Contrary to the claim of the blurb, Salesforce Chatter integrates into Sharepoint. I am a Salesforce emp and we have plenty of customer references I'd be happy to bring out.
Professors will still play a critical role in the new educational model -- whatever that is. I think we are seeing the beginnings of it with online education. It's interesting that many university students that board at college also treat much of their studies as an online class. For example, many students purposefully skip lecture and instead review the recording later, so that they can pause the playback and take accurate notes without missing the next important point made by the professor.
College cannot go online entirely -- field work and lab work come to mind -- but the model is going to have to change dramatically in order to survive.
The idea of a university is a medieval one. In those times printing was so expensive that few beyond the wealthy owned books. It made economic sense to send your children (usually boys) to a distant university to board and learn. Now that the cost of information distribution is practically zero, this model of education increasingly makes little sense. Combine this economic trend with two others: (1) Most college graduates owe a debilitating amount of debt; and (2) most college graduates are finding that the implicit bargain of a four-year degree for a reasonable chance at financial security. These three trends spell doom for the current model of college. Change or die.
In my case it was a fait accompli: my team is worldwide, I am in the East and my manager is in California. So agreeing to a remote work environment was a condition of employment, and I never had do deal with the crap that your former manager dumped on you. Wanna work for IBM?:)
I couldn't disagree more. I am one of the 50% of IBM's 360,000 employees worldwide that work remotely. Having been at it for more than a year, I am loathe to EVAR go back to a "normal" office environment. I remain connected to my extended team throughout the day via instant messaging, email and phone. I can work in my home office, at any of our city's many cafes with Internet access, a friend's house, or the nearest IBM facility (which I've never been to. Telling, huh?). Freed from the distractions of office chats/politics/meetings my productivity has increased.
Now all that said, this arrangement is not for everyone. I travel about 4-5 overnights per month, which I believe is an essential part of keeping me sane and connected to meatspace. Your mileage may vary.
This would also be my advice, although the original post didn't say whether they desired to get back into coding as a hobby/interest or for a career move. If the latter, pick a tool set from one of the major major players (IBM, HP, M$, Oracle, BEA) and learn it. It seems to matter less these days what language you use, but toolset skills are highly marketable. Learning the toolset will also give you exposure to a language (Java in the case of IBM; VB for M$). With your experience in the non-coding part of the tech sector you might want to seriously consider some of the new software for business process integration. Good luck!
>dotComBS< Prothon will repurpose wireless users and incentivize e-business solutions while iterating integrated supply-chains, allowing you to synthesize back-end infrastructures and leverage real-time architectures. </dotComBS>
Sounds suspiciously like something Erich Von Däniken would have forged....
Chuck
"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." T.A. Edison
HA! I was right! The fact that you equate P2P with Kazaa PROVES your experience is limited to that of a script kiddie. Check it out, then we'll talk: http://www.groove.net/
A great database theory book is the classic text by C. J. Date, An Introduction to Database Systems. I also love the Sun Microsystems Core Java series.
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Contrary to the claim of the blurb, Salesforce Chatter integrates into Sharepoint. I am a Salesforce emp and we have plenty of customer references I'd be happy to bring out.
Professors will still play a critical role in the new educational model -- whatever that is. I think we are seeing the beginnings of it with online education. It's interesting that many university students that board at college also treat much of their studies as an online class. For example, many students purposefully skip lecture and instead review the recording later, so that they can pause the playback and take accurate notes without missing the next important point made by the professor.
College cannot go online entirely -- field work and lab work come to mind -- but the model is going to have to change dramatically in order to survive.
The idea of a university is a medieval one. In those times printing was so expensive that few beyond the wealthy owned books. It made economic sense to send your children (usually boys) to a distant university to board and learn. Now that the cost of information distribution is practically zero, this model of education increasingly makes little sense. Combine this economic trend with two others: (1) Most college graduates owe a debilitating amount of debt; and (2) most college graduates are finding that the implicit bargain of a four-year degree for a reasonable chance at financial security. These three trends spell doom for the current model of college. Change or die.
Heh... that way Google could help prevent TWI (Texting While Intoxicated)
In my case it was a fait accompli: my team is worldwide, I am in the East and my manager is in California. So agreeing to a remote work environment was a condition of employment, and I never had do deal with the crap that your former manager dumped on you. Wanna work for IBM? :)
I couldn't disagree more. I am one of the 50% of IBM's 360,000 employees worldwide that work remotely. Having been at it for more than a year, I am loathe to EVAR go back to a "normal" office environment. I remain connected to my extended team throughout the day via instant messaging, email and phone. I can work in my home office, at any of our city's many cafes with Internet access, a friend's house, or the nearest IBM facility (which I've never been to. Telling, huh?). Freed from the distractions of office chats/politics/meetings my productivity has increased.
Now all that said, this arrangement is not for everyone. I travel about 4-5 overnights per month, which I believe is an essential part of keeping me sane and connected to meatspace. Your mileage may vary.
(1) Doom (2) Half Life (3) Hexen 2
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All the rest are belong to these three
Does this mean I will get triple the toothing nookie?
Yes, you are the ONLY one :)
.sig, but I play one on TV
Actually, I am a big fan of it, although why am I never paired with some brilliant supermodel?
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This would also be my advice, although the original post didn't say whether they desired to get back into coding as a hobby/interest or for a career move. If the latter, pick a tool set from one of the major major players (IBM, HP, M$, Oracle, BEA) and learn it. It seems to matter less these days what language you use, but toolset skills are highly marketable. Learning the toolset will also give you exposure to a language (Java in the case of IBM; VB for M$). With your experience in the non-coding part of the tech sector you might want to seriously consider some of the new software for business process integration. Good luck!
>dotComBS<
Prothon will repurpose wireless users and incentivize e-business solutions while iterating integrated supply-chains, allowing you to synthesize back-end infrastructures and leverage real-time architectures.
</dotComBS>
What about new phased plamsa inducers?! I WAS PROMISED NEW PHASED PLASMA INDUCERS? Someone get Wheaton over here :)
maybe an early alpha version? :)
Sounds suspiciously like something Erich Von Däniken would have forged.... Chuck "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." T.A. Edison
HA! I was right! The fact that you equate P2P with Kazaa PROVES your experience is limited to that of a script kiddie. Check it out, then we'll talk: http://www.groove.net/
Chuck
Thanks for that constructive addition, script kiddie.
Could a completely decentralized network, e.g. P2P, solve the problem? redundancy is built-in, so to speak.
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2 + 2 = 5 for very large values of 2
A great database theory book is the classic text by C. J. Date, An Introduction to Database Systems. I also love the Sun Microsystems Core Java series.
Chuck