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Comment Re:Who cares (Score 1) 204

From what I can tell from over hear accross the pond is that the economic crisis might be the lever that get's them tossed out.

Partly true. I think the main issue, apart from the fact that they've now been there long enough for everything to be thier fault, is that whilst, technically, we elect a party, not a prime minister - the last general election, Tony Blair was PM. He stepped down, and we've had an effectively un-elected PM since.

Many people therefore feel that Gordon Brown wasn't elected... he's also a terrible public speaker, has no charisma or charm, and used to be the chancellor - so people blame him personally for the economic crisis.

Yeh. He's gone as soon he runs out of time. I'm not sure exactly how much longer he can defer a general election, but I know he's done it at least once.

Comment Re:Yes but... (Score 3, Interesting) 174

ok so I wasn't thinking, forgot about my tags, and now I look like the fool... should look like this..

What you're after is something like...

1) Graphene Transistors Run Linux
2) Year of Linux on the Desktop
3) Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Graphene Transistors running Linux
4) In Soviet Russia, Year of Linux on the Desktop runs Beowulf cluster of Graphene Transistors
5) But does it run Vista / Crysis ?
6) ...
7) Profit!

You, Sir, appear to be the new one here.

I shall now let myself out whilst I learn to preview

Comment Re:Yes but... (Score 1) 174

What you're after is something like... 1) Graphene Transistors Run Linux 2) Year of Linux on the Desktop 3) Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Graphene Transistors running Linux 4) In Soviet Russia, Year of Linux on the Desktop runs Beowulf cluster of Graphene Transistors 5) But does it run Vista / Crysis ? 6) ... 7) Profit! You, Sir, appear to be the new one here.

Comment Re:start small (Score 1) 1123

[quote]It highly depends on the size of the company you want to work for. The bigger the company, the less say the tech department has in the hiring process and the bigger the role of degrees.[/quote]
What this guy said.

I don't work in IT, but I do have a decent job in a bank (compliance transaction monitoring/trade investigation type work), and I don't have a degree (I don't even have A levels, which are roughly equivalant to graduating high school). What I have done is worked my balls off for 5 years since I left school. And now I'm in the same position as people who have *just* left Uni, except that I have experience, contacts and I don't have £10k + of debt to show for it.

I got lucky a couple of times, sure. But basically, you need to be able to prove you're as good as you say you are. Charm and confidence in interviews helps, and nice stuff on your resume is good. A degree is basically a nice thing on your resume... 3 years of relevant experiance where you did X "cost saving" or Y "process improvement" is worth way more than saying you got drunk for 3 years and managed to remember facts for a test.

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