And I have no sympathy for people that won't get off their ass and change their lives if they feel they need to.
I work in a factory, and I'd give my left leg for a cushy IT job. Yeah, it has its downsides, but let's see what benefits you get:
1. A desk job. Sitting down, comfy chair, air conditioning or heating, no leaky roof. As much tea as you can drink. Clean air, low noise levels. No hurting your back from bending down thousands of times a day. No lugging heavy things about. No risking losing your job through injury.
Unless you're at a pretty big company, IT isn't just a desk job. My last job included running around the campus constantly attending to everyones needs. I carried computers all over the place, developed issues with my neck from being in strange positions under desks and running wires, etc. and when I was at my desk, I definately did not have air conditioning.
2. Usable skills. If you get laid off or quit, your skills are useful elsewhere. There are computers all over the world, people will always need computer programmers or administrators etc.
So why the hell aren't you asking questions and learning so you can gain some usable skills and move up the ladder? That's certainly the way I got to where I am today. It damn well wasn't handed to me on a silver platter.
3. Massive wages. I mean, really really high, for what you actually do, and for how much experience you have. And no doubt you get paid if you're sick, and you don't get fined for being late.
Hah, $24k a year is massive wages eh? In case you haven't noticed, many of the IT jobs out there don't pay shit. $35k was the most common number I saw the last time I looked for a new job.
4. Other benefits. Read one of those articles talking about all the benefits that for example Google and Microsoft employees get. Private health care, dentists, gyms, decent food, free drinks, and a million other benefits that most people would kill for.
Of course, if you're working for Google or Microsoft you've got it made. Those of us living in the real world, however, get the same damn thing you get.
5. Stimulating work. You actually use your brain, you have interesting things to do. Where I work I just stand there for 8 hours. Literally ZERO to think about, nothing to work out, nothing to concentrate on. It's a form of psychological torture. A few hours here and even the most hardened terrorist would confess everything through sheer boredom.
Much of what happens in IT gets quite monotonous. Most of my time iss spent fixing the same type of problem or doing the same type of setup over and over again. How is that interesting? Every once in a while I'll get an interesting problem to solve, but it's not often, that's for sure.
...I think IT types have it pretty good.
I've seriously considered getting a job that involves manual labor for a while now. There's just too much to worry about in IT if you're not working for a good company. During crunch times my time off wasn't really time off because I couldn't get my mind off of major issues at the workplace. I'd often not be able to sleep at night due to the same thing and would end up going to work completely unrested, spend 12 hours working and repeat the cycle over again because some PHB didn't want to listen to a damned thing I had to say.
If you're really unhappy, I can understand that, but GO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. You're not chained to your job, you have options if you take the time to think about it. Don't get stuck in the "yeah, but" loop, write all of the ideas you can down whether they're completely insane or not, and just consider them; figure out what it would take to make them work. You CAN make your life better, it just takes some consideration, effort and a bit of belief in yourself.
Well, in that regard OS X and OS X Server are just more well defined from each other than the corresponding Windows systems. OS X server allows shares of any folder. If, however, you insist on using a workstation for something it wasn't meant for, Sharepoints is quite a handy tool to accomplish this.
My bad, I was thinking you said that joke was starting to be told 5 years ago, not out of date at that point. Anyway, smite me oh mighty smiter for such a lame attempt at a joke.
Hmm, makes a bit more sense now with that extra explaination. I really don't understand how they make any more money on the handles, though. I've had mine for... 3 years or so I think and I'm not about to buy a new one anytime soon.
They may not go away, but they would definately decrease. Most fansubbing groups have a fairly strict policy against releasing fansubs of licensed material.
Fansubs are not "killing the business". Fansubs are merely a symptom of a failure to properly respond to a demand. The demand is for subtitled digital files of the latest anime from Japan. The proper response is to sell those files at a reasonable price.
I wonder, sometimes, why they don't just work out a deal for advertising in fansubs. Let the fansubs continue with the stipulation that ads are included and have the advertising pay for the content. The means of distrobution is already there and there's no reason to pay for it. Hell, they could even take fansubs, if done well, pay the subbers a small amount and then distribute that on DVD as an ad-free version.
