Jorell,
> "If you have 100 technicians, that's an awful big burden on small
> businesses,
If you have 100 technicians you should also be making a pretty good
income. Having said that I am not certain that the tech or the company
should pay a fee. Maybe what such a board should do is establish the
standards that a computer tech should meet then go after those who
do not comply.
> Also, the law is too vague,
Vague license requirement just give gov agencies power to use their own
judgement, and that is most likely to be misused.
> perhaps causing the board to seek regulation over network managers
> and hardware manufacturers,
Government control is always a two pronged sword, and it is often also
just one more opportunity for graft and other corruption.
> The bill covers only hardware technicians, but includes all those
> who upgrade or repair any form of computer, whether it is a desktop,
> mainframe or even a computer within an automobile
I started out my electronics career repairing radios part time for
spending money. By that time TV service people had already earned a
bad rep. for ripping off customers. "Get it into the shop' was the
mandate, so that they could charge more. A the same time there were
lots of people who played the game of replacing the vacuum tubes that
tested bad on the drug store tube tester. The fact was that tube
testers were notoriouly inaccurate when it came to judging emission,
the results they produced were only valid when the tube showed little
or no emission. A tube that showed a little weak seldom caused a set
to malfunction. In rare cases a weak tube could affect reception in a
deep fringe area or even result in vertical rolling or horizontal
tearing of the picture. So I never worked for a TV shop except once
and that only for a short time.
> "The licensing requirements provided in the bill could increase the
> cost of doing business and could create new barriers to market entry
> for new small businesses,"
Businesses should be barred entry if their techs don't know what they
are doing. And my experiences is that many do not.I have only rarely
resorted to a tech to fix a computer problem of mine. One was to add
ram to my Mac MINI which was not designed to be easy to upgrade. I
figured if the tech damaged the computer it would be their problem.
The other time I used a tech was with a network related problem.
Networks are to me more problematic than most other areas of computing.
> However, "we think there is going to be [licensing] legislation in
> some states in some forms," despite the industry's lobbying efforts,
> he said.
I think that audo techs are licensed in most communities and while
this may have helped a little it does not stop them from fixing things
that ain't broke
Jim
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