Since they don't sell any computers with Atom.. I don't think that you can blame them for dropping support. Tightens the code and all that.

Curious.. which iMac? the new one? 24 in or 27 in? some more detail would be nice..

This is rated + 5 Informative???!!!

The Tata Group has been around for ages (like over a 100 years), and they own a huge bunch of businesses. Everything from Hotels to tea to steel to cars to cellphones to salt... you get the idea.. They are also very respected in India, since they actually have corporate values that seem to work... In fact, the Tata factories don't have unions, as far as I know, since the workers actually trust the management (shock!). They're pretty good at what they do, so usually when they start something, people pay attention.

I don't get the "much like oil" bit. Not trying to be a green nazi, but when we burn oil, it's changes state, doesn't it? I mean, you can't take the smoke and get the oil back? Copper stays copper, and can be melted and made pure again and all that, but how do you take a gallon of gasoline, burn it in your car, and then get it back? Unless of course you mean that the creation of oil is a continuous process, which I'd agree with, but it takes a hell of a long time to form, and we seem to be using it up faster than new oil is being created.

In India, we have thousands (literally) of kids graduating with computer engineering degrees every year. Now, the thing is, a lot of these degrees are pretty useless since the college/university that issued them is basically a money making machine, and nothing else.

However, there are a bunch of good places that produce very good engineers. The Indian Institutes of Technology are the most well known, but there are some others that are equally good (some of the top Regional Enginnering Colleges, and so on)

I think it boils down to numbers. Say we have 30,000 comp sci grads every year. Now say 60 percent of them are hacks who know nothing much and are only good for repetitive code work and stuff like that. 20 percent will be quite good, easily as competent as a good programmer in the US or wherever. 10 percent will be skilled at code and other stuff like management, the types who end up heading into upper management, 8 percent will be very good, and 2 percent will be fantastic.

The 2 percent mostly heads off to MIT, or CMU, or $TOPSCHOOL to do an MS or a Phd, but that still leaves a pretty substantial number of good people.

Now, when you realize that 30,000 is a low estimate, since the acutal figure is 175,000 (source: http://www.timesascent.co.in/index.aspx?Page=article&sectid=2&contentid=20080930200809301249051997b5b53a, and http://www.rediff.com/money/2006/jun/09bspec.htm ) you begin to see that while we do have a huge number of terrible programmers, we have a pretty good talent pool too. It's all about the numbers!