tons of us who have degrees wind up with ordinary jobs and mostly manage to keep them and make a living...I don't doubt that the exercise of getting a degree is A kind of, preparation for working but its clear as hell there is something missing. Often at great expense and sacrifice by our parents, we get a college education but what did we learn? How to get by in a white collar, service oriented economy? Where did we learn to be enterprising, daring, creative, intensely focused and visionary?
Whatever Mr. Jobs says, the lesson of his career in light of his education is that "education" is not yet giving us all that it might. And perhaps also that whatever education is missing must, for now, be supplied by other experience and the character of the student.
unless the outside air is rediculously hot/humid, why not point the fan out the window and put the cooling coils where the resulting in-flow to the room occurs? that way the waste heat from the fan motor is not replacing some of the heat you have dumped into the cooling water.
unless you live under a rock with no internet service, you are used to buying things on line so the market's potential size is bigger and more realistically estimated.
Gas costs $2.10/gal so a little markup in the cost is worth it to the consumer who otherwise not only takes the time to drive to the restaurant but buys some gas to do so.
tips? no waiters involved but a driver is. Tips are up to 18% [e.g. Legal Seafoods in Boston adds that gratuity to the bill for as few as a party of 6]. You don't tip a delivery driver that much do you?
driving, parking and being pressed for time have only gotten worse in the intervening 4 years.
people with the software chops to throw together a web served app that takes restaurant orders are no longer rare and not paid like rock stars.
I wish Boston was on the list of cities where the service is being revived because parking around Boston sucks litter boxes...I get indigestion before I even get to the restaurant.
when I submitted this story back on the 6th, it was rejected. You should read Lessig but note that in the same issue of TR, there is a
rebuttal of sorts to Mr. Lessig's interpretation authored by Richard Epstein.
there would have been mention in the comments of one of the well established blog ranking websites. Figuring out who's who among bloggers based on anything but traffic and click-through rate is subjective to the point of meaninglessness. Ironic that something as unreal as advertising is about the only thing that offers any measure of the reality behind the hype about blogging as a new media.
"phishing attacks "are becoming more widespread and well organized"...
No s**t! The Gmail "more options" pull down originally had a "report phishing" option...I just noticed yesterday [while noting 12 notices from paypal and ebay accounts I do not have] that they changed the option to read "report NOT phishing" after you have marked one email as a phishing attempt. It looks as if the majority of spam I get is now phishing spam. If you do use the "report" options make sure you are sending the right message becuase Google may have changed it in reaction to your input.
Thank you, yes that was basically my point. Such people/could/ go straight, a' la Mitnick but companies prefer to hire folks with clean backgrounds when they have a choice.
I didn't say anyone else was not talented. Why do you read that into what I said? I probably should have said "enthusiastic misfits" instead of "talented" but I happen to find a correlation between talent and enthusiasm. I'm not sure which contest you are refering to. The one that people usually have in mind if they are hoping to hold on to their American job is a contest with offshore, lower paid, programmers but that is a sloppy characterization. The contest is really between two economies that used to have natural barriers between them and no longer do.
And I am not a marketer but...
If you are a bright highschool senior or a college freshman, what do you know about economics? I suspect the choices one makes about career oriented education come down to impressions and perceived incentives as much as to any hard numbers on wage trends. What is the image, the publicity, that computer engineering and programming and IT currently have? Outsourcing and layoffs are the only IT related news that don't go under reported in the MSM. The general impression of CS as preparation for employment is also still haunted by the economic downturn that we rather sloppily label "dot com bust": it is an unreliable, unpredictable career path.
Another deterent, not a matter of marketing exactly, may be that the most talented potential software engineers are already "working" in the OSS and pirate underground...many are contributing to OS projects because they don't need a degree or a boss to exercise their interest in software. And a few have developed a level of skill in cracking license keys that would easily land you a job at Computer Associates or Microsoft but the interests it takes to develop such skills do not correlate with the inclination to be a happy worker for a big corporation.
What other incentives are there to go into CS? You're not gonna be a rock star of software, a Serge Brin, unless you start a company. Why? Because only a corporation has the resources to protect its financial interests in the software innovations it cooks up. So you need to study business more than you need to learn C or Unix internals. If I wrote a killer app in my spare time, it'd just get ripped off...why learn a skill that leaves me that vulnerable? Post 9/11, and in the aftermath of the dot com bust, fewer of us are willing or have the confidence to take risks.
As a software engineer, the only way I can consistently get paid is to work as a contractor and flit from company to company as their moment in the sun comes and goes. I think that aspect of the market IS economics: though its ironic that the way to steady pay is not through looking for permanent employment at a big company. And to snag contracting gigs, you DO need the right degree. Try to explain to your high school senior: "Well, you like the gypsy life, don't mind learning an Asian language, don't have any need to own what you produce? Have I got a career for you!..."
Dvorak is used to having his work garbled by publishers. When he wrote his 5th symphony, his publisher went and labled it symphony #9 just to goose sales. I am not surprized that Dvorak is so crabby and tends to repeat himself, what is amazing is that he is still alive at all and knows anything about computers.
in addition to the other problems the comments so far have pointed out,
there is a possible copyright/service mark infringement:
Grease monkey has been a quick oil change serice franchise since 1978.
