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Re: Microsoft provokes London Tube crash ..

  • Subject: Re: Microsoft provokes London Tube crash ..
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:55:13 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 17 November 2006 04:40 \__
> 
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>> Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> [snips]
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:29:02 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I would imagine that the underlying problem is triggered by the yahoo
>>>> toolbar, but could also be triggered by something else.  Anyone selecting
>>>> Microsoft for something like this is asking for problems.
>>> 
>>> Yeah, but you miss the point.  If this isn't someone's personal desktop,
>>> what is the Yahoo toolbar doing on it *at all*?  Why is there *anything*
>>> on it beyond the tools absolutely required to simply running the monitors?
>>> 
>> 
>> My point was that it might not just be the yahoo tool bar which triggers
>> the problem.  The problem is probably not the toolbar, but something
>> underlying, just waiting to be triggered.
>  
> A bit off topic, I know, but have a l@@k...
> 
> Computer industry 'faces crisis'
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Unless steps are taken now, there will not be enough qualified
>| graduates to meet the demands of UK industry, warned Professor
>| Nigel Shadbolt.
> `----
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6155998.stm
> 
> Frankly, I don't agree with him. This was inevitable and there is not much
> that you can do to change that. There is only this illusion that the market
> anticipates graduates rather than consider offshoring or employing 'toner
> monkeys'. Over 90% of the IT (or was it programming) workers in the UK are
> extremely stressed at work. Getting long-term contracts is an impossibility.
> These people dread the thought of having to stroke these keyboards, coding
> or being sacked (replaced). There was a survey/study earlier this year...
> 
> Kids in the UK no longer pursue Computer Science, but can you blame them? I
> urge everyone who asks me to avoid the field merely because its controlled
> by predatory monopolies that allow no harmony and raise the barriers to
> entry. Open Source, if it was properly adopted a decade ago, would have
> prevented all of this.


Oh, this is only inevitable if you accept that the feminisation of
education was a good thing.  We need to go back to where we were, where
maths and sciences were hard, and if you were good at them, you could
shine through.

We don't need more female scientists, or engineers, or even females in
debian or open source.  We just need more good scientists or engineers
or whatever.  The people who want to do this stuff, no matter what sex
they are.  If they're good enough, then they'll come through a tough
system.  And, then, we'll have good graduates.  Presently, we're just
getting a generation of incompetents (I've interviewed a few of them,
it's not pretty).

-- 
| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
Be sure to evaluate the bird-hand/bush ratio.

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