I'm interning at microsoft this summer and someone asked Ballmer a question about outsourcing. I think the more interesting part was when he asked all the foriegn born interns to raise their hand. I'd say it was 50% if not more. He continued that microsoft was already hiring globally so the real question was did they want development labs in other countries.
That being said I'm sure there are people just as bright in india as there are here. There are also inexpensive codemonkeys in both countries and if window source is getting sourced to them it'll suck even more.
The fact that Microsoft's search is getting better doesn't change anything though, as search.msn.com is already the IE default
I think it does matter. Right now people get fed up with the crappy results from msn and they're friends tell them "oh why don't you google it?" Tada! Another convert. If MSN can catch up with Google in terms of good search results then people will then quit looking for alternatives to the search button and Google will die. Once goole dies of course Microsoft has no reason to innovate and will let development die just as they've done with IE, outlook express and others. It's kinda sad really.
Wow way to publically display your ignorance. apt-get was originally made for the debian packaging system. Since then an apt-get for rpm's has also been but the debian apt-get is still doing just fine.
I also like gentoo but I'd like to point out that I'd have to bootstrap a kernel to get gentoo running on my system where as Knoppix (which is debian based) runs just fine.
My friend works at MIT's network security. From wednesday to thursday they're compromise rate went from 3 computers an hour to 30. Right now they're just blocking the RPC port but the routers are starting to take some heavy traffic. Looks like this one is going to be pretty bad.
But would you fix air conditioners in Phoenix in July?
Why yes I would. I can't even stand to give technical support to my family and I love them. Taking angry calls from people who think ie is the internet and trying to fix some computer completely loaded with spyware over the phone sounds like a 40 hour a week root cannel to me.
The Article was Probably in MIT's Technology Review. Link here. Unfortunatly you only get the first hundred words and half to buy the rest of the article. MIT is such a whore.
has been thrown down. Time to go wire up an 50 or so 7 segment display's so I can scroll the latest slashdot headlines across my front front yard. I'm dreaammming of geek christmas.
.....Is to design an evolutionary program that would pick some basic designs (wedge, saw, spin, etc...) and have them do battle several thousand times then use natural selection to mix the properties of the most successful robots and greate a new generation of robots then repeat as many times as possible till you get a robot that is a highly evolved killing machine.
I don't think this would be incredibly hard to do. They I believe they already had a computer evolve a robot that could walk so now we need to evolve a robot that can Smash.Oh and i'd be coold if it could steal the defeated robot's parts and build onto itself. I suppose that would put it over the weight limitations though.
On second thought they'd probably just start hunting human beings and that wouldn't be cool at all. Guess I'll just put down the wratchet and the C compiler and goto bed.
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I'm interning at microsoft this summer and someone asked Ballmer a question about outsourcing. I think the more interesting part was when he asked all the foriegn born interns to raise their hand. I'd say it was 50% if not more. He continued that microsoft was already hiring globally so the real question was did they want development labs in other countries.
That being said I'm sure there are people just as bright in india as there are here. There are also
inexpensive codemonkeys in both countries and if window source is getting sourced to them it'll suck even more.
How Do you say General Protection Fault in swahili?
EEEEeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
Good to see they're giving up bad software for lent.
The fact that Microsoft's search is getting better doesn't change anything though, as search.msn.com is already the IE default
I think it does matter. Right now people get fed up with the crappy results from msn and they're friends tell them "oh why don't you google it?" Tada! Another convert. If MSN can catch up with Google in terms of good search results then people will then quit looking for alternatives to the search button and Google will die. Once goole dies of course Microsoft has no reason to innovate and will let development die just as they've done with IE, outlook express and others. It's kinda sad really.
This is already being done for thunderbird (the stripped down mozilla mail equivelet of firebird)
Check out Bug 181866
There should be a windows build you can try out.
Cheerio
Wow way to publically display your ignorance.
apt-get was originally made for the debian packaging system.
Since then an apt-get for rpm's has also been but the debian apt-get is still doing just fine.
I also like gentoo but I'd like to point out that I'd have to bootstrap a kernel to get gentoo running on my system where as Knoppix (which is debian based) runs just fine.
My friend works at MIT's network security.
From wednesday to thursday they're compromise rate
went from 3 computers an hour to 30.
Right now they're just blocking the RPC port
but the routers are starting to take some heavy
traffic. Looks like this one is going to be pretty
bad.
But would you fix air conditioners in Phoenix in July?
Why yes I would. I can't even stand to give technical support to my family and I love them.
Taking angry calls from people who think ie is the internet and trying to fix some computer completely loaded with spyware over the phone sounds like a 40 hour a week root cannel to me.
Is it just me or is way too much effort being put into these trolls? Maybe it's the laid off netscape coders.
pshaw! Long live EISA!
what is this huge group called?
God-Kings?
.... incorporates credit history and bank records in an effort to identify potential security threats.
Oh thats right....poor people are all terrorists.
Just remember if you bounce a check then the terrorists have already won.
The Article was Probably in MIT's Technology Review.
Link here.
Unfortunatly you only get the first hundred words and half to buy the rest of the article.
MIT is such a whore.
Paul Miller
MIT Student
has been thrown down.
Time to go wire up an 50 or so 7 segment display's
so I can scroll the latest slashdot headlines across my front front yard.
I'm dreaammming of geek christmas.
Gotta love the holidays.
Alright, now I can convince my friends that Georges Seurat did a painting of someone's colon!
(-1 Defaming the Glorious Arts)
Yeah MIT uses it for webmail. It works fine but is slow as balls.
I feel a need. A need for speed.
Come on minotaur. Phoenix Rocks
umm... yeah spyware isn't on the network.
it's on the frontend that you download.
And doing that is stupid.
There's Gnucleus
Open source and delicious.
And WinMx
No spyware. No bullshit.
the list continues...don't be dumb read the fine print
.....Is to design an evolutionary program that would pick some basic designs (wedge, saw, spin, etc...) and have them do battle several thousand times then use natural selection to mix the properties of the most successful robots and greate a new generation of robots then repeat as many times as possible till you get a robot that is a highly evolved killing machine.
I don't think this would be incredibly hard to do. They I believe they already had a computer evolve a robot that could walk so now we need to evolve a robot that can Smash.Oh and i'd be coold if it could steal the defeated robot's parts and build onto itself. I suppose that would put it over the weight limitations though.
On second thought they'd probably just start hunting human beings and that wouldn't be cool at all. Guess I'll just put down the wratchet and the C compiler and goto bed.
Yeah well we mit people are crazy like that.
Instead of studing for my Linear Algebra exam,
I've been busy proving tecmobowl is NP-Fun!