The sick part is this is what you see. They want all this experience and pay nothing. I don't know about everyone else but getting degrees and certifications "cost" money to obtain. When the IT guys (myself included) stop selling ourselves short then the market will change. The problem is they starve some out and they will take a job they are overqualified for and get paid peanuts then the rest of the industry thinks this should be the norm. I have been in IT for over 10 years and this trend has not changed. At least not in the midwest. I see more jobs with temp to hire, wanting all these certifications and experience but the pay doesn't match. Go in the interview and if you ask for "proper compensation consideration" and you know you won't get the job because they mark you as greedy. In this job climate this is what you are going to see. It is an employers market. With over 10% out of work this is the way they want it.

That is what they are. Educated guesses. The scientist gets some information and builds a consensus on a rough time frame. They could be off by a million years but close enough when you are talking billion years. Carbon dating probably couldn't work either because of the differences in atmosphere. It would be cool to send humans to Mars to say we did it and bring back tangible proof like we did for the moon in the 60's. NASA has been wasting alot of money on the shuttle these days and needs to get the next vehicle ready now. Relying on the Russians to transit to and from the ISS is inexcusable for this country. Then on to the moon and build a station on the moon. At first unmanned but eventually setup to be manned like we currently do with the ISS. The only issues would be meteor strikes or significant failure that would prevent astronauts from escaping if there was a life threatening issue.

There was a guard there according to the article. Until it is figured out how to prevent this kind of stuff, this will happen. However to say that is not worth it. Say that to a relative of someone who died in an aircraft that a terrorist got on. A human life is worth more then that. At least it should be.

Well put. We need people like you to run for public office. Tell it how it is and not try to regulate things that shouldn't be. As long as you can turn down large bribes by lobyists and organizations trying to get you to "see" things their way.

I agree. I don't want one tied to my wireless bill or watch ads. If this means subsidized it will fail big time. And the specs are what they want to target. Doesn't mean they will be able to pull it off. Most of these start out saying they can do a through z and when you get to production they can do a through m. Hype!!! Until they have a shipping unit that someone can see, touch and kick the tires on its all speculation.

Just wait till the anointed one (Obama) gets done with his first four years in office. The national debt will be staggering with this health care take over. He will do more damage to this country in 4 years then GW or any other right winger could do in a decade. Just wait and see. When the US gets to a point when there is more then 2 party system to elect officials we are forever going back and forth over this power struggle that gets this country nowhere. I hated both candidates in the last election. We were doomed either way some say. Until the government throws out special interest, lobyists, and other bogus groups trying to buy the government and get it back to serving the people of this country I am scared for my children's future and the future of this country. China is going to own us if this keeps up.

Apple will really make market share when they don't overcharge for their hardware. I don't care that it is spec'd for their OS. The same spec in a PC is substantially cheaper in most cases. When Apple gets more market share and the virus writers start targeting their OS like they do Windows they will see that there not as secure as they thought. Windows still has some work in the security department obviously but it is improving. What it really comes down to with people is cost. When a person walks into Best Buy and can get a pretty powerful PC for less then the entry level Apple they will go that route. Money versus performance. If Apple competitively priced their systems against a PC the market share would shift alot quicker. The next decade will decide if Microsoft endures or falls even further or if Linux and/or Apple take over. I would put money on Microsoft that they will still hold the market share based alone on the server OS. I work in software that is supported (business application) that runs on various platforms. One platform that we don't support is Apple. Why? Not in demand for communications software for major business. Mostly windows, then Linux/Unix and then AS/400.

Windows is still the defacto OS on shipped computers these days. Say what you will but this has not changed. Vista got a lot of bad press. Once the service pack was released it was better. Still not great but better. I ran it with no issues. I moved to 7 and love it. Much less overhead and everything just works. I still have a linux desktop and use it as well. Choice is great but M$ bashing is the norm on here. Without M$ the PC market may not have taken off. At least it wouldn't have like it is today. We all know M$ has a bad reputation on some business practices but they also did alot for the PC world as well.

The reason I think Firefox is taking off is the fact that in IE8 the stop back and forward buttons most of us internet old timers are used to have gone away. People find that confusing. Firefox is getting bloated. They need to come out with a lite version. The plugins are nice but load a few and it takes forever for the browser to open except on fast machines. For the OS Windows 7 is a nice improvement. 7 is what Vista should have been. Also Mandrake's latest version is pretty nice as well.

For some people that use those services this will be good for them. If and when it gets installed as a default OS for a laptop or netbook remains to be seen. I have been looking at the netbooks but couldn't stomach getting one with XP. 7 might be ok if they tune down its resource requirements or turn some of the eye candy off. Competition is usually a good thing but this is more of Google trying to stomp on Microsoft some as they have been trying everything to get into search more with bing and making it default on their browsers. When a user doesn't have a choice of OS, browser and search engine then we can all scream that it is a conspiracy.

As long as I can format the hard drive and install the OS of my choice without notifying said company of that. LOL. Otherwise no thanks.

How is a tweet requesting calm going to do anything. Most of the people wouldn't pay any attention. The cops should have just used their loudspeaker and told the attendees to calm it down or be arrested. The arresting officer should have some unpaid time off at least for being so stupid.