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Except Sharepoint actually makes money. And not just a few bucks, but $1B in yearly revenue (I know, it's not profit, but it's profitable).

http://www.ameinfo.com/152875.html

And that's not counting the sales of SQL and Windows Server CALs that you will need to run it properly. If you study this market carefully (I did) you will see that Sharepoint is the only semi-decent product, and, e.g. Alfresco (which positions itself as the strongest competitor to Sharepoint) is a half-baked, broken piece of crap, with or without the yearly support contract.

You haven't proved capacity yet - that we'd be able to economically more than quadruple our harvesting of NG. I'll make no argument about being able to convert coal plants to NG, I'm arguing that we wouldn't be able to mine enough for long enough to make it economical.

• "North American LNG Outlook:"
  "Liquefied natural gas (LNG) capacity expected to surge by 2010, but LNG will not be a panacea for North American natural gas shortfall".
• "LNG capacity to rocket"
  "Major liquefied natural gas projects in the Middle East are set to boost output capacity by 74m tonnes in the next five years according to an industry report cited by the Gulf News. The study by the Arab Petroleum Investment Corporation highlighted expansion in Qatar, Oman and Egypt, with Yemen, Algeria and Libya also aiming to boost production. Qatar is set to be the world's biggest LNG producer by 2011."
• Statoil Quadruples LNG Capacity"

The gas is there.

Breeder reactors, on site reprocessing, modern methods. While it indeed 'doesn't reduce radioactivity', it changes the nature - pulling out the stuff with longer halflives to use as fuel, leaving behind stuff with shorter half lives, that doesn't need to be buried for as long.

It still needs to be buried.

Falcon

Oil and gas account for much less than 10% of Dubai's GDP nowadays. (I don't have time to find a real source right now, so this will have to do for now.)

Question the accuracy or completeness of this list. Cisco who spends an average of 3.2 Billion in R&D a year should have been right in the top 5. Also where are Nortel, Lucent, Juniper, and the Telcos?

source: http://www.ameinfo.com/114768.html

Adeptus

"Why is there such automatic hatred of Microsoft"

I can only speak for myself but when Microsoft calls me a Communist, I take offense. In fact, I see their lock-in ways and control-freak world more like the pot calling the kettle black.

And when Microsoft sees the operating system and software tools I use as a threat , it means they are out to destroy it. And that is an attack on me and not some far removed event happening between two companies. Things like this tend to create animosity. Step outside the Microsoft Sphere for a while and you will experience it. And when you are outside that sphere, you will see there are more reasons to dislike MS than like them. But that is only MHO. Your millage may vary.

No indication from the article whether windows is used.

Quote from article:

... "enabling pilots to access information like aircraft thrust, temperature, wind, load calculation and other necessary trouble-shooting data."

Technology may swoop down out of the sky to save us with some yet as uninvented and unimplemented device, even given that we have several candidates. But if we put in 100 times the amount of money into research today, we still would have a hard time of implementing those solutions in time. The market cannot help us because it will only become economical to do said research after the economy goes into its predetermined downslide, exactly when we don't have the funds available to do so. Oh, and the US has cut billions out of research precisely when we need it most. So, government won't do it and the market cannot.

Maybe wealthy individuals will step up to the plate and start to invest in the needed research. But mostly, they seem content to pull out of the stock market and purchase oil companies. And a good plan too. As oil costs mount, these companies stand to make billions and billions as oil's ever escalating cost give them a bottom line that anyone would drool over.

So, yeah, 1 seems most likely. Who knows, maybe the first billion deaths will cause us to stop and re-evaluate our lives and goals. But those anmial husbandry skills probably won't go to waste.

Thanks for the great post.

crulx

its just a matter of time before Goliath (MS) gets
his head lopped off!
AMinfo

Do you see a German cellphone provider? Hmmm?

Like Siemens Mobile?

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Benjamin Coates

only took about 15 seconds to find something contrary to that old stereotype

This place claims to be The World's Largest Pen Store.

Or you can always try good old fashioned Quill Pens.

I haven't had the chance to read this Survey yet, since the link has run afoul of TCP/IP, but outsourcing is hurting millions in the IT field (which I'm sure you already know).

Why is it that Saudi Arabia has been able to restore its economy and again fill up it's offices with IT people, while the US keeps losing them (500,000 more projected this year). crapola I say

Interesting thing that Saudi Arabia is proven to be one of the largest "breeding ground" (for lack of a better term) and source of funding for terrorism, which is targeted at the US.

Funny how America's capitalism is directly responsible for terrorist acts against its own counsumers (use to be called citizens).