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Comment It'll stay niche until... (Score 1) 143

It'll stay niche until people come up with more useful things to print than a handful of Yoda figurines or a gun barrel that's guaranteed to blow up in your face. While there are some people who've made useful things with 3D printers, the average person is not going to produce the engineering quality 3D models that are needed to build such useful items.

Comment My one regret (Score 1) 169

My one regret is I never learned any mainframe technology except from the client end. Over the years of my career, I worked with pretty much every other platform and OS that was available except for the mainframe and AS/400.

It's not an issue of marketability; I'd still be unemployable due to my migraines and therefore out of work. But it would have been fun to tackle yet another platform.

Comment XP users don't care (Score 5, Insightful) 245

Nobody in their right mind is going to resort to the black market for XP support for a business -- it'd be like *inviting* the crackers into your network.

Home users either won't know how or won't care to bother. Most people I know who are still running XP have been virus-infected for months or even years. As long as it lets them play YouTubes, check their gMail, and surf Crackbook they just flat out don't *care* that the machine is infected.

Hell, most of them don't even realize the adware popups they keep seeing are due to an *infection*, not "bad behaviour" on the part of the aforementioned websites. One fellow I knew used to complain about the "popups from YouTube" all the time, 'cause all he ever did was YouTube and Crackbook. As far as he was concerned, it was YouTube that was putting up all the porn ads.

Comment Re:Translation (Score 1) 84

That said, you'd be better off completing your current degree.

Most companies are just looking for a degree and work experience rather than looking specifically for a CS degree. I've worked with very good programmers who had degrees in philosophy, business administration, history, and even an english major.

A degree proves you can learn on your own and that you have the persistence to finish a long term project; it does not prove you are a programmer or any other career choice.

That said, one of the key factors of a degree is that it comes with a rounded education. What kind of shit school did you go to that you've gotten this far without basic courses in english, humanities, mathematics, etc.? I wasn't even allowed to take most of my computer courses without such "irrelevent" credits in my course history.

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