I agree. I use Vista everyday and I am fine with it. I haven't had any problems at all and I think it will be remembered as an in between period. Windows 7 will be better and I will probably upgrade when the full version is introduced.

I know I am in the minority on this site, but I don't think Gate's image was that tarnished by Vista. Most of the average computer users think of Microsoft the same, we just got used to it. I know his company was started in the 70's, but seriously no one heard of the guy before the 90's really. At least outside of the computer world.

In the 90's Microsoft was in it's infancy as far as a commercial software, it blew up, in the double 00's it survived, and in the 10's we will see if it survives another round again.

For a software company to survive thirty years fully focusing on just software in general is a pretty damn great accomplishment. And despite what everyone says about Microsoft buying out Yahoo, I thought that would have been a good move for Yahoo and for Microsoft. Look at Netscape? Excite? Lycos? They are all small companies now. Out of the giants of the 90's, Amazon and Yahoo are it. It is kind of sad.

Predicting whether Microsoft will survive another decade, I guess we will see. I think Microsoft will be around for at least another decade or two, probably longer. :)

He is probably not denying his condition he just wants to stay within a sense of normalcy. I think he was being pretty responsible. He left the company and he plans to come back in the summer. Beyond that if it were me, I would keep things as quiet as possible too. Just my two cents.

Me too. :) I am about the same age, it doesn't make me feel old, it makes me laugh. :) Hey I enjoyed all of the hours I spent playing around on the graphics tablet Amigas in the computer "cluster" at school. I don't know if you remember that, in PA in the eighties my junior high called a computer lab a computer cluster. We didn't say hey, I am going to the lab, we said we are going to the cluster.

Now that makes me feel old, they changed the terminology. And the fact that we had like maybe 15 Amigas and another 10 Apple computers probably just from memory for a junior high of 500 kids. It was not that big of a room. LOL

Reading this I just thought about all of the hours I wasted when I was little playing Breakout. I didn't even remember that they sold something like this back in 1984. I remember the Amigas from junior high in the late 80's, I spent some time playing with the graphics tablet, this brings back some deep computer memories I completely forgot. I wasn't even into computers again until I was about 25.

I liked them in my childhood, then I went away for a long time, I barely used a computer except to type up a paper because I had to use them and I found my love again for them 1995, which lasted a good ten years or so or so and then it was ruined again around 2005. I am starting to love computers again now though. That is probably why I will never be a true "geek" or whatever you want to call it, I didn't stick with it consistently.

-"I am a computer's fair weather friend."-

I think it is a bit of both. :) I am happy because it signifies a change, sets the tone for the next four years. Bush was handed a raw deal in the first four years, then kind of snow jobbed us the other four, in general.

I don't think people think Obama is the messiah, that is a bit much. I think most people think he will be a better president than Bush though, but Obama is a politician, and you know he has quite a job ahead of him. Let him have his day though, it is a day of celebration, not to speculate on everything! That will start tomorrow, LOL

If Doug is cutting a deal with Kelly's competition Jean, he is a hustler. Man, that is cut throat. You are right, it would spell doom for the company, that is pretty mercenary. They should stick Doug in CS. LOL

No one wants a hustle working for them unless they are in sales or own their own business. If Doug is that good, he should be in sales or have his own business if he actually went to Kelly's parallel. If Doug hustled this way, I don't think he would be in IT and middle managment, it would be a waste of his hustle talent. :)

Also what is funny, when I was reading this article I was considering taking another job off of my resume because I have been job hunting for weeks without much success. I already took two of the jobs I thought sucked off of my resume because I was fired from them. Meh, what are you going to do? LOL I didn't care about the jobs much anyway, I just needed a decent source of income while I went to school at night.

I just counted how many positions I have held. I have had nine jobs in 15 years. Four of those jobs blew, two I quit, the other two I was fired. I have also been on UC twice in those 15 years. I am starting to feel kind bad about being a slacker, better hold on to my widow money, LOL

I also believe in business you can be a nice person, good to your team and make hard decisions. Being ruthless can be necessary in business, but you can't be constantly ruthless. If people hate you at work, it tips the scales the other way too. Stuart might be too nice, he might need some coaching. I guess some people would see it as him just fighting for his job, but Doug is kind of a scumbag in the scenario.

