Hyperbole called, and wants this entire thread back. Irony could not be reached for comment.

I'm not dead yet!"

Perhaps the survey should have been titled: "Those who like to write tend to be better writers."

The survey designers have put the cart before the horse. The students are not better writers because of their use of new technology, but use new technology because they are better writers and well . . . like to write.

Think about it. Have you ever met a blogger that didn't enjoy writing?

I see this all the time in my classroom. The kids who write better produce more finished copy, and write more often as well. When we type our papers in the computer lab the better writer will complete one paper in the time their neighbor (the poor writer) has typed one sentence. . . and changed the font 43 times.

I hope they aren't using the statistics on this stuff for anything important - talk about a vastly biased sampled. The majority of people don't know what DNS is, let alone how to change the DNS server.

This is quite a setback. Now we'll never find alien life.

Think of the Aliens, please.

Something tells me that bomb builders want hardware that Just Works.

I'd bet on it.

I don't know about you, but I don't know any Americans who "rejoice" at the exploitation of cheap workers

Perhaps not, but then I don't know many people who "rejoice" at the way battery farm chickens are kept, while they tuck into their bucket of KFC.

Face it, you are a nation of consumers with no real manufacturing left. You all demand cheap goods, and if that comes with the price of outsourcing to foreign sweatshops, you accept it by turning a blind eye ... if all your manufacturing was done inside the US, none of you could afford to buy anything.

And this isn't particularly a dig at the US ... I think all Western economies will go the same way, as the governments and people all have the same short-sighted attitude. Pretty soon the only things left will be service jobs and tech jobs in the West, all manufacturing and production will be done in China and the surrounding ASEAN nations.

What is it with today's obsessions with feelings ? We're getting to the point where you can no longer say "it's bad to stone women", because it might hurt the feelings of muslims.

Welcome to the reality : caution ... reality may not always immediately gratify your feelings, and may in fact hurt them. In case you really can't deal with this : you know the exit ...

A UNIX certification, like most, is about money, pay and get certified, don't and you won't. It has nothing to do with quality.