User: jawahar

Recruitment procedure

On: Imagining the Google Future

I think there is something terribly wrong with Google's hiring & interviewing process.

Alfesco

On: How To Choose An Open Source CMS

You may want jboss based http://alfresco.org/

Re:Another great move by Microsoft

On: Microsoft Agrees to License Windows Source Code

I believe after opening the source code, MS need not explain the rationale behind many of the design decisions.

Will there ever be another Einstein?

On: Einstein Has Left the Building

YES, IMHO. Provided we have the same ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMIC and SOCIAL conditions. They seed and stimulate the right individual.

Thanks Ubuntu

On: Ubuntu: Desktop Linux's Success Story

Sorry for posting Offtopic.
I wanted to thank Ubuntu guys for sending me the free CDs

Users

On: Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel

Is it possible to let users decide to run UI in usermode or kernel mode during booting?

ATM

On: What Will The Future Desktop Interface Look Like?

Is it possible to design UI similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_teller_mach ine UI?

Audit

On: Windows Gets Independent Security Certification

Has anyone done windows source code audit?

Unstructured data

On: Google's New Click-to-Call Service

Web is primarily about strutured data which is around 15% where as phone is about unstructured data

Audit

On: Ask the Author of the Latest MS-Funded Windows vs. Linux Study

Have you done the audit of MS Windows kernel code versus Linux kernel code?

Corporate politics

On: Google Declares War on Microsoft

Wonder to what extent the end users are going to benefit.

Database Server Feature Comparisons Chart

On: Sun Eyes PostgreSQL

You may want to check the comparison chart
http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/features.html

8 billion records

On: High-Performance Linux Clustering

How do I create a database of 8 billion records with 100k size each?

ESOPs

On: Pay vs. Happiness

ESOPs could be the solution to job burnout.
http://www.egovcompetition.com/esop.htm

100 GB of storage capacity for cell phones

On: Mobile Phone as Home Computer?

"MRAM that can think," mimic the functions of the brain. The design is using "a complex interconnected network of nanowires, with computing functions and decisions performed at the nodes where they meet a similar approach to neurons and axons in the brain."

http://www.primidi.com/2005/09/13.html

Hmm...

On: Some Rights May Have To Be 'Eroded' For Safety

Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break. -Unknown

Re:Makes sense.

On: Google Lawsuit Exposes Microsoft Offshoring Deal

Mod parent up.

Government's role is not to "build" another "Microsoft".
Government's role is to "create" an environment to build another "Microsoft".

Well said

On: Scientist Says Most Scientific Papers Are Wrong

There are *infinite* number of ways to reach the destination from source.

I think OSDL should take it up

On: OSDL Skeptical Of Joint Study with Microsoft

With the condition that *open source version* of microsoft windows will be deployed with linux.
OSDL needs source code to study on to what extent scalability and security are compromised for the "ease of use".

Come on cough-cough dept

On: Microsoft Infected by Virus

Grow up.

Women want mediocre men,

On: Report Claims Men More Intelligent Than Women

and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead

No need to worry because

On: The Decline of Science and Technology in America

USA is the third happiest country in the world
http://www.sq.4mg.com/NationHappiness.htm

Top outsourcing destinations

On: Growth in Indian Offshoring Slowing

http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=8247

Re:Higher Salaries?

On: Google's Turn To Be The Villain

"Google is threatening the whole system of worker exploitation that makes American business the envy of the world"

Well said.
Ideally computer programmers deserve *partnership* in the company.

Hmm...

On: Microsoft Proposes Cooperative Research With OSDL

Embrace and Extend Strategy