Which conservatives? The 'Fiscal' ones are the ones bought by Corporate America, and are for open borders, even letting in immigrants from Muslim countries - like the Tsarnaevs, the Taheriazars, the Hassan Akbars, et al, since a good deal of their funding comes from the Sheikhs in Dubai, Bahrein, Dhahran and Doha. The 'America first' conservatives are the ones for putting a lid on immigration, and have no answers about what would happen when either the jobs are offshored (if it is a J2EE programmer which can be offshored to Bangalore) or when one pays $10 for a head of lettuce. The first group is winning, not only due to the money backing, but also due to the fact that the GOP, having lost the Black & Jewish vote, wants to avoid the same thing happening w/ the Hispanic & Muzzie vote. Which also explains why so many Republicans, like Chris Christie, Daryl Issa, Rick Snyder et al are happy to cuddle up to Hamas, while endorsing a Pali state

Better idea to automate the off-shore jobs so that instead of we losing our jobs, Asians lose theirs

Check out Russian and Mexican job boards, like the GP presumably did

Sorry, most of us have a life outside work. Within work, we are expected to actively keep working on projects, and do what we can to enable them to get completed on target. So there ain't much scope to keep contact with professionals during work hours (unless one really gives it a low priority), and after hours, most normal people have a life. Be it family, or other hobbies. I value contacts with other people, but regardless of that, your contacts can only help you if there actually is a vacancy in the company that they influence that actually matches your experience. Otherwise, all that time you've been flushing down a sink in the name of 'networking' ain't worth squat!

Not too long. Politicians are busy pandering to illegals and trying to get them a path to citizenship - look at Hilary, Lindsay Gramm, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, et al. But once they get their way, a day will come when illegals will demand the right to have an illegal as a president or CEO or elected rep. It'll be funny at least to see the politicians cook in their own cauldron

No, nurses have to be brought here, and that raises the costs of having them. The reason there are such nurses is that a lot of locals would avoid flyover country, usually wanting a job in their home city. Not that there's anything wrong w/ the latter, but end result is that there remains a need for such people in flyover country, but not enough willing to do it. Bottom line - demand exceeds supply, which is why they're there. As a result, the H1B nurses would be high cost as well, since there are not too many of them to begin w/.

IT, by contrast, as someone else pointed out above - was very high cost, and had a problem of employee retention. That, and the fact that it could be done remotely, contributed to the bulk of it being off-shored. Plumbing, by contrast, has to be done locally, and if there is a shortage of local workers, bringing in migrant workers will be more expensive, not cheap, since demand will still exceed supply. No matter how many H1Bs or even illegals come in. Only way to make plumbing cheaper is if it can be automated.

Which after a while will get outsourced to China & India, so that their trade unions can work for both their own workers, and ours

Maybe patent law could be useful, if one is coming from a tech background

Ever heard of LPO - Legal Process Outsourcing? What do you think that is?

Not icon colors. In Windows 8.x, in the metro side, you had 'themes' where you could change the color of the background of the icons (not talking about the desktop here), and have some of the themes they had pre-installed. It would also be the color of the login screen (not the wallpaper when it goes into standby). When you go to Windows 10, the separate screen for metro is gone (which people had been demanding), but now, there is no way to change the background color of the login screen. I had selected something for 8.1, but wanted to change that when I moved to 10. So far, I can't.

As for OneDrive, it's worked great for me - when I had a Lumia, and now, the same account works on my Winbook tablet. Under 8.1, I didn't have the above problem: OneDrive was shadowed on to my SD card, and I was perfectly happy. Windows 10 tells me that the SD card is an invalid place to shadow my OneDrive folders and files.

A few days ago, I dropped a tablet that I had and it stopped working, and took it back to MicroCenter. They replaced it for free, telling me that it couldn't be fixed. The SD card was pretty handy. The replacement tablet was where I upgraded to 10 Preview, and am now using. Anything happens to this one as well, I am SOL. As it is, I spent some cash in getting customized screen protectors, and that's not covered in any replacement. So I do hope that OneDrive addresses this by allowing shadowing to one's SD card

The other issue - since MS is doing a file system improvement, why don't they introduce the concept of volume managers in the newest file system, so that one can 'grow' the C:\ into the SD card and avoid such conflicts, instead of calling it D:\ and installing everything to the limited space in C:\? Doesn't make much sense.

I have used it. The Video app in both 8.1 and 10 Preview - which I have on my new WinBook tablet. One thing I think the Video app could use is Playlists, which iOS supports. On my iPad - which I use in the car as an iPod - I have some music videos included in playlists that I can play, even though they are music videos rather than audio songs. On the Winbook, there is no way to make Playlists in the video app, and the Music app doesn't recognize the video formats the way iOS Music app does.

DRM? I've yet to figure out what Microsoft's DRM policy is. On my Android tablet, none of the video downloading apps that I've found in the Google Play store will allow downloading YouTube videos, since that's against YouTube's terms of service. On the Windows tablet, I downloaded an app called Hyper, which has sometimes allowed me to do that, but has often failed, w/o giving me that same message. I'm not sure whether it's b'cos Google has done a better job blocking such downloadds, or b'cos the app itself had bugs.

