As a graduate of a CIS program, I can tell you that we learn how to manage IT resources, not how to use them. Tech schools/community colleges teach people how to use computers.
I'm going with Hitler, since he did corrupt the system from within and make himself dictator. Roosevelt did some things I don't agree with, but he doesn't overall fit as a misguided leader.
Exactly - speed limits are low so we can support our governments through fees such as speeding tickets! (I'm living in MN, so I'm a little bitter about the fact that they are trying to make everything into fees here)
What a wonderful vision of the future. I really wish that were likely, or even possible, given our money-grubbing media companies and their lapdogs in Congress. I simply don't ever see DRM being made illegal or even being removed from the books now that it is there.
At least somebody understands why helldesks really exist. Very very few companies will hire anybody right into a second-level team who is straight out of school (high school, tech school, or college). Everybody must pay their dues at a helldesk and then hope to apply for a better job at the company later.
I am an intern at a large multinational firm's internal computing support desk, and that's all that 75% of the people in here want to do. I don't want to stay in the area, so after graduation (in 2 weeks!) I will be moving and will have to start all over, probably at another helldesk. That's just how business works; they make you prove that you know something, then you'll get paid a little more for it.
Well, I know that programming is not taught in the same way as my father learned; when he learned COBOL and Fortran, the first things they learned were planning/flowcharting the program. When I learned VB.NET in college, the professor didn't even explain what a variable, constant, etc. was. He just jumped right in and expected people to figure it out. The kicker is that elementary ed majors had to take that class for some reason, so they all were getting Cs or worse.
Because of this lack of planning, bad programmers are born, and then the process of debugging is too tedious for most people. Personally, I hate that kind of tedium. Anyway, just my two cents on the issue.
That was always my experience with Nokias. That's why I was so disappointed that Verizon had stopped carrying anything but the bottom-of-the-barrel Nokia when it came time to upgrade. Now they apparently have the 6236i, though that still doesn't appear to be quite up to the level of my Moto e815m as it doesn't even have Bluetooth (let alone hackable Bluetooth as the Moto has).
But at the same time, if the CPU is producing less heat, there is less heat to evacuate out of the case, so the GPU might produce less heat-related errors. That's just my thought, and I'm probably wrong.
However, my roommate had one and we had to have a fan on it at all times, but it still started getting errors. I can't wait for one that runs any cooler at all.
What is even funnier is that you have been modded up, but not as funny!
At any rate, I don't think people are buying Macs just to boot them into Windows instead (a few geeky types are, but they are in the minority). People buy Macs because they are more secure, more stable, or shinier, depending on what is important to them.
In my case, I had a friend with an unlimited around-town plan http://www.unicel.com/shop/plans/ (put in a zip code of 55811) and only paid $32.95/mo who would call me all the time during the day, when I only had 200 minutes (on a national plan so I could use it at school and home), as opposed to 9pm and later, when it was unlimited. I guess I should have stopped being such a nice guy and answering all the time because he caused me to go way over my minutes fairly often.
I don't think that's such a good idea. Smoke detectors have radioactive elements in them. http://www.epa.gov/radiation/sources/smoke_dispose .htm. I applaud your safety aspirations though; lots of deaths could be avoided with such attention to smoke detectors. Now if we could just make sprinkler systems mandatory in homes; at least large-ish ones, anyway. http://www.nfsa.org/info/reducing.html
I, for one, would love that. Unfortunately I know that the people writing the laws would knowingly insert loopholes or hidden clauses into the legalese because they know that even less people would read those. Maybe I'm just too cynical, but I'm starting to wonder if there is a way of overhauling our legal system in an effective way.
I know my grandmother had a few books that talked about this; one that I remember was America: What Went Wrong?
I also seem to recall that the CO state senate only allows one issue per bill. This might cause a lot more individual bills to vote on, but it would probably cut out 90% of the pork since it probably wouldn't even get to the floor for a vote.
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As a graduate of a CIS program, I can tell you that we learn how to manage IT resources, not how to use them. Tech schools/community colleges teach people how to use computers.
Last I checked, you couldn't buy an F-150 from Dodge. Ford would be only too happy to help you out with that, however.
I'm going with Hitler, since he did corrupt the system from within and make himself dictator. Roosevelt did some things I don't agree with, but he doesn't overall fit as a misguided leader.
