"Of the three graphic artists (their main user-base) at my office who've used Mac OSX two have downgraded back to OS9 and the other spends all her time in the emulation mode. Macintosh users are not accustomed to low-level access to their computers and nor do they want it."
Duh. Their programs don't run natively on OS X yet so they HAVE to use the Classic layer until they do. That means nothing for adoption of OS X. When there are native versions of their most needed programs they won't have any trouble using it.
As for just keeping the old OS and updating it with a few new features yeah that would have been exciting. All the developers who are drooling over OS X never gave OS 9 or below a second thought. Not to mention OS 9 wasn't the most stable of OS's nor did it have protected memory or pre-emptive multitasking...etc I could go on but I hope you get the point by now.
While reading your comment I saw this at the bottom of the page: "Superior ability breeds superior ambition. -- Spock, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9" Kinda relevant huh?
So anyway if you KNOW you aren't a hotshot and that is holding back your career why don't you concentrate on BECOMING a hotshot so you can be the worker/consultant who gets all the exciting projects?
Honestly you were from the start way in over your head. You had no concept of the hours hackers put in for their work. And its not for money. The real hackers just love to hack. They love to program, tinker, administrate....etc. They aren't the ones who bought the Mercedes to begin with, mainly because they spend so little time actually away from their computers to drive.
80 hours a week is honestly conservative here in Boston. Its more like 90 on the low end all the way up to 100-110 hours a week. And they LOVE it. So they're work-a-holics, so what? Do you resent them because they work more than you and raise the bar for your own performance? So we should all work less to make your life easier? Lots of people with degrees work hard and do NOT get rich. Most doctors, lawyers, engineers....etc work their butts off but don't become millionaires. They do it because they love the work. Same with hackers.
When a company decides they need someone who knows a specific language instead of a general CS grad they are saying "We need someone who can do the work NOW, not someone with a lot of "potential" who really can't produce for us immediately". There's no illusions about it. If anything you sound a bit naive. You expected the corporations to regard you higher simply because you went thru 5 years of college and got your degree. Big deal. The reality is you CS grads are a dime a dozen. Show us something above and beyond the degree to justify your complaints. You don't HAVE a wife and kids right now. Working long hours shouldn't be a problem for you. The industry isn't a sinking ship. Software hasn't suddenly begun to write itself. Until it does there will always be a need for programmers.
Your degree is "nice" but unless you keep up with the latest languages and technologies and CONSTANTLY upgrade your own skills you will always be considered outdated. Its a constant rat race and it sounds like you burnt out early. That you got burnt out because you didn't investigate the lifestyle issues of the profession beforehand means nothing about the state of the industry overall.
What you want is a 9 to 5 job. You don't want to put in any extra time at all and you resent those who do because it puts pressure on you to do the same. So what do you do? You leave the industry. That pretty much proves your a moron. You think its any easier in publishing or media? There's people who bust their asses in EVERY industry and slackers like you will always make them look good.
Computer Science is mainly the major of hackers. If you don't want the hacker lifestyle of work all day, hack all night then you should never had picked it as your chosen profession. Your absolute crappy arguments against the foreign students who work hard or your idiotic rants against a "achievement based economy" prove how stupid you are. WTF do you want? A "slacker based economy?" You boast how you didn't learn skills that will be obsolete in a year and instead learned general skills, well since you are currently JOBLESS how useful are those GENERAL skills? I have every confidence you will find a job once you mature but not a minute before then.
Its the FEW remarkable CS teachers like you who even if they don't like it actually give their students the SKILLS they need to get hired. All the other professors want "learning for learning's sake" but thats not practical in the least. How is someone supposed to be a programmer if all they've been taught is theory and no practical application? Also how is becoming proficient in one or two languages early on suddenly make you unable to learn others? Most CS graduates are nothing but "potential" programmers who never actually deliver. Its also probably why so many current and successful programmers have majored in completely irrelevant fields such as History, Economics, Drama....etc. They know how to program cause they taught themselves! I so wish the University world would wake up to this fact.
