Thread: Internet Explorer 7

DOMS, I just read that you were an IT consultant. How is that working out for you? I am going to graduate in December with a BS in IT and a minor in CS, math, and statistics. All of my professors are feeding us this shit about IT demand is booming, but my own reading and research lead me to believe that IT demand is going away, and being replaced with information systems people who can play the roll of project leader and handle projects at the data tier and development tier. I really like IS, and if things don’t start looking brighter, I may spend another year in school, and get my information systems degree. I think that the demand for heavy duty information handling is going to be where the money is at, because so many people have accumulated massive amounts of data, but have no understanding of what to do with it all, or even how to process it.

Wow..... Sorry! I am cramming for finals, and I have so much fucking IT buzzword bullshit running through my head right now.

Originally Posted by Robert DiMaggio

how about if I have topolo stick a pole up your ass?

Originally Posted by Robert DiMaggio

how about if I have topolo stick a pole up your ass?

So, is that why you keep Topolo around, to keep everyone in line? That is actually a great idea. "Hey asshole, STFU or I will tell my gimp to violate you anally with a metal pole".
That explains everything. I never could figure out why he hung around here. Now, I fucking get it.

True Story, I think I'll stick with konqueror web browser.

Originally Posted by KelJu

Wow..... Sorry! I am cramming for finals, and I have so much fucking IT buzzword bullshit running through my head right now.

Maybe if you did a enable bricks-and-clicks solution you could utilize end-to-end architectures to deliver seamless web services.

Originally Posted by KelJu

DOMS, I just read that you were an IT consultant. How is that working out for you? I am going to graduate in December with a BS in IT and a minor in CS, math, and statistics. All of my professors are feeding us this shit about IT demand is booming, but my own reading and research lead me to believe that IT demand is going away, and being replaced with information systems people who can play the roll of project leader and handle projects at the data tier and development tier. I really like IS, and if things don’t start looking brighter, I may spend another year in school, and get my information systems degree. I think that the demand for heavy duty information handling is going to be where the money is at, because so many people have accumulated massive amounts of data, but have no understanding of what to do with it all, or even how to process it.

I really don't know if the IT demand is growing or shrinking, but the need will always be there. So, if you're one of the better techs, you'll find yourself a good paying job.

I work for a consulting company that pimps me out to anyone with enough money (and my company charges in the top 5% per hour). Sometimes the job is pretty cool, most days are different (which you'll appreciate when you enter the work force). Some days I stay at the office writing apps and some days I go out to the clients' offices. And some weeks the jobs sucks. In the last 9 working days I've put in over 420 miles driving all over the valley. That'll wear you out pretty fast.

My advice, find a single company to work for where you do everything for your own company. Yeah it's a bit more tedious than working for many people, but it's also a lot less stressful.

As for being IT or IS, to nearly everyone you deal with you'll simply be a "computer guy." Odds are your bosses will have no concept of "computer people" do. He'll simply know that he has a goal and wants you to do it. In larger companies your scope of work may be more defined, but you'll still find yourself doing both IS and IT work.

Yeah, you can focus on data mining (DBA), but that stuff can be high stress. It does have some of the highest pay rates, but vacations are rare and the stress level is very high. On the plus side, many contract DBAs are from India are they're great to work with.

One last note, getting your first real job will be a bitch. Bullshit your way in if you have to.

Originally Posted by DOMS

Maybe if you did a enable bricks-and-clicks solution you could utilize end-to-end architectures to deliver seamless web services.



I really don't know if IT demand is growing or shrinking, but need will always be there. So, if you're one of the better techs, you'll find yourself a good paying job.

I work for a consulting company that pimps me out to anyone with enough money (and my company charges in the top 5% per hour). Sometimes the job is pretty cool, most days are different (which you'll appreciate when you enter the work force). Some days I stay at the office writing apps and some days I go out to the clients' offices. And some weeks the jobs sucks. In the last 9 working days I've put in over 420 miles driving all over the valley. That'll wear you out pretty fast.