If they are worried about cutting the fat, etc. think about all of the training they will have to incur costs from when people do not want to work under this kind of person and quit.

In the article it describes two management styles. The Stuart's of the world will consistently have/hold jobs. Being educated, able to handle your job responsibilities with tact and concern for your employees are skills that Doug doesn't possess. I would hate to work for a Doug. In fact, I have worked for a Doug types and Stuart types. I quit the Doug jobs. LOL Seriously, I am unemployed right now, and I am not afraid. I know I will find something. If you have a decent skill set, an education and have had relevant work experience then things will work out fine. If not, heck train for another arena that you are interested in!

I know I am not the norm, I have had six jobs in my 15 years of real job experience. I just don't see sticking with a company unless it is worth it, heck call me disloyal. I really wouldn't call it that, if companies treated their employees the way they should, most people wouldn't become job gypsies, LOL

I recently graduated and trust me if I don't find a job I really want right off the bat, I will take something I have to take and keep looking for the "long term" job with a growth pattern and a decent salary. I did it during my college years and I will continue to do it until I find the right place for myself.

Never heard of Cowboy Bebop anime but I like Keanu. I guess Slashdot is full of Keanu haters.

I agree with you on some of your points, but c'mon give the woman a break. Her mindset in dealing with computers is narrow. If you are not extremely computer savvy, and you have only been exposed to Windows, that is what you are going to feel most comfortable going with, LOL

Most users want to pop in a CD or log in easily, etc, send their assignments quickly. Which you can do with Linux I am assuming probably fairly easily, you just have to get used to it, installing a distro is not for the faint hearted, partitioning disks, I am too afraid to do a dual boot, because I do not want to screw up my new Dell. I don't have an old laptop to practice on either. Linux seems to be for people that like to tinker.

I do not have hardly any Linux exposure except downloading a few freebie programs because I was too cheap to pay for the software. Honestly if you want more people to adopt Linux, start with that, people will get hooked with the free software, and then maybe think of adopting Linux as their OS. Just my opinion.

Also when you are starting an online program and you have never been in an online learning enviroment, you will have to grasp the way to use Blackboard or Angel or whatever the school uses effectively but getting your feet wet with one class with the level of what her current computer skills are at now.

Most people do not have the curiousity that would entail them to learn another OS. I just bought a Dell with Vista on it. I didn't buy MS Office because OO works perfectly fine and the docs can be saved in a Windows format. I might use a portable disc if I decided to use Linux, but it would never be my main OS because I am not partitioning my hard disk.

I am sure my opinion on this subject will be in the minority, but it is a woman's perspective. I also thought the person who said she should not be at a technical college at her age was extremely insulting, you can learn a lot about computers if you sleep, eat and breath it for a year and be up to speed, hell it changes so quickly anyway. But hey, you are right she is not a "self starter" or Nancy Drew. Maybe technical college will turn her into one, LOL

Yup, coffee makes you assault little old ladies and kick children. That video was pretty funny. It is true though, sometimes you drink coffee because it is readily available and not desired and then you get used to that schedule and you get used to the caffeine. Sometimes I wonder what would happened if there were mass internet outages and coffee was also taken away, a portion of the world would crash or go completely ape shit haywire. :) I remember when I was working in an office I religiously had coffee at 4 PM almost every day, now I don't drink it at all because I am not working in an office.

I think they are confusing coffee with pot, jmtc...

The opposite effect, LOL Video Games in Jail

Frontal cortex dysfunction has been linked with antisocial and violent behavior, but emotion comes along with it, and his severe anger. There was no emotional connection to him and his mother and father except anger and disconnection. This case seems to me that there was no connection between parent and child. He obviously tried to off his parents, and it was probably a culmination of a lot of things going on there, not just the video game, that was the catalyst obviously though, maybe it was the breaking point. He is a psychopath. I don't think games completely changed him, but it set the guy off unfortunately and if there was a gun that could be easily obtained, this is the sad thing that happens. I don't know what they should do with people like this. Most psychologist think they should be studied. He will probably sit in a jail cell for the rest of his life. Do they let you play video games in jail?