Re:Additional packaging systems for FreeBSD?
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I haven't used apt-get, but freeBsd has a nice package system. Most people use ports and compile from source, but you can also use pkg_add with some options to fetch the binary package and install it. Portupgrade and source installs rock, unless your system is very limited.
That said, why didn't you do a apt-get to install your packages on a local network machine, and nfs export it?
Sure, but it wasn't really informative. About 4 ideas were suggested, and a lot of effort was put into making sure we knew who the players were. I still haven't figgured out what amazon.com wants, but they get a couple paragraphs.
What is going to happen? I still don't know after reading this. Well I can make a couple of guesses. Some clustering support. a couple other things. Not everyone wants all of the above.
I gaurentee that a lot more will go into 2.7 than the above. This gives me no clue as to what though. It was a waste of time reading that artical.
Corrention: I'm not complaining. I know that I wouldn't have created something like Microsoft. I'm saying that given that was born a few years too late, even if I had it in me everything Bill Gates has, I still could not have created Microsoft. Timeing is a large part of it.
There might or might not be opportunities out there right now that would allow the right person to create something bigger than Microsoft.
It takes 9 months to make a baby no matter how many women you assign to the task.
kOffice and OpenOffice.org are intentionally designed differently. In the long run which will work out better is hard to say. They are different, and you can't just grab parts of one design and slap it on the other without creating a mess worse than everyone going about doing their own thing.
Compare it to openOffice.org. Okay, specificly I compared OpenOffice1.1 Writer with kWord 1.2.1. kWord is faster to load, and on the short 1 or 2 page documents I normally deal with (my resume) seems faster.
OpenOffice.org won? Not in all areas. I find kWord works much better than the openOffice product for my personal use. Not perfect, but I prefered it. I learned FrameMaker though, and kWord is designed more like that, so that explains a lot.
I have openOffice, it does a better job of MSword importing (as of the last version...), but it is slow on my old system, and "doesn't feel right". However as I havn't used it much I don't really have a valid opinion.
kOffice is very nice. It might not be as good as OpenOffice, but that doesn't mean it is bad. Try both. In a few years try both again and see how things have changed.
Yeah, but while evaperatoring away your window the window is protecting you. Not an easy task, but doable.
Once someone survives re-entry, you can put a parachute on them, and have them eject. This is a much easiser problem than having to eject them while in the high heat part of re-entry.
All this is doable, but it takes engineering. There is a compromise, the shuttle wouldn't have been quite as capable if this had been implimented to start with. However we might have 10 more astronauts (you can't expect everyone to survive Challanger and Columbia, but some could have)
Right, which means you need two rockets. One facing forward slowing you down, they already have that (for re-entry, though I'm not sure if it is good enough for this task). It just needs more fuel than they currently carry with them. I doupt it is significant alone, but still quite a bit more, which means loss of payload capacity.
The second rocket is very tricky though. It needs to be powerful enough to keep them above the atmosphere, and slowly get more powerful as forward speed (orbit) slowed. This will need a lot of fuel, more than they carry with them.
As a kid I played several different "lunar landers", and they all had one thing in common: either you wouldn't use your rocket enough, and crash going too fast; or you would use it too much and crash because you ran out of fuel before you hit the ground. It takes a lot of fuel to power a rocket. I don't know if they can get that much fuel in space. Must less do useful science once they arrive. It would for sure cut down the payload of the shuttle. I suspect it could be done for a 2 person crew shuttle with no science mission.
Those parts don't have to survive all the way to the ground. They just have to survive long enough for the crew compartment to slow down to a speed where extreem heat isn't generated. If they break after that, they are in the earth's atmosphere, just drop O2 masks for each crew member. They will be on the ground soon, so just make sure you have recovery gear ready (you can guess about where they will land, though unfortunatly this is a large area so I don't know if it is feaseable)
The windows on the shuttle survive re-entry, so we can presumably use similear engineer to ensure that even if they do break in the worst case, you are already low (and slow) enough that the crew survives.