I hope the "training for industry" professors won the battle. Too many CS graduates graduate without actually knowing how to program anything. Programming is programming its not a glorified "science". Real science is Physics, Medicine, Sociology......etc, NOT Computer Science. What use is a CS graduate to a future employer if they can't program in ANY language IMMEDIATELY after graduation?
Its pretty much common knowledge that when companies refer to NT on a corporate scale they mean servers using the NT kernel, which refers to all WinNT OS's, Win2k and WinXP. Sorry if you are late to the party.:)
Sure RAMBUS RAM has significant advantages over just about every other type of ram out there......ON PAPER. IN REAL WORLD CONDITIONS they quickly become significant DISADVANTAGES. Claiming that everyone else is too stupid to understand why RAMBUS RAM is better is pretty insulting and just plain wrong. Ever hear of latency? Yes even Jr. High school students can figure out latency and why their Rambus powered systems are slower than DDR, or SDR powered systems. The hardware review sites a VERY knowledgeable WITHOUT the marketing crap. They simply test the systems in real world conditions, you would think the techs at Rambus would do the same before releasing their crap onto the world.
So in short, NO everyone isn't too stupid to see why Rambus is a better technology. They and the rest of the world are smart enough to know its an inferior technology. Even the CEO of Intel himself said so.....why can't YOU see that?
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I seriously doubt that Kiss-The-Blade has any managerial responsibilites at his workplace. I also seriously doubt it has grown 500% in 24 months because even if it did then its just another overvalued and eventually worthless dot.com. The only difference is his company doesn't know how to treat the young techies who make it all happen. Another thing is this is supposedly a graphics company. Creativiity and individuality are supposed to thrive in artisitic environments. There's no way you can run a good graphics company with the attitude this guy has. So the only employees he will end up with are the unskilled ones willing to go thru hell just to get some training and something to put on their resumes. He WON'T get the hotshots and stars that can really make a company shine and last. It couldn't happen to a better company...........
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Open Source does not mean NON-Mainframe. There are versions of BSD and Linux both open source OS's that run on IBM and Sun mainframes. The recent BIND incident is nothing but another reason WHY open source is so successful. If those DNS servers had been running proprietary code we would never had known how vulnerable they were. Only the hackers would know and they share their secrets amongst themselves on IRC and the Undernet way below the radar of everyone else. Egghead.com was using Microsoft IIS as their webserver. You KNOW that isn't open source. As it turns out they failed to patch their systems as can happen on any OS however the way proprietary patches are designed they often create more problems then they solve so not only do proprietary software solutions become vulnerable to regular neglect but to fear of the solutions themselves! When you can't look at the code not only can you not figure out whats wrong, you can't figure out HOW the fix is going to affect you. A good IT techie will always stay on top of the latest exploits and patches. How can one know everything if the source isn't open? Banks aren't safer because they have until now used closed source they are just more SECRETIVE. 90% of all attacks go un-reported. I know for myself that if I knew what kind of system my bank was using I would feel much more comfortable knowing that it is open source software. It allows for agility, security and speed. With companies such as IBM, Sun, HP, Dell, and Compaq rushing to implement open source solutions this acceptance of this way of using software will only grow with time. The costs in the future will simply become too high for NOT using open code. When something happens and the bosses start asking you why did this happen you'll only be able to answer "I don't know why!!" Why don't you know? Because the code was proprietary and you had no clue what was going on underneath. Thats not a position I would want to be in.
Many who have grown up using a Graphical User Interface (GUI) look back on Command Line Interfaces (CLI) as old and primitive. Well they are half right because a CLI is also very fast and powerful. Unfortunately most CLI's have VERY arcane phrases and words to do the most simple of tasks. Why cannot IBM work on a Natural Language CLI where say one could type "Move file: "Quake" from desktop to games folder". This makes a lot more sense then what one has to type now. I know in most Linux systems you can already type "Shutdown now" but more progress needs to be made. Also those who are used to present CLI's wouldn't have to use this they could stick to bash or tsch if they wanted to.