My advice, find a single company to work for where you do everything for your own company. Yeah it's a bit more tedious than working for many people, but it's also a lot less stressful.

As for being IT or IS, to nearly everyone you deal with you'll simply be a "computer guy." Odds are your bosses will have no concept of "computer people" do. He'll simply know that he has a goal and wants you to do it. In larger companies your scope of work may be more defined, but you'll still find yourself doing both IS and IT work.

Yeah, you can focus on data mining (DBA), but that stuff can be high stress. It does have some of the highest pay rates, but vacations are rare and the stress level is very high. On the plus side, many contract DBAs are from India are they're great to work with.

One last note, getting your first real job will be a bitch. Bullshit your way in if you have to.

Actually, I planned ahead on the first job situation. One of my friends is a supervisor for CPI, a hospital database software company located here in Mobile. I have been promised a job right out of college working as a DB software installer. Basically I would travel around installing and troubleshooting the software to the Servers, and computers at these hospitals. The job pays $40,000 a year which isn't that high to most people, but in Alabama, $40,000 might as well be $100,000 everywhere else. I do not like the fact that this job will have me flying across the US and sometimes to other countries every week. My friend tells me that the turnover rate for this job is extremely high, because people with families just can't handle the time away.
I think it would be great experience, plus I might even have a chance to impress the DB software designers, and I might be able to start writing DB front-end software.
I really like working with SQL and oracle.
Who know really?

Originally Posted by KelJu

Actually, I planned ahead on the first job situation. One of my friends is a supervisor for CPI, a hospital database software company located here in Mobile. I have been promised a job right out of college working as a DB software installer. Basically I would travel around installing and troubleshooting the software to the Servers, and computers at these hospitals. The job pays $40,000 a year which isn't that high to most people, but in Alabama, $40,000 might as well be $100,000 everywhere else. I do not like the fact that this job will have me flying across the US and sometimes to other countries every week. My friend tells me that the turnover rate for this job is extremely high, because people with families just can't handle the time away.
I think it would be great experience, plus I might even have a chance to impress the DB software designers, and I might be able to start writing DB front-end software.
I really like working with SQL and oracle.
Who know really?

Sounds like a great job. If I was your age, I'd take it. Flying hither and yon for a living would have been a blast.

Oracle DBAs are some of the highest payed people in the IT/IS field. However, that's because Oracle is such a bitch to work with.

Originally Posted by Little Wing

i recently switched to opera n it's great. if you have 6 tabs open you can save it as a session, you can start from where you left off when you close the program, if you accidentally close a page you just click the little trash can n get it back, it has a voice feature that'll read you your pdf's n so on n you can control it w your voice. pretty cool. i haven't run into a bug yet.

Yes, Opera is the best browser-- no one knows about it though.

Originally Posted by MWpro

Yes, Opera is the best browser-- no one knows about it though.

Opera is cool. I had to use it, because it was the only browser that supported Windows 95, and I needed to download a patch for a game that I was running under a virtual installation inside of Virtual PC.

Originally Posted by BoneCrusher

I caught it sending info back that about what I had in my Limewire shared data file. Hadda kill that program.

I have heard that Vista will not allow you to download shared files like music off the internet. Does anyone know if this is true? I'm sure Vista monitors EVERYTHING!

lol, bumping my IE 7 threads?

just for the record I NO longer use IE!

Originally Posted by dg806

I have heard that Vista will not allow you to download shared files like music off the internet. Does anyone know if this is true? I'm sure Vista monitors EVERYTHING!

Yes. It is supposed to disable many file sharing programs, etc.

It will pretty muchly discontinue the use of all pirated stuff.

Originally Posted by Prince

lol, bumping my IE 7 threads?

just for the record I NO longer use IE!

Yep, after I dl IE7. I remembered some threads on it, so I searched for them. Thanks for replying.

Originally Posted by Brachiisaurus

Yes. It is supposed to disable many file sharing programs, etc.

It will pretty muchly discontinue the use of all pirated stuff.

That is what I was afraid of. That SUCKS. Guess I will use XP until nothing works anymore.