Almost everything at NAIT was M$ from our C++ compilers to our advanced Networking course (Win NT, Haw!). The only respite I had was that we learned JAVA (with JDK 1.1.7B & PFE) and in our beginner's networking class we learned NetWare. Living in a MicroSocentric world was fun, but restricting. I have no UNIX / Linux skills and my only Mac experiance is from my older Apple lovin' days.
I hate the way the IT industry operates (at least where I am). We push ourselves to put out product on time (which always requires OT) and we work the extra hours. But where I work we don't get overtime pay OR banked hours. So basically to meet the PHB's unreasonable deadlines I put in time and work for free.
The problem is, everybody does it 'cause they're too afraid of losing their jobs and being replaced!(we have a glut of unemployed IT people here)
I took a JAVA course in college (we made a web server in JAVA). I have a lot of respect for this language and I would hate to see it die merely because of PHB's.
Personally I think JAVA will make a comeback. A lot of languages wax and wane as time goes by (C++ for instance) and I think that one day in the not too distant future JAVA will come back in a big way.
LINUX will be around for good, I think. (Even though I don't have it, nor do I want it). But don't believe for a second that it can't be shut down by big business. Public support can only go so far.
JAVA could have been the "wave of the future", but like most things with power and no marketing it will gradually fade into nothing more than a memory.
*Grizzeled 1840's prospector voice*"Shucks, I remember when all the browser plug-ins were coded in JAVA, then there was that COBOL revival and, well you know the rest"
!. For every site that goes up, one goes down. I don't know how they are going to keep up with dead links.
2. Slow, if they index everything you will notice definite slowness. Even if they find some kind of uber-fast way of searching through stuff their servers will be slowed down by net-troglodytes searching for the "internet" or the letter "a".
Imagine how many pages would pop up if you searched for the word "pictures".
I'm an "up and comer" living in a province that starts with 'A', I graduated from college with all these great programming skills (from C++ to HTML from Oracle to MS SQL 6.5) and do you think I can find a job? Apparently if you want to work in Canukland you have to be an average age of dead. Canadian industry has some kind of mortal fear of hiring people out of college, the only way to get hired is to have 2-5 years of practical business development / analysis under your belt. This only leads to the old no experiance = no job routine.
In the defence of our elder programming gods, I will say this. I went to college with a guy who was a carpenter until he fell off a roof and couldn't do carpentry any more. Through the Workers Compensation Board he took computer programming with the rest of us 'youngins' and ended up with honors!
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Almost everything at NAIT was M$ from our C++ compilers to our advanced Networking course (Win NT, Haw!). The only respite I had was that we learned JAVA (with JDK 1.1.7B & PFE) and in our beginner's networking class we learned NetWare. Living in a MicroSocentric world was fun, but restricting. I have no UNIX / Linux skills and my only Mac experiance is from my older Apple lovin' days.
Sigh.
I hate the way the IT industry operates (at least where I am). We push ourselves to put out product on time (which always requires OT) and we work the extra hours. But where I work we don't get overtime pay OR banked hours. So basically to meet the PHB's unreasonable deadlines I put in time and work for free.
The problem is, everybody does it 'cause they're too afraid of losing their jobs and being replaced!(we have a glut of unemployed IT people here)
This is what it's like for me, at least.
I took a JAVA course in college (we made a web server in JAVA). I have a lot of respect for this language and I would hate to see it die merely because of PHB's.
Personally I think JAVA will make a comeback. A lot of languages wax and wane as time goes by (C++ for instance) and I think that one day in the not too distant future JAVA will come back in a big way.
LINUX will be around for good, I think. (Even though I don't have it, nor do I want it). But don't believe for a second that it can't be shut down by big business. Public support can only go so far.
JAVA could have been the "wave of the future", but like most things with power and no marketing it will gradually fade into nothing more than a memory.
*Grizzeled 1840's prospector voice*"Shucks, I remember when all the browser plug-ins were coded in JAVA, then there was that COBOL revival and, well you know the rest"
If not they'd have to be awefully cheap to entice people to use Palm Pilot instead of just buying an actual book.
CDex is OK In my book, fast(?), free & easy to use.
.mp3's do I make? Like 4 a month so my opinion is vastly uneducated.
But then again how many
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!. For every site that goes up, one goes down. I don't know how they are going to keep up with dead links.
2. Slow, if they index everything you will notice definite slowness. Even if they find some kind of uber-fast way of searching through stuff their servers will be slowed down by net-troglodytes searching for the "internet" or the letter "a".
Imagine how many pages would pop up if you searched for the word "pictures".
According to Sci-Fi, weren't we supposed to have at least two moon bases by now?
Moonbase Alpha Cybrary
And where is my robot maid?
Never, EVER, play paintball after August!
I'm an "up and comer" living in a province that starts with 'A', I graduated from college with all these great programming skills (from C++ to HTML from Oracle to MS SQL 6.5) and do you think I can find a job? Apparently if you want to work in Canukland you have to be an average age of dead. Canadian industry has some kind of mortal fear of hiring people out of college, the only way to get hired is to have 2-5 years of practical business development / analysis under your belt. This only leads to the old no experiance = no job routine.
In the defence of our elder programming gods, I will say this. I went to college with a guy who was a carpenter until he fell off a roof and couldn't do carpentry any more. Through the Workers Compensation Board he took computer programming with the rest of us 'youngins' and ended up with honors!