Walter,
I never got involved in any politcs , so I dont know why the gouverment isnt
more responsive to such problems.
I guess there are WAY more stringent problems, like integrational issues in
NATO or UE, eliminating corupcy,
reforming the legal system … They made some steps, mainly offereing tax
deductions for COMPANYES which
product software. But it is meaningles to their employess, since the comany
, altough they pay very less, if at
all taxes, wont give them better wages. They’ll keep the advantages for the
owners. And SW is for partys
in USA or other developed conuntres usually, so the comanies make highe
incomes. My country might be a
good place to develope SW as its today.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: “Walter Oney”
Newsgroups: ntfsd
To: “File Systems Developers”
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:08 PM
Subject: [ntfsd] Developing countries and programming resources (was Wanted:
Nagaar’s Filesystem book)
> Dan Partelly wrote:
> > Also, keep in mind that there are countrys where a programmer can be
happy
> > if it earns 200 US$ / month or so. For such
> > ppl , paying 50$ for a book is prohibitive. Im not advocating here the
> > illegal use of copyrighted materials, but please
> > do not judge so simplistic 
>
> Apropos of that, why are your governments not getting involved in
> helping out with education and the like? In general, programmers from
> Russia and other former east-bloc countries have an excellent
> reputation. Fostering software development centers would seem like an
> obvious governmental policy to improve their international balance of
> trade.
>
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> Apropos of that, why are your governments not getting involved in
helping out with education and the like? In general, programmers
from
Russia and other former east-bloc countries have an excellent
reputation.
…being self-studied computer geeks without a decent official
education in programming like me 
Max
> I guess there are WAY more stringent problems, like integrational
issues in
NATO or UE, eliminating corupcy,
Oh… the latter is the beloved problem.
In Russia, there is also a problem with the morony of the previous
(Yeltzin’s) governement who donated the major branches of economy to
all kind of thievish compradors.
Max
> …being self-studied computer geeks without a decent official
education in programming like me
Max
Ya, thats very true. I readed Viscarola’s last column on american CS
graduates and how much they know (if anything at all),
but the problem is the same everywhere. You can finsih CS whithout knowing
anything about a IRQ in any Eeastern Europe
universityes as well. Nothing cannot replace self study and determination to
learn something. No university on this wrold, in my oppinion.
Even if theyll do a bit more hardcore courses then regular ones. Especially
in a field which is a bit underdocumentd , such as it is NT
kernel programming.
Which (self study problem) leads me to another conclusion: so many
developers on this list dare to criticize DDK / IFS documentation
whithout understanding and carefully reading it. Study it first , do
your homework , and only then criticize , or better yet , try
to improve the current situation by reporting bugs / documentation bugs.
----- Original Message -----
From: “Maxim S. Shatskih”
To: “File Systems Developers”
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 4:59 PM
Subject: [ntfsd] Re: Developing countries and programming resources (was
Wanted: Nagaar’s Filesystem book)
> > Apropos of that, why are your governments not getting involved in
> > helping out with education and the like? In general, programmers
> from
> > Russia and other former east-bloc countries have an excellent
> > reputation.
>
> …being self-studied computer geeks without a decent official
> education in programming like me
>
> Max
>
>
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> > …being self-studied computer geeks without a decent official
> education in programming like me
>
> Max
>
Ya, thats very true. I readed Viscarola’s last column on american CS
graduates and how much they know (if anything at all),
So, what are the uni programs if the practical level of graduates? Do
they teach some scolastic vague set of common notions?
“…a remarkable question of whether the chimera, floating in the
empty space, can generate the secondary intentions…” - such one?
Max
Hoping I don’t get too off-topic, this is my impression on the subject:
I live in some eastern contry (let’s call it Romania) and I’m still too
young to get a job (I will be 18 next July). My interest on file system
filter drivers is based on pure curiosity. It is the same curiosity that
made me learn programming Assembler, C/C++ and Delphi. I had enough
documentation on the Internet on those subjects. Regarding FSFD, I don’t
have any documentation, any books or something. All I have is this mailing
list and some nice people trying to offer free help.
I still keep a book-wish-list on Amazon, hoping one day I’ll have the
money and means to buy those books. I still search for that obscure FTP
having a copy of the IFS Kit or WinXP DDK. Oh, I forgot. I have one book I
downloaded from the Internet. I don’t sell or distribute illegal copies of
this book. I use my illegal copy for studying. I wish I had the resources
that US students have. I wish I had a book library containing driver
development-related books. I don’t.
Does anyone here in Romania care about all this things I wrote? No… Does
the Minister of Education care? No… and I’ll have to live with this.
This will not stop me from learning.
Ok… let’s get back to ntfsd.
Regards,
Razvan