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Originally Posted by ggendel
I'm not an IPOD hater, but I'm unhappy about the way things are headed, and companies like Apple in particular.
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I cut my teeth on personal computing way before IBM had their first PC. In those days there was a thriving hobby community where everyone was excited to help and share what they had cobbled together. You learned and had fun by doing. I created my own Forth and BASIC interpreters and C compilers so I could grok how they worked. I wrote a screen-based text editor in PL/I. I built my own prom burners, 110/300 baud modems, etc. Without these I wouldn't have the skills that make me so marketable.
I base all this on my personal experience. The resumes that cross my desk have changed. There is no passion in most anymore. I used to find something that I could talk about when I give an interview besides direct work experience, but no longer. Where are the audiophiles, or HAM operators that actually build something? Where is the involvement with a community group, athletics, or their DJ business? Something that I can hear real excitement. My hiring interviews have become short and boring, all I can do is press them for their job related experience.
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MMMMM I suspect that the reason for the change in attitude for those you interview has more to do with societal changes than any thing else. Todays young people seem tolack any element of passion and drive to pursue a career thread. I have heard today's young described as "teacups" absolutely beautifull to behold, but ever so fragile. I see this very much in my own profession (which demands strong resilient workers who can cope under the most extreme pressure) and in society in general.
I too cut my teeth on early computing, I well remember "computer studies: where my intstructor would lead us through sessions where we tiresly pucnhed our prgrams out from punch cards, sent said cards away to the city and waited for them to return to tell us what errors we had made. My first hands on experience cam with the firt computer to arrive in our city in 1977.
My first home computer was an old Amstrad which we painstakingly typed in reams of code and then debugged until we got a working game or useful program.
Do I miss this endless problem solving, HELLL no, I Just want a computer that works...... For a mobile device, I simply want to press a button, have instant access and get on with what I want to do. I will leave the brain processign power to what really matters, day to day life. For me the Ipad seems to offer precisely what I have been waiting for, for many years.