Mind a crash landing wouldn't be fun. I'd settle for a few brkoen bones of a complete loss of life though, and I think we can assure that. (if one crew member made it to the ground more or less intact though dead, we gotta be able to get them down alive but with broken bones) Hospitals are pretty good now a days, get someone there a live, and they can probebly ensure they won't die.
I haven't done it, but I know some who have. Few products make enough to actually allow you to quit your day job, and they are all excellent products that a lot of work went into. Even then, most people use them without paying for it. (and if you expire they are likely to try someone else, so you aren't likely to get their money anyway no matter how good you are)
Most people pull in a registration every week, more or less. Not enough to pay the bills, in the long run it might be enough to pay for your development efforts, (assuming no interest) but that is after many years. So you need 100 different applications that you can convince someone to pay for, each out their on its own. Expect it to take several months to make each.
Strippers work. They don't even need to strip, just stand around like beatiful airheads, with just enough on to be legal in public.
One job years ago we sent a bunch of salesmen to a trade show, and nobody went to our booth the first day. So they hired a few "booth babes" figguring that at least they would have eye candy while sitting in an empty booth. However from that day on everyone was interested in their product. I don't know how many sales this generated, but there is no such thing as bad publicity and I'm sure at least a few people getting information were buying.
Course it also means your company is sexist. I wouldn't want that reputation.
He was lucky. He was born when he was. If Bill Gates was instead born as sun to King Henry the eight of England he would have changed history, but he would not have started Microsoft. Bill gates had already sold his first program before I was old enough to read, its my bad luck that I'm not old enough to have been there then or I could have (likely wouldn't have but that is a differenty story) released a better BASIC and turned that into millions...
Someone however will get lucky. And there might even be a software buisness that will topple Microsoft. However that doesn't change that he did a lot of wother work and made a lot of other (high probability) bets that paid off. Luck is a factor though.
That sounds great, but it is worthless. When you are unemployed the state (might differ if you are not in the US) pays you to spend 40 hours a week looking for a job. I know that almost nobody actually spends all 40 hours a week looking for a job, but that is what you should do.
I cannot start a company and remain on unemplyment, it is against the rules. Lookup OddTodd one time, he created a successfull cartoon, and the state wanted to take his unemplyment benifits back, he only won that case because he was able to show that he didn't expect his cartoons (which are funny) to make money. If you start a software company can you really expect me to belive that you do not expect to make money?
OKay, so I'm a military man under fire. I set my map down, and start firing. When it is over I discover (by luck...) that I survive, but my map happened to get hit by a bullet. Now what?
A paper map is still good, except for the small area that is hit.
An electronic map? All the electronics I've seen would fail in this situation. Now the military does require redundencay, so I could imangine a display designed so that a hole in it would only mean that one small area of the screen is unuseable. In that case an exlectronic map would have the advantage becuase I could scroll. I don't think it is very easy to design such a thing though, nor do I think it is worth the cost.
The definition of porn is in the beholders eye. Move it someplace else. If you know of any filters, make sure to ask them to place that domain on their list. Your first order of defense is to get your own house in order. I'd block all porn domains myself if I could, and I'm not sure I'd care thats your is really art. However by recignising the difference you are going a step in their direction. (If there is any meta data you can place in the html or elsewhere to indicate objectional content please do, but I'm not aware of anything useful) Mostly you are doing this so that I can block all the porn from you, and still get to other content. You might want to do similear things about violent art, if that applies.
Solve the spam problem. Make sure you are no longer a relay. Then setup spf in your dns, with a -all tag. (that is reject everything not on the list). Setup a password protected SMTP relay if you must. Publish this, so those who monitor such thing know you are doing it. (and this can be looked up)
Have a valid postmaster address, and make sure someone responds to it.
Make sure your provider has a strong anti-spam stance. (Otherwise SPEWs will block you anyway no matter how honest you are) Switch if you must.
Now that your house is in order, start getting it removed. Start with news.admin.email-abuse (not sure what it is called exactly). Detail all of the above, and ask how you can be removed. Expect someone to test it. Deal with any issues that come up. Deal with any suggestions they might have.
Contact individually those who domains who do not respond to the above post within a month. Thats right, it will take at least a month for things to work through the system. If nothing else because conservative admins want to make sure you really are dealing with the problem now.
