It's no surprise really. Students have been told by the media that CS degrees will be outsourced to cheap countries and the jobs are hard. The effect is that students pursue easier degrees (more party time in college man!) that will probably pay poorly (easy degrees -> easier to get -> more degrees -> more supply -> lower pay) rather than pursue a career in CS that pays well and MAY be impacted by outsourcing. Sigh.
It's funny how some people really think they need all this information stored forever when they hardly go back and look at it. These probably are the same people who park their cars in the driveway because they garages are filled up with junk they accumulated over their lives but can't bear to throw out.
It's like New York and London that have become the major financial centers over the years. These things could move anywhere around the globe, but the connections, infrastructure, and history continue to keep these areas vital. Silicon Valley could remain vital for a long time for all sorts of new technology.
Google = the new evil. The new evil = evil wrapped in the flag of goodness. Actually this type of evil has been around for years. You know, wolf in a sheep clothing, that sort of stuff.
Great idea! Windows FU sounds like a perfect solution for those people that want to build up their utilties suite piece by piece. For the other 99% of the population that wants to just use their computers, they can get the normal version.
Mark
The EU is more concerned about the impact this will have on MS competitors than they are concerned with the impact of a typical EU citizen. To make sure the MS's security features do not preclude customers from installing different, and probably better software, is a good thing, but to exclude the security features in Windows in order to protect a MS competitor doesn't make sense.
Should we have MS take out all other other utilities and apps they have added over the years to Windows like IE, defrag, networking, etc and go back to the days when you needed to select and install all these apps on your own? We all know the MS apps and features aren't the best out there, but they are "good enough" for the vast majority of people who don't like tinkering with their computers.
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As many times as I've read that news stories were first reported on twitter, I wonder if this story "broke" on twitter.
It's no surprise really. Students have been told by the media that CS degrees will be outsourced to cheap countries and the jobs are hard. The effect is that students pursue easier degrees (more party time in college man!) that will probably pay poorly (easy degrees -> easier to get -> more degrees -> more supply -> lower pay) rather than pursue a career in CS that pays well and MAY be impacted by outsourcing. Sigh.
It's funny how some people really think they need all this information stored forever when they hardly go back and look at it. These probably are the same people who park their cars in the driveway because they garages are filled up with junk they accumulated over their lives but can't bear to throw out.
And yet, you can store more mail on your Yahoo and Hotmail account than on Gmail. What's your point?
12 lobbyists. Wow. Sounds like something a Tobacco company would need.
Good advice. I switched back to Yahoo search and surprise surprise, it's just as good as Google.
Let's get Slashdot to change the logo it has for Google. They have Bill in a Borg get up for Microsoft. How about something like this: http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/usa1mac/?act ion=view¤t=Evil_Google.jpg
It's like New York and London that have become the major financial centers over the years. These things could move anywhere around the globe, but the connections, infrastructure, and history continue to keep these areas vital. Silicon Valley could remain vital for a long time for all sorts of new technology.
Google = the new evil. The new evil = evil wrapped in the flag of goodness. Actually this type of evil has been around for years. You know, wolf in a sheep clothing, that sort of stuff.
Great idea! Windows FU sounds like a perfect solution for those people that want to build up their utilties suite piece by piece. For the other 99% of the population that wants to just use their computers, they can get the normal version. Mark
Should we have MS take out all other other utilities and apps they have added over the years to Windows like IE, defrag, networking, etc and go back to the days when you needed to select and install all these apps on your own? We all know the MS apps and features aren't the best out there, but they are "good enough" for the vast majority of people who don't like tinkering with their computers.