Linus - (( "I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease" )) Ballmer - (( "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," ))

I am not sure if it is fair to compare Ubuntu Jaunty with Fedora, IIRC RHEL is a stable release so is Ubuntu Jaunty, and fedora is more like a dev release that tracks upstream closely. Similarly, Ubuntu Karmic is the dev version that tracks upstream closely before a stable cut of it is released. So probably comparing fedora to Ubuntu Karmic is a fair comparison.

In an interview Steve Jobs said of msft, that msft is a company with no original ideas. I think it is the same even today, but there is one difference. We had Bill Gate who always looks calm and composed, although in reality he is supposed to be really annoying person, and we have SteveO who runs up and down a stage screaming, and had to have throat surgery after screaming "developers developers developers", he is really on some kind of crack. I think in few years msft will turn into a litigation house, like sco they will go down as a technology company that puts out more law suites than any new technology. msft under gates was a marketing company with a very strong arm & huge muscles. Under steveO it will soon turn into a law firm with huge muscles & small a d***.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

Introduce a bug to squash another bug!

Windows7->WindowsVista->WindowsXP->Windows95...

From the question and all the comments above, it is clear that the focus of one going to university is not education or knowledge but ROI. If you really want to make great returns you don't need any degree, many of the business owners I know dont even have high school. But, if you are really interested in gaining more knowledge then go for your MS. MS degree should add more weight when when you apply for a job, and when you switch jobs. Also, it will help you when you see a leadership position within any large corp. Also, some of the more influential friends I made were my classmates from my MS program :)

So go for it if you genuinely feel like you need to learn more, its not all about ROI, it should be really about knowledge and experience you gain from your MS program.

Obviously the guy who wrote this article is not a programmer, he is a liberal arts major and knows a little about the crisis... nice interesting read.
I did not like the fact that he claimed that he was over paid all along his career, and compared the work done by some oyster farmer to being harder than a computer programmer, sounded more like a pol-pot fan.

"and goats are a lot cuter to watch than lawn mowers" How much time do you spend watching lawn mowers or ..now.. goats ?

What? Mercury? .... made in china?

How much did you make this year ?

ok send it in!

"" Vista today, post-Service Pack 2, which is now in the marketplace, is the safest, most reliable OS we've ever built ""

Micro$oft is finally admitting it.... Or in other words "this is the best we can do".

Even obama said that 10yrs from now most of the high paying jobs will require at least a 4 yr degree, and even higher paying jobs like in engineering and sciences will requires 4yrs+. I think the president should have a very high level view which most of us cannot possibly have, which means there should be some merit to what he said. Go for it dude, you will be 35 anyway, why not get a degree along the way?

I am surprised that these are listed as *new* features, I must admit the last windows I used was W95, so I have lost track of what windows can do. But what is listed as *new* is pretty standard on other operating systems I have used.

The other 2/3rds is XP - Ubuntu dual boot.

It takes 8yrs for an H1B to become a permanent resident, for something that should realistically happen over night or in 24hrs. Bureaucracy accounts for most of the time taken. If H1B workers are quickly moved to permanent resident status we wont have issues wrt to unfair or unequal compensation. Corps will be forced to compensate US citizens & others fairly. Mr Bill runs a business not a social service program, he will hire those who work for less pay. Don't blame Mr Bill, blame your friendly bureaucrats.