__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 17 November 2006 04:40 \__
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> [snips]
>>
>> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:29:02 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
>>
>>> I would imagine that the underlying problem is triggered by the yahoo
>>> toolbar, but could also be triggered by something else. Anyone selecting
>>> Microsoft for something like this is asking for problems.
>>
>> Yeah, but you miss the point. If this isn't someone's personal desktop,
>> what is the Yahoo toolbar doing on it *at all*? Why is there *anything*
>> on it beyond the tools absolutely required to simply running the monitors?
>>
>
> My point was that it might not just be the yahoo tool bar which triggers
> the problem. The problem is probably not the toolbar, but something
> underlying, just waiting to be triggered.
A bit off topic, I know, but have a l@@k...
Computer industry 'faces crisis'
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| Unless steps are taken now, there will not be enough qualified
| graduates to meet the demands of UK industry, warned Professor
| Nigel Shadbolt.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6155998.stm
Frankly, I don't agree with him. This was inevitable and there is not much
that you can do to change that. There is only this illusion that the market
anticipates graduates rather than consider offshoring or employing 'toner
monkeys'. Over 90% of the IT (or was it programming) workers in the UK are
extremely stressed at work. Getting long-term contracts is an impossibility.
These people dread the thought of having to stroke these keyboards, coding
or being sacked (replaced). There was a survey/study earlier this year...
Kids in the UK no longer pursue Computer Science, but can you blame them? I
urge everyone who asks me to avoid the field merely because its controlled
by predatory monopolies that allow no harmony and raise the barriers to
entry. Open Source, if it was properly adopted a decade ago, would have
prevented all of this.
Also see this story which supports my case:
Just what is Oracle indemnifying, anyway
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| I have no problem with Oracle providing real support and real
| indemnification. That's just competition. But I have a strong
| aversion to duplicitous, deceitful posturing to hurt a competitor
| without engaging it on your own merits. Oracle does a lot of things
| really well - why not compete with Red Hat on those terms, rather
| than on Oracle's ability to FUD?
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http://asay.blogspot.com/2006/11/just-what-is-oracle-indemnifying.html#comments
As I said, it's an off-topic post, but I hope you find it informative and
perhaps interesting. Journalists are probably going through the same cycle
of problems due to the Internet (and technology in general).
Best wishes,
Roy
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