Yeah, and what about those of us that always found CS interesting, and would have taken that route even without any sort of boom? Now we're all f*cked because there's no way to differentiate ourselves from the bandwagon-jumpers who got in the game a few years earlier and now have "experience".
Funny you should mention that. I know a guy who worked in computers because of the money. What he does is works for 9 months, maybe a year. Then he gets laid off and goes on unemployment for 6 months (as he explains- "teachers get 3 months off each summer, why shouldn't he?"). The whole time he is on unemployment he finds small side jobs. He does not like computers, he does it because of the money. He was one of those people who ran out and got a CCNA when working with routers paid good money. Before that he got a MSCE because it was paying $70 an hour. And now he has a resume that would challenge most people who love computers.
In all, the job market for high-tech workers shrank by 18.8 percent
If anything, new college students should be told how many people in the 90's picked computer science as a major because some magazine which ranked salaries said CS was #1 in pay and projected growth. Better to study something which is interesting than to go for the money. I knew a guy in college who was an english student. Everyone asked him, what are you going to do with an english degree. He shruged his shoulders, and said "dunno, but i like reading". After college, he got a masters, then found a teaching job. He makes more than some of the CS people I knew, and he gets the summer off. The kicker is he is doing what he likes. And he was supposed to be the poor one.
The last home made PC I built was an Intel, and it was very inexpensive, an abit motherboard, cd-rw, etc for under $500. And I am happy with the Celron chip. The only reason I have not built an AMD system is because back in college I knew someone with an AMD and it overheated. Another guy saved a few bucks buying a cyrix, and windows crashed on it all the time. The systems that worked were intel systems.
But the past two years I have been hearing a buzz surrounding AMD. I might have to check it out. I just don't want a $1000 mistake sitting on the floor because I didn't apply enough thermal gel or because I got the wrong heat sink. And I don't want any system instablilty.
Where does the sniffer send its data to? For someone to benifit from the data, they need to access it. So why don't people follow the data and find out who wrote it?
I agree. I never even knew there was an Apple recording company. But this raises an interesting question. What if a small company, lets call them "Widget" starts up a music company that is not very well known, but it exsists for a long time. Then 15 years later another company starts up a computer company called "Widget!", and they are very sucessful. Does that mean that "Widget" can sue "Widget!" for trademark infringment?
I think a name is just a name. As long as it is not obvious fraud, like a korean company selling panasonick phones, then the name does not matter. A better example might be people on the street selling gucci bags for $5, an obvious knock off. The only reason a name would matter is if someone is trying to decieve someone else into thinking a product is manufactured by someone else.
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Funny you should mention that. I know a guy who worked in computers because of the money. What he does is works for 9 months, maybe a year. Then he gets laid off and goes on unemployment for 6 months (as he explains- "teachers get 3 months off each summer, why shouldn't he?"). The whole time he is on unemployment he finds small side jobs. He does not like computers, he does it because of the money. He was one of those people who ran out and got a CCNA when working with routers paid good money. Before that he got a MSCE because it was paying $70 an hour. And now he has a resume that would challenge most people who love computers.
If anything, new college students should be told how many people in the 90's picked computer science as a major because some magazine which ranked salaries said CS was #1 in pay and projected growth. Better to study something which is interesting than to go for the money. I knew a guy in college who was an english student. Everyone asked him, what are you going to do with an english degree. He shruged his shoulders, and said "dunno, but i like reading". After college, he got a masters, then found a teaching job. He makes more than some of the CS people I knew, and he gets the summer off. The kicker is he is doing what he likes. And he was supposed to be the poor one.
But the past two years I have been hearing a buzz surrounding AMD. I might have to check it out. I just don't want a $1000 mistake sitting on the floor because I didn't apply enough thermal gel or because I got the wrong heat sink. And I don't want any system instablilty.
Where does the sniffer send its data to? For someone to benifit from the data, they need to access it. So why don't people follow the data and find out who wrote it?
I agree. I never even knew there was an Apple recording company. But this raises an interesting question. What if a small company, lets call them "Widget" starts up a music company that is not very well known, but it exsists for a long time. Then 15 years later another company starts up a computer company called "Widget!", and they are very sucessful. Does that mean that "Widget" can sue "Widget!" for trademark infringment?
I think a name is just a name. As long as it is not obvious fraud, like a korean company selling panasonick phones, then the name does not matter. A better example might be people on the street selling gucci bags for $5, an obvious knock off. The only reason a name would matter is if someone is trying to decieve someone else into thinking a product is manufactured by someone else.
And to think I freaked out when I dropped my bookbag with my laptop inside it. They should have used something better than a parachute.