You touch on a very important point here. Many posters are talking about how, if you enjoy programming, go for it. The truth is, while we'll continue to have IT jobs in the US, the coding will be done offshore.
I'm in the mainframe industry. I work at a very large company, and accross the board almost all of the fun stuff is done offshore. We spend half our time on the phone arguing with people about timelines and requirements and the other half reading and correcting specs and code from offshore. About the only interesting thing I do is high-level design of new processes, and occasionally analysis of issues when I am carrying a pager. The face of IT is changing, at least in the small window I'm looking through, and its no fun for people who got into it for the love of developing.
In late May 1997, Chicago Tribune metro columnist (and "Brenda Starr" writer) Mary Schmich was walking to work along Lake Shore Drive, wondering what she was going to write about that day. It occurred to her that it was near graduation time and she thought she would write a column that read like a commencement address. As she wondered what advice she might offer, she saw a woman sunbathing on the shore of Lake Michigan.
"I hope she's wearing sunscreen," thought Schmich, 45, "because I didn't at that age."
And that's how newspaper columns are born.
A couple of months later, the column became an Internet hoax when a prankster - never identified except as "Culprit Zero" - copied it, labeled it as "Kurt Vonnegut's commencement address at MIT,"
Its good to hear Firefly is getting another chance. I wonder if its success may bring back the series.
In the meantime, lets not forget Joss' most recent loss with the cancelation of Angel. Anyone think it has a chance of coming back from the grave? Take a look at one of the efforts to bring it back: www.savingangel.com
I shipped computers a handful of times via UPS as well...I think each time it got progressively worse. I did a great job shipping too, went to mailboxes ect. and they went nuts by double boxing (required for that type of shipment) and putting an amazing amount of packing material in there.
The last time I did it, UPS managed to somehow penetrate all of the various layers of protection and caused the motherboard mounts (granted they were vinal) to rip right apart causing the board to reposition and thus bending the couple of cards I left in there. They were always small things I was able to repair cheaply so didn't bother with a claim, but it showed how hard they must beat your packages. I can't speak for the other carriers, but UPS seems to be consistently terrible and should not be trusted with sensative equipment.
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Wait...did I just wake up in some kind of bizarro alternate universe where people actually debate the merits of something Michael Bay said?
I can't wait to see if my crap tastes like fudgecicles!
You touch on a very important point here. Many posters are talking about how, if you enjoy programming, go for it. The truth is, while we'll continue to have IT jobs in the US, the coding will be done offshore.
I'm in the mainframe industry. I work at a very large company, and accross the board almost all of the fun stuff is done offshore. We spend half our time on the phone arguing with people about timelines and requirements and the other half reading and correcting specs and code from offshore. About the only interesting thing I do is high-level design of new processes, and occasionally analysis of issues when I am carrying a pager. The face of IT is changing, at least in the small window I'm looking through, and its no fun for people who got into it for the love of developing.
Just my 2 cents.
Yeah, people need to RTFA:
In late May 1997, Chicago Tribune metro columnist (and "Brenda Starr" writer) Mary Schmich was walking to work along Lake Shore Drive, wondering what she was going to write about that day. It occurred to her that it was near graduation time and she thought she would write a column that read like a commencement address. As she wondered what advice she might offer, she saw a woman sunbathing on the shore of Lake Michigan.
"I hope she's wearing sunscreen," thought Schmich, 45, "because I didn't at that age."
And that's how newspaper columns are born.
A couple of months later, the column became an Internet hoax when a prankster - never identified except as "Culprit Zero" - copied it, labeled it as "Kurt Vonnegut's commencement address at MIT,"
Actually, there are already a few reviews out there from an Australian screening. Here's one...
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20089
Its by a big Whedon fan, so probably a little biast.
Its good to hear Firefly is getting another chance. I wonder if its success may bring back the series.
In the meantime, lets not forget Joss' most recent loss with the cancelation of Angel. Anyone think it has a chance of coming back from the grave? Take a look at one of the efforts to bring it back:
www.savingangel.com
I can't recall where I saw it, but he did come out publically and say that on this one, he wasn't going to be so secretive about everything.
I shipped computers a handful of times via UPS as well...I think each time it got progressively worse. I did a great job shipping too, went to mailboxes ect. and they went nuts by double boxing (required for that type of shipment) and putting an amazing amount of packing material in there.
The last time I did it, UPS managed to somehow penetrate all of the various layers of protection and caused the motherboard mounts (granted they were vinal) to rip right apart causing the board to reposition and thus bending the couple of cards I left in there. They were always small things I was able to repair cheaply so didn't bother with a claim, but it showed how hard they must beat your packages. I can't speak for the other carriers, but UPS seems to be consistently terrible and should not be trusted with sensative equipment.