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  1. Here are some grea ideas... on System Administrators - College or Career? · · Score: 1
    Bioinformatician - $120,000
    Wireless Engineer - +$80,000
    Forensic Accountant - $100,000
    Data Miner - $60,000 to $70,000, but managers can make $120,000
    A.I. Programmer - $50,000 and climb to $70,000 to $80,000 after a few years
    Fuel-Cell Engineer - Senior specialists are already demanding $100,000 to $120,000
    Intellectual-Property Attorney - $60,000 to $86,000

    Check out the details here.

  2. Re:Well.... on XML Web Services & Security · · Score: 1

    Microsoft does make phones...

    Microsoft® Cordless Phone System

  3. Re:They will force it on you on AOL-Time/Warner's PVR to Skip Ad-Skipping · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes it is called the "Commercial Availability of Navigation Devices" and was part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

    July 1, 2000 was the initial deadline. The FCC has refused to sanction or demand that cable comply with this deadline.

    Of course the MPAA and friends have their fingers in this pie, demanding that these STB's have the ability to downrez content to analog displays.

  4. Huh!?! on Online News Stories that Change Behind Your Back · · Score: 1

    So these guys have enough technical sense to create a web page that...

    Contains about 10 advertisments with some that rotate
    A Netscape Nav bar
    Drop's three cookies on to my harddrive

    But they can't come up with a versioning app for their news stories?

    Seem pretty clear that they don't want to be journalists, they just want to pump up page views.

  5. So now /. is a shill for Hollywood on Spidey Knocks Out Harry Potter at Box Office · · Score: 1

    Hey /., thanks for posting meaningless box office numbers meant to self promote Hollywood.

    Why do you think these figures are never inflation adjusted, never talk about the number of screens, never tell us how many tickets were sold, and are released on Sunday morning before the weekend is even over?

  6. Sue in California! on Nike Denied First Amendment Defense · · Score: 1, Informative

    Between this and the SonicBlue court order, it seems pretty clear that if you are a plantiff move your case to California because the judges there don't give a rats a** about the constitution.

  7. Don't hold your breath... on Program Tivo over AOL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This was a cover story for the fact that AOL pulled out of joint devlopment of an AOLTV\TiVo box for Time Warner cable subs.

    Think about it, how would you IM with without a keyboard?

  8. Not suprising... on "Industry Standard" Paycuts in IT? · · Score: 1

    Some of the same jokers who ran MarchFirst/Whittman-Hart into the ground are running Divine.

  9. Re:software architect? on Gates Testifies in Antitrust Suit · · Score: 1

    Well, Novell thinks Netware is middleware.

    If an OS is middleware, and an IM Client is middleware, where is the freaking line?

    This is what happens when attorney generals, lawyers, and judges start writing software specifications.

  10. Re:Medical/safety positives of this... on IEEE Building Automotive Black-Box Standard · · Score: 1

    GM already does this. It is called Onstar. Calls when the airbags deploy.

  11. Here is a picture on one... on IEEE Building Automotive Black-Box Standard · · Score: 1

    Some cars already have them.

    Here is a picture of one in the Corvette. It is silver.

  12. 3 M or 34 M Netscape uesers overnight! on Browser Wars II: CompuServe Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    I love how these articles imply that overnight 3 M Compuserve users (or 34 M AOL users) will magically start using Netscape.

    I mean come on, how many hits do you still get at your website from people still running IE 4.0 or using AOL 6.0?

    It will take a couple of years to get everyone on the same version and a great deal of things could happen in a couple of years.

  13. Re:I can see a lot of people don't know the laws on EchoStar Asks Supreme Court to Let Unlock Local Channels · · Score: 1

    Echostar hasn't got spot beams. And they are subject to must carry too. So they're getting screwed right now.

    Echostar has been fighting this since 1996 when Primetime 24 got sued, way before anyone came up with spotbeams. To them it is a matter of free speech and choice, not a problem with spotbeams.

    Unless they can get some spot beams up real fast. And they can't, for at least a year.

    Sorry, they just launched one and another one is going up is a couple of months.

  14. Merrill Lynch was at the VS .Net Launch on Wall Street Embraces Linux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I guess they are playing both sides.

    http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2002/fe b0 2/02-13revolutionpr.asp

    "At Merrill Lynch we've found that .NET is allowing us to get products to market quicker than we have historically. And ultimately this drives the bottom line impact," said Byron Vielehr, chief technology officer, private client technology, at Merrill Lynch.
  15. Read it for yourself... on Red Hat CTO Testifies at MS trial · · Score: 1

    Instead of getting your news second hand, Microsoft has been kind enough to post daily transcripts from the proceedings. They even have some exhibits posted. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/legal/nonsettli ng.asp