"Minority of people uwho use two different systems..???" Give me a break. The HUGE majority use a Windows system at work, period. Apple doesn't even hold a candle to Microsoft in the business world.
This being said, you may have a Mac at home, but I'd bet money that you'll have a PC at work.
I don't necessarily think the keyboards need to be the same, I just think MS should rearrange theirs and make the little "Windows" button do what the Command button does on the Mac. If you do a Google, you can find the shortcuts made possible by the little "Windows" button, but there are not many.
Then I'd be able to cut and paste the same either way....
What are you saying here? The fact is, regardless of the laptop you buy, the same thing always happens. Sure, if you buy a PC laptop the processor won't change much, but if you think you can buy one today and not get a faster one for the same price in 3 months, you're wrong.
Laptops aren't the same as desktops. Once you get one, you pretty much are stuck. They aren't nearly as upgradable as a desktop, but that's the price you pay for something so portable.
Besides, Tiger will run a little faster on a new system, but other than that, big deal!
I hadn't seen that.....that's quite cool. I remember when the Math Emporium opened up in Blacksburg. I was shocked to see it made up of about 1/2 iMacs....when I was there this year, it looked to be all iMacs.
Heck, I think it's great. At least one university will get rid of MS in areas other than journalism and graphic design!
On Windows NT, the MCSE wasn't a big deal. When they went to Win2k certification, they added a "design" exam that I found to be a real pain in the butt. As a matter of fact, I failed it once and never took it again.
Their exams are fairer than other certification exams I've taken (Citrix being the worst), but that doesn't mean that they always live in reality. Many of the questions are difficult to interpret and have more than one solution, but you have to choose the "best" solution. "Best" is quoted here because it's not always really the best.
I gave up on the cert thing because it's a neverending pursuit. When you think you've reached the light at the end of the tunnel, the test is "upgraded" and the light is basically moved from you. This means you have to spend more money taking more tests just to complete what you wanted in the first place.
For me, I decided to pursue a Master's degree at a university. I figure that it may not relate to technology as directly, but in 20 years I'll still have a Master's degree. Plus, in the business realm (not the IT realm), the certs are meaningless, whereas the Master's would hold water in either realm.
Finally, certs can test your book knowledge, but that doesn't mean you can do anything. I remember working with an MCSE who couldn't install an extenal US Robotics modem in a Windows 2000 PC. That's right, plug it in and it works, but the guy couldn't plug it in. This was, unfortunately, not as atypical as one would expect, so the MCSE credential became a joke. More reason to go for the Master's.
If you want to be educated, get an education, period. Associate degrees, Bachelor's degrees, and Master's degrees will never be "upgraded" requiring you to retake them.
Typical Linux dick.....thinks that all users should have to know a ton about computers. The computer is a tool, period. Accountants, engineers (real ones, not computer or network ones), HR-types, artists, doctors, lawyers, and any other professional doesn't give one damn about how their computer works as long as it helps them get their jobs done. That's the point. In reality, sure, Windows users have several more hurdles to deal with, but the cost of anti-virus software, anti-spyware software, and firewalls is STILL far less than the cost of training these users on other flash-in-the-pan operating systems and the lost productivity of having to work in a computing environment in which they are uncomfortable.
When you go get a job working with users every day who are there to only get their jobs done, you, too, will have a clue. Until then, enjoy your time with video games and Internet porn.
When people say our public schools suck, on what basis are they going on? Some BS standardized test? Their own view of it? What the media says? I'm yet to figure this out.
Every student is offered the same curriculum in a school...it is up to the student to choose their own priorities. A great student can go to a low-end school and a crappy student can go to a great school. This holds true in elementary, high school, and college. You can't tell me there are no morons in the Ivy League (remember, W went to one of them) and there aren't great minds in community colleges.
None of that matters to what the student gets from his or her education. This whole "public education sucks" thing is a joke.....sounds like a bunch of old folks saying how much better it was in their days. You know, I bet your parents thought they were better, their parents thought they were better, and so on.
Schools are what they are. If you don't like it, home school your kids or move somewhere else. Or, how about this....pay some attention to your kids education, help them fill in the gaps that you see in their school, and get them away from the damned TV.
I couldn't agree more!! On the client-side, the UI matters, but on the server side, no one really cares!
I can't complain much about the speed and stability of Windows 2003, but I'm still expecting better of both in Longhorn. A new UI won't convince me to upgrade though, unless............
they create an on/off type mechanism for the new cool graphics features and these graphics features all work through terminal services. I'm a terminal services user (with Citrix, of course,) and I would love to be able to give a more complete experience to my thin client users. If I can turn on the enhanced graphics on my terminal servers and leave them off on everything else, that would be schweeeet.
Ah....when will the Open Source Community learn? We live in a world where money rules, period. Every open source developer out there is doing nothing but feeding the business world with free labor.
In a time when development jobs within the US are going offshore and people are being laid off to save a few bucks, it makes me sick to think that these geeks are doing work for free.
