As an IT professional, I see nothing but grief for anyone entering the IT world that is technical.
All the technical jobs are being offshored to India, Brazil, Argentina, etc. and anyone who keeps their job will likely get their pay continually cut. I hate to put such a cynical view on this, but I am witnessing this first-hand working for one of the biggest strategic outsourcing companies in the World.
Upper management prefers to invest as little as possible in brain and people capital and prefers to shift work to countries with the cheapest technical labor pool.
If your kids are entering the IT industry, make sure they know that they should drop a few IQ points and become a project manager, manager or sales rep.
Maybe by the time your grandkids enter the IT job market, the labor costs will have stabilized across the world.
In CnC: Generals on Brutal, they also seemed to have armor/damage cheating, too. Their units seemed to have at least 1.5 X the armor or could maybe do 1.5 X more damage than you. I would send 2 US tank vs. 2 China tanks and would have both of mine target one tank and both the US tanks should have destroyed the one tank, leaving 2 on 1 for a few shots.
Instead, each of the 2 China tanks would target each of the US tanks and they would destoy both the US tanks before the US tanks could destroy one of them. And that was often with the little repair drones attacking and/or repairing. It was maddening!
You simply had to aggressively put up Patriot batteries at the key resources of contention, bide your time and create enough units to overwhelm them.
The reason why most of us gamers choose companies other than Dell/HP/IBM for our rigs (if we even buy prebuilt PCs) is for their components.
We really don't want some crappy Dell or HP proprietary motherboards or proprietary memory in our PCs (don't even get me started on the onboard video).
Personally, I usually build my PCs from scratch, but will every once in a while buy a prebuilt PC with the exact components I want.
I guess that is fine for those who like commmercials. Alas I will fast forward through all that crap, because commercials really have a negative affect on me (often making me want to switch to a competitor that is not the advertiser wasting my time).
If I'm not watching a TiVoed show, I have found that I can usually tune them out, just like tuning out distractions.
The only exception is Super Bowl commercials. I mean they really try to entertain (though I hate them after about the second or third rerun).
Did the advertisers ever think that maybe too many commercials are just desenitizing the public to make them really want to FF or ignore them?
And don't even GET me started on the Olympics. I couldn't watch them without a TiVo.
Thank you, TiVo for the clicka-Clicka-CLICKA (imitating the TiVo Fast Forward sound).
First computer that was truly mine was a Commodore 64, but I used my sister's Timex Sinclair 1000 to program Basic before I got the Commodore 64. I used it more than she did, so does that count as ownership?
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Does anyone even use IE anymore? If a particular page doesn't work in Firefox, I try Chrome, then Microshaft last.
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As an IT professional, I see nothing but grief for anyone entering the IT world that is technical.
All the technical jobs are being offshored to India, Brazil, Argentina, etc. and anyone who keeps their job will likely get their pay continually cut. I hate to put such a cynical view on this, but I am witnessing this first-hand working for one of the biggest strategic outsourcing companies in the World.
Upper management prefers to invest as little as possible in brain and people capital and prefers to shift work to countries with the cheapest technical labor pool.
If your kids are entering the IT industry, make sure they know that they should drop a few IQ points and become a project manager, manager or sales rep.
Maybe by the time your grandkids enter the IT job market, the labor costs will have stabilized across the world.
In CnC: Generals on Brutal, they also seemed to have armor/damage cheating, too. Their units seemed to have at least 1.5 X the armor or could maybe do 1.5 X more damage than you. I would send 2 US tank vs. 2 China tanks and would have both of mine target one tank and both the US tanks should have destroyed the one tank, leaving 2 on 1 for a few shots.
Instead, each of the 2 China tanks would target each of the US tanks and they would destoy both the US tanks before the US tanks could destroy one of them. And that was often with the little repair drones attacking and/or repairing. It was maddening!
You simply had to aggressively put up Patriot batteries at the key resources of contention, bide your time and create enough units to overwhelm them.
Me too...I can't grab the key once it changes to gold. Anyone know the trick or have they changed it?
The reason why most of us gamers choose companies other than Dell/HP/IBM for our rigs (if we even buy prebuilt PCs) is for their components.
We really don't want some crappy Dell or HP proprietary motherboards or proprietary memory in our PCs (don't even get me started on the onboard video).
Personally, I usually build my PCs from scratch, but will every once in a while buy a prebuilt PC with the exact components I want.
I guess that is fine for those who like commmercials. Alas I will fast forward through all that crap, because commercials really have a negative affect on me (often making me want to switch to a competitor that is not the advertiser wasting my time).
If I'm not watching a TiVoed show, I have found that I can usually tune them out, just like tuning out distractions.
The only exception is Super Bowl commercials. I mean they really try to entertain (though I hate them after about the second or third rerun).
Did the advertisers ever think that maybe too many commercials are just desenitizing the public to make them really want to FF or ignore them?
And don't even GET me started on the Olympics. I couldn't watch them without a TiVo.
Thank you, TiVo for the clicka-Clicka-CLICKA (imitating the TiVo Fast Forward sound).
First computer that was truly mine was a Commodore 64, but I used my sister's Timex Sinclair 1000 to program Basic before I got the Commodore 64. I used it more than she did, so does that count as ownership?
Yeah...exactly. Now I will have to worry about wearing suncreen ALL THE TIME!