Exactly - speed limits are low so we can support our governments through fees such as speeding tickets! (I'm living in MN, so I'm a little bitter about the fact that they are trying to make everything into fees here)
Actually, people complained pretty bitterly about the xbox 360 power adapters heating up since they caused the 360 to crash.
So are you on the South Bronx Parasite Diet instead?
Perhaps I'm just too jaded to even imagine it. I really do wish it could come true, though.
(Although I do find myself wondering about what the absence of sex-linked genes would do.)
Why, Slashdot posters, of course!
What a wonderful vision of the future. I really wish that were likely, or even possible, given our money-grubbing media companies and their lapdogs in Congress. I simply don't ever see DRM being made illegal or even being removed from the books now that it is there.
The developers also tend to get their direction from much higher up, even as high as CIOs.
I can see you are a warrior against stupidity. I thank you for your hard work in this noble struggle.
You of course forget that most users have to concentrate to breathe, so most of their brain is already occupied :-)
. . .says the man posting as AC. Get an account, all of you, and stop hiding as AC!
At least somebody understands why helldesks really exist. Very very few companies will hire anybody right into a second-level team who is straight out of school (high school, tech school, or college). Everybody must pay their dues at a helldesk and then hope to apply for a better job at the company later.
I am an intern at a large multinational firm's internal computing support desk, and that's all that 75% of the people in here want to do. I don't want to stay in the area, so after graduation (in 2 weeks!) I will be moving and will have to start all over, probably at another helldesk. That's just how business works; they make you prove that you know something, then you'll get paid a little more for it.
Well, I know that programming is not taught in the same way as my father learned; when he learned COBOL and Fortran, the first things they learned were planning/flowcharting the program. When I learned VB.NET in college, the professor didn't even explain what a variable, constant, etc. was. He just jumped right in and expected people to figure it out. The kicker is that elementary ed majors had to take that class for some reason, so they all were getting Cs or worse. Because of this lack of planning, bad programmers are born, and then the process of debugging is too tedious for most people. Personally, I hate that kind of tedium. Anyway, just my two cents on the issue.
That was always my experience with Nokias. That's why I was so disappointed that Verizon had stopped carrying anything but the bottom-of-the-barrel Nokia when it came time to upgrade. Now they apparently have the 6236i, though that still doesn't appear to be quite up to the level of my Moto e815m as it doesn't even have Bluetooth (let alone hackable Bluetooth as the Moto has).
But at the same time, if the CPU is producing less heat, there is less heat to evacuate out of the case, so the GPU might produce less heat-related errors. That's just my thought, and I'm probably wrong. However, my roommate had one and we had to have a fan on it at all times, but it still started getting errors. I can't wait for one that runs any cooler at all.
What is even funnier is that you have been modded up, but not as funny!
At any rate, I don't think people are buying Macs just to boot them into Windows instead (a few geeky types are, but they are in the minority). People buy Macs because they are more secure, more stable, or shinier, depending on what is important to them.
What OS do you suppose 99% of the fixes will be for?
In my case, I had a friend with an unlimited around-town plan http://www.unicel.com/shop/plans/ (put in a zip code of 55811) and only paid $32.95/mo who would call me all the time during the day, when I only had 200 minutes (on a national plan so I could use it at school and home), as opposed to 9pm and later, when it was unlimited. I guess I should have stopped being such a nice guy and answering all the time because he caused me to go way over my minutes fairly often.
I don't think that's such a good idea. Smoke detectors have radioactive elements in them. http://www.epa.gov/radiation/sources/smoke_dispose .htm. I applaud your safety aspirations though; lots of deaths could be avoided with such attention to smoke detectors. Now if we could just make sprinkler systems mandatory in homes; at least large-ish ones, anyway. http://www.nfsa.org/info/reducing.html
I, for one, would love that. Unfortunately I know that the people writing the laws would knowingly insert loopholes or hidden clauses into the legalese because they know that even less people would read those. Maybe I'm just too cynical, but I'm starting to wonder if there is a way of overhauling our legal system in an effective way.
I know my grandmother had a few books that talked about this; one that I remember was America: What Went Wrong?
I also seem to recall that the CO state senate only allows one issue per bill. This might cause a lot more individual bills to vote on, but it would probably cut out 90% of the pork since it probably wouldn't even get to the floor for a vote.
Stop breeding and stop reading Slashdot.
Is it just me, or has there been a lot more blatant offtopic flaming/hooker ads/porn ads on slashdot lately?