Open source software, I must say, is quite attractive, as it's freely available, modifiable, and so forth, but when will the developers realize that they are being used. Big corporations making money with free labor....it definitely makes sense for the businesses, but not for the morons who are doing the work.
So all of you are saying that running these things would actually be of some use? BS.....
All the Palm/PocketPC was designed for was to be a planner, calendar, email gadget, not a fully functioning PC. No matter how much you try, you will never replace a fully functioning system on anything with a tiny PDA screen.
Sure, MacGyver might find a million ways to use it, but, as for me, I'll use it for its designed purpose.
You have to be kidding me! As the PC guy at my company, all I've ever heard is, "Can you make my computer faster?", "Why is my computer so slow?", and "I wish you'd get me a new computer." These comments come up regardless of the speed of the user's computer or how relatively new one is.
The fact is, people who can type well are FAR more productive than people who can't, regardless of the speed of the computer. If it takes 1 second to open MS Word and a user can't type worth a crap, I could still get a letter out before he can, even if I'm on a 486.
Everyone should be forced to take typing in high school now. Typing is a central skill in life now, both at home and at work. The CTS and so forth aren't caused by poorly designed keyboards, but bad typists.
I couldn't agree more here, but I question the "afford to take risks" part. Getting a college degree is one of the least risky career moves one can make.
Look, certifications sound all fine and good, but, unless people want to work in technical, hands-on jobs forever, certifications are worthless. I would bet that 90% of real IT work is more like the business classes that most of them never wanted to take. For instance, communications classes for giving presentations, writing classes to get proposals and RFPs written, and dealing with meetings are all important skills in the IT field.
Too often, IT folks (myself included) think that we have a job that requires little or nothing more than just being technically sound. Guess what? WE'RE WRONG! In the real world, it isn't about writing code the fastest, keeping your network state-of-the-art all of the time, or keeping the fastest computers on user's desks. IT decisions are made just like accounting and customer service decisions are made: if it helps the company and ROI can be found, the decisions are good.
If I had it to do over again, I would've been a business major. First, the classes wouldn't have been so damned difficult. Second, once you get a job, you have to perform well, regardless of what your degree was in. Third, all company's hire people KNOWING that they will have to be trained: no one expects a person to start a job with their feet running and never jump a hurdle. Fourth, and finally, business majors hire the engineers, and there's certainly good money in that.
Here's the deal: study whatever you like in college. It doesn't have to be related to you job in any way. In my company, we have quality engineers who studied Art History, financial employees who studied English, and a network engineer (ME) who studied math. Once you get a job, everything will be judged against your work performance, not your field of study. However, getting that degree will almost guarantee you employment somewhere.
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"Minority of people uwho use two different systems..???" Give me a break. The HUGE majority use a Windows system at work, period. Apple doesn't even hold a candle to Microsoft in the business world. This being said, you may have a Mac at home, but I'd bet money that you'll have a PC at work. I don't necessarily think the keyboards need to be the same, I just think MS should rearrange theirs and make the little "Windows" button do what the Command button does on the Mac. If you do a Google, you can find the shortcuts made possible by the little "Windows" button, but there are not many. Then I'd be able to cut and paste the same either way....
What are you saying here? The fact is, regardless of the laptop you buy, the same thing always happens. Sure, if you buy a PC laptop the processor won't change much, but if you think you can buy one today and not get a faster one for the same price in 3 months, you're wrong. Laptops aren't the same as desktops. Once you get one, you pretty much are stuck. They aren't nearly as upgradable as a desktop, but that's the price you pay for something so portable. Besides, Tiger will run a little faster on a new system, but other than that, big deal!
I hadn't seen that.....that's quite cool. I remember when the Math Emporium opened up in Blacksburg. I was shocked to see it made up of about 1/2 iMacs....when I was there this year, it looked to be all iMacs. Heck, I think it's great. At least one university will get rid of MS in areas other than journalism and graphic design!
On Windows NT, the MCSE wasn't a big deal. When they went to Win2k certification, they added a "design" exam that I found to be a real pain in the butt. As a matter of fact, I failed it once and never took it again. Their exams are fairer than other certification exams I've taken (Citrix being the worst), but that doesn't mean that they always live in reality. Many of the questions are difficult to interpret and have more than one solution, but you have to choose the "best" solution. "Best" is quoted here because it's not always really the best. I gave up on the cert thing because it's a neverending pursuit. When you think you've reached the light at the end of the tunnel, the test is "upgraded" and the light is basically moved from you. This means you have to spend more money taking more tests just to complete what you wanted in the first place. For me, I decided to pursue a Master's degree at a university. I figure that it may not relate to technology as directly, but in 20 years I'll still have a Master's degree. Plus, in the business realm (not the IT realm), the certs are meaningless, whereas the Master's would hold water in either realm. Finally, certs can test your book knowledge, but that doesn't mean you can do anything. I remember working with an MCSE who couldn't install an extenal US Robotics modem in a Windows 2000 PC. That's right, plug it in and it works, but the guy couldn't plug it in. This was, unfortunately, not as atypical as one would expect, so the MCSE credential became a joke. More reason to go for the Master's. If you want to be educated, get an education, period. Associate degrees, Bachelor's degrees, and Master's degrees will never be "upgraded" requiring you to retake them.