/. readers would remember the viral code FUD. Most end users and a fair portion of CIO's just want THE BIGGEST NAME IN THE BUSINESS BECAUSE IT IS the "cya" choice. So they would forget last years FUD.
As others comment, this proposed buy-out cannot be for Red Hat's linuxness...that is unownable. But RH is at the moment, in the Linux market, the biggest name in the business. They know something microsoft hasn't got the culture to learn: making a little money out of the value-add of packaging OSS. Microsoft reads their own FUD and has willfully been blinding themselves to what Linux really means to users and administrators...until now. What others have commented about this being Microsoft's admission about the merits of Linux vs Windows is true but it is not a valid conclusion to suppose that people who were dull enough to be content with Windows in the first place would suddenly be sharp enough to be put off by Microsoft's about-face.
On the other hand, I agree that FTC really should whack Microsoft if they try this.
those with a university's budget and hardware and what might be called an academic interest or mild economic incentive. I'd put hackers and organized criminals in the same category as far as budget and power available. This crowd took 14 years to crack a 200 digit public key
NSA and its equivelents in UK, Russia, China [maybe Israel? they have some good academic papers on highly paralell factoring methods]. They had far greater incentive and in NSA's case, far greater resources for either assuring the security or compromizing the security of RSA PK encryption. Who thinks they would ever do a press release if/when they factored those numbers?
Kinsey was a scientist...sort of. He didn't win any prizes. Most people would not care for the kind of fame he had...but he had plenty of it. And as for getting laid...thats what his science studied.
Speech recognition would be a good thing: the hands of the average driver are already too busy with phone, radio, mirror adjusting oh, yeah steering too.
hi res displays and nav equipment...not a good thing: The eyes of the average driver already spend too little time focused on the road and the traffic.
Are you kidding? I am so spoiled by/. that I get frustrated when I can't tack a comment on NYT articles. And I'd love to let a few.gov pages know what I think of their content while were at it. Call me crazy but I trust the mob to trample "news" that isn't newsworthy.
Come to think of it, only moderated, commented news is worth a fee and those hacks at CNN, NYT, EETimes, news.com and so on should give away their articles and only charge for them after we have graffiti'd the bejeebers out of them...yeah, thats the ticket! and micropayments back to the commenters with higher ranked comments...that'll teach those AC's a thing or two!
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tons of us who have degrees wind up with ordinary jobs and mostly manage to keep them and make a living...I don't doubt that the exercise of getting a degree is A kind of, preparation for working but its clear as hell there is something missing. Often at great expense and sacrifice by our parents, we get a college education but what did we learn? How to get by in a white collar, service oriented economy? Where did we learn to be enterprising, daring, creative, intensely focused and visionary?
Whatever Mr. Jobs says, the lesson of his career in light of his education is that "education" is not yet giving us all that it might. And perhaps also that whatever education is missing must, for now, be supplied by other experience and the character of the student.
unless the outside air is rediculously hot/humid, why not point the fan out the window and put the cooling coils where the resulting in-flow to the room occurs? that way the waste heat from the fan motor is not replacing some of the heat you have dumped into the cooling water.
Perhaps the /. eds thought the same.
I hadn't even thought about that...its a good point. As luck would have it, lunch was well served but nothing special.
I'm not sure how they would go about delivering wine lobster and drawn butter...you can't even touch the bottles if you are under 21 in Mass.
- unless you live under a rock with no internet service, you are used to buying things on line so the market's potential size is bigger and more realistically estimated.
- Gas costs $2.10/gal so a little markup in the cost is worth it to the consumer who otherwise not only takes the time to drive to the restaurant but buys some gas to do so.
- tips? no waiters involved but a driver is. Tips are up to 18% [e.g. Legal Seafoods in Boston adds that gratuity to the bill for as few as a party of 6]. You don't tip a delivery driver that much do you?
- driving, parking and being pressed for time have only gotten worse in the intervening 4 years.
- people with the software chops to throw together a web served app that takes restaurant orders are no longer rare and not paid like rock stars.
I wish Boston was on the list of cities where the service is being revived because parking around Boston sucks litter boxes...I get indigestion before I even get to the restaurant.when I submitted this story back on the 6th, it was rejected. You should read Lessig but note that in the same issue of TR, there is a rebuttal of sorts to Mr. Lessig's interpretation authored by Richard Epstein.
Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor has carried a page about Cochran's work for the last three years. And Jerry is no stranger to slashdotters.
there would have been mention in the comments of one of the well established blog ranking websites. Figuring out who's who among bloggers based on anything but traffic and click-through rate is subjective to the point of meaninglessness. Ironic that something as unreal as advertising is about the only thing that offers any measure of the reality behind the hype about blogging as a new media.
"phishing attacks "are becoming more widespread and well organized"...
No s**t! The Gmail "more options" pull down originally had a "report phishing" option...I just noticed yesterday [while noting 12 notices from paypal and ebay accounts I do not have] that they changed the option to read "report NOT phishing" after you have marked one email as a phishing attempt. It looks as if the majority of spam I get is now phishing spam. If you do use the "report" options make sure you are sending the right message becuase Google may have changed it in reaction to your input.
