He can do whatever he wants, just please let him wait until I've graduated and got a job already.
Seriously though, I don't see why he cares about importing people to work at Redmond. If all he wants to do is crank out code, couldn't he offshore the project to southern Asia and have them do it there? It doesn't matter where the code is written after all, and that method avoids pesky labor laws. Or is Gates trying to take foreign labor out of the realm of just shitting out code and bring it into the realm of design, and other higher-level work that's until now presumably been performed by American workers? If that's the case, I'm getting worried about my future. How's the market for male prostitutes looking?
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I gained the title of "Head Browser Evangelist" in the university IT department where I am a part-time employee because I tried to switch every user I spoke with to Firefox. Why? Because I was sick and tired of taking spyware calls. Certianly when they called me about spyware, I told them to switch. But even if they were calling me on an unrelated problem, I asked them what they were running and if it was IE, I told them to switch. Was I being overly aggressive trying to get people to switch? Maybe. But my job is to make computing on campus the most pleasant experience it can be for our users, and this year we get about 1/6 the spyware calls we did last year. Also, everyone I converted prefers FireFox to IE. I've never heard of a switchback.
A lot of those features touted in the headline are features that I've been using for years with alternative clients.
Oh, but what's this? Support for VOIP? Address books? Plug-in architechture? Now it's sounding more interesting. I may have to start using the AIM client again.
I won't buy a phone, because it's just a phone. I won't buy a PDA because it doesn't do anything that I want to do better than a day planner. I do want a PDA, I just have historically tended to favor paper ones (I guess you'd call those PPAs). I'm not closed to the idea of changing platforms, though.
This could be what finally gets me to buy a cell phone. I've held out on phones because they don't do enough else to make me buy one (or they can do things like calendar and note-taking, but I prefer in interface of my day planner), and I've held out on PDAs because they're expensive and also aren't superior to my day planner. But if Dell markets a well-designed phone with serious computing power and a good interface, that may be the killer app that finally drags me kicking and screaming into the market. Here's hoping they can sell real multi-function phones with the quality and price that they've been providing computers at.
If this gets implimented on a wide scale, I think we will see bootable Linux cds with the nvidia kernel and doom3 or halflife2 installed becomming very popular.
If the kids are making those CDs themselves, then they're probably good enough to work around this program. If they're getting them from computer-savvy friends, the exercise probably won't instill in them the kind of creativity in subversion that you're hoping for.
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Seriously though, I don't see why he cares about importing people to work at Redmond. If all he wants to do is crank out code, couldn't he offshore the project to southern Asia and have them do it there? It doesn't matter where the code is written after all, and that method avoids pesky labor laws. Or is Gates trying to take foreign labor out of the realm of just shitting out code and bring it into the realm of design, and other higher-level work that's until now presumably been performed by American workers? If that's the case, I'm getting worried about my future. How's the market for male prostitutes looking?
many of us work in the IT field I gained the title of "Head Browser Evangelist" in the university IT department where I am a part-time employee because I tried to switch every user I spoke with to Firefox. Why? Because I was sick and tired of taking spyware calls. Certianly when they called me about spyware, I told them to switch. But even if they were calling me on an unrelated problem, I asked them what they were running and if it was IE, I told them to switch. Was I being overly aggressive trying to get people to switch? Maybe. But my job is to make computing on campus the most pleasant experience it can be for our users, and this year we get about 1/6 the spyware calls we did last year. Also, everyone I converted prefers FireFox to IE. I've never heard of a switchback.
A lot of those features touted in the headline are features that I've been using for years with alternative clients. Oh, but what's this? Support for VOIP? Address books? Plug-in architechture? Now it's sounding more interesting. I may have to start using the AIM client again.
I won't buy a phone, because it's just a phone. I won't buy a PDA because it doesn't do anything that I want to do better than a day planner. I do want a PDA, I just have historically tended to favor paper ones (I guess you'd call those PPAs). I'm not closed to the idea of changing platforms, though.
This could be what finally gets me to buy a cell phone. I've held out on phones because they don't do enough else to make me buy one (or they can do things like calendar and note-taking, but I prefer in interface of my day planner), and I've held out on PDAs because they're expensive and also aren't superior to my day planner. But if Dell markets a well-designed phone with serious computing power and a good interface, that may be the killer app that finally drags me kicking and screaming into the market. Here's hoping they can sell real multi-function phones with the quality and price that they've been providing computers at.
If this gets implimented on a wide scale, I think we will see bootable Linux cds with the nvidia kernel and doom3 or halflife2 installed becomming very popular.
If the kids are making those CDs themselves, then they're probably good enough to work around this program. If they're getting them from computer-savvy friends, the exercise probably won't instill in them the kind of creativity in subversion that you're hoping for.