If your own house isn't in order though, the worst thing you can do is try to get yourself off spam lists, that only gets your further on them.
When intel decided to design the successor to the 486 they started two teams (not nessicarly at the same time). One team went for a quick powerful release and made the Pentimum chip. The other went for a longer release and made the Pentimun pro chip (which eventially became the PII and PIII after some latter additions)
It takes a long time to design new chips. What would be interesting is if the rumor mill suggested that sony was starting a design team now. Such would imply the PS3 would have a shorter life, to be replaced in 3 years (as opposed to the usual 5) with a PS4.
In my elementry school I learned to use Comadore computers, jr. high school I learned to use APPLE//s, high school was PCs with Dos and WordPerfect 5.1, college it was windows 3.1, at the job it was windows 95 (though we started on win 3.1). Notice what is happening? I was always taught the latest and greatest technologies, but that is a moving target so I had to learn new ones anyway.
Thinking that you need to teach a de-facto standard is a mistake. Teach the kids to learn, so they can use anything. That means you have macs, windows and linux sitting next to each other. Preferably networked so that students can get their documents from any machine, and a rotation schedule so they have to learn them all. Let students and the future job decide what they will use for the rest of their life. There is a viaable argument for any particular OS of the above to be dominate. (artists will likely stick to Macs, engineers with linux, and business people with Windows, but there will be crossover.
In theory OSI and linux are both unix, but the interface and the way they are typically used in the real world is vastly different.
As I type this sentence I'm looking only at a particular part of my monitor (this line...). As I type this sentence I've shifted my head and I'm now typing while looking only at my keyboard. As I type this sentence I've moved my head again, and I'm now looking out the window (its dark outside)
All the head shifting above took less than a second. I not only can, but I often do shift my focus. Sure I can touch type the common letters, but when I need the ~ symbol I have to look because it isn't in the same place on all my keyboards. More likely I'm just shifting focus from window to anouther.
Its just that you want too big an engine. I've looked under the hood of Rangers with the V6, and the I4 that you have. With the V6 everything is shoehorned in and just barely fits. There is plenty of room with the I4 though.
The ultimate is my Geo Metro with the I3. I have more room for luggage under the hood than I do in the trunk!.
I did carpentry for several months after I last the next to last job. It is fun at times and I learned a lot. However I don't want to go back. Every day you are outside doing physical labor. 95 degrees, and you get to run in the sun carrying a heavy load. Then winter comes and you get to truge through a foot of snow when it is -10. (Our cut off for working was -20, and then only because the power tools quit working, humans can work colder than that if they have to)
Bricklayer is worse. Bricks are heavy, and you get to carry them up a ladder, and lay them one at a time. Looks easy enough, but it is hard on the back.
There is a reason most construction crews have a lot of young kids with one old guy watching over it all. The old guy is lucky to have a body that can take it, along with the ability to supervise (He doesn't do quite as much physical labor, but few of the kids will beat him in any move materials race when he puts his mind to it.) The kids still have a young enough body that they can abuse it in the trades. PLumbing and electric seem to be exceptions to this rule, old guys are fairly common in those trades.
I'm not being sexist when I use the term him, and I'm not using it in a gender netural manner. Nearly all the people in construction are men. Genetics means that women cannot keep up hormons (testorosterone?) ensure that they just don't get a body that can do the job. You will see less girls on the job. OTOH, it is a sexy job, so the few girls you do see are staring at you.
Be honest, how good are you? I know a few programers who shouldn't be programers. I know a lot of programers that are really good with the first technology they learned, but get them off of C on a 68010(embedded) and they are lost. If you going to be that type, only useful in a small set of circumstances get your degree in something that won't go away or change. (I don't know what that would be though. Perhaps hebrew-english translation?)
Assuming you are flexable, what are you good at. All the EE people I knew in college were experts in FFT (fast fouire? transforms) I did one or two in math, bearly pasted the test, and left them behind. If you can't deal with difficult math don't bother. (I have a math minor, but I got it by studing other areas of math)
Truth is, there will always be churn, no matter what job you get into. You may or may not ever see it affect your directly, but you are best off being flexable enough to ride it out. CS is going down now, but I wouldn't bet on that continuting for ever. EE might be going up now (but ask an EE not me) but that won't continute forever.
