How do you accurately measure somebody's altruism? Some experts say that such a characteristic does not actually exist. How do you accurately measure somebody's selfishness, or elitism?
If you test people on their opinions of themselves, would those opinions typically match the opinions that other people hold of the tested people?
If somebody was truly humble, would that person call his/her self "humble?"
Does Bill Gates consider himself to be a rotten bastard? Is Bill Gates a rotten bastard? I mean, can such a characteristic be objectively decided by anybody, much less the person his/her self?
Microsoft's revenue total of $16.04 billion surpassed the $15.27 billion predicted by analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters and arrived on 22 percent sales growth.
In addition, Microsoft posted a 48 percent rise in net income to $4.52 billion, or 51 cents a share, from the $3.05 billion, or 34 cents a share in the comparable period last year. Analysts had expected earnings of 46 cents a share.
For the full year, Microsoft reported a 29 percent rise in net income to $18.76 billion and a 7 percent rise in revenue to $62.48 billion.
All told, Microsoft's sales achieved a company record and reflected a healthy technology industry that has benefited from a recent increase in corporate spending.
I will believe it when I can actually buy one. Sorry, but I have seen sooo many article about the $100 dollar android tablet tablet from China, I just have to roll my eyes when I see this. These things seem to either not come out, or when they come out they are poor quality and/or cost way more than the $100-or-less, that was promised.
BTW: India announced a $10 laptop in 2009, amazingly that never materialized.
Despite the introduction of the latest tablet with much fanfare, India doesn't have a history of delivering on its much-hyped promises about electronic devices. For instance, Indian startup Notion Ink has been promising a tablet for months called Adam that is yet to hit the market. In February 2009, Indian government officials announced a $10 laptop that ultimately proved to be vaporware.
Screaming and crying about desperate shortages is just a routine part of business. It keeps the poor saps studying for a career they will probably never get. It keeps the markets nice and glutted.
IMO: what really gives this away as propaganda, is the lack of specificity. They will never tell you exactly what credentials are supposedly in such short supply.
I have been in IT for 30 years. I started in the USAF, and went on to work for defense contractors. Have held several clearances, including top secret. Have degrees in math and comp sci. I am presently long term unemployed.
It seems to me that these "desperate shortage" articles come out routinely. No matter how many major IT layoffs, or how many CS grads can not find a job, or how depressed wages are for IT pros.
Why are these articles never specific? Exactly what skills do they need that they find so hard to fill? Exactly what credentials are they looking for: BSCS, PhD, CISSP, CCIE, or what?
Why do these articles seem to reek of corporate/government propaganda?
Let's suppose I'm interested in the program. What do I do? Just go to some college and see if they offer courses? How is this any different from before? Who gets the money? Me? The college? If the college gets the money, then isn't that just a government handout to colleges?
MS has been doing this for decades. When a competitor is beating MS, MS announces that MS has a better product right around the corner. Then MS starts announcing delays, and cutting features. Either MS will cancel the product, and announce a better product; or MS will eventually launch a POS.
But now, thanks to a volunteer working on doing the exhibits in the Comes v. Microsoft antitrust litigation as text, we find an email thread in Exhibit 8953 [PDF] where Microsoft employees, including the managing director of Microsoft in India at the time, mention SCO in a discussion about heading off the Linux threat in India. The emails are dated September 11, 2002. Given the date, I believe this opens up the question of Microsoft's involvement once again.
First a judge declared that scox does not own the code. So scox insisted on jury trial. After a few years, scox got their second bite at the apple, but the jury also ruled against scox. Now scox is appealing the jury's decision.
I am a little confused here. This article very specifically singles out Google Chrome. But, it turns out the same thing could be done with any browser?
Don't get me wrong, msft has it's strengths, but hip? Msft might have been considered more "hip" than IBM, as recently as 1983 - maybe.
Msft products are like business supplies. Msft sells a lot of very ordinary software - and that is something to be proud of - but msft was never really "hip."
all the well-paid jobs will return to us, within 5 years, or so i believe.
