Alfred noted in a post today Computer Science and Data Structures how many students are not studying data structures.  Maybe there is no more need for this after all all you need programmers and developers to do in business is wire up all the different components.  Kind of like a plumber its not as if they need to know any thing about their material they just make connections from one fixture to the next.  In the end your toilet gets water and expels water to the sewer.  So why would we need to teach students this basic computer science idiom.  Now they just open C# or VB and drag some buttons on a form drag a data table onto the form.  Heavens any Neanderthal can do it.  I am not sure how you tell the educated from then sheep.  Though I enjoy my foray into managed code and the joy that is DotNet.  I know my roots from Fortran to C.  I don't think a computer science degree makes the developer but does your business what some one who plays a developer on TV?

Reflector 5 still doesn't seem quite right.

good by old friend....

From Irena Kennedy:

 

SQL Server Enterprise Edition customers, and I quote, “only need to purchase one license per physical processor regardless of the number of virtually deployed instances. “

In other words, “when a customer licenses all of the processors in a server, they can run an unlimited numbers of SQL Server instances on an unlimited number of virtual operating system environments, at no additional licensing cost. “

This is going to be an important step in fostering the virtualization software.

I heard if first from Lutz

Reflector 5.0

the Add-ins are now hosted over at CodePlex.

Chris and Scott also mentioned this today check out Scott's blog to see the neat features but be careful I moved to version 5 and none of my add-ins work.  I am going to try to clean out my addin folder and start from scratch.  I don't think you want to use Reflectors check for update.  Download it and run 4.2 and 5.0 side by side make sure all your addins work first.

4.6 billion dollars evedently.

Reuters reports Sirius plans to buy XM in $4.6 billion stock deal.  Its so nice to say I called that one.

Check out Stefan Krueger's article 7 Reasons Why your Installations May Fail on Windows Vista (And How You Can Fix Them) over on Macrovision's website.

Virtual PC 2007 has been released download here.

Also Microsoft has released SQL 2005 sp2 and you can download it here.

This makes me nervous the RFID Journal reports Discover Rolling Out RFID Payment Platform Some how I doubt this is as secure as it needs to be for financial data.  What annoys me is we don't have a choice.  Three month ago VISA sent me a card with RFID, I don't want it. I don't want any of my information broadcasted when I walk around town.  This is almost as bad an idea as the State Department putting RFID into our passports.  Do people think about the negative consequences of these decisions or just see the beautiful possibility. 

Even if these toys are secure any one with a reader will know you have a credit card(and what type) and are an American citizen.  They may not care what your name is at that point.

Mike Walker reports Bank of America Releases Mobile Banking Application (nice ui mock up)the story originated over at Computer world Bank of America to launch mobile banking  This will enable their customers to

 

• Check account balances for checking, savings and credit card accounts, as well as mortgages and home equity lines held with Bank of America.
• Pay bills.
• Transfer funds between Bank of America accounts.
• View transaction details for Bank of America checking and savings accounts, mortgages and home equity lines, including posted, pending and scheduled transactions.

Its pretty cool and nice to see BoA embrace new technology during the market down turn.