The only field I know of that might get you security is heath care. At least in the US, there are not enough people willing to work in a nursing home for all the people who want (need) to get into one. I don't have the personality to deal with that job though. (I'd do it, but I wouldn't do well in it) With the baby boom population this doesn't look like it will change anytime soon. However I won't claim to be an expert who can tell you what will really happen in 40 years. Plenty of "experts" told me there wouldn't be enough programers to fill all the jobs for 20 years, 5 years latter I'm a computer programmer sitting out of work. I'll survive, I hope as a computer programer, but I can build houses if that is what it takes.`
I know where everything is on my system, it is almost habbit to click certian areas. That helps a lot, but it is personal (you couldn't use my custom environment)
Some tasks just work better with lots of clutter. Programing is a lot easier when you have 3 source files, 4 header files, the debugger, and the application all open at once. It requires two monitors to manage this, but once you get it set up it is a lot easier to program this way. It looks cluttered, but there is a logical arrangement to everything, and you can see the windows you need at any given time.
Maybe. I asked because I don't know that. I've heard claims that New York City as more murders per capita than Iraq, but I have no way of knowing. Does life suck, or is it just different? The dominate religion in Iraq wasn't in charge before, members of that religion might find it better just because the US allows religion freedom. (Though when the US leaves who knows if that will continue)
I want to know what it is really like, not what proaganda wants me to belive. I am unlikely to visit Iraq in my lifetime, and even if I do not for long enough to learn what it is really like. (Figgure 100+ countries and it takes several years to learn the culture of each, and I won't live long enough even if I didn't also have to earn a living)
We all know that the news only plays the parts that sell (normally the worst parts) of reality, which leaves everyone with a twisted idea of what it is like. So if I was born and raised in Iraq, what would my life really be like?
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I haven't used apt-get, but freeBsd has a nice package system. Most people use ports and compile from source, but you can also use pkg_add with some options to fetch the binary package and install it. Portupgrade and source installs rock, unless your system is very limited.
That said, why didn't you do a apt-get to install your packages on a local network machine, and nfs export it?
Sure, but it wasn't really informative. About 4 ideas were suggested, and a lot of effort was put into making sure we knew who the players were. I still haven't figgured out what amazon.com wants, but they get a couple paragraphs.
What is going to happen? I still don't know after reading this. Well I can make a couple of guesses. Some clustering support. a couple other things. Not everyone wants all of the above.
I gaurentee that a lot more will go into 2.7 than the above. This gives me no clue as to what though. It was a waste of time reading that artical.
Shh, anyone stupid enough to fall for that play deserves .5%, but lets not give it away. I want the idiot who wrote this virus caught.
Corrention: I'm not complaining. I know that I wouldn't have created something like Microsoft. I'm saying that given that was born a few years too late, even if I had it in me everything Bill Gates has, I still could not have created Microsoft. Timeing is a large part of it.
There might or might not be opportunities out there right now that would allow the right person to create something bigger than Microsoft.
Read Fred Brooks classic The Mythical Man-Month.
It takes 9 months to make a baby no matter how many women you assign to the task.
kOffice and OpenOffice.org are intentionally designed differently. In the long run which will work out better is hard to say. They are different, and you can't just grab parts of one design and slap it on the other without creating a mess worse than everyone going about doing their own thing.
Compare it to openOffice.org. Okay, specificly I compared OpenOffice1.1 Writer with kWord 1.2.1. kWord is faster to load, and on the short 1 or 2 page documents I normally deal with (my resume) seems faster.
OpenOffice.org won? Not in all areas. I find kWord works much better than the openOffice product for my personal use. Not perfect, but I prefered it. I learned FrameMaker though, and kWord is designed more like that, so that explains a lot.
I have openOffice, it does a better job of MSword importing (as of the last version...), but it is slow on my old system, and "doesn't feel right". However as I havn't used it much I don't really have a valid opinion.
kOffice is very nice. It might not be as good as OpenOffice, but that doesn't mean it is bad. Try both. In a few years try both again and see how things have changed.
