We would kill for more Cobol programmers. Many of our big iron people have retired and we need to replace them. None of the younger applicants have the experience that we need to maintain our mainframe systems... and they don't want to learn. These systems are not going away but the human resources are.
A couple of years ago I tried to get my (now) 15yo son interested in development. He was all excited because he envisioned writing his own video games and what not. You can understand his disappointment with "Hello World". I can't blame him with all the amazing technology that is out there these days. I was dazzled at computer technology (TRS-80) when I was his age with things like Oregon Trail.
I'm sorry to say, you are wrong. In the past 20+ years I've been a PC programmer surrounded by legacy mainframe systems for various older financial, insurance, and manufacturing companies. COBOL programmers are retiring but the systems are not so companies are hiring with any decent experience. I'm taking up COBOL now to help cover the slack (and make more cash) at one of the worlds largest tire makers.
That being said. Maybe the poster is not interested in going backwards and wants a challenge. The best way for that is to look for a job where they interfacing legacy mainframe systems with modern systems (where there are is a major need for frame programmers). He can start where he is familiar and work towards the more modern systems. That is how I'm learning older system (but in reverse).
Exposing him publicly might just save him. Makes it harder for Apple to just sweep this under the rug and he might garner public sympathy. Who hasn't lost something?
The researchers first levitated a young mouse, just three-week-old and weighing 10 grams. It appeared agitated and disoriented, seemingly trying to hold on to something.
You'd be a little agitated and disoriented too if some asswipe played a joke like this on you without telling you first. Jeez!
Radio Shack to try re-branding in an attempt to save another failing business segment?? Never! Tandy... Optimus... Realistic... Duofone... Accurian... Archer... Presidian... Auvio... etc... It seems like the only thing they are good at is branding.
Give them a break... they've left about 6 inches of shelf space in the very very far back of each store for one-of-a-kind electrical components and equipment.
"The real question is why Time Warner would fight back by so clearly showing how increasingly obsolete they are becoming and that cable providers are losing their monopolistic grip on media delivery."
Psystar might get shut down, but if they play their cards right, they could benefit from this exposure. I know! They should release a TV commercial where an unnamed heroine represents the coming of open systems as a means of saving humanity from "conformity" (Apple) by throwing a large hammer through a propaganda screen... oh wait.
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If the service is free, you are not the customer, you are the product. Hi Slashdot.
So they are just blowing smoke up our asses AGAIN.
We would kill for more Cobol programmers. Many of our big iron people have retired and we need to replace them. None of the younger applicants have the experience that we need to maintain our mainframe systems... and they don't want to learn. These systems are not going away but the human resources are.
Am I the only one here who always puts "Flying" in front of "Dutchman" whenever I see that word?
All for $11,000 ($6125 adjusted for 2011) you can get 128KB of RAM, a monochrome monitor, one floppy disk drive, a printer, and Visicalc.
I can give you a tour of where they clean out port-a-potties. You'll never forget it.
A couple of years ago I tried to get my (now) 15yo son interested in development. He was all excited because he envisioned writing his own video games and what not. You can understand his disappointment with "Hello World". I can't blame him with all the amazing technology that is out there these days. I was dazzled at computer technology (TRS-80) when I was his age with things like Oregon Trail.
I'm sorry to say, you are wrong. In the past 20+ years I've been a PC programmer surrounded by legacy mainframe systems for various older financial, insurance, and manufacturing companies. COBOL programmers are retiring but the systems are not so companies are hiring with any decent experience. I'm taking up COBOL now to help cover the slack (and make more cash) at one of the worlds largest tire makers.
That being said. Maybe the poster is not interested in going backwards and wants a challenge. The best way for that is to look for a job where they interfacing legacy mainframe systems with modern systems (where there are is a major need for frame programmers). He can start where he is familiar and work towards the more modern systems. That is how I'm learning older system (but in reverse).
I propose the name of the patch to cover this hole be named tamPod.
Exposing him publicly might just save him. Makes it harder for Apple to just sweep this under the rug and he might garner public sympathy. Who hasn't lost something?
Thank you. The author must have forgot about the internets that can create links out of hypertext.
Don't pray in my school and I won't think in your church.
You'd be a little agitated and disoriented too if some asswipe played a joke like this on you without telling you first. Jeez!
For a balloon? Then again, this is from the same organization that pays $20k for a hammer.
Go sue a clown.
Radio Shack to try re-branding in an attempt to save another failing business segment?? Never! Tandy... Optimus... Realistic... Duofone... Accurian... Archer... Presidian... Auvio... etc... It seems like the only thing they are good at is branding.
Give them a break... they've left about 6 inches of shelf space in the very very far back of each store for one-of-a-kind electrical components and equipment.
We didn't know you had interests other than fighting the RIAA?
Here is what my wife and I use:
http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2751438
When they get a little older we'll go high-tech:
http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2753828
Gesundheit
What?!? Ted Stevens wasn't available?
We need someone in there that understand that the internets are not like a big truck but rather a series of tubes.
"The real question is why Time Warner would fight back by so clearly showing how increasingly obsolete they are becoming and that cable providers are losing their monopolistic grip on media delivery."
Because they are also TWC via Road Runner.
Psystar might get shut down, but if they play their cards right, they could benefit from this exposure. I know! They should release a TV commercial where an unnamed heroine represents the coming of open systems as a means of saving humanity from "conformity" (Apple) by throwing a large hammer through a propaganda screen... oh wait.
The questions is, would it be an anatomically correct Hemos statue?
I always thought it was, "There are 10 types of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't."