The above ideas are good. But for tablets - particularly small ones, they should have something in the installer that detects whether an SD card is available or not, and if it is, prompt the user and ask him where he wants the default documents, pictures, songs, videos, et al to go. It's not an issue if a tablet has 256GB of storage. But for even a 32GB, that's a lot. I doubt that the 16GB tablets will be upgradable from Windows 8.1 - even the ones that are on 32-bit OSs, as opposed to 64.

As it is, the user data is backed up to OneDrive - at least that's what the system urges users to do. What I found was that some settings may not be backed up, such as the location of my OneDrive downloaded files - which insists on writing to my C:\, which barely has 3GB left, so I disabled that option of doing it anywhere, since it wouldn't let me do it to D:\. If MS has a goal of enabling EVERY Windows 8+ system to be upgradable to Windows 10, they need to set Windows 10's minimum resource goals to match those of Windows 8.0.

Problem is that Android and Windows Phone are 2 cases where finger pointing goes on about whose responsibility it is to upgrade. Apple does it automatically, since they make both the phone/tablet and iOS, whereas Google and Microsoft make both only in some cases. Like the Moto G or Moto X for Google, or the Lumias for Microsoft. I had a Lumia Icon, which I could upgrade only by pretending to be a developer: Microsoft told me that Verizon was supposed to roll up the upgrade to 8.1, whereas Verizon told me it was Microsoft. Looks like relations b/w the 2 companies have soured: Verizon no longer offers the Icon in its lineup, even though they offer HTC made Windows Phones.

In the case of Android, I own an Ellipsis 7, which I got from Verizon, and a Moto X, which I used to replace my Lumia when the battery suddenly stopped charging one day (I needed apps that Android had and WP8.1 didn't). The Moto X came w/ Lollipop, while the Ellipsis 7 came w/ Gingerbread. It took them a while before I could upgrade the Ellipsis OS from Gingerbread to KitKat. Lollipop is still not available for this, so it's not like I won't upgrade to that: it's just that I can't. Also, since the upgrade, my Ellipsis has slowed down, but since I have 2 other tablets - an iPad Mini and a WinBook, I'm not really noticing: besides, I got that Ellipsis for free.

Last week, I finally managed to install Windows 10 Preview on my new Winbook tablet - one that has 2GB/32GB of space.

A few of the things I found strange. For instance, in Windows 7 and 8.1, I could set My Documents to any drive I wanted - it didn't have to be locked on C:\ Which is particularly handy in this setup, where I have a mere 32GB, and Windows 10 requires that you have at least 16GB of free storage space in C:\ to be able to install in the first place. I had done that in Windows 8.1, and now migrated to 10.

Now, OneDrive too has the option of being shadowed on your computer. That too, I had set to D:\ in 8.1. However, here, in 10, OneDrive doesn't allow its backups to be on D:\, and insists on installing on C:\ Which is irritating, given my limited C:\. And I can't upgrade it, since it's a NAND flash in TSOP package soldered to the motherboard, so I'm stuck w/ it. Winbooks don't come w/ 64GB drives, and the other tablets are a lot more expensive (this one was $100). Microsoft ought to retain that capability, and since this is a new version of the OS, w/ even things like multiple desktops (similar to virtual desktops in BSD and Linux), one thing I wish they'd do is introduce the concept of logical volume manager and let one extend the C:\ to the SD card, so that one can upgrade to 96GB or above simply by inserting a card.

I don't exactly get the point of Microsoft Edge/Project Spartan, and I didn't like it automatically importing my IE links w/o asking me. I typically have multiple browsers on my computers, and have different sites on each. (In this case, I've avoided downloading FireFox or Chrome due to the space issue). Also, Spartan loses the feature IE had since 8 and FireFox has always had - being able to stage an RSS on one's taskbar. Not good.

I however don't get the difference b/w desktop and tablet mode in this preview edition. It would have made sense if in tablet mode, they went into a Metro like screen (or gave us the option to), while in desktop mode, retaining everything that we had in 7. Incidentally, even in desktop mode, one can't make it look like in 7: one can only bring all those buttons down to where the Windows button is. Strange. Also, the control panel is now hard to find, although one can go to settings. Like today, I had to go through quite a roundabout way to install a new font.

Other than that, I more or less like Windows 10. I found the ability to switch keyboard languages rather neat, and their providing localizations to different versions of a language e.g. English really nifty. Other things that would be nice to have - being able to download Windows Phone apps from the store - apps like Yelp!, Fandango, et al. Also, under Video, to have the ability to create playlists (in iPad, one can create playlists of either audio or video music, which one can then hear in the car w/o taking the eye of the road).

Also, in Windows 8.1, in the Metro mode (in the Start screen), one could customize the looks and color of that screen (not the same as the desktop background or themes). Again, in Windows 10, this is lost. For now at least, anyway.

HP workstations? You mean HP-9000 workstations? The ones based on PA-RISC? That's so ancient! Wonder whether anyone there use Itanium based workstations running HP/UX. That'll be a sight to behold!