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Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
well i'm not an IT person. but i don't consider myself to be in competition or at odds with IT people on here or elsewhere.

heck, if anything i can learn the stuff i DON'T know from you guys cause you have that much more experience in the specifics of the computer and such, while you can learn things in terms of graphics and stuff from folks like me (perhaps you haven't, but you COULD. haha).

that's just my take though...
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the way computer graphics are still in the stone age, you have to learn a lot of computer maintenance stuff to keep things running

wouldn't it be nice to touch an on button, do your graphics, and when you finish just hit the off button

but as you know and my wife, who is a mac graphics artist, the computer does all these weird things and she, as well as all other artists i met on computers, have to troubleshoot so much they have become...like it or not...techs or techies

and many companies have graphics people on macs but no dedicated mac tech so the artists have to be their own techies

i worked at the third most powerful company in silicon valley which was hq to hundreds of other locations of the company and even though they had 100 techies on the pc side, they had no mac techs since the company did not believe there was a need

will photoshop 7 make things smoother?
 
Re: lickable......likeable.....

Originally posted by mischief
Perhaps he is referring to the Aqua "lickable" interface comments.:p
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Exactly. I've been waiting for OS X compat for a while...I'm glad it's finally here.
 
Originally posted by jefhatfield


the way computer graphics are still in the stone age, you have to learn a lot of computer maintenance stuff to keep things running

wouldn't it be nice to touch an on button, do your graphics, and when you finish just hit the off button

but as you know and my wife, who is a mac graphics artist, the computer does all these weird things and she, as well as all other artists i met on computers, have to troubleshoot so much they have become...like it or not...techs or techies

and many companies have graphics people on macs but no dedicated mac tech so the artists have to be their own techies
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oh i agree by all means... i mean, i have to troubleshoot my own comp and my family's all the time.

i guess what i meant is i wouldn't have CALLED myself a tech, as that would be a disservice to those of you who have extensive experience with big companies and otherwise. so yes, i suppose i'm a tech of sorts, i just didn't want to lower anyone else to my level. ha.

i did some troubleshooting in a company setting at a small tv commercial production company i worked at (as well as setting up a g4 based editing suite for them) but it was nothing massive and only like 3 computers... but hey, every bit helps.
 
depending on what you do, if you get paid for it day in and day out, you are a professional in IT since the field of IT means different things to different people

IT/IS to me is the support people like network types and desktop techies AND the software side of Q&A and Software Development

from what i have seen with graphics professionals, they are techs in my book...basic level most of the times, but they are techies

now people who administer the networks where i go to school both happen to have master's degrees and 15-20 years of working experience and they also teach on the side and they are also techies, but on a higher level

but the highest level of this field is where all those people with master's degrees and phds in the educational research environment are necessary for tomorrow's technologies in the real world like fsm and ai (so that's where the vast majority of the experimental computing comes from...the educational institutions and these techies may not be working techies in our definition, but they will give all us real techies something to do for the future)

so the educational researchers to me are techies working for techies within IT/IS and every person has a different take on their ultimate importance

they, the researchers in the ivory tower, are no less or more important than the un-degreed 18 year old tech making 11 dollars an hour at the college lab...professionals and academics alike all have a piece of the pie we have to support
 
Huntington Beach? Damn fine chicken burritos over at Wahoo's Fish Tacos. Not too partial to their fish tacos though...go figure. Also you can usually park for free if you wait about a minute for the under 20 minute spot two doors down. Other than that there really isn't much to know about Huntington Beach, oh that and all the strippers do their banking at the Washington Mutual on Garfield for some reason.
Any other questions gentelmen?
 
i want to get a job at one of the school labs but it either hasn't fit my schedule or for some other reason it hasnt' worked.

though i have looked further into being a teacher's assistant in a multimedia class where i'd basically sit in the comp lab and help people with various apps or other computer problems. not the same exactly but similar.

i'm not looking for a living in it, as i'm aiming for the graphics/animation/film area. but yeah, as you said, those people often have to be their own techs and such... so experience with every possible scenario helps.
 
I go to the dentist, actually endodontist for a root canal this afternoon, and the whole topic takes a few turns, now I have to play catchup. One non subject item - codine is good!

I've been the only Mac tech person at my office for 9 years now. Even though I inherited/fell into the graphics job, I have the sole responsibility of fixing things when even the IT guys (all PC trained and certified) can't figure it out. I've got a nice setup at home too, 4 machines, one of them a PC. Its not a matter of getting a certification and piece of paper - I don't have one - to know how to fix something. Experience goes a long way sometimes.
 
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