My wife (music major) says, "It looks like a Microsoft gimmick." Cloud meant one thing and now it seems to be Web 2.0 Application(s).

How many people choose IE to get at that other 10% of the World Wide Web?

When my wife discovered Netflix streaming I had to switch from Linux to OS-X.

When it comes to accessing information, people will put in some extra time/money/effort.

But if a company is trying to do it right...

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"Never memorize what you can look up in books." - Albert Einstein

As quoted in "Recording the Experience" (10 June 2004) at The Library of Congress

Some would say that if your software can utilize 24 cores, it is good.

"EU regulators suspect an abuse of a dominant position and illegal tying of IBM's mainframe hardware to its proprietary mainframe operating system z/OS."

"Like Macintosh and OSX?"

"Like the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad and iOS?"

Given the results, I find it hard to see why this is bad.

I want to play martian cave man.

The quantity of taxes to be paid by the community must be the same in either case; with this advantage--if the provision is to be made by the Union--that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society. Happy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of its own power coincides with a proper distribution of the public burdens and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!

Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 36

Point taken, however allow me to relay my sister's experience.

She sowed all her life, starting as soon as our mother would let her. She was very bright, successfully combining her last two years of high school and first two years of college. Then off to university to study Fashion Design. Where her intelligence and experience blew away her professors and had the other students coming to her, begging for help.

Then it came time for her and her classmates to exhibit their work. They had always done this for the new students using manikins and tables of drawings / portfolios. Some from the industry showed up and items quickly and quietly disappeared.

The format was abandoned, for actual fashion shows. These have the distinct advantage that the model might scream if someone tries to steal their clothing. Teams of security personal were placed at all entrances where the students' work would be.

Off to New York to finish her education and hopefully land a job. While their, my sister created one piece that sent her instructor literally yelling down the hallway, "Come see what my student has created, you will not believe it." At first the assembled staff was speechless. Then they excitedly started to analyze it and try to figure out how it was made, my sister literally had to step in when the seam-rippers came out.

At this point she had become the darling of two fashion schools. Ahead of her interviews, advice started to pour in from every instructor she had ever had. While one department head tried to get her to stay in academia, to groom her as her replacement, one piece of advice was consistent...

"Do not, under any circumstances, let the interviewer alone with your portfolio."

"Why?"

"They will find a way to copy it and you have just given them their new fall line."

My sister did hold her designs close. After being interviewed by the company she always said she wanted to work for and for a position in the city she wanted, they offered to fly her out to see their facilities. According to her professors, this was a sure sign that a job offer was coming. She declined stating, "This industry is too cutthroat, I don't think I can work in it."

She then went back to school to study Civil Engineering.

First, including a link doesn't make you a programmer.

Second, what are you graduating from (high school, technical college, university)? With what kind of degree?

To directly address your question, most entry level positions require two years experience. You need to figure out how to get that experience!

I graduated right before September 11, 2001 and wound up taking an IT support job where they needed some programing done as well. It was a long haul (almost eight years of more and more development), however I just started my first senior developer position. Everyone has to start somewhere!

1. Break the program into it's component parts.
2. For each component ask, "How long should this take?"
3. Multiply that number by three and record it.
4. Add up all the numbers.

I have used this method successfully for projects lasting only a few hours up to six months.

"I'm going to be really sad to see STS-133 land."
Challenger breaking up on re-entry hit me very hard. I will be happy to see it land, safely.