RIM Internship
My RIM(read "Blackberry") offer package supposedly was shipped today. Supposedly because it only took them a day to prepare it after I emailed them asking about it 2 weeks after the verbal offer. I'll be there(Kanata) for 8 months starting in January. It'll give me some good experiences in working in a more structured environment compared to what I do right now which is pure chaos. I'll try to document it as we go!
Free Blackberry you say? RIM gives a Blackberry to every emplyee. It'll be the first one I ever touch and I'll look forward to... critique it. I don't see why people have to call them Blackberries. Is "smart phone" not good enough for it? I don't see what the big deal is about Blackberries, just as I don't see the big deal with IPods(haven't touched one ever). I tried to use Blackberry Enterprise Server(BES) at work and it was not fun. 10 years ago, when Starcraft came out, 2 people with the same CD-Key couldn't log on Battle.net at the same time. RIM could have learned something from that. When 2 BES with the same ID come online at the same time, RIM will lock out the ID and you have to call your wireless provider to unlock them. Retarded. It seems that no one there has ever played Starcraft.
And what the hell is with Microsoft not making Office Live Small Business available in Canada?! I know Canada is 10 years behind in e-commerce but come on!
2 comments:
how is you're internship experience so far? Are you in Waterloo or elsewhere?
My friend and I were recently talking about how involved with technology our daily lives have become. Reading this post makes me think back to that discussion we had, and just how inseparable from electronics we have all become.
I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Ethical concerns aside... I just hope that as the price of memory falls, the possibility of copying our memories onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's one of the things I really wish I could see in my lifetime.
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