By contrast, GlobalLogic has created a network of global innovation hubs that are made up of some of the brightest and most innovative software minds.
While some say the company has recently seen a decline in its ability to attract top talent, Microsoft has been an employer of choice for the world's greatest software minds for most of its history.
Putnam drew an analogy between human mentality and computers, which have hardware (the brain) and software (the mind) that are likewise disjoint.
The real-time appearance of each word allows the curious language pundit to peer into the software's mind.
There's three main piece of software: Master Mind, Mind Mouse, and Think Tac Toe.
Fund manager Jim Oberweis, editor of The Oberweis Report also holds M-Systems in his portfolio of emerging growth companies, along with VoIP players AudioCodes and PowerDsine, billing software provider Mind CTI and wireless network equipment company Ceragon Networks.
I was nine years old at the time, and we had two pieces of software in mind: Quicken, the financial budgeting software, and Doom 2: Hell on Earth, the gory shooter sequel from id Software.
Alternatively, if you have different imaging software in mind you can install and use it.
"Facebook is a huge established tech presence, has amazing engineers, hardware, software, public mind-share and lots of money," he said.
Just last week we saw a hack providing a rudimentary artificial vision system for the blind — clumsy and rough, but the idea that it's possible from off-the-shelf components and open-source software is mind-blowing.
With those passengers in mind, software companies have been trying to make subtle changes that will not anger advertisers.
