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windows vista

Have You Ever Been Windows Experienced?

Now that Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 is sorta-kinda available to everyone, let’s see what it takes to run it. Here's a comparison of the Vista hardware requirements with the hardware requirements of Windows XP: Windows XP (2001)Windows Vista (2007)CPU233 MHz800 MHz (1 GHz recommended)

software development

The Programmer’s Bill of Rights

It’s unbelievable to me that a company would pay a developer $60-$100k in salary, yet cripple them with terrible working conditions and crusty hand-me-down hardware. This makes no business sense whatsoever. And yet I see it all the time. It’s shocking how many companies still don’t