In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chuck Harris writes: >If a kid wants to work in this arena, he will. You ought to see the mass of >equipment my son access to (that he ignores completely).
I don't think the question if there is a barrier as much as to what the height of it is. It used to be that you could look at technology and guess how it worked. With a bit of skill, you could take it apart, validate your hypothesis, and put it back together again in working condition. All of those three steps are significantly harder today as a result of the push for "intellectual property" as much as the push for cheaper products. It's the same reason that so many consumer products these days are non-repairable. So yes, there has always been a barrier and now it is higher, and no, it is not unscalable for the truly determined. But have we compensated properly for the raised barrier, so that there will be enough engineers 10-20 years from now ? Doesn't look like it over here in Denmark. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
