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Real estate is a fine business .... Comercial real estate ... not outsourced ... yet. The day may come however when a unified national marketplace occurs for commercial as well. When that niche is fully developed there will be much less need on the commercial side for people .... hope you...

Takes about 300K household income on the coast in So. Ca. to get a small place now ..... If you need a decent size place because you have a family you are looking at well over 1 million dollars at current prices.

Hope you have your automation solution awaiting for your job ....... As you say, its not a problem to "switch" to another stream once your position is automated out of existence. I'm sure you will cope. Maybe your automation system can keep up with ours .. maybe. The US is the greatest country...

They probably should be required for everybody .... Banks and major corporations have used these for years. We use our own custom version - written by me - on all our servers. It is not hard to write one of these and get it to work both on $soft and Linux systems. Unless a criminal has...

No its not. In many ways its better than your average american city. Like it or not - you apparently dont - Portland and Oregoners in general, have a different set of priorities than people in New York City, or the eastern or midwestern or southern United States. The western united states...

We use OpenOffice - it is included in the Fedora Core distribution and its "Calc" is very similar to Excel; if you intend to automate it there are differences though. IB runs on Linux - with Java properly installed whcih is a bit trickier but can be done without too much trouble. Your custom...

Lets see, Australian National University Canberra right ? I worked with some very able people from there if i remember correctly. I also worked recently with an engineering firm from sydney that designed a new piece of automation equipment for export to the US - seems nobody here could come up...

Well, in general terms I agree with the tone of the article and many of its claims: I helped start a couple of $soft Gold partners. Now, as far as making a choice as to which OS - dialtone - we use to host our application stack ... The decision is made based upon a full financial risk model...

or you can just stay on the sidelines until conditions improve ... no money for the MERC

No not really ... if it meets your needs then its fine .. its just a piece of software - dialtone basically for your application stack. My only interest in Linux versus $soft is cost plain and simple. Our analysis shows that productivitiy is basically the same on the two platforms for end...

Look at Jim Allchins comments: I have worked for $soft ... you are overstimating them... They have put off - at the expense of their customers - performing the re-organization of the the last convoluted dependency pieces of the OS for several years simply due to inertia. They finally got...

Actually $soft is reforming the way they build the OS - see todays WSJ article for some details. This success means that there will be faster and fewer bugfixes - this idea is partially validated from what I have seen thus far ..... Still, the quality of our Linux installations is, by...

I am really not expecting much today ..... I will rebalance a few positions today in preparation for next week ....

I looked at it .... While its nice i dont see any reason to switch over to $soft for server or workstations based upon the beta. The Beta's I have seen appear to be of higher quality than past process cycles from $soft but they are really is not anything radically new that would compel us to...

Are you going to trade them ?:)

Of cource everyone learns new things: however there is a difference between letting others churn your activities, making you constantly learn things of dubious value, and concentrating on the strategies and items that have actual utility. People that have already obtained the core knowledge...

Not actually. Only a few are taken across a spectrum of schools and then, according to their ability not according to the school. Talk to some top tech firm recruiters some time they dont just pick from one or even ten schools ..... Actually the "whole reason " people dont break out is that...

Well... this used to be the case when one great programmer knew - through experience - a lot of tricks and techniques that others did not. Today, most programmers work at a much higher level and deal largely with pre-built components - even at software companies. And, the other factor is...

No. Not really. The places you mention are expensive relative to their quality which has gone downhill in recent years .... but there are still quaility people coming out of those universities, just as there are quality people coming out of other places. The most able dont have to "constantly...

No reason to change anything ... the people that matter know the difference: IIT is a fine place. Fact of the matter is that the best and the brightest are not monopolized within any single academic institution - or groups of universities - nor are they confined to any particular country or...