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Somehow that seems a little embarrassing. The "greatest" technical university in the world needs Microsoft to take care of its e-mail?
by tybris 17y ago
Somehow that seems a little embarrassing. The "greatest" technical university in the world needs Microsoft to take care of its e-mail?
- mahmud 17y agoHave you seen what's been coming out of MIT Press in the last 8 years? They went full on pop-psych with their "internet and society" type publications. I have seen books on gamer anthropology, virtual currency and the "web mind" sort of stuff coming out of MIT Press. A weird cross between Wired and Kuro5hin. They want to create "leaders" and "visionaries", i.e. people who make it to business magazine covers dressed in geek-chic lab-coats, holding microscopes and calculators, while in reality, running a fully outsourced bio-startup out of Manhattan :-D
- rbanffy 17y agoSuddenly it comes as no surprise the best modern OSs we use today are more or less simple improvements on an OS that is about as old as me. And I am not talking about Windows... Did everybody abandon progress? Did we outsource it to China?