Not to troll or anything, but I've never heard of any university graduate that has to do tech support. Where I come from, dotcoms are desperate for programmers and would never even consider throwing someone that actually has a degree into the tech-support pit.
It's common in the Northeast USA, at least in the mid level city I work in.
I have a BSAE, and I started as a contract, then became a direct hire tech support person. Now I'm called a Technical Support Engineer, and rarely talk to customers.
Some of my coworkers on the hotline have:
MA in music.
BA in psychology
MBA
as well as lots of 2 year degrees.
Most of the 4+ year degree people I know have moved on to become developers, debug engineers or managers.
Cynically, I think our hotline prefers 2 year degree people, since they have a much harder time moving on, as the other divisions demand a 4 year degree before you can transfer. If you get into the hotline with a 2 year degree, you're stuck forever.
You know, there are a lot of hearing impaired people out there that use close captioning. It seems selfish to take their bandwidth away just for a better picture on a $5,000 TV. Now, if all the hearing impaired were given broadband so that they could download the closed captioning, that might work.
Plus, I like to turn on closed captioning at loud parties, so you can still follow the flow of teh show and laugh at the mispellings.
They're just proud as hell that they've actually booted a o2000 with Linux... All those SCSI buses are probably just there because they were in the machine when they got it:)
Take it from someone who's tried them: They suck serious monkey a$$. (1) They're a pain to move (2) They're about as accurate as shooting peas from a fork (3) The driver is crap (not just because it's windows-only, it's also unstable and has too few options (4) The itty bitty buttons make your finger cramp and really hurts after a while
In short: Keep the hell away from these things - I've talked to a local retailer who got more than 3/4 of the units returned...
I highly doubt that money is the big question here. When building this class of machines, performance is all that matters - if IRIX had a better speed potential, they would go that way. LANL will have to pay SGI a ton of money for the performance-tweaking that will have to be done to linux anyway...
In this respect, i think open source is a big hit - a developer of supercomputers gets some source code to build on and can change anything needed to increase the speed. If (s)he was to buy IRIX or similar, none of that would be easily available.
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It sure has, why, the US has never interfered with Panama since the canal handoff, no sir, never.
Except for that Noriega thing, but never again.
It's common in the Northeast USA, at least in the mid level city I work in.
I have a BSAE, and I started as a contract, then became a direct hire tech support person. Now I'm called a Technical Support Engineer, and rarely talk to customers.
Some of my coworkers on the hotline have:
as well as lots of 2 year degrees.
Most of the 4+ year degree people I know have moved on to become developers, debug engineers or managers.
Cynically, I think our hotline prefers 2 year degree people, since they have a much harder time moving on, as the other divisions demand a 4 year degree before you can transfer. If you get into the hotline with a 2 year degree, you're stuck forever.
you mean Japanese.
It does make you wonder.
And when will Linux get FireWire, I know Solaris his it.
You'll have to search the whole thread for Another puzzle.
I think a very similar puzzle was asked and solved in an earlier Ask Slashdot, here.
from the "sounds-vaguely familiar department"
Thanks for the laugh Taco
here?
I removed the "
You know, there are a lot of hearing impaired people out there that use close captioning. It seems selfish to take their bandwidth away just for a better picture on a $5,000 TV. Now, if all the hearing impaired were given broadband so that they could download the closed captioning, that might work.
Plus, I like to turn on closed captioning at loud parties, so you can still follow the flow of teh show and laugh at the mispellings.
Eeeew, i know a lot of CEOs that i *really* don't want to hear singing... ;)
Ehm, DVDs themselves aren't encrypted, only the data-files on them (the .vob's to be precise)...
Uhm, no.
:)
They're just proud as hell that they've actually booted a o2000 with Linux... All those SCSI buses are probably just there because they were in the machine when they got it
Take it from someone who's tried them: They suck serious monkey a$$.
(1) They're a pain to move
(2) They're about as accurate as shooting peas from a fork
(3) The driver is crap (not just because it's windows-only, it's also unstable and has too few options
(4) The itty bitty buttons make your finger cramp and really hurts after a while
In short: Keep the hell away from these things - I've talked to a local retailer who got more than 3/4 of the units returned...
I highly doubt that money is the big question here. When building this class of machines, performance is all that matters - if IRIX had a better speed potential, they would go that way. LANL will have to pay SGI a ton of money for the performance-tweaking that will have to be done to linux anyway...
In this respect, i think open source is a big hit - a developer of supercomputers gets some source code to build on and can change anything needed to increase the speed. If (s)he was to buy IRIX or similar, none of that would be easily available.
I believe that distributed.net was about 100 times the speed of ASCI RED about 6 months ago...