bad:
-less money
-little chance for overtime
-have to deal with academic types that can sometimes be on the elitist side
-have to deal with students who, depending on what kind of school you are working at (private vs. public) could be kind of snotty too.
-their IT systems can be cool but retarded in some aspects
good:
-tenure may be extended to professional (ie not academic) types as well...aka the epitome of job security.
-even if you are remotely competent you probably won't get axed.
-considerably more relaxed work environment
-less need to work extra hours
-free tuition?
-usually better benefits
i've heard that academia and state jobs are a good place to work towards the end of your career when stability and benefits play a greater role with respect to salary then in earlier years. but i wouldn't really know, i'm no where near there;)
I think a big potential use of CableCards, despite their limited two-way featurs now, is their inclusion in HTPCs- allowing for recording of digital cable without having to do weird things with IR Blaster and such. Sadly, the only implementation I have seen thus far was something Shuttle demoed at CES...
On the Windows platform, the ability to manage Mozilla/Firefox via Group Policy would be a god-send for larger organizations that need tight security and also the ability to implement changes across a broad scale.
It would be nice if developers would make it possible to use Group Policy to manage Mozilla/Firefox components without the use of a complicated login script - but I suppose the script would work.
Another suggestion would be "official".msi's for silent installs and deployment via Group Policy.
While perhaps their intention was it would sell more Macs, Apple can, and does sell the 5GB iPod at 400 bucks and make a hefty profit. Look at a possible iPod competitor, the Toshiba GigaBeat. It uses the same 1.8" hard drive the iPod does, yet its removable and uses a PC card interface(read: more expensive), and they are marketing it for 400 dollars as well. Apples integrated solution, using their own software and hardware technologies, has to be much cheaper to produce. Although perhaps it was Apple's intention to sell more Macs with iPod technology, they KNOW its a good thing that 94% of the computer world is now able to use the iPod, which will bring in massive revenue to use to produce even more cool hardware (which will then, of course, be hacked to work with Windows).
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bad: -less money -little chance for overtime -have to deal with academic types that can sometimes be on the elitist side -have to deal with students who, depending on what kind of school you are working at (private vs. public) could be kind of snotty too. -their IT systems can be cool but retarded in some aspects good: -tenure may be extended to professional (ie not academic) types as well...aka the epitome of job security. -even if you are remotely competent you probably won't get axed. -considerably more relaxed work environment -less need to work extra hours -free tuition? -usually better benefits i've heard that academia and state jobs are a good place to work towards the end of your career when stability and benefits play a greater role with respect to salary then in earlier years. but i wouldn't really know, i'm no where near there ;)
That being this (Anandtech.com).
I think a big potential use of CableCards, despite their limited two-way featurs now, is their inclusion in HTPCs- allowing for recording of digital cable without having to do weird things with IR Blaster and such. Sadly, the only implementation I have seen thus far was something Shuttle demoed at CES...
On the Windows platform, the ability to manage Mozilla/Firefox via Group Policy would be a god-send for larger organizations that need tight security and also the ability to implement changes across a broad scale. It would be nice if developers would make it possible to use Group Policy to manage Mozilla/Firefox components without the use of a complicated login script - but I suppose the script would work. Another suggestion would be "official" .msi's for silent installs and deployment via Group Policy.
if so, you'd think he would have stepped on those two mosquitoes and saved the world of all their trouble, wouldn't you?
While perhaps their intention was it would sell more Macs, Apple can, and does sell the 5GB iPod at 400 bucks and make a hefty profit. Look at a possible iPod competitor, the Toshiba GigaBeat. It uses the same 1.8" hard drive the iPod does, yet its removable and uses a PC card interface(read: more expensive), and they are marketing it for 400 dollars as well. Apples integrated solution, using their own software and hardware technologies, has to be much cheaper to produce. Although perhaps it was Apple's intention to sell more Macs with iPod technology, they KNOW its a good thing that 94% of the computer world is now able to use the iPod, which will bring in massive revenue to use to produce even more cool hardware (which will then, of course, be hacked to work with Windows).