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"Of the three graphic artists (their main user-base) at my office who've used Mac OSX two have downgraded back to OS9 and the other spends all her time in the emulation mode. Macintosh users are not accustomed to low-level access to their computers and nor do they want it." Duh. Their programs don't run natively on OS X yet so they HAVE to use the Classic layer until they do. That means nothing for adoption of OS X. When there are native versions of their most needed programs they won't have any trouble using it. As for just keeping the old OS and updating it with a few new features yeah that would have been exciting. All the developers who are drooling over OS X never gave OS 9 or below a second thought. Not to mention OS 9 wasn't the most stable of OS's nor did it have protected memory or pre-emptive multitasking...etc I could go on but I hope you get the point by now.
And why wouldn't they be considered forms of fine art? Who are you to judge whats art and what isn't based on mere morals?
While reading your comment I saw this at the bottom of the page: "Superior ability breeds superior ambition. -- Spock, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9" Kinda relevant huh? So anyway if you KNOW you aren't a hotshot and that is holding back your career why don't you concentrate on BECOMING a hotshot so you can be the worker/consultant who gets all the exciting projects?
Honestly you were from the start way in over your head. You had no concept of the hours hackers put in for their work. And its not for money. The real hackers just love to hack. They love to program, tinker, administrate....etc. They aren't the ones who bought the Mercedes to begin with, mainly because they spend so little time actually away from their computers to drive. 80 hours a week is honestly conservative here in Boston. Its more like 90 on the low end all the way up to 100-110 hours a week. And they LOVE it. So they're work-a-holics, so what? Do you resent them because they work more than you and raise the bar for your own performance? So we should all work less to make your life easier? Lots of people with degrees work hard and do NOT get rich. Most doctors, lawyers, engineers....etc work their butts off but don't become millionaires. They do it because they love the work. Same with hackers. When a company decides they need someone who knows a specific language instead of a general CS grad they are saying "We need someone who can do the work NOW, not someone with a lot of "potential" who really can't produce for us immediately". There's no illusions about it. If anything you sound a bit naive. You expected the corporations to regard you higher simply because you went thru 5 years of college and got your degree. Big deal. The reality is you CS grads are a dime a dozen. Show us something above and beyond the degree to justify your complaints. You don't HAVE a wife and kids right now. Working long hours shouldn't be a problem for you. The industry isn't a sinking ship. Software hasn't suddenly begun to write itself. Until it does there will always be a need for programmers. Your degree is "nice" but unless you keep up with the latest languages and technologies and CONSTANTLY upgrade your own skills you will always be considered outdated. Its a constant rat race and it sounds like you burnt out early. That you got burnt out because you didn't investigate the lifestyle issues of the profession beforehand means nothing about the state of the industry overall.
What you want is a 9 to 5 job. You don't want to put in any extra time at all and you resent those who do because it puts pressure on you to do the same. So what do you do? You leave the industry. That pretty much proves your a moron. You think its any easier in publishing or media? There's people who bust their asses in EVERY industry and slackers like you will always make them look good. Computer Science is mainly the major of hackers. If you don't want the hacker lifestyle of work all day, hack all night then you should never had picked it as your chosen profession. Your absolute crappy arguments against the foreign students who work hard or your idiotic rants against a "achievement based economy" prove how stupid you are. WTF do you want? A "slacker based economy?" You boast how you didn't learn skills that will be obsolete in a year and instead learned general skills, well since you are currently JOBLESS how useful are those GENERAL skills? I have every confidence you will find a job once you mature but not a minute before then.
Its the FEW remarkable CS teachers like you who even if they don't like it actually give their students the SKILLS they need to get hired. All the other professors want "learning for learning's sake" but thats not practical in the least. How is someone supposed to be a programmer if all they've been taught is theory and no practical application? Also how is becoming proficient in one or two languages early on suddenly make you unable to learn others? Most CS graduates are nothing but "potential" programmers who never actually deliver. Its also probably why so many current and successful programmers have majored in completely irrelevant fields such as History, Economics, Drama....etc. They know how to program cause they taught themselves! I so wish the University world would wake up to this fact.
