Re: What in the...
Upvote for the typo
graphy.
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One of the problem with outsourcing is that it is taken as a solution to the wrong problem.Often outsourcing is seen as a way to save the cost of doing something. While it should only b a way of saving on the burden of doing that thing, but knowing well it will cost you more.
Yes. This is exactly right.
"The Mother of All Demos", an event on 9 December 1968 in San Francisco
That demo still amazes - at least as long as one has some concept of what was happening in computing at that time. It's quite amazing.
I'll hoist a pint in English's honour even though I do try to do as much as I can without using the mouse - I'm still keyboard-first.
I've used nearly every MS OS from DOS 6 through Windows 10, missing only 2000, Vista, and 8. I think my favourite was 7 (although OS/2 Warp ran Windows better than Windows, and I still have fond memories of that OS).
10 seems basically OK, but to agree with several others here, I'm not really thrilled with automatic updates of the spyware subsystems either. My Mint laptop chugs along quite nicely on a WinXP spec machine.
but I did use a TI Professional Computer way back when.
That was my first experience with a machine with a hard drive rather than two 5.25" floppy drives. A whopping 5MB drive, and it was stunningly nice to work on with (as I recall) WordStar and Lotus 1-2-3. Ctrl K D anyone!