It will be the same with the Shutte.

While triple monitors is awesome, it doesn't solve the problem of DPI. The complaint here is that the pixel density of modern screens is not nearly as high as Mr. Brown wants it to be. If you think about it, in most screens it's barely changed at all since LCDs became mainstream. My first LCD was a 1280x1024 17 incher. At the moment I use a 1920x1200 24". My original works out at just over 95dpi, while my current one works out at just under 94dpi - I have increased my screen real estate, and the size of my screen, but the DPI is about the same.

Looking back at it, I'm not so sure that the PC wars were really about Apple vs. Microsoft, so much as they were about open hardware vs. closed hardware. Microsoft won in the 80's and 90's not because they had a superior OS, but because it ran on commodity hardware that you could buy from anyone for cheaper than you could buy a Mac from Apple.

I think viewing it in that way yields genuine insight. Open hardware won the first PC wars. Open software is going to win the second PC wars.

Well, it will any year-of-the-desktop now. But even if Linux never dominates on the desktop, FOSS has forced companies to change the way they do business, for the better. (Unfortunately a lot of companies still do a lot of bad stuff. *cough*Apple*cough*)

Like most Christians, Muslims are only pious when there are people around who might tell god what they're doing.

Schools teach many skills which aren't explicitly on any syllabi or assignment, not the least of which are copy and paste, and ethanol appreciation. I'm sure a plurality of universities produce high quality CS graduates, but most of the A and A- graduates from the five major universities within 200 miles in the last decade or so did not appear to be of that variety. There were a few gems, to be sure, but they had unremarkable academic careers.

I've mostly retired from IT in the last two years, but the recent graduates I run into at the usual industry groups and events still complain about being forced to choose in fourth year one of: their first experience with LDAP, their first experience with SQL, "system administration", how to write malware, or history of computing. They admit that the majority of their cohort have graduated without any substantial exposure to some major concepts and basic tools of the trade.

I'd be glad to introduce any good resources you may know of with respect to "how to recruit talent" to the local and regional industry groups since everyone from 10-person consultancies up to the local branches of the big three letter global services companies are all hurting for skilled grads.

Last time I played around with linux on desktop (SuSE i seem to recall) NVidia drivers could be downloaded without much trouble? Surely there's a way to automate this?

You mean: Only machine code is true!
Kids these days...

The reasoning is that if you take this payout, you're basically telling the legal system that this payout has righted the wrongs that Comcast made, and that you have no further claim to the wrongs. Same reason insurance companies will offer some seemingly high but lowball amount settlement really quick hoping you'll accept so that youcan't go after them when it turns out you can no longer lift anything over ten pounds. They turn a $100k settlement into a $5k settlement and gain protection from the court.

Same thing Comcast is doing here. They should be on the hook a lot MORE for being little fucking script kiddies to drive their costs down.

If the more hyped one gets more applications and is more useful in the end, then unfortunately you often end up preferring the more hyped one. It's a simple Betamax vs VHS choice. Even there, often "better" for you means something completely different from "better" for the people delivering them.

cartels often use the power of government regulation to do the work for them. A cartel is very different from a monopoly and benefit from the distinction. They have influence above a monopoly precisely because there exists a few in cooperative competition. In the US you have cartels in cars, telecom, media, and pretty much every other totally screwed up market segment. All of them use the power of government to screw consumers and restrict competition.

And we assume they are not doing so?

You think China would put out a press release stating that they are having internal issues with hackers?

Actually now that I think about it there was some internal hacking in China that made the news, that dulon fu or whomever they are hacked a news broadcast. Hacking the news is a pretty large chunk of iceberg poking out of the water.