Unfortunately, E-mail has been around a lot longer than most any operating system in existence today. Just the abuse of that system has been made easier because of the caliber of the majority of the users on the "operating system responsible for the mess in the first place" that you allude to.
And while you are parking it in your garage it will plant a $sys$camera to make sure you are not using any other types of cars in its place.
I like this idea:-)
Ok I didn't mean to sound like a troll... but upon re-reading my own post for the third time... Anyways... that was more just to inform the readers in other areas of the world that the Onion is not your regular news source. (In case they wouldn't have figured that out to begin with by reading any of the other articles)
-toast
I know you did NOT just quote "The Onion" as fact! The Onion is a satirical newspaper (distributed at least in the Mid-west of USA). There is NO story in that paper that is legitimate. While funny, the articles are entirely made-up. See here for another good laugh -> http://www.theonion.com/content/node/41904
While I like your final point about a sensible diet, etc. "The Onion" is NOT a real news source!
I would give you my 2 cents, but I cant afford it on my IT salary...
No seriously... I am happy to see the student level job market drying up slightly. I am a person who has been working in the IT industry (mainly network administration and system administration with some helpdesk support recently). And a company I was working for previously turned down a job applicant whom was asking for $50,000 a year. To manage their web farm (150 or so domains), 2 e-mail servers, internal and external networks. And this was a hybrid ISP / business support retailer. They thought he was asking too much...
Their estimated salary they were looking for was in the 25k neighborhood for someone who is supposed to have experience managing Linux / Windows server 2000, 2003, AD domains, Exchange, IIS, Apache, IIS, MSSQL, MySQL, PHP,.NET, cisco routing equipment, etc.. etc.. etc..
I am glad the market is drying up so people stop having such "flooded market" salary expectations for the magicians / jesters we have to be...
After all... most companies business models depend almost entirely on IT these days... take away everything but their phones... oh wait no take those too as they are frequently managed by IT.
Leave them analog rotary phones... and then see how well they do as a business...
heh...
As an abbreviated point... if the student needs convincing to get into the IT field... they should not even be here... IMHO it takes a lifestyle choice to be an IT person that I expect to work with... go into business management or be a fry boy... but stop polluting my pool of work with useless lazy $#%##'s (and not lazy in a good way)...
Just noticed that the very last page of TFA where they are benchmarking Splinter Cell 3, all of the benchmark results for the High test at capped at exactly 47 FPS (in the raw data). I wonder if that was the motherboard, ram latency, video card, bug, etc...
I really wonder if the motherboards / chipsets have a lot of play in how well the CPU's perform overall. I have had quite a few computers where the only part to get changed is the motherboard, but the computer seems to run multitudes of times faster. I have seen many many crap chipsets drag down otherwise good CPU's.
Also from what I have been able to tell the P-III 733 - 1.13(?), or AMD Athlon at similar clock, seems to be the fastest processor the average desktop user really needs to have. They can play movies, browse the web, type documents, chat with friends, burn cd's, rip MP3's, with clock cycles to spare. It doesn't hurt any that these processors and motherboards are being discarded in many corporate environments at this point in time, and can be picked up for very cheap if not free.
Also linux runs absolutely wonderful on P-III generation chips. It supports everything on the board, generally all of the bugs have been worked out, and it just makes for a very stable platform (and cheap) that you could give to your grandma, kids, cousins, etc.
I clicked on the link that says "Zinc to produce Hydrogen" and it appears (according to the diagram that in the first stage the Zinc does separate from the Oxygen, using carbon... which then appears to make CO (or carbon monoxide)as a byproduct... I can't imagine there being a good use for THAT substance anywhere...
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Are you in reference to the Taxi 2000 system? My father was involved with that organization so I am just wondering...
Unfortunately, E-mail has been around a lot longer than most any operating system in existence today. Just the abuse of that system has been made easier because of the caliber of the majority of the users on the "operating system responsible for the mess in the first place" that you allude to.
You know an issue has been beaten into the ground when the first 20 posts are moderated at a best of +3... let the fruitless posts begin!
IMHO a lack of good comments would be caused by a lack of anyone's suprise by a delay in deciding competing consumer-unfriendly technologies...
(After re-reading this post it sounds a little muddled, my apologies for a lack of clarity.)
And while you are parking it in your garage it will plant a $sys$camera to make sure you are not using any other types of cars in its place. I like this idea :-)
Ok I didn't mean to sound like a troll... but upon re-reading my own post for the third time... Anyways... that was more just to inform the readers in other areas of the world that the Onion is not your regular news source. (In case they wouldn't have figured that out to begin with by reading any of the other articles) -toast
I know you did NOT just quote "The Onion" as fact! The Onion is a satirical newspaper (distributed at least in the Mid-west of USA). There is NO story in that paper that is legitimate. While funny, the articles are entirely made-up. See here for another good laugh -> http://www.theonion.com/content/node/41904 While I like your final point about a sensible diet, etc. "The Onion" is NOT a real news source!
I would give you my 2 cents, but I cant afford it on my IT salary...
.NET, cisco routing equipment, etc.. etc.. etc..
... most companies business models depend almost entirely on IT these days... take away everything but their phones... oh wait no take those too as they are frequently managed by IT.
No seriously... I am happy to see the student level job market drying up slightly. I am a person who has been working in the IT industry (mainly network administration and system administration with some helpdesk support recently). And a company I was working for previously turned down a job applicant whom was asking for $50,000 a year. To manage their web farm (150 or so domains), 2 e-mail servers, internal and external networks. And this was a hybrid ISP / business support retailer. They thought he was asking too much...
Their estimated salary they were looking for was in the 25k neighborhood for someone who is supposed to have experience managing Linux / Windows server 2000, 2003, AD domains, Exchange, IIS, Apache, IIS, MSSQL, MySQL, PHP,
I am glad the market is drying up so people stop having such "flooded market" salary expectations for the magicians / jesters we have to be...
After all
Leave them analog rotary phones... and then see how well they do as a business...
heh...
As an abbreviated point... if the student needs convincing to get into the IT field... they should not even be here... IMHO it takes a lifestyle choice to be an IT person that I expect to work with... go into business management or be a fry boy... but stop polluting my pool of work with useless lazy $#%##'s (and not lazy in a good way)...
Just noticed that the very last page of TFA where they are benchmarking Splinter Cell 3, all of the benchmark results for the High test at capped at exactly 47 FPS (in the raw data). I wonder if that was the motherboard, ram latency, video card, bug, etc... I really wonder if the motherboards / chipsets have a lot of play in how well the CPU's perform overall. I have had quite a few computers where the only part to get changed is the motherboard, but the computer seems to run multitudes of times faster. I have seen many many crap chipsets drag down otherwise good CPU's. Also from what I have been able to tell the P-III 733 - 1.13(?), or AMD Athlon at similar clock, seems to be the fastest processor the average desktop user really needs to have. They can play movies, browse the web, type documents, chat with friends, burn cd's, rip MP3's, with clock cycles to spare. It doesn't hurt any that these processors and motherboards are being discarded in many corporate environments at this point in time, and can be picked up for very cheap if not free. Also linux runs absolutely wonderful on P-III generation chips. It supports everything on the board, generally all of the bugs have been worked out, and it just makes for a very stable platform (and cheap) that you could give to your grandma, kids, cousins, etc.
I clicked on the link that says "Zinc to produce Hydrogen" and it appears (according to the diagram that in the first stage the Zinc does separate from the Oxygen, using carbon... which then appears to make CO (or carbon monoxide)as a byproduct... I can't imagine there being a good use for THAT substance anywhere...