Yeah, but while evaperatoring away your window the window is protecting you. Not an easy task, but doable.
Once someone survives re-entry, you can put a parachute on them, and have them eject. This is a much easiser problem than having to eject them while in the high heat part of re-entry.
All this is doable, but it takes engineering. There is a compromise, the shuttle wouldn't have been quite as capable if this had been implimented to start with. However we might have 10 more astronauts (you can't expect everyone to survive Challanger and Columbia, but some could have)
Right, which means you need two rockets. One facing forward slowing you down, they already have that (for re-entry, though I'm not sure if it is good enough for this task). It just needs more fuel than they currently carry with them. I doupt it is significant alone, but still quite a bit more, which means loss of payload capacity.
The second rocket is very tricky though. It needs to be powerful enough to keep them above the atmosphere, and slowly get more powerful as forward speed (orbit) slowed. This will need a lot of fuel, more than they carry with them.
As a kid I played several different "lunar landers", and they all had one thing in common: either you wouldn't use your rocket enough, and crash going too fast; or you would use it too much and crash because you ran out of fuel before you hit the ground. It takes a lot of fuel to power a rocket. I don't know if they can get that much fuel in space. Must less do useful science once they arrive. It would for sure cut down the payload of the shuttle. I suspect it could be done for a 2 person crew shuttle with no science mission.
Those parts don't have to survive all the way to the ground. They just have to survive long enough for the crew compartment to slow down to a speed where extreem heat isn't generated. If they break after that, they are in the earth's atmosphere, just drop O2 masks for each crew member. They will be on the ground soon, so just make sure you have recovery gear ready (you can guess about where they will land, though unfortunatly this is a large area so I don't know if it is feaseable)
The windows on the shuttle survive re-entry, so we can presumably use similear engineer to ensure that even if they do break in the worst case, you are already low (and slow) enough that the crew survives.
Mind a crash landing wouldn't be fun. I'd settle for a few brkoen bones of a complete loss of life though, and I think we can assure that. (if one crew member made it to the ground more or less intact though dead, we gotta be able to get them down alive but with broken bones) Hospitals are pretty good now a days, get someone there a live, and they can probebly ensure they won't die.
I haven't done it, but I know some who have. Few products make enough to actually allow you to quit your day job, and they are all excellent products that a lot of work went into. Even then, most people use them without paying for it. (and if you expire they are likely to try someone else, so you aren't likely to get their money anyway no matter how good you are)
Most people pull in a registration every week, more or less. Not enough to pay the bills, in the long run it might be enough to pay for your development efforts, (assuming no interest) but that is after many years. So you need 100 different applications that you can convince someone to pay for, each out their on its own. Expect it to take several months to make each.
Strippers work. They don't even need to strip, just stand around like beatiful airheads, with just enough on to be legal in public.
One job years ago we sent a bunch of salesmen to a trade show, and nobody went to our booth the first day. So they hired a few "booth babes" figguring that at least they would have eye candy while sitting in an empty booth. However from that day on everyone was interested in their product. I don't know how many sales this generated, but there is no such thing as bad publicity and I'm sure at least a few people getting information were buying.
Course it also means your company is sexist. I wouldn't want that reputation.
He was lucky. He was born when he was. If Bill Gates was instead born as sun to King Henry the eight of England he would have changed history, but he would not have started Microsoft. Bill gates had already sold his first program before I was old enough to read, its my bad luck that I'm not old enough to have been there then or I could have (likely wouldn't have but that is a differenty story) released a better BASIC and turned that into millions...
Someone however will get lucky. And there might even be a software buisness that will topple Microsoft. However that doesn't change that he did a lot of wother work and made a lot of other (high probability) bets that paid off. Luck is a factor though.
That sounds great, but it is worthless. When you are unemployed the state (might differ if you are not in the US) pays you to spend 40 hours a week looking for a job. I know that almost nobody actually spends all 40 hours a week looking for a job, but that is what you should do.