I believe that you must be dreaming. I believe it will be just the opposite. IT jobs will no more return the US than manufacturing jobs have returned. It is actually easier to outsource IT than manufacturing, because with IT there is nothing to ship.
The situation for US, and UK, IT pros will be far worse in five years than it is today. India and China are cranking out about 600,000 engineers a years, and each of those countries has 4X the US population. And wages in those countries are tiny fraction of wages in the US or UK.
After all, there is nothing that you can learn in school, that can not be taught by other means. And there is no formal credential that absolutely guarantees competence.
Software development can be life-and-death critical. I know this because I used to do software development for a blood center. Get a mislabeled unit of blood, and you may never get off the operating table - not alive anyway.
So why require licenses for doctors, lawyers, accountants, truck drivers, electricians, airline pilots, or whatever? Not that long ago, none of those professions required a license, or even a college degree.
Imagine if very large number of people, around the world, refused to buy music, movies, software, or even books (unless required for a class). If such a boycott lasted even a few months, it would have a serious impact.
The MAFIAA would have to be informed of what is going on, and why.
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You don't say that to the police. There must be two standards.
How do you accurately measure somebody's altruism? Some experts say that such a characteristic does not actually exist. How do you accurately measure somebody's selfishness, or elitism?
If you test people on their opinions of themselves, would those opinions typically match the opinions that other people hold of the tested people?
If somebody was truly humble, would that person call his/her self "humble?"
Does Bill Gates consider himself to be a rotten bastard? Is Bill Gates a rotten bastard? I mean, can such a characteristic be objectively decided by anybody, much less the person his/her self?
Microsoft's revenue total of $16.04 billion surpassed the $15.27 billion predicted by analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters and arrived on 22 percent sales growth.
In addition, Microsoft posted a 48 percent rise in net income to $4.52 billion, or 51 cents a share, from the $3.05 billion, or 34 cents a share in the comparable period last year. Analysts had expected earnings of 46 cents a share.
For the full year, Microsoft reported a 29 percent rise in net income to $18.76 billion and a 7 percent rise in revenue to $62.48 billion.
All told, Microsoft's sales achieved a company record and reflected a healthy technology industry that has benefited from a recent increase in corporate spending.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/technology/23soft.html?src=busln
I will believe it when I can actually buy one. Sorry, but I have seen sooo many article about the $100 dollar android tablet tablet from China, I just have to roll my eyes when I see this. These things seem to either not come out, or when they come out they are poor quality and/or cost way more than the $100-or-less, that was promised.
BTW: India announced a $10 laptop in 2009, amazingly that never materialized.
Despite the introduction of the latest tablet with much fanfare, India doesn't have a history of delivering on its much-hyped promises about electronic devices. For instance, Indian startup Notion Ink has been promising a tablet for months called Adam that is yet to hit the market. In February 2009, Indian government officials announced a $10 laptop that ultimately proved to be vaporware.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/india-35-tablet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+(Wired%3A+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))#ixzz0ubp1sW7f
I suppose they broke new ground in the late 1950s, and stayed semi-relevant until the 1980s.
But now?
Why is it "virtually impossible" for facebook to keep my addresses private?
They typical run these propaganda campaigns about every six months.
http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/u-s-faces-shortage-cybersecurity-workers/2009-12-23
Screaming and crying about desperate shortages is just a routine part of business. It keeps the poor saps studying for a career they will probably never get. It keeps the markets nice and glutted.
IMO: what really gives this away as propaganda, is the lack of specificity. They will never tell you exactly what credentials are supposedly in such short supply.
I have been in IT for 30 years. I started in the USAF, and went on to work for defense contractors. Have held several clearances, including top secret. Have degrees in math and comp sci. I am presently long term unemployed.
It seems to me that these "desperate shortage" articles come out routinely. No matter how many major IT layoffs, or how many CS grads can not find a job, or how depressed wages are for IT pros.
