The big pharma company(ies) will make billions from her discovery wile giving her a mere $100k! If I were her, I would have demanded indefinite royalties or 100 million dollars.

If you weren't aware that MS does give away free licensing as well as preferential licensing costs with Hyper-V then you must have been working in the basement since 2008! Here's proof: http://www.virtualizationpractice.com/blog/?p=3782

Why is this news on the main page? Ubuntu 11.10 is out too and Windows 8 will be out soon! In other news, Kim Kardashian got divorced after 72 days! Who gives a Beep!

RIM??? They still wasting revenue chasing their proprietary pipe dream? I have 3 letters for them: D.O.A.

Possibly, but it depends on what you're coding. If you're a developer creating low level code like drivers then C and even assembly are your only real choices but if you're an app developer you must follow the latest trends and move to the best language that supports the codebase.

.NET will be on a decline as Microsoft loves to gut programming languages every few years. Just look at how many programming languages MS has had in the past and look at their life-cycles.

I can play pong just as well as I did in 1984! I took my Atari 2600 out of the basement, fired it up and hit an all time high score again. Time to hit the Wall Street Occupy protest to complain about evil CIOs and how their greed is destroying my reputation as a highly qualified gamer from the past.

Well, you've answered your own question. Low productivity = low hourly rate (ie minimum wage or lower)...High productivity = high hourly rate. Same difference a far as I'm concerned so it makes no difference as to whether you get paid hourly or on a project basis. No matter how you slice the big picture it equates to the same results.

While possibly true that the human race may live like the Jetsons one day...the biggest issue today and for the next foreseeable decade or more is still outsourcing and loss of employment to cheaper countries. Once true globalization equalizes itself then and only then will innovation/technology truly start outsourcing jobs from humans. Again this will probably never happen in our lifetime or gen Y generations lifetime. I'm more worried about getting outsourced by big corporations due to H1B Indians taking my job than Mr Robato.

It's not an issue, it's the advanced sleep wake features that you have not disabled. I used to run into this problem with my laptop that has a TV tuner card and Windows Media center with a being the culprit. Unbeknownst to me, it had a built in timer to download a TV program guide every night at 3AM which woke the system up from sleep. It's rooted very deep in the sleep/wake settings of the OS. You should look into what kept waking your system by following the troubleshooting steps in: http://www.cravingtech.com/fix-windows-vista7-sleep-mode-from-waking-up-by-itself.html

hahaha, what a bunch of BS! Apparently, you've never been a contractor/consultant long term in IT. Trust me, as a contractor or consultant you're shown the door quite often and the supposed big money you've made all dries up in bills and expenses while you seek another spot as you're between gigs. I've been there for many years after the .com explosion in 2002 and trust me it was no picknick. You'll be no better off than a migrant farmer in that field right now. When the economy is humming along then you can play that musical chairs game but now isn't the right time.

Hmmmmm...I wonder what will happen to all those iTunes songs once Apple moves to a new DRM or non-DRM format in the future and stops supporting their old format???