You are CLEARLY an ass....
Typical Linux dick.....thinks that all users should have to know a ton about computers. The computer is a tool, period. Accountants, engineers (real ones, not computer or network ones), HR-types, artists, doctors, lawyers, and any other professional doesn't give one damn about how their computer works as long as it helps them get their jobs done. That's the point. In reality, sure, Windows users have several more hurdles to deal with, but the cost of anti-virus software, anti-spyware software, and firewalls is STILL far less than the cost of training these users on other flash-in-the-pan operating systems and the lost productivity of having to work in a computing environment in which they are uncomfortable.
When you go get a job working with users every day who are there to only get their jobs done, you, too, will have a clue. Until then, enjoy your time with video games and Internet porn.
When people say our public schools suck, on what basis are they going on? Some BS standardized test? Their own view of it? What the media says? I'm yet to figure this out. Every student is offered the same curriculum in a school...it is up to the student to choose their own priorities. A great student can go to a low-end school and a crappy student can go to a great school. This holds true in elementary, high school, and college. You can't tell me there are no morons in the Ivy League (remember, W went to one of them) and there aren't great minds in community colleges. None of that matters to what the student gets from his or her education. This whole "public education sucks" thing is a joke.....sounds like a bunch of old folks saying how much better it was in their days. You know, I bet your parents thought they were better, their parents thought they were better, and so on. Schools are what they are. If you don't like it, home school your kids or move somewhere else. Or, how about this....pay some attention to your kids education, help them fill in the gaps that you see in their school, and get them away from the damned TV.
I couldn't agree more!! On the client-side, the UI matters, but on the server side, no one really cares! I can't complain much about the speed and stability of Windows 2003, but I'm still expecting better of both in Longhorn. A new UI won't convince me to upgrade though, unless............ they create an on/off type mechanism for the new cool graphics features and these graphics features all work through terminal services. I'm a terminal services user (with Citrix, of course,) and I would love to be able to give a more complete experience to my thin client users. If I can turn on the enhanced graphics on my terminal servers and leave them off on everything else, that would be schweeeet.
Ah....when will the Open Source Community learn? We live in a world where money rules, period. Every open source developer out there is doing nothing but feeding the business world with free labor. In a time when development jobs within the US are going offshore and people are being laid off to save a few bucks, it makes me sick to think that these geeks are doing work for free. Open source software, I must say, is quite attractive, as it's freely available, modifiable, and so forth, but when will the developers realize that they are being used. Big corporations making money with free labor....it definitely makes sense for the businesses, but not for the morons who are doing the work.
So all of you are saying that running these things would actually be of some use? BS..... All the Palm/PocketPC was designed for was to be a planner, calendar, email gadget, not a fully functioning PC. No matter how much you try, you will never replace a fully functioning system on anything with a tiny PDA screen. Sure, MacGyver might find a million ways to use it, but, as for me, I'll use it for its designed purpose.
You have to be kidding me! As the PC guy at my company, all I've ever heard is, "Can you make my computer faster?", "Why is my computer so slow?", and "I wish you'd get me a new computer." These comments come up regardless of the speed of the user's computer or how relatively new one is.
The fact is, people who can type well are FAR more productive than people who can't, regardless of the speed of the computer. If it takes 1 second to open MS Word and a user can't type worth a crap, I could still get a letter out before he can, even if I'm on a 486.
Everyone should be forced to take typing in high school now. Typing is a central skill in life now, both at home and at work. The CTS and so forth aren't caused by poorly designed keyboards, but bad typists.
I couldn't agree more here, but I question the "afford to take risks" part. Getting a college degree is one of the least risky career moves one can make. Look, certifications sound all fine and good, but, unless people want to work in technical, hands-on jobs forever, certifications are worthless. I would bet that 90% of real IT work is more like the business classes that most of them never wanted to take. For instance, communications classes for giving presentations, writing classes to get proposals and RFPs written, and dealing with meetings are all important skills in the IT field. Too often, IT folks (myself included) think that we have a job that requires little or nothing more than just being technically sound. Guess what? WE'RE WRONG! In the real world, it isn't about writing code the fastest, keeping your network state-of-the-art all of the time, or keeping the fastest computers on user's desks. IT decisions are made just like accounting and customer service decisions are made: if it helps the company and ROI can be found, the decisions are good. If I had it to do over again, I would've been a business major. First, the classes wouldn't have been so damned difficult. Second, once you get a job, you have to perform well, regardless of what your degree was in. Third, all company's hire people KNOWING that they will have to be trained: no one expects a person to start a job with their feet running and never jump a hurdle. Fourth, and finally, business majors hire the engineers, and there's certainly good money in that. Here's the deal: study whatever you like in college. It doesn't have to be related to you job in any way. In my company, we have quality engineers who studied Art History, financial employees who studied English, and a network engineer (ME) who studied math. Once you get a job, everything will be judged against your work performance, not your field of study. However, getting that degree will almost guarantee you employment somewhere.