The combined efforts of the Chinese and Indians in their development of Linux should, perhaps, almost equal the resources of Microsoft, and then the shoe may be on the other foot.
Are you scared to cut your fingernails? Not likely, because there is little likelyhood of any pain or damage. However, if you only have one computer, which you use for email and surfing and this is important to you; you will definitely hesitate to do anything which might "crash" your system and cut you off from your friends etc. It is only rational to fear that which can harm you.
In the 70s Dr. Harold Orr, Division Of building Research of the National Research Council of Saskatoon, designed a "zero" energy house for the climate of Saskatchewan. A family of 4 would, just by living (cooking etc) heat the house. I do not believe that the enegy for heating the bath water was included
The Economic Times Of India.Dec 22,2003. "Legal BPO work from US picks up"
"Research firms such as Forrester Research, predicts that by 2015, more than 489,000 US lawyer jobs, nearly eight per cent of the field, will shift abroad. "
>The problem is that there just aren't enough people to fill all these jobs
Can we be sure? New Scientist, April 18 1992,p.6 "Skill shortages in US a 'myth'" "Claims made by the National Science Foundation during the 1980s that the US faced a shortage of scientists and engineers were based on a flawed scientific study...At the hearing, before Representative Howard Wolpe's subcommittee, witnesses said...the unemployment level among scientists and engineers is higher than aveage."
Norbert Weiner observed: "the modern industrial revolution is similarily bound to devalue the human brain...(in) the second revolution...the average human being of mediocre attainments or less has nothing to sell that it is worth anyone's money to buy." ("The Human use of Human Beings:Cybernetics and Human Beings." Houghton Mifflin. Boston>1950)
Research firms such as Forrester Research, predicts that by 2015, more than 489,000 US lawyer jobs, nearly eight per cent of the field, will shift abroad. (from the India Times)
I just went to the Progeny site and then to Mandrakesoft to compare package prices. At Mandrake I saw the "complete" package, clicked on "learn more" and got to the "desktop" package, which said that it was available only in French. I asked Mandrake if their manuals were written in the same style.
Has anyone actually read one of their manuals?
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The combined efforts of the Chinese and Indians in their development of Linux should, perhaps, almost equal the resources of Microsoft, and then the shoe may be on the other foot.
Are you scared to cut your fingernails? Not likely, because there is little likelyhood of any pain or damage.
However, if you only have one computer, which you use for email and surfing and this is important to you; you will definitely hesitate to do anything which might "crash" your system and cut you off from your friends etc.
It is only rational to fear that which can harm you.
In the 70s Dr. Harold Orr, Division Of building Research of the National Research Council of Saskatoon, designed a "zero" energy house for the climate of Saskatchewan.
A family of 4 would, just by living (cooking etc) heat the house. I do not believe that the enegy for heating the bath water was included
The Economic Times Of India.Dec 22,2003.
"Legal BPO work from US picks up"
"Research firms such as Forrester Research, predicts that by 2015, more than 489,000 US lawyer jobs, nearly eight per cent of the field, will shift abroad. "
>The problem is that there just aren't enough people to fill all these jobs
Can we be sure?
New Scientist, April 18 1992,p.6
"Skill shortages in US a 'myth'"
"Claims made by the National Science Foundation during the 1980s that the US faced a shortage of scientists and engineers were based on a flawed scientific study...At the hearing, before Representative Howard Wolpe's subcommittee, witnesses said...the unemployment level among scientists and engineers is higher than aveage."
Norbert Weiner observed:
"the modern industrial revolution is similarily bound to devalue the human brain...(in) the second revolution...the average human being of mediocre attainments or less has nothing to sell that it is worth anyone's money to buy."
("The Human use of Human Beings:Cybernetics and Human Beings."
Houghton Mifflin. Boston>1950)
Research firms such as Forrester Research, predicts that by 2015, more than 489,000 US lawyer jobs, nearly eight per cent of the field, will shift abroad.
(from the India Times)
here will be no more risk for a bomb here than in every other place in the world.
So a low building is just as attactive to terrorists as a skyscraper?
I just went to the Progeny site and then to Mandrakesoft to compare package prices. At Mandrake I saw the "complete" package, clicked on "learn more" and got to the "desktop" package, which said that it was available only in French. I asked Mandrake if their manuals were written in the same style. Has anyone actually read one of their manuals?
Sometime ago there was an article about how often various OSs updated their security patches. No-one has mentioned this sofar