The new inkjet platform, which will initially be geared toward the high end of the market, will incorporate the print head in the printer itself rather than in the ink cartridge...
I thought that's what Epson printers had/did anyway. Which is why, I believe, that after a while I coudn't get good print output from my Epson since it gummed up between the cartridge and the head, so I chucked it.
Have you seen some of the textbooks lately? They're like MTV standing still. Scads of color pictures, and enough current pop culture such that no kid in their right mind would want those books 2 years from now since they would be soooooo dated, and you know they can't learn without up-to-date information. And to stuff all those pictures in there, and, oh yeah, the subject matter, too, they're absolutely huge. And that's just the math books.
No wonder kids have attention spans in the tenths of seconds. That's what they're getting fed.
I believe that IT people are going to end up like teachers and nurses: an unbelievable need, but nobody wants to pay for them. Hence the chronic "shortage". Thing is, you can't offshore teachers and nurses.
Certain areas of programming lend it self away from offshoring and H-1B visa holders. Here in the defense industry we have the confidence that our programing requires US citizens holding security clearances.
Yah, but you don't know which non-secret parts the contracting companies are sub-contracting offshore.
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I thought that's what Epson printers had/did anyway. Which is why, I believe, that after a while I coudn't get good print output from my Epson since it gummed up between the cartridge and the head, so I chucked it.
No wonder kids have attention spans in the tenths of seconds. That's what they're getting fed.
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I think he means he wants Redmond to open up the wallet.
Distributed Internet Backup System: I backup your stuff, you backup mine. All encrypted.
The ping-pong ball is on fire.
Yet.
Microsoft Bob
Yah, but you don't know which non-secret parts the contracting companies are sub-contracting offshore.
Do you?
I guess you could call it Javascript.