Author: stanley
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Gates: CS still good career
A fall-off of computer science majors — 23 percent fewer this year, according to a poll of several hundred North American universities by the Computing Research Association — has prompted industry leaders such as Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates to lecture at schools, telling students that their skills can still earn them a healthy salary even…
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Bill Gates's Time Interview
Time Magazine: What effect is outsourcing going to have on the technology job market? Bill Gates: The kind of top-notch skills that the U.S. universities create will always be in demand. The challenge for the U.S. is to have an even higher percentage of its work force have these incredibly world-class skills. I think that’s…
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Global Browser Stats for January 2004
Courtesy of TheCounter.com, which logs about half a million unique visitors per hour, the below are the latest compiled stats on JavaScript penetration, browser popularity and more. JavaScript 1.2+ is active in 94% of all browsers. Only 4% have no JavaScript capability. Java is enabled in 93%+ of browsers. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.1+ has a…
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J2SE 1.5: What's New
Wow! Version 1.5 of J2SE contains a lot of good improvements! I personally like Java, and even though it has its limitations & drawbacks, I think it’s the best language out there! And you know what, it’s going to be for a pretty long time. After a period of uncertainty about its future (mainly because…
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IBM's Developer Tools vs Microsoft's
Pretty good article “IBM tools revamp targets Microsoft,” how IBM is preparing to fight Microsoft. I am giving my support to IBM, as we — developers (and consumers) — need a choice besides Microsoft. As I said before: More competition is always good. By the way, I’m already using Eclipse IDE and like it very…
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Report: 150,000 U.S. software jobs lost last year
By Rich Seeley, ADTmag.com The U.S. software industry lost 150,000 jobs last year, according to the Cyberstates 2003 report released last week by the American Electronics Association (AeA). In the seven years that AeA has published its report on jobs, 2002 was the first year the software sector lost jobs. In fact, it had posted…
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Linux vs SCO
If you follow the SCO vs Linux case, as I have, you might find this interesting. I totally agree with Mr. Eben Moglen, general counsel of the Free Software Foundation, who’s saying that SCO’s legal situation contains an inherent contradiction. – SCO distributed, and continues to distribute, Linux under the GPL (General Public License), thereby…
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Tech Outlook for 2004
This week on eWeek.com they have a Tech Outlook 2004 Outlook on Mobile Computing — personally I think that’s going to be big. 2004 for Linux: grows up (or blows up) What else, I think Mobile, Wireless & Linux will come out winners, and not only for 2004 but over next several years. Mobile, since…
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