I got a Visor Platinum (currently about $100 second hand), and a VisorPhone (got it free from Voicestream with 1 yr contract). Although none of both devices are particularly slick or expensive they do an excellent job of a communicator that otherwise costs $300-$500. I have all of my contacts on it, receive and make an occasional phonecall (where the coverage is good the quality is pretty good too). I also read an eventual ebook, study my vocabulary from it (SuperMemo), enter a couple of alarms and appointments that I have to definitely attend. Also, at work I make occasional notes in it, instead of trying to find pen and paper somewhere, and then losing the sticky note and trying to find it. Never had a paper organizer (got extremely annoyed by having to additionally "organize" my notes. Finally, the combination of Visor+Visorphone is Irreplaceable when writing text messages (sms): let me tell you, sending an sms by writing it in Grafitti is MUCH faster than punching it on a cell phone.
Well, I work in a mainly Win + as400 shop. I frequently bust the as400 programmers' chops that we will have to put linux on the as400 soon.. Well, of course it is very clear to me that this is not going to happen any time soon, but it is nice to see them giving me these strange looks of the type "That Linux is NEVER going to touch my 400"::-)
Well, anyway.. My 2 cents. A while ago we used to have a fairly simple app: basically what people use php+mysql, we were using java+as400. Well, to tell you the truth, the as400 sucked big time in running a webserver + java servlet container (it took about half hour to reload the application, which was nothing too big). In addition to that, when I showed some interest in learning the as400, or maybe querying against as a database, the as400 guru was almost going to kill me, telling me that I am never going to touch the as400 either (obviously, I was one of the enemies: a Linux fan, some knowledgde of windows). Although I don't know much about as400, I have a lot of respect for it, especially for crunching data + the fact that the whole thing is a huge database. I am not sure whether maybe our as400 is kinda old, but again, the as400 dude wanted to kill me again for wating to run queries against the as400 (since there is quite a lot of data locked up inside) with the argument that "queries will kill the as400 performance". With all due respect, these two precedents kinda put me off big time: if it is a big database, why would it suck if I run queries against it??? In general , my experience was that especially the as400 zealots have a big problem with attitude though.
Anyway, as it was pointed out earlier, linux is not going to substitute, but maybe complement - IF the as400 guys have a bit of an open mind (otherwise they tell you to go fsck yourself cause they can run everything better on the 400).
I wonder, in regards to getting an IT job in Europe, would having a degree from a european university be a plus or if it would make a difference in the job prospects ? E.g. in Australia it seems like they kinda encourage university graduates (e.g. international students) to hang around after they graduate, how is it in Europe ?
Dude, I think you have no clue of what you are talking about. In "those" countries there are are probably more cell phones per capita, than there are in the US. But hey, it looks like you have travelled the world and you know best.
Next time, hold your advice , unless you know something more than what you have seen from movies from 10 years ago. Get a life !!!
I think that the Safari books at O'Reilly are an excellent model : you subscribe to a online e-book model.. read books.. and if you think that the book is something that you really want.. you can buy it ! I think that is an excellent idea !
Of course, there is always a possibility that e.g. college students (money-less creatures by definition) might Copy-Paste the whole book into a word document.. but hey, they are paying the subscription..
I see myself in this dream: carrying my laptop around, and whenever I have to check something on the web, just hook it up to my cell phone and get online. I don't want to hook up to any land lines anymore. Hey, I got a phone, I got a computer, why wouldn't I be able to surf regardless whether I am in my house or somewhere else? For me, that would be a compelling reason to shell out for 3G technology..
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I got a Visor Platinum (currently about $100 second hand), and a VisorPhone (got it free from Voicestream with 1 yr contract). Although none of both devices are particularly slick or expensive they do an excellent job of a communicator that otherwise costs $300-$500. I have all of my contacts on it, receive and make an occasional phonecall (where the coverage is good the quality is pretty good too). I also read an eventual ebook, study my vocabulary from it (SuperMemo), enter a couple of alarms and appointments that I have to definitely attend. Also, at work I make occasional notes in it, instead of trying to find pen and paper somewhere, and then losing the sticky note and trying to find it. Never had a paper organizer (got extremely annoyed by having to additionally "organize" my notes. Finally, the combination of Visor+Visorphone is Irreplaceable when writing text messages (sms): let me tell you, sending an sms by writing it in Grafitti is MUCH faster than punching it on a cell phone.
Well, I work in a mainly Win + as400 shop. I frequently bust the as400 programmers' chops that we will have to put linux on the as400 soon.. Well, of course it is very clear to me that this is not going to happen any time soon, but it is nice to see them giving me these strange looks of the type "That Linux is NEVER going to touch my 400" ::-)
Well, anyway.. My 2 cents. A while ago we used to have a fairly simple app: basically what people use php+mysql, we were using java+as400. Well, to tell you the truth, the as400 sucked big time in running a webserver + java servlet container (it took about half hour to reload the application, which was nothing too big). In addition to that, when I showed some interest in learning the as400, or maybe querying against as a database, the as400 guru was almost going to kill me, telling me that I am never going to touch the as400 either (obviously, I was one of the enemies: a Linux fan, some knowledgde of windows). Although I don't know much about as400, I have a lot of respect for it, especially for crunching data + the fact that the whole thing is a huge database. I am not sure whether maybe our as400 is kinda old, but again, the as400 dude wanted to kill me again for wating to run queries against the as400 (since there is quite a lot of data locked up inside) with the argument that "queries will kill the as400 performance". With all due respect, these two precedents kinda put me off big time: if it is a big database, why would it suck if I run queries against it??? In general , my experience was that especially the as400 zealots have a big problem with attitude though.
Anyway, as it was pointed out earlier, linux is not going to substitute, but maybe complement - IF the as400 guys have a bit of an open mind (otherwise they tell you to go fsck yourself cause they can run everything better on the 400).
I wonder, in regards to getting an IT job in Europe, would having a degree from a european university be a plus or if it would make a difference in the job prospects ? E.g. in Australia it seems like they kinda encourage university graduates (e.g. international students) to hang around after they graduate, how is it in Europe ?
Dude, I think you have no clue of what you are talking about. In "those" countries there are are probably more cell phones per capita, than there are in the US. But hey, it looks like you have travelled the world and you know best.
Next time, hold your advice , unless you know something more than what you have seen from movies from 10 years ago. Get a life !!!
Yeah, I didn't think Sun would screw up with such a dumb "Microsoft" type of blunder.. This looked like a post from April 1 :-) A little too late...
I think that the Safari books at O'Reilly are an excellent model : you subscribe to a online e-book model.. read books.. and if you think that the book is something that you really want.. you can buy it ! I think that is an excellent idea !
Of course, there is always a possibility that e.g. college students (money-less creatures by definition) might Copy-Paste the whole book into a word document.. but hey, they are paying the subscription..
I see myself in this dream: carrying my laptop around, and whenever I have to check something on the web, just hook it up to my cell phone and get online. I don't want to hook up to any land lines anymore. Hey, I got a phone, I got a computer, why wouldn't I be able to surf regardless whether I am in my house or somewhere else? For me, that would be a compelling reason to shell out for 3G technology..