Don't forget those who rent games rather than buy them. When I was actively into console gaming, that's basically all I ever did. I had a small library of games, but for the most part, If I didn't find a game that required a decent amount of time to complete and really required the purchase, I'd just go out and rent one now and then.
I use a Mach 3 turbo and I won't switch to anything else. I tried some of those cheezy plastic razors and they did nothing but chew up my face. Gillette has won the market via superior product here, not by "vendor lock-in."
How do you know he didn't go out and buy a copy of SUSE or some other commercial distrobution? In that case, it may be free as in speech, but definately not as in beer. In that case I would think he can bitch all he wants. We're getting to the point where it's quite common for linux to be sold commercially. Now when the hell are these commercial entities going to step up and do something about the interface? They've already got a LOT of free research and development that's been gifted to them. They really should get around to giving something back at some point.
However, once the guilty party is shown, there's a good chance that going after their records the puzzle pieces could be put together and a good case made. Just because the witness can't testify doesn't mean they can't be useful.
Did this video annoy the crap out of anyone else? "Here's the cool thing. When IE is on a page with an RSS Feed... This button lights up!" Wow, I've never seen anything like that before... And the other guy saying he has no idea what it means when people ask if Microsoft is taking control of the standard... These guys are total ass-monkeys.
It can go both ways though. I think my interest in music stems heavily from the time my Dad and I spent beating on the drums when I was a lot younger. I also think I got some of my interest in art from him as well. However, I didn't get into those things just because he was into them, I got into them because I had fun with him learning about them. I think that's what really makes the difference.
Care to back up your arguements a bit? Why, exactly, do you see Apple as holding their end users in a "jail?" From the experience I've had with Macs, most *nix software can be made to work with them, They take off the shelf components and peripherals, Most of the programs save or can export to open formats... I haven't experienced one vendor lock-in issue with the platform unless you want to somehow drag Filemaker into the mix (damn that software...).
Exactly how are they going to stab them back? Keep Windows from running on Intel hardware? I seriously doubt it. Microsoft can certainly live without Intel, but not without losing about 50 percent of their marketshare. I seriously doubt they'd ever be willing to lose that much cash.
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Not legally, but have fun explaining that one to your boss at the end of the week when the project hasn't met it's deadline.
And I have no sympathy for people that won't get off their ass and change their lives if they feel they need to.
Unless you're at a pretty big company, IT isn't just a desk job. My last job included running around the campus constantly attending to everyones needs. I carried computers all over the place, developed issues with my neck from being in strange positions under desks and running wires, etc. and when I was at my desk, I definately did not have air conditioning.
So why the hell aren't you asking questions and learning so you can gain some usable skills and move up the ladder? That's certainly the way I got to where I am today. It damn well wasn't handed to me on a silver platter.
Hah, $24k a year is massive wages eh? In case you haven't noticed, many of the IT jobs out there don't pay shit. $35k was the most common number I saw the last time I looked for a new job.
Of course, if you're working for Google or Microsoft you've got it made. Those of us living in the real world, however, get the same damn thing you get.
Much of what happens in IT gets quite monotonous. Most of my time iss spent fixing the same type of problem or doing the same type of setup over and over again. How is that interesting? Every once in a while I'll get an interesting problem to solve, but it's not often, that's for sure.
I've seriously considered getting a job that involves manual labor for a while now. There's just too much to worry about in IT if you're not working for a good company. During crunch times my time off wasn't really time off because I couldn't get my mind off of major issues at the workplace. I'd often not be able to sleep at night due to the same thing and would end up going to work completely unrested, spend 12 hours working and repeat the cycle over again because some PHB didn't want to listen to a damned thing I had to say.
If you're really unhappy, I can understand that, but GO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. You're not chained to your job, you have options if you take the time to think about it. Don't get stuck in the "yeah, but" loop, write all of the ideas you can down whether they're completely insane or not, and just consider them; figure out what it would take to make them work. You CAN make your life better, it just takes some consideration, effort and a bit of belief in yourself.
