Hate to say it, you're an old geezer. Don't feel bad, I'm only 34 and realize the same.
If tech work is being "commoditized" by "young punks" and you feel like you're losing control, take control and start herding the cats. You might actually get a raise for it.
So spend a few minutes a day training them to do your remedial work and work on greasing the wheels to get things done better or more efficiently. Those young punks can't change things in your company, but if you're an old geezer you probably can, and in the process delegate the run-of-the-mill shit to them.
Apparently, I signed up to be notified if they ever released them for retail sale and got no updates, except for a "we're first offering them for sale (for a limited time) to employees" email. Nothing since.
Just visited London not too long ago. The availability of basic, open wifi reeked of circa 2006 in the States, only got a usable signal in a McDonalds of all places. A free half a MB/s would have been pleasant.
I'm sorry, I understand why you didn't want to be snarky but if you think that 10 hours of coursework is anywhere equivalent to a _course_ related to high school level intro to CS you're brain dead.
Rationale like this is why home schooling should be considered suspect at best.
I went to an inner-city grade school (k-12) in the mid 80s and was taught programming in Logo on C64s. If we're teaching _typing_ to middle school kids in 2011 we're doing something really wrong.
I hear that software piracy runs pretty rampant, even at a corporate level, in China. Not surprised at the story but they certainly have egg on their face now.
... and it's certainly worth our tax money to have this issue in a house subcommittee - just so you can rest assured that the gub'ment has Google's consumer affairs on its docket?
(e) On March 5, 2007, Viacom Inc. ("Viacom") entered into an amendment to the employment agreement of Michael D. Fricklas, Viacom's Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. The amendment extends Mr. Fricklas' term of employment to May 31, 2010, and restructures his compensation arrangement to reduce guaranteed compensation in favor of performance-based compensation.
So Fricklas isn't just a lawyer for Viacom, he's their Executive VP. It looks as though his board's starting to tighten the copyright screws on him - note that his pay is reduced to a "performance-based" scale. Ie, he better "perform" in reigning in the "pirates" that are affecting Viacom, perhaps?
Computer Science != Software Development
Maybe I'll grant software development as a subset of computer science, but the efficiencies of software-as-commodity, and the 'dumbing down' of software dev. practices in general shouldn't be construed as a lack of need for actual SCIENTISTS who study what will come NEXT for the industry.
The advent of quantum computing is a prime example of why the world needs more researchers spending time in the lab despite how much more efficient the commercial development industry has become.
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Hate to say it, you're an old geezer. Don't feel bad, I'm only 34 and realize the same.
If tech work is being "commoditized" by "young punks" and you feel like you're losing control, take control and start herding the cats. You might actually get a raise for it.
So spend a few minutes a day training them to do your remedial work and work on greasing the wheels to get things done better or more efficiently. Those young punks can't change things in your company, but if you're an old geezer you probably can, and in the process delegate the run-of-the-mill shit to them.
Maybe a metaphorical fugue?
Glad mine's an '05!
I'd rate this more as 'cosmetic dentistry' than 'plastic surgery' though.
they would rarely run into a problem with C that requires them to call assembly code and they wouldn't miss this skill-gap.
Unless they wanted to debug Ruby, in which case probably knowing the lower-level language might be useful.
So QA teams are called 'Red Teams' now? So sexy.
Couldn't find anything mentioned in this thread about how it was the _simulator_ he was demoing, not an actual device... Big difference.
Apparently, I signed up to be notified if they ever released them for retail sale and got no updates, except for a "we're first offering them for sale (for a limited time) to employees" email. Nothing since.
Oops, shows up in the comments list now. Odd caching. Please disregard, nothing to see here, move along.
#winning
I posted this earlier on my mobile as an AC and it was deleted, presumably by some mod.
Just visited London not too long ago. The availability of basic, open wifi reeked of circa 2006 in the States, only got a usable signal in a McDonalds of all places. A free half a MB/s would have been pleasant.
> It's about 10 hours of coursework,
I'm sorry, I understand why you didn't want to be snarky but if you think that 10 hours of coursework is anywhere equivalent to a _course_ related to high school level intro to CS you're brain dead.
Rationale like this is why home schooling should be considered suspect at best.
- C
Sorry, I misedited... an inner-city Catholic grade school (k-12)
I went to an inner-city grade school (k-12) in the mid 80s and was taught programming in Logo on C64s. If we're teaching _typing_ to middle school kids in 2011 we're doing something really wrong.
Really.
Why'd they change it? Did people just like it better that way?
That's nobody's business but the Burm's
My personal fave, though not exactly an arena-style FPS. Its a fps/rts combo, and it has a steep learning curve.
But, its freeware, has clients for win/lin/mac, and reasonably well populated servers. Plus, a new community developed client is in the works.
www.newerth.com
cmr:/home/cmr/sandbox/freroot/lib/fre> echo $SHELL /bin/tcsh
cmr:/home/cmr/sandbox/freroot/lib/fre> which which
which: shell built-in command.
I hear that software piracy runs pretty rampant, even at a corporate level, in China. Not surprised at the story but they certainly have egg on their face now.
The NOAA lab I work at is up to 16 petabytes now. Must've broken the 1 petabyte mark several years ago. :P
... and it's certainly worth our tax money to have this issue in a house subcommittee - just so you can rest assured that the gub'ment has Google's consumer affairs on its docket?
(e) On March 5, 2007, Viacom Inc. ("Viacom") entered into an amendment to the employment agreement of Michael D. Fricklas, Viacom's Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. The amendment extends Mr. Fricklas' term of employment to May 31, 2010, and restructures his compensation arrangement to reduce guaranteed compensation in favor of performance-based compensation.
So Fricklas isn't just a lawyer for Viacom, he's their Executive VP. It looks as though his board's starting to tighten the copyright screws on him - note that his pay is reduced to a "performance-based" scale. Ie, he better "perform" in reigning in the "pirates" that are affecting Viacom, perhaps?
... lest they pull a SCO.
Anyone keeping an eye on insider Viacom stock trades? How funny would it be if they're at the 'pump & dump' stage of their new business model.
Computer Science != Software Development Maybe I'll grant software development as a subset of computer science, but the efficiencies of software-as-commodity, and the 'dumbing down' of software dev. practices in general shouldn't be construed as a lack of need for actual SCIENTISTS who study what will come NEXT for the industry. The advent of quantum computing is a prime example of why the world needs more researchers spending time in the lab despite how much more efficient the commercial development industry has become.
(1:44:16 PM) chris@home: oh no
(1:44:32 PM) chris@home: slashdot is trying to figure out if mastodon is progressive rock or metal
(1:44:46 PM) mobile skooch: they're progressive metal....like tool
(1:44:56 PM) chris@home: fair enough
(1:45:03 PM) mobile skooch: done....next topic
(1:45:22 PM) chris@home: i guess that's a tidy solution to the problem, eh
(1:45:25 PM) mobile skooch: i get 5 for real
(1:45:53 PM) mobile skooch: mod up