I cannot start a company and remain on unemplyment, it is against the rules. Lookup OddTodd one time, he created a successfull cartoon, and the state wanted to take his unemplyment benifits back, he only won that case because he was able to show that he didn't expect his cartoons (which are funny) to make money. If you start a software company can you really expect me to belive that you do not expect to make money?
OKay, so I'm a military man under fire. I set my map down, and start firing. When it is over I discover (by luck...) that I survive, but my map happened to get hit by a bullet. Now what?
A paper map is still good, except for the small area that is hit. An electronic map? All the electronics I've seen would fail in this situation. Now the military does require redundencay, so I could imangine a display designed so that a hole in it would only mean that one small area of the screen is unuseable. In that case an exlectronic map would have the advantage becuase I could scroll. I don't think it is very easy to design such a thing though, nor do I think it is worth the cost.
The definition of porn is in the beholders eye. Move it someplace else. If you know of any filters, make sure to ask them to place that domain on their list. Your first order of defense is to get your own house in order. I'd block all porn domains myself if I could, and I'm not sure I'd care thats your is really art. However by recignising the difference you are going a step in their direction. (If there is any meta data you can place in the html or elsewhere to indicate objectional content please do, but I'm not aware of anything useful) Mostly you are doing this so that I can block all the porn from you, and still get to other content. You might want to do similear things about violent art, if that applies.
Solve the spam problem. Make sure you are no longer a relay. Then setup spf in your dns, with a -all tag. (that is reject everything not on the list). Setup a password protected SMTP relay if you must. Publish this, so those who monitor such thing know you are doing it. (and this can be looked up)
Have a valid postmaster address, and make sure someone responds to it.
Make sure your provider has a strong anti-spam stance. (Otherwise SPEWs will block you anyway no matter how honest you are) Switch if you must.
Now that your house is in order, start getting it removed. Start with news.admin.email-abuse (not sure what it is called exactly). Detail all of the above, and ask how you can be removed. Expect someone to test it. Deal with any issues that come up. Deal with any suggestions they might have.
Contact individually those who domains who do not respond to the above post within a month. Thats right, it will take at least a month for things to work through the system. If nothing else because conservative admins want to make sure you really are dealing with the problem now.
If your own house isn't in order though, the worst thing you can do is try to get yourself off spam lists, that only gets your further on them.
When intel decided to design the successor to the 486 they started two teams (not nessicarly at the same time). One team went for a quick powerful release and made the Pentimum chip. The other went for a longer release and made the Pentimun pro chip (which eventially became the PII and PIII after some latter additions)
It takes a long time to design new chips. What would be interesting is if the rumor mill suggested that sony was starting a design team now. Such would imply the PS3 would have a shorter life, to be replaced in 3 years (as opposed to the usual 5) with a PS4.
In my elementry school I learned to use Comadore computers, jr. high school I learned to use APPLE //s, high school was PCs with Dos and WordPerfect 5.1, college it was windows 3.1, at the job it was windows 95 (though we started on win 3.1). Notice what is happening? I was always taught the latest and greatest technologies, but that is a moving target so I had to learn new ones anyway.
Thinking that you need to teach a de-facto standard is a mistake. Teach the kids to learn, so they can use anything. That means you have macs, windows and linux sitting next to each other. Preferably networked so that students can get their documents from any machine, and a rotation schedule so they have to learn them all. Let students and the future job decide what they will use for the rest of their life. There is a viaable argument for any particular OS of the above to be dominate. (artists will likely stick to Macs, engineers with linux, and business people with Windows, but there will be crossover.
In theory OSI and linux are both unix, but the interface and the way they are typically used in the real world is vastly different.
Well, yes, but I can shift my vision.
As I type this sentence I'm looking only at a particular part of my monitor (this line...).
As I type this sentence I've shifted my head and I'm now typing while looking only at my keyboard.
As I type this sentence I've moved my head again, and I'm now looking out the window (its dark outside)
All the head shifting above took less than a second. I not only can, but I often do shift my focus. Sure I can touch type the common letters, but when I need the ~ symbol I have to look because it isn't in the same place on all my keyboards. More likely I'm just shifting focus from window to anouther.
