That actually destroys a little bit more of my faith in NASA :(

But don't they just 'make' the equipment, opposed to NASA designing the crafts?

But all designed by NASA yeah?

NASA will have loads of engineers who will blue print and decide exactly what they want before making others bid for it.

Other contractors won't be specifically developing any technology then going to pitch it to NASA. NASA decides what they want, and gives the designs to others to develop. So yeah I think what I said above holds.

Private companies with little experience vs all of NASA's experience??

They really need to rethink retiring the shuttles untill ares/constellation or whatever its called is running.

Yeah cheaper access to code is better, more competition makes the field better but there is a point when you realise that programming is difficult work!

For crap applications sure you can knock something out relatively quickly but it definitely won't be bug free or stable! It takes a lot of a software engineers time to get design a good app.

Would you suggest that a software engineer should be paid less than a civil engineer? or a electrical engineer? Proper software development is difficult, tiring and sometimes thankless work( because a lot of manager types don't understand how complex coding can be ) which should be rewarded in the bare minimum with a good wage.

that software dev wages are now so low, even in India. How low can they really push these wages??

Our SMS is intrusive!

I'm really amazed that more chinese people don't leave the country.

Wouldn't want any of my important data stored on a system which has performance issues...

Or having to wait significantly longer than I would storing my data locally!

Yeah they did, it was too stop the chinese from adopting red flag linux(their own build of linux) as their operating system for the government. The Chinese basically said they wouldn't trust MS not to spy on them without seeing the source code.

His maths are fine, he was replying to a comment that mentioned IE 6, which was released side by side with Win XP(2001). Now IE 1 has been available since 95 or 96.

When I was younger and went to church, I asked this question to the local minister who replied that the bible talks about 'behemoths'. Always wondered why more church folk didn't use this stance. Seems a better excuse that the standard crap!

Wonder if stuff like this will affect how google, ms, yahoo etc do business in france? Maybe they'll have less incentive to have any offices there? Any newcomers into the field would definitely would view extra taxes as a turn off from having an office in france!

Great fun as a console, but there is no denying that it had a huge problems. Scratching discs (which could be fixed by placing padding into the optical drive, pretty lame for ms not to include said padding in the first place!), failing optical drives and of course rrod! Those can be described as pretty lame!

I might be wrong, but isn't that the same model that most *nix & bsd systems follow? Same basic terminal, with a GUI over it?