Or you have, say, a family, and your children have a desire and aptitude for fields that really do need a college degree. Or should only the children of the ruling class get to aspire to something other than a phone tech gig?

Oh there are lots of candidates, but they want to be paid first world wages. That's the real issue.

Oh, I had to suffer through a Windows Mobile phone for awhile, (Never, ever again.) so I have had experience with the bastard children of Windows. Thing is, now they're all bastard children. They've thrown out the wheat and kept the chaff. In trying to enter a market in which they have very little penetration, and very little experience, and in keeping with this insane policy of "one GUI to rule them all", they've absolutely screwed their core. That's not the way to be successful.

> especially if and when prices for the simplest members of the family get down to where Phil thinks they should be.

Has anyone tried to get Chrome running on the Raspberry Pi?

I didn't say *where* I was going to sleep...

Thank you. I'll take the Score:5, but it wasn't meant to be funny.

> I was saddened to see Ballmer go.

Agreed. If nothing else, he was entertaining.

Really? Or has the captain issued a press release intended to placate passengers while doubling down on the course into the rocks?

> I tried to figure that out too. The article is talking about the future, Microsoft's intentions, so it would be fair for them to say they intended to change it in the future.

And who, not under the influence of recreational pharmaceuticals, would actually believe that?

> No longer are there different kernels for Windows 8, Windows Phone or Windows RT it's now all just One Windows.

Maybe not right now, but soon. And that's a good thing how?

> As goes the Windows kernel, so goes the entire company.

Um, yep. And again, that's a good thing how?

Coding is outsourced to India these days. Would be better to say "you can't teach a coal miner to say 'would you like fries with that'". Except... you can.

I think the most useful talent I've developed is the ability to go to sleep fast and to wake up fast and alert. When the phone rings or pager goes off, the faster you can reach "full on", find and fix the problem, and get back to sleep, the more sleep you get in the long run. Cohorts who have trouble getting to sleep after a late night emergency tend to be seriously dragging by the end of their oncall time.

I recall seeing this effect in some series from the nineties and earlier in a movie. It's an obvious but not terribly useful technique that we've know of for a couple decades at least. Did I drift onto the "idle" page by accident?

From a practical standpoint, it depends on who doesn't like him.

...and then destroys the eavesdropping tool after he catches the bad guy. Really.