Why are these articles never specific? Exactly what skills do they need that they find so hard to fill? Exactly what credentials are they looking for: BSCS, PhD, CISSP, CCIE, or what?
Why do these articles seem to reek of corporate/government propaganda?
Let's suppose I'm interested in the program. What do I do? Just go to some college and see if they offer courses? How is this any different from before? Who gets the money? Me? The college? If the college gets the money, then isn't that just a government handout to colleges?
Of course the article is designed to make people feel better about piracy.
I'm sorry, but you are attacking the straw man that you created. Criticizing the RIAA is not the same thing as advocating piracy.
Does organic milk, and/or meat, have lower levels of dioxin? I suppose it would help to be a vegetarian.
I am not sure what you are posting about. The article is not trying to justify piracy, neither are most posters.
Even rappers, who do nothing more than chant to a monotonous beat, live in multi-million dollar estates.
If no-talent street thugs make that kind of money, how bad could the situation be?
MS has been doing this for decades. When a competitor is beating MS, MS announces that MS has a better product right around the corner. Then MS starts announcing delays, and cutting features. Either MS will cancel the product, and announce a better product; or MS will eventually launch a POS.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100627122353935
http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/8000/PX08593.pdf
But now, thanks to a volunteer working on doing the exhibits in the Comes v. Microsoft antitrust litigation as text, we find an email thread in Exhibit 8953 [PDF] where Microsoft employees, including the managing director of Microsoft in India at the time, mention SCO in a discussion about heading off the Linux threat in India. The emails are dated September 11, 2002. Given the date, I believe this opens up the question of Microsoft's involvement once again.
First a judge declared that scox does not own the code. So scox insisted on jury trial. After a few years, scox got their second bite at the apple, but the jury also ruled against scox. Now scox is appealing the jury's decision.
Scoxq.pk was trading for about $0.03 a share last week, and not it's trading for about $0.09 a share.
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=SCOXQ.PK+Interactive#chart1:symbol=scoxq.pk;range=5d;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined
Are we sure they're not somehow a subterfuge branch of MS, or Apple?
MS is financing the scox lawsuit. Also, there is evidence that MS has been behind this since 2002.
I am a little confused here. This article very specifically singles out Google Chrome. But, it turns out the same thing could be done with any browser?
how does this differ from the ipad reader?
It differs by predating the iPad by over a year.
How about the iPhone Stanza app?
But what does that have to do with anything? Msft pulls this same scam all the time.
Don't get me wrong, msft has it's strengths, but hip? Msft might have been considered more "hip" than IBM, as recently as 1983 - maybe.
Msft products are like business supplies. Msft sells a lot of very ordinary software - and that is something to be proud of - but msft was never really "hip."
all the well-paid jobs will return to us, within 5 years, or so i believe.
I believe that you must be dreaming. I believe it will be just the opposite. IT jobs will no more return the US than manufacturing jobs have returned. It is actually easier to outsource IT than manufacturing, because with IT there is nothing to ship.
The situation for US, and UK, IT pros will be far worse in five years than it is today. India and China are cranking out about 600,000 engineers a years, and each of those countries has 4X the US population. And wages in those countries are tiny fraction of wages in the US or UK.
After all, there is nothing that you can learn in school, that can not be taught by other means. And there is no formal credential that absolutely guarantees competence.
Software development can be life-and-death critical. I know this because I used to do software development for a blood center. Get a mislabeled unit of blood, and you may never get off the operating table - not alive anyway.
So why require licenses for doctors, lawyers, accountants, truck drivers, electricians, airline pilots, or whatever? Not that long ago, none of those professions required a license, or even a college degree.
Imagine if very large number of people, around the world, refused to buy music, movies, software, or even books (unless required for a class). If such a boycott lasted even a few months, it would have a serious impact.
The MAFIAA would have to be informed of what is going on, and why.
In the end, the MAFIAA would have to back off.