Suckling The Corporate Teat

Your IT Company's Biggest Enemy

This was an interesting post that I found. It deals with whether or not a degree is important when it comes to the computer industry.

Christopher Diggins talks about how he found trouble getting a job as a programmer because of his lack of formal schooling, regardless of his numerous achievements and freelance work. The man was quiet skilled however the human resource personel dismissed him.

There definately is a force in this universe that says that you must have the nice peice of paper to succeed, but is it really worth the hype when all we consider it as is just a piece of paper?

How does expirence compare to the pretty piece of paper?

Even my Grandma can use Linux!

FOXNews.com - Technology News - Open-Source Users Break Free From Commercial Software

The juist of the story is that this guy set up Linux for his parents, showed them how to connect to the internet and how to check their e-mail and they were able to opperate it fine.

This really should be too hard to understand, all you need is an out-of-the-box distro like Ubuntu or Suse and you will good to go. For most office applications the out-of-the-box install of Ubuntu has everything you need.

People are pretty easy to teach, and those distros are easy to get around in. The problem arises when people need to learn something else, people know how to use Windows but once you change where some buttons are they have no idea how to opperate Gnome. People (especially old people) are terrible when it comes tolearning stuff. The older generations learn things once, in a static set-in-stone fashion. They don't learn dynamicly.

The older generations opperate computers like a driver new to a city. They know to turn left here, turn right here and keep going straight until you see the Denny's. They know how to get to where they want to go but they have no idea how the streets work.

The younger generations know how the streets work. They know what an application is so when they are looking for one they don't have trouble finding it. This is probably the biggest difference between my generation and my parents'.