you could have meet people like I've had classes with that *hate* computers, but think there is money in knowing something about them so came to 'study' about them. It's something I try to avoid thinking about...
in my experience colleges (like the one I work for) & high schools (like the ones I've seen) don't give a damn about privacy. we are required as part of our job to scan peoples files for 'porn'/'indecent'/'imoral' materials on a regular basis. Though we do tell everyone that they have no privacy on our system they still say they have never heard that when they become disabled for such things. Personnally I advicate privacy, but I have no decision over what we do & can't quite over something like that.
I'm in CIS (computer information systems) & trying to 'go up the ranks' as some others have mentioned. I have noticed the rare mention of Novell in the posts/article which seems odd with the shear volume of novell servers I've seen (including my college where I work & the big companies around here like Nationwide). So you might want to learn that as well.
I've always been the type wanting to 'just make things go', but the road for me is a difficult & curvy one. /begin rant I worked as a computer consultant with small businesses back home (the only type of business their). Then I decided to go to college for computer Science (the actual course is CIS or 'computer information systems') for 4 years, but the best choice of college in my area (& hence the only one I can reasonably go to) has an obsession with COBOL. If I was at their California branch I'd have lots of networking classes, but I can't go that far away. Because this school is in a large city my old job was not feasible (way to much competition from bigger consulting groups, none of which would higher me for 'lack of experience'). I finally have a job in the IT/IS department at my college, but low pay & no respect from my superiors (who think having a degree makes you smart) makes this job frustrating. It wasn't that way to start, but soon after I got hired they replaced my boss with a suit (aka a business major) & things have gotten worse since. When I graduate in less than a year though, I hope to finally be able to get one of those sysadmin type jobs & fit in that nitch to be able to 'make things work' all day. /end rant
I use mp3s alot & I cannot tell the difference on my setup. Just so you know what my setup is here's a brief rundown: Diamond MX300 soundcard connected by gold high-quality connecting cords to a hand-built dolby 5.1 capable amp & finally to a set of fischer stereo speakers. not exactly your average PC speakers...
could be worse, you could live in the one 4 block section of a large city that doesn't have access to cable modem/ADSL while the rest of the city (including the majority of people you deal with on a daily basis) have access to such things. That is by far worse than just not having any high-bandwith resources. My Dual 56k modems just don't compare to those fancy ADSL lines my friends run on...
My college loves COBOL (don't ask me why) & they converted to running Visual COBOL about a year ago. It's ease of use is lower than the older DOS based ide they used.
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hmm I'm not getting any sort of free internet access, but the rest seems very fimiliar...
you could have meet people like I've had classes with that *hate* computers, but think there is money in knowing something about them so came to 'study' about them. It's something I try to avoid thinking about...
in my experience colleges (like the one I work for) & high schools (like the ones I've seen) don't give a damn about privacy. we are required as part of our job to scan peoples files for 'porn'/'indecent'/'imoral' materials on a regular basis. Though we do tell everyone that they have no privacy on our system they still say they have never heard that when they become disabled for such things. Personnally I advicate privacy, but I have no decision over what we do & can't quite over something like that.
I'm in CIS (computer information systems) & trying to 'go up the ranks' as some others have mentioned. I have noticed the rare mention of Novell in the posts/article which seems odd with the shear volume of novell servers I've seen (including my college where I work & the big companies around here like Nationwide). So you might want to learn that as well.
I've always been the type wanting to 'just make things go', but the road for me is a difficult & curvy one.
/begin rant
I worked as a computer consultant with small businesses back home (the only type of business their). Then I decided to go to college for computer Science (the actual course is CIS or 'computer information systems') for 4 years, but the best choice of college in my area (& hence the only one I can reasonably go to) has an obsession with COBOL. If I was at their California branch I'd have lots of networking classes, but I can't go that far away.
Because this school is in a large city my old job was not feasible (way to much competition from bigger consulting groups, none of which would higher me for 'lack of experience'). I finally have a job in the IT/IS department at my college, but low pay & no respect from my superiors (who think having a degree makes you smart) makes this job frustrating. It wasn't that way to start, but soon after I got hired they replaced my boss with a suit (aka a business major) & things have gotten worse since.
When I graduate in less than a year though, I hope to finally be able to get one of those sysadmin type jobs & fit in that nitch to be able to 'make things work' all day.
/end rant
true to a point, but even a DVD uses some form of native compression as a medium... don't think your getting away from compression that easily...
I use mp3s alot & I cannot tell the difference on my setup. Just so you know what my setup is here's a brief rundown: Diamond MX300 soundcard connected by gold high-quality connecting cords to a hand-built dolby 5.1 capable amp & finally to a set of fischer stereo speakers. not exactly your average PC speakers...
could be worse, you could live in the one 4 block section of a large city that doesn't have access to cable modem/ADSL while the rest of the city (including the majority of people you deal with on a daily basis) have access to such things. That is by far worse than just not having any high-bandwith resources. My Dual 56k modems just don't compare to those fancy ADSL lines my friends run on...
My college loves COBOL (don't ask me why) & they converted to running Visual COBOL about a year ago. It's ease of use is lower than the older DOS based ide they used.