I hope the "training for industry" professors won the battle. Too many CS graduates graduate without actually knowing how to program anything. Programming is programming its not a glorified "science". Real science is Physics, Medicine, Sociology......etc, NOT Computer Science. What use is a CS graduate to a future employer if they can't program in ANY language IMMEDIATELY after graduation?
Its pretty much common knowledge that when companies refer to NT on a corporate scale they mean servers using the NT kernel, which refers to all WinNT OS's, Win2k and WinXP. Sorry if you are late to the party. :)
Sure RAMBUS RAM has significant advantages over just about every other type of ram out there......ON PAPER. IN REAL WORLD CONDITIONS they quickly become significant DISADVANTAGES. Claiming that everyone else is too stupid to understand why RAMBUS RAM is better is pretty insulting and just plain wrong. Ever hear of latency? Yes even Jr. High school students can figure out latency and why their Rambus powered systems are slower than DDR, or SDR powered systems. The hardware review sites a VERY knowledgeable WITHOUT the marketing crap. They simply test the systems in real world conditions, you would think the techs at Rambus would do the same before releasing their crap onto the world. So in short, NO everyone isn't too stupid to see why Rambus is a better technology. They and the rest of the world are smart enough to know its an inferior technology. Even the CEO of Intel himself said so.....why can't YOU see that? NDPTAL85
I seriously doubt that Kiss-The-Blade has any managerial responsibilites at his workplace. I also seriously doubt it has grown 500% in 24 months because even if it did then its just another overvalued and eventually worthless dot.com. The only difference is his company doesn't know how to treat the young techies who make it all happen. Another thing is this is supposedly a graphics company. Creativiity and individuality are supposed to thrive in artisitic environments. There's no way you can run a good graphics company with the attitude this guy has. So the only employees he will end up with are the unskilled ones willing to go thru hell just to get some training and something to put on their resumes. He WON'T get the hotshots and stars that can really make a company shine and last. It couldn't happen to a better company........... NDPTAL85
Open Source does not mean NON-Mainframe. There are versions of BSD and Linux both open source OS's that run on IBM and Sun mainframes. The recent BIND incident is nothing but another reason WHY open source is so successful. If those DNS servers had been running proprietary code we would never had known how vulnerable they were. Only the hackers would know and they share their secrets amongst themselves on IRC and the Undernet way below the radar of everyone else. Egghead.com was using Microsoft IIS as their webserver. You KNOW that isn't open source. As it turns out they failed to patch their systems as can happen on any OS however the way proprietary patches are designed they often create more problems then they solve so not only do proprietary software solutions become vulnerable to regular neglect but to fear of the solutions themselves! When you can't look at the code not only can you not figure out whats wrong, you can't figure out HOW the fix is going to affect you. A good IT techie will always stay on top of the latest exploits and patches. How can one know everything if the source isn't open? Banks aren't safer because they have until now used closed source they are just more SECRETIVE. 90% of all attacks go un-reported. I know for myself that if I knew what kind of system my bank was using I would feel much more comfortable knowing that it is open source software. It allows for agility, security and speed. With companies such as IBM, Sun, HP, Dell, and Compaq rushing to implement open source solutions this acceptance of this way of using software will only grow with time. The costs in the future will simply become too high for NOT using open code. When something happens and the bosses start asking you why did this happen you'll only be able to answer "I don't know why!!" Why don't you know? Because the code was proprietary and you had no clue what was going on underneath. Thats not a position I would want to be in.
Many who have grown up using a Graphical User Interface (GUI) look back on Command Line Interfaces (CLI) as old and primitive. Well they are half right because a CLI is also very fast and powerful. Unfortunately most CLI's have VERY arcane phrases and words to do the most simple of tasks. Why cannot IBM work on a Natural Language CLI where say one could type "Move file: "Quake" from desktop to games folder". This makes a lot more sense then what one has to type now. I know in most Linux systems you can already type "Shutdown now" but more progress needs to be made. Also those who are used to present CLI's wouldn't have to use this they could stick to bash or tsch if they wanted to.
When he ment successor to Minux he was refering to its relative obscurity and failure to achieve widespread success unlike Linux has.