fun as mine.
--Toq
Funny thing is, I know american coders who after 2 years of unemployment would LOVE to be paid $5@hr (i'm guessing thats what an equivelent indian would cost)
They just love what they do, if money were the issue they would get jobs flipping burgers. Hehe, I got turned down by McDonalds, they told me they didn't think I would stick around too long. Oh well.
I tried runnin it under XP, it looks like its doing something for a second then it poops out. Can't delete the folder cause it says files are in use. ...sigh
and i'm downloading it now. Is that enough for ya?
"Intel said Thursday that it is pushing back the release of its first dual-core processor
So now instead of virtual processors (read hyperthreading) intel is going to release a chip that does hyperthreading for real?
Damn i'm confused.
(BTW tried hyperthreading, marginal increase for some apps, slowdowns for others)
i have been to india, hell i work for an outsourcing company who has offices in both the US and india.
Wow, actually someone from inside the outsourcing industry. Mind if I ask a few questions??
Do you think foriegn outsourcing of development tasks is a good or bad thing for the American economy?
My opinion on foriegn outsourcing is , I can understand a companies obligation to it's shareholders to stay in business, but I also feel if you HQ yourself here, you need to hire people from here.
Because there is a difference between development and laying down a network...
With networks, there is a clear way of doing things. RFC's, topologies, protocols, they all have a straight set of rules of how to set things up and where to look when things go wrong. Setting up networks is more of a repatitive task that does not involve a lot of creativity. IT problems can be catalogged in a vantive database till eventually all IT problems can be cataloged and indexed.
On the other hand, development "read coders" have to be more lateral in their thinking. They cannot simply look at the debugger and have it tell them "This is what you should have written!" because debuggers only point out mistakes, and there's no way for it to know your intentions. It's a very creative process that involves keen concentration in the very least to get it accomplished.
Most coders I know want nothing to do with the PHB's having problems with their PPT presentations, which makes me wonder if you're just not a coder, but a troll biting for me.
Well, either way, that's the difference between IT and Development. Sure there's many different type of "coders" from device driver to web application people, but they need their concentration all the same.
Yeah but judging from the amount of company closures over the last 2 years I think it's safe to say the bosses were idiots.
If he's really crazy enough to want a job in a
disappearing profession like American IT, he should move to India. Then he can
either come back as an H-1B or L-1 or stay in India and get one of the
outsourced jobs.
Lol I was :) I guess it really depends on how much
thinkin the same thing awhile back
you love your work.. I mean shit, i'm starting to think it's not such a 1/2
baked idea now.