Berkeley research shows that "We estimate that new stored information grew about 30% a year between 1999 and 2002."
If website attacks grew by 36% and the internet grew by 30%, I wouldn't look at this as about on par with internet growth. You are right to say that this isn't a big deal.
I had more faith in ZDNet for publishing the obvious. Maybe next week they'll run a story about how the world population increase is due to children as well.
Star wars fans, confused and bewildered, have begun huddling around random television sets not sure where they are supposed to be in line at to eagerly anticipate the new t.v. show.
Last time I remember we shipped in really cheap labor was from Africa just before a horrible war broke out. If my memory serves me correctly, it wasn't very humane then, just as it isn't very humane now either. Corporate greed must not have learned this history lesson.
JAY
I'd say we've got about five minutes left to live; the whole world's going to end. You said you'd fuck me.
BETHANY
Are you a complete lunatic?! Everyone's out there
battling that thing and you want to cower back here and jump my bones?! We have to go down fighting!
JAY
No - no time for that foreplay stuff, just sex.
BETHANY
You pig...!
JAY
What?! It's all over; nobody's gonna beat that
thing! Now we can either lay here all comatose
like that John Doe Jersey bastard behind us, or we can make with the love.
Am I the only one who sees this as a genius marketing move? How long have consumer electronics been debuted at trade show events without any coverage except on Tech/G4-Tv.
MTV may no longer play music videos, but they get great ratings, and specifically within those great ratings is the hard to reach demographic that the XBOX should appeal to.
Congrats to Microsoft for being the first to figure this out. Keep an eye out for Sony to follow their lead if this works out well.
Not everyone can come up with something as creative as the 'Check Engine' light to not confuse drivers with technical jargon. Undisputedly the most helpful diagnostic item in a car...
Maybe we should just put a big red siren ontop of the computer that can go off when something is wrong with it. That definately would clear up some confusion. We wouldn't want to force people to actually learn how to safely secure their home computers.
The country someone was born in has nothing to do with their capacity for learning.
If your claim that U.S. students are not as motivated or interested in R&D work due to our society then I agree with you, but to classify an entire nation into a group of lesser intelligent species I would have to assume you have no idea what you are talking about.
Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin would not have circles run around them by anyone, and I'm sure if they were able to read your post they would simply quiver that the thought you yourself were a CS student.
You're broad generalizations leave me wondering how naive you actually are, american or not.
The average salary of most programmers is above this! I mean, figuratively, any programmer could give up their years salary, live on ramen for a while, in turn for wireless power and/or ultra-strength tether, and turn around and sell the patent for........
<dr.evil>1 Billion Dollars!!!! </dr.evil>
I mean, come on, how much are sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads? 25,000?
As sad as it sounds, I highly doubt microsoft will enforce 100% compliance with web standards even though it would be very easy for them to do.
Why do you ask? Simple. It's the same reason Microsoft has chosen to make everything different from the standard. As long as they control the operating system, they control the components of that operating system and people are more prone to use their products to maintain an industry standard.
As soon as users can get exactly the same performance from IE as another browser then an even larger number of users will switch. The same holds true for any other component of that operating system. Microsoft knows this, just as everyone who reads this article knows this.
Put a woman in a room with 30 sexually-deprived males with no sense of chivalry and I bet she'll be chomping at the bit to work long hours and talk about how the 312th episode of Star Trek dramatically changed your life.
I understand this is a stereotype, and this does not hold true for alot of males in IT, but at the same time those of you this does not hold true for, know someone who it does apply to.
Just as the old addage goes, a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch. In this case, one or two bad apples will make a woman feel uncomfortable, unappreciated, and uneasy about their work environment. Could you blame them for leaving?
Those who have noted here that, until we break the "geek" stereotype and start acting like professionals we're always be treated like "geeks".
For example, look at a doctor. The profession is a highly-skilled science based profession, but there is no stigma. I've never heard a doctor spouting off about "How hot Anna Kournikova was and how they were going to go home and build a website in her honor". Anyone getting the picture yet?
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If website attacks grew by 36% and the internet grew by 30%, I wouldn't look at this as about on par with internet growth. You are right to say that this isn't a big deal.
I had more faith in ZDNet for publishing the obvious. Maybe next week they'll run a story about how the world population increase is due to children as well.
Star wars fans, confused and bewildered, have begun huddling around random television sets not sure where they are supposed to be in line at to eagerly anticipate the new t.v. show.
Last time I remember we shipped in really cheap labor was from Africa just before a horrible war broke out. If my memory serves me correctly, it wasn't very humane then, just as it isn't very humane now either. Corporate greed must not have learned this history lesson.
I'd say we've got about five minutes left to live; the whole world's going to end. You said you'd fuck me.
BETHANY
Are you a complete lunatic?! Everyone's out there battling that thing and you want to cower back here and jump my bones?! We have to go down fighting!
JAY
No - no time for that foreplay stuff, just sex.
BETHANY
You pig...!
JAY
What?! It's all over; nobody's gonna beat that thing! Now we can either lay here all comatose like that John Doe Jersey bastard behind us, or we can make with the love.
MTV may no longer play music videos, but they get great ratings, and specifically within those great ratings is the hard to reach demographic that the XBOX should appeal to.
Congrats to Microsoft for being the first to figure this out. Keep an eye out for Sony to follow their lead if this works out well.
Maybe we should just put a big red siren ontop of the computer that can go off when something is wrong with it. That definately would clear up some confusion. We wouldn't want to force people to actually learn how to safely secure their home computers.
The country someone was born in has nothing to do with their capacity for learning. If your claim that U.S. students are not as motivated or interested in R&D work due to our society then I agree with you, but to classify an entire nation into a group of lesser intelligent species I would have to assume you have no idea what you are talking about. Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin would not have circles run around them by anyone, and I'm sure if they were able to read your post they would simply quiver that the thought you yourself were a CS student. You're broad generalizations leave me wondering how naive you actually are, american or not.
<dr.evil>1 Billion Dollars!!!! </dr.evil>
I mean, come on, how much are sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads? 25,000?
I can give you 17.5 million reasons why they want to sue google.
Why do you ask? Simple. It's the same reason Microsoft has chosen to make everything different from the standard. As long as they control the operating system, they control the components of that operating system and people are more prone to use their products to maintain an industry standard.
As soon as users can get exactly the same performance from IE as another browser then an even larger number of users will switch. The same holds true for any other component of that operating system. Microsoft knows this, just as everyone who reads this article knows this.
Now we just need to get the RIAA to read a few articles.
Women are smarter than men because you give us a bad reputation not even knowing how to spell "dying"
Put a woman in a room with 30 sexually-deprived males with no sense of chivalry and I bet she'll be chomping at the bit to work long hours and talk about how the 312th episode of Star Trek dramatically changed your life. I understand this is a stereotype, and this does not hold true for alot of males in IT, but at the same time those of you this does not hold true for, know someone who it does apply to. Just as the old addage goes, a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch. In this case, one or two bad apples will make a woman feel uncomfortable, unappreciated, and uneasy about their work environment. Could you blame them for leaving? Those who have noted here that, until we break the "geek" stereotype and start acting like professionals we're always be treated like "geeks". For example, look at a doctor. The profession is a highly-skilled science based profession, but there is no stigma. I've never heard a doctor spouting off about "How hot Anna Kournikova was and how they were going to go home and build a website in her honor". Anyone getting the picture yet?