Well, in that regard OS X and OS X Server are just more well defined from each other than the corresponding Windows systems. OS X server allows shares of any folder. If, however, you insist on using a workstation for something it wasn't meant for, Sharepoints is quite a handy tool to accomplish this.
Ahh, that explains the brownish residue in the water as well.
My bad, I was thinking you said that joke was starting to be told 5 years ago, not out of date at that point. Anyway, smite me oh mighty smiter for such a lame attempt at a joke.
So in 15 years Java will be fast? w00t!
Hmm, makes a bit more sense now with that extra explaination. I really don't understand how they make any more money on the handles, though. I've had mine for... 3 years or so I think and I'm not about to buy a new one anytime soon.
It's alright. I've got points too. I'll just... erm... damnit all.
They may not go away, but they would definately decrease. Most fansubbing groups have a fairly strict policy against releasing fansubs of licensed material.
I wonder, sometimes, why they don't just work out a deal for advertising in fansubs. Let the fansubs continue with the stipulation that ads are included and have the advertising pay for the content. The means of distrobution is already there and there's no reason to pay for it. Hell, they could even take fansubs, if done well, pay the subbers a small amount and then distribute that on DVD as an ad-free version.
Don't forget those who rent games rather than buy them. When I was actively into console gaming, that's basically all I ever did. I had a small library of games, but for the most part, If I didn't find a game that required a decent amount of time to complete and really required the purchase, I'd just go out and rent one now and then.
I use a Mach 3 turbo and I won't switch to anything else. I tried some of those cheezy plastic razors and they did nothing but chew up my face. Gillette has won the market via superior product here, not by "vendor lock-in."
Isn't that essentially how pagerank works, but based on algorithms rather than concious moderation?
And yet, even with that great mystical sign from above, you refused to spare us the agony. Why, oh aixou, do you torture us so?
Hey, rip-van-winkle, it's 2005 now. The Mac has pretty much everything going for it besides games.
How do you know he didn't go out and buy a copy of SUSE or some other commercial distrobution? In that case, it may be free as in speech, but definately not as in beer. In that case I would think he can bitch all he wants. We're getting to the point where it's quite common for linux to be sold commercially. Now when the hell are these commercial entities going to step up and do something about the interface? They've already got a LOT of free research and development that's been gifted to them. They really should get around to giving something back at some point.
It must be American. Everyone knows the metric unit for this sort of things is the Ass-load.
However, once the guilty party is shown, there's a good chance that going after their records the puzzle pieces could be put together and a good case made. Just because the witness can't testify doesn't mean they can't be useful.
Did this video annoy the crap out of anyone else? "Here's the cool thing. When IE is on a page with an RSS Feed... This button lights up!" Wow, I've never seen anything like that before... And the other guy saying he has no idea what it means when people ask if Microsoft is taking control of the standard... These guys are total ass-monkeys.
Maybe framework was the word you were looking for?
Uhhh... software for micro computers, obviously. Duh.
It can go both ways though. I think my interest in music stems heavily from the time my Dad and I spent beating on the drums when I was a lot younger. I also think I got some of my interest in art from him as well. However, I didn't get into those things just because he was into them, I got into them because I had fun with him learning about them. I think that's what really makes the difference.
Care to back up your arguements a bit? Why, exactly, do you see Apple as holding their end users in a "jail?" From the experience I've had with Macs, most *nix software can be made to work with them, They take off the shelf components and peripherals, Most of the programs save or can export to open formats... I haven't experienced one vendor lock-in issue with the platform unless you want to somehow drag Filemaker into the mix (damn that software...).
Exactly how are they going to stab them back? Keep Windows from running on Intel hardware? I seriously doubt it. Microsoft can certainly live without Intel, but not without losing about 50 percent of their marketshare. I seriously doubt they'd ever be willing to lose that much cash.
Except for the fact that they already mentioned they will be using a standard PC BIOS.