Its just that you want too big an engine. I've looked under the hood of Rangers with the V6, and the I4 that you have. With the V6 everything is shoehorned in and just barely fits. There is plenty of room with the I4 though.
The ultimate is my Geo Metro with the I3. I have more room for luggage under the hood than I do in the trunk!.
I did carpentry for several months after I last the next to last job. It is fun at times and I learned a lot. However I don't want to go back. Every day you are outside doing physical labor. 95 degrees, and you get to run in the sun carrying a heavy load. Then winter comes and you get to truge through a foot of snow when it is -10. (Our cut off for working was -20, and then only because the power tools quit working, humans can work colder than that if they have to)
Bricklayer is worse. Bricks are heavy, and you get to carry them up a ladder, and lay them one at a time. Looks easy enough, but it is hard on the back.
There is a reason most construction crews have a lot of young kids with one old guy watching over it all. The old guy is lucky to have a body that can take it, along with the ability to supervise (He doesn't do quite as much physical labor, but few of the kids will beat him in any move materials race when he puts his mind to it.) The kids still have a young enough body that they can abuse it in the trades. PLumbing and electric seem to be exceptions to this rule, old guys are fairly common in those trades.
I'm not being sexist when I use the term him, and I'm not using it in a gender netural manner. Nearly all the people in construction are men. Genetics means that women cannot keep up hormons (testorosterone?) ensure that they just don't get a body that can do the job. You will see less girls on the job. OTOH, it is a sexy job, so the few girls you do see are staring at you.
Be honest, how good are you? I know a few programers who shouldn't be programers. I know a lot of programers that are really good with the first technology they learned, but get them off of C on a 68010(embedded) and they are lost. If you going to be that type, only useful in a small set of circumstances get your degree in something that won't go away or change. (I don't know what that would be though. Perhaps hebrew-english translation?)
Assuming you are flexable, what are you good at. All the EE people I knew in college were experts in FFT (fast fouire? transforms) I did one or two in math, bearly pasted the test, and left them behind. If you can't deal with difficult math don't bother. (I have a math minor, but I got it by studing other areas of math)
Truth is, there will always be churn, no matter what job you get into. You may or may not ever see it affect your directly, but you are best off being flexable enough to ride it out. CS is going down now, but I wouldn't bet on that continuting for ever. EE might be going up now (but ask an EE not me) but that won't continute forever.
The only field I know of that might get you security is heath care. At least in the US, there are not enough people willing to work in a nursing home for all the people who want (need) to get into one. I don't have the personality to deal with that job though. (I'd do it, but I wouldn't do well in it) With the baby boom population this doesn't look like it will change anytime soon. However I won't claim to be an expert who can tell you what will really happen in 40 years. Plenty of "experts" told me there wouldn't be enough programers to fill all the jobs for 20 years, 5 years latter I'm a computer programmer sitting out of work. I'll survive, I hope as a computer programer, but I can build houses if that is what it takes.`
I know where everything is on my system, it is almost habbit to click certian areas. That helps a lot, but it is personal (you couldn't use my custom environment)
Some tasks just work better with lots of clutter. Programing is a lot easier when you have 3 source files, 4 header files, the debugger, and the application all open at once. It requires two monitors to manage this, but once you get it set up it is a lot easier to program this way. It looks cluttered, but there is a logical arrangement to everything, and you can see the windows you need at any given time.
Maybe. I asked because I don't know that. I've heard claims that New York City as more murders per capita than Iraq, but I have no way of knowing. Does life suck, or is it just different? The dominate religion in Iraq wasn't in charge before, members of that religion might find it better just because the US allows religion freedom. (Though when the US leaves who knows if that will continue)
I want to know what it is really like, not what proaganda wants me to belive. I am unlikely to visit Iraq in my lifetime, and even if I do not for long enough to learn what it is really like. (Figgure 100+ countries and it takes several years to learn the culture of each, and I won't live long enough even if I didn't also have to earn a living)
We all know that the news only plays the parts that sell (normally the worst parts) of reality, which leaves everyone with a twisted idea of what it is like. So if I was born and raised in Iraq, what would my life really be like?