Thank you, yes that was basically my point. Such people /could/ go straight, a' la Mitnick but companies prefer to hire folks with clean backgrounds when they have a choice.
I didn't say anyone else was not talented. Why do you read that into what I said? I probably should have said "enthusiastic misfits" instead of "talented" but I happen to find a correlation between talent and enthusiasm. I'm not sure which contest you are refering to. The one that people usually have in mind if they are hoping to hold on to their American job is a contest with offshore, lower paid, programmers but that is a sloppy characterization. The contest is really between two economies that used to have natural barriers between them and no longer do.
And I am not a marketer but...
If you are a bright highschool senior or a college freshman, what do you know about economics? I suspect the choices one makes about career oriented education come down to impressions and perceived incentives as much as to any hard numbers on wage trends. What is the image, the publicity, that computer engineering and programming and IT currently have? Outsourcing and layoffs are the only IT related news that don't go under reported in the MSM. The general impression of CS as preparation for employment is also still haunted by the economic downturn that we rather sloppily label "dot com bust": it is an unreliable, unpredictable career path.
Another deterent, not a matter of marketing exactly, may be that the most talented potential software engineers are already "working" in the OSS and pirate underground...many are contributing to OS projects because they don't need a degree or a boss to exercise their interest in software. And a few have developed a level of skill in cracking license keys that would easily land you a job at Computer Associates or Microsoft but the interests it takes to develop such skills do not correlate with the inclination to be a happy worker for a big corporation.
What other incentives are there to go into CS? You're not gonna be a rock star of software, a Serge Brin, unless you start a company. Why? Because only a corporation has the resources to protect its financial interests in the software innovations it cooks up. So you need to study business more than you need to learn C or Unix internals. If I wrote a killer app in my spare time, it'd just get ripped off...why learn a skill that leaves me that vulnerable? Post 9/11, and in the aftermath of the dot com bust, fewer of us are willing or have the confidence to take risks.
As a software engineer, the only way I can consistently get paid is to work as a contractor and flit from company to company as their moment in the sun comes and goes. I think that aspect of the market IS economics: though its ironic that the way to steady pay is not through looking for permanent employment at a big company. And to snag contracting gigs, you DO need the right degree. Try to explain to your high school senior: "Well, you like the gypsy life, don't mind learning an Asian language, don't have any need to own what you produce? Have I got a career for you!..."
Dvorak is used to having his work garbled by publishers. When he wrote his 5th symphony, his publisher went and labled it symphony #9 just to goose sales. I am not surprized that Dvorak is so crabby and tends to repeat himself, what is amazing is that he is still alive at all and knows anything about computers.
;^)
in addition to the other problems the comments so far have pointed out, there is a possible copyright/service mark infringement:
Grease monkey has been a quick oil change serice franchise since 1978.
/. readers would remember the viral code FUD. Most end users and a fair portion of CIO's just want THE BIGGEST NAME IN THE BUSINESS BECAUSE IT IS the "cya" choice. So they would forget last years FUD.
As others comment, this proposed buy-out cannot be for Red Hat's linuxness...that is unownable. But RH is at the moment, in the Linux market, the biggest name in the business. They know something microsoft hasn't got the culture to learn: making a little money out of the value-add of packaging OSS. Microsoft reads their own FUD and has willfully been blinding themselves to what Linux really means to users and administrators...until now. What others have commented about this being Microsoft's admission about the merits of Linux vs Windows is true but it is not a valid conclusion to suppose that people who were dull enough to be content with Windows in the first place would suddenly be sharp enough to be put off by Microsoft's about-face.
On the other hand, I agree that FTC really should whack Microsoft if they try this.
At no point in history has a species existed that took intelligent action to forstall its own demise. So what if humans could do that? So be it.
The robot seems to have a setting to reset Funny to 0 if the comment pokes fun at /. eds.
I just searched the comments and found no mention of BlackDuck They have been in this business since 2002.
Kinsey was a scientist...sort of. He didn't win any prizes. Most people would not care for the kind of fame he had...but he had plenty of it. And as for getting laid...thats what his science studied.
Speech recognition would be a good thing: the hands of the average driver are already too busy with phone, radio, mirror adjusting oh, yeah steering too.
hi res displays and nav equipment...not a good thing: The eyes of the average driver already spend too little time focused on the road and the traffic.
every /. reader in the world is gonna think "car that will never crash from the maker of the OS that will always crash?"
Are you kidding? I am so spoiled by /. that I get frustrated when I can't tack a comment on NYT articles. And I'd love to let a few .gov pages know what I think of their content while were at it. Call me crazy but I trust the mob to trample "news" that isn't newsworthy.
Come to think of it, only moderated, commented news is worth a fee and those hacks at CNN, NYT, EETimes, news.com and so on should give away their articles and only charge for them after we have graffiti'd the bejeebers out of them...yeah, thats the ticket! and micropayments back to the commenters with higher ranked comments...that'll teach those AC's a thing or two!
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