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Nope. People work with what they've got. Think about long-term bit flows, work flows and people flows. Your best and brightest start out at entry level jobs doing sysadmin or user work. Now think about this work and how it has turned into a paper-pushing job with a date stamper as your only tool. Those workers are going to move on as quickly as they can because they cannot stand to be bored. Now consider shipping tools and sources and whatevers so that, when those kids are bored, they can play with the system while waiting for their day job work to complete. They learn by trial and error (this is the important part) what works, what doesn't work, what seems to work but has unintended side effects, and what seems to work until the calendar ticks over.

Not only that, but they have a richness of tools and knowledge to solve the computer sites' problems. They become a hero and admired which causes them to stay with the job and create more innovations. It's going to take another generation, I suspect, of workers to start attracting the people we need in those jobs. It will probably take another two generations before the uneducated retire from managing based on Winpoo ignorance.

Yes. And those who are frustrated go do other work. The only ones left are those who are content with paper pushing.

That is because this cornerstone startup position has been dumbed down to the point that only those who do not mind doing repeat work stay. I've thought about support and maintenance of PCs and its software. I still haven't figured out how to supply quality technical help to a general population, profitably, when the count of calls coming in each day could be in the millions.

Sure. And you keep those people pocketed in a "safe" job which is usually paper-pushing. The arrogance of Mipoo's coporate atbreastude is that everybody except them shouldn't have root pbuttwords. They are going as far as thinking that nobody should have storage nor comm access on site. Think about that and extrapolate.

Only while people are still learning how to use a computer. Once the usage becomes as common (and today's teenagers are already in this category) as a toaster, crap will no longer be acceptable. This is because people's complete life is getting stored on those fickle bits. The getting rich is an extremely short term income hump.

BAH