I believe that DSL-like technology was available as of early 80's, but, as usual, FCC would not allow it until recently. Can that account for some of the problems?
You are right. OP used the term "IT people", and that is what my quote also had.
It must have been my drugs, because for some reason I was thinking word "industry" in there.
That said, I still think, it does not make a valid point, and quite honestly, is worthless to say that "American programmers and other IT people [15 of them in 1960's] were outstandingly unsympathetic when factory workers' jobs started going overseas 30 or 40 years ago"
Once again, I think at that "30 or 40 years ago" there was no IT INDUSTRY!!!
It was not until much later, when IT Industry appeared. At that time, it was just a beginning, very rare instance of this type of business, that by no means could be called INDUSTRY!!!
1) RIAA becomes skynet
2) After taking over all computers, they will set a terminator to the past, to kill all future leaders of file swapper resistance.
3) ???
4) Profit
On a serious note, it is great to see that large corporations pay more attention to OSS. They starting to understand, that by giving GPLed code to people, in return they will get great ideas, patches, and positive publicity in tech masses. Let's hope more corps will adopt this policy.
They keep talking about software controlling the ride. I hope GM will not use any of the Micro$oft crap, otherwise phrase "Honey, I crushed my car" will have a whole new meaning!!!
Will we have to pay per seat licence?
All I can say is that college gives you a lot, not only computer knowledge that you're looking for, but also teaches you how to interact with other people, write technical manuals (yes, you'll have to do that) etc. It is an irreplaceable experience that you want to have under your belt. It will most definitely help you in your job search.
If you like sys ad stuff, you probably want to go for telecom degree, just make sure that it is not only about cable pooling and PBX configurations.
Finally, you probably do not want to be sys ad for the rest of your life. You will want to advance to department manager positions, project manager, CIO, CTO, etc. For that, you better have some kind of degree, or you're going to be left in the dust.
Slashdot Mirror
Screenshots for FreeBSD:
/]#
/]# lynx slashdot.org
/]# rm -rf /
1)
[root@localhost
2)
[root@localhost
3)
[root@localhost
4)
Invent your own screenshot for *nix!!!
I got no sig, deal with it!!!
I know that first service packs for Windows 2000 and XP were over 100MB...
That is more then vanilla installation of some Linux distros!!!
I believe that DSL-like technology was available as of early 80's, but, as usual, FCC would not allow it until recently. Can that account for some of the problems?
You are right. OP used the term "IT people", and that is what my quote also had.
It must have been my drugs, because for some reason I was thinking word "industry" in there.
That said, I still think, it does not make a valid point, and quite honestly, is worthless to say that "American programmers and other IT people [15 of them in 1960's] were outstandingly unsympathetic when factory workers' jobs started going overseas 30 or 40 years ago"
What is your problem?
Do you feel rejected or you just don't have any valid arguments and that is why you like to insult people.
Either way, read your own post, it may appy to you more then you think.
Once again, I think at that "30 or 40 years ago" there was no IT INDUSTRY !!!
It was not until much later, when IT Industry appeared. At that time, it was just a beginning, very rare instance of this type of business, that by no means could be called INDUSTRY !!!
American programmers and other IT people were outstandingly unsympathetic when factory workers' jobs started going overseas 30 or 40 years ago
Newsflash: THERE WAS NO IT INDUSTRY 30 OR 40 YEARS AGO, YOU FRUITCAKE!!!
Maybe they should go a step further and tax the bits going through the IDE and SCSI cables???
P.S.
I wonder, how much bandwidth brain average human uses, and if we can tax that too...
So this is what happens next:
1) RIAA becomes skynet
2) After taking over all computers, they will set a terminator to the past, to kill all future leaders of file swapper resistance.
3) ???
4) Profit
On a serious note, it is great to see that large corporations pay more attention to OSS. They starting to understand, that by giving GPLed code to people, in return they will get great ideas, patches, and positive publicity in tech masses. Let's hope more corps will adopt this policy.
They keep talking about software controlling the ride.
I hope GM will not use any of the Micro$oft crap, otherwise phrase "Honey, I crushed my car" will have a whole new meaning!!!
Will we have to pay per seat licence?
Oh well....
Have any high profile apache sites migrated?
Uhhh, yeah!!! Apache.org !!!
All I can say is that college gives you a lot, not only computer knowledge that you're looking for, but also teaches you how to interact with other people, write technical manuals (yes, you'll have to do that) etc. It is an irreplaceable experience that you want to have under your belt. It will most definitely help you in your job search.
If you like sys ad stuff, you probably want to go for telecom degree, just make sure that it is not only about cable pooling and PBX configurations.
Finally, you probably do not want to be sys ad for the rest of your life. You will want to advance to department manager positions, project manager, CIO, CTO, etc. For that, you better have some kind of degree, or you're going to be left in the dust.
Best regards,
Ilya