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Microsoft: where "five nines" means 9.9999%.
Nah, I think it was more like this:
Gates to Balmer: our Enterprise products need to have 5x9 uptime.
Balmer: ok Boss.
Balmer to VP of Engineering: Bill wants all our products to only work between 5pm and 9am.
Sounds like it's time for some of us to brush up on our sword skills.
Lets take your argument to its logical conclusion - somewhere inside of Google's secret evil HQ in the base of a volcano, Sergei and Larry are laughing maniacally, "Now we can login as everyone because we will know their passwords! MWAHAHAHA!" as they stroke their evil kittens with eyepatches.
Or realistically, that google would login as people and impersonate their accounts.
You can have my tinfoil hat, you need it more than me.
meow... that eye patch tickles ya know
So M$ is patenting being a dick? Well, they do have Balmer to prove their program theory works...
They are patenting a mechanism that uses AI to detect when you are behaving like a dick. Hook this thing up to a electric shocker built into to a collar fitted around every employee's neck and the possibilities are endless. Every time you criticize management, badmouth some oligarch, gaze too long in the general direction of a female coworker's posterior or simply engage in a combination of seemingly unrelated behaviors that trigger a match in this gizmo and tzzzzzzzzzt.........
Microsoft already did this years ago...
Seriously though, Google absolutely needs the competition. I hope MS acquires Y! and does something good with it.
It's pretty obvious what would happen when MS buys Yahoo!:
In 5 years time, nothing is left of Yahoo!
Ummm... why would VMware spin off Zimbra?
I don't run any operating system!
How am I posting this you ask?... well by using butterflies of course!
For some reason it's common in the US to consider desktop support, networking, and administration as "IT". Odd, as here in AU everything tech related is "IT".
I'm also in AU and whilst it's true that the industry here seems to use "IT" as an umbrella term that doesn't mean that it is easy to move between Development roles and Supoort/Admin roles.
Although I personally think that Developers aught to be required to have some support experience I would have to say that the fears of the article's author are well founded... once you have one type of role on your CV management _will_ pigeonhole you.... my advice would be if you really desire to work in development then under no circumstances take a support/admin role... it's like a black-hole... nothing can escape.
Apple already tried this once... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300
Give me Glenmorangie or give me death!
Actually, something rather like homeopathy's ridiculous dilution does work for some food allergies. You start by taking a tiny bit of whatever it is you're allergic to. Then you take a tiny bit more. It's called oral immunotherapy.
Oral Immunotherapy and Homeopathy are nothing alike.
Why? Because as you say the former involves taking a "tiny bit" of something that you are allergic to and slowly increasing the amount and thus "training" your immune system.
Homeopathy on the other hand requires you to dilute the substance to such a degree that all is left is solvent (water, alcohol, etc.). There is none of the original material that is being dissolved left!
In other words. Your "tiny bit" of food is an absolutely massive amount in comparison to no food at all and even if the homeopath decides to not dilute to the point to which they claim to do a "tiny bit" of food will probably amount to a few grams vs the femtograms left over after a series of dilutions.
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