Old Timers [was: CompuPro CPU-68000]

The dumbing down of America. I live within a mile of two major Universities, one community college, a law university and a major medical university. So I have the opportunity to interact with a good number of students in a local college coffee shop. One thing that has distressed me in many of my conversation with many students in the last four years is I have yet to encounter any with any interest in their subject other than landing a job (a very important thing all things considered). All of them are just there to get just enough information to land a job. That type of attitude just seems to encourage specialization Case in point is a Physics PHd student I know was taking VHDL course work because it would increase her ability to get a job. Sadly, she was not the only one. Even though her major was Physics she did not see Physics as necessarily being here future profession. All my observations could be a generationaly. Who knows what my elders were thinking about me during my time at university. But when I was doing my studies the though of finding a job base on my studies was never on my mind. For better or worse it was only after I left my so call formal education did anything I was studying have a job related angle. ? --- On Sun, 3/22/09, Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> wrote: From: Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> Subject: Re: Old Timers [was: CompuPro CPU-68000] To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>, "Jim Battle" <frustum at pacbell.net> Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 11:26 AM Jim Battle wrote: ability to yes. And I certainly hope that never ends, because it creates a (seemingly) endless number of consulting opportunities for me! I love it when "I've never actually used a scope" people run into trouble with their fpga's :-) call me! please! :-) On problem seems to be that there are not as many "generalist" these days who can span hardware, hardware debug and software. Those skills seem so "old school" to many people. But then they try to synthesize & fit their design, and then make it work, they start to appreciate that it's helpful to understand how the transistors connected to the pins actually work. -brad