Yeah it's called getting rid of useless politicians, and greedy capitalists. The only way to effectively build spacecraft capable of effective space travel is resource-based economy. Until humans can get past their fix on money, forget about leaving behind 1960's technology.

Yeah! Why don't you go get a computer science degree, major in JavaScript, HTML, and XML along with some PHP, Python, Java, a little bit of Linux, and Windows Server, as well as Novell, then some Perl, with some Shell scripting, and when you're done with that learn some XML, then do a thesis on database management, as well as modeling, with some object oriented programming. Ajax is fun too, learn that. Oh and there's this thing called Photoshop, it's fantastic, with Flex, and meld that with some Mashups. Don't forget you'll need to know a lot of CSS. That should do it. When you're all done with your degree in "computer science" bend over, put your head between your legs, and kiss your sustainable ass goodbye, because you just spent a fortune on courses that won't get you a job worth crap. I hope that helped.

Rex's statements are so common to large corporate tech providers. They all state that open source solutions seem "ineffective", but in reality they are more powerful, and cheaper than the bloated, blanket solutions their proprietary companies offer. It's BS because they just feel the ever-present threat that if open source was even largely considered by the market it would bring their profits plummeting to the bottom. It would just show the world markets what their software solutions are really worth. Absolutely NOTHING! http://www.odeweb.com/blog/post/view/it_recruiters_the_elite_buffers

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Here's some advice for you! Tell all those half-assed IT employees you work with, to stop kidding themselves, in thinking they are "Information Technology" professionals. You wouldn't call the Stanley Steemer guy a technology professional would you. NO, of course not, because he doesn't know how the steam cleaner works, he just works it. Same goes for all those Microsoft lackeys, they are all just a bunch of lame jerk-offs who were too lazy to get training in any real technologies, so they spend enormous amounts of money on buying software solutions that somebody else built, that don't even come close to meeting 100% of their organization's business needs. Microsoft is big business, and as history has shown us in the past, anyone who can spend big, will go to no end in squashing it's competitors, especially if that competitor is a workforce capable of producing higher quality software for a fair wage.

Move to India!

Americas multi-billion dollar satellite system versus a bunch of insurgents using outdated map images. Come on people! Lat time I checked Google Earth doesn't offer up any real time imagery, and if it did do you think it would be free. In corporate America they like to think, that if you put fear into the minds of the public, then the free products they seduced them with, become a marketable product of value. Look at airlines offering up "easy pass" for boarding. "Avoid the long lines of security checks, and pay a couple hundred dollars more to bypass all of that". What makes you think that an insurgent backed by terrorist funding won't pay to bypass the security checks. Silly government agenda.