Man On Pink Corner:
> How many people reading this intentionally pay more tax than they are strictly required to?

Strict requirements in society are the lowest common denominator, the thin line that separates a normal person from a sociopath.
They are not what one should aim for, but merely the required minimum for the notion of society to exist.
Progress is not achieved by doing as little as possible, by staying a shade away from illegality, by hiding unethical behaviour behind the imperfection of the law.
Imagine that every mom & pop shop out there did what Google does (and the far too many other corporations guilty of this).
This is a sad farce, and they're fucking everyone - not just the people they "avoid" paying those taxes to, but also every other business that hasn't got the means or the will to engage in the same tax avoidance scheme.

>>    Is that why so many over 50 demand handholding for the most basic tasks?  I'm talkin REAL BASIC stuff here.  Tasks they somehow manage to do themselves anyway if no handholding is available?
>>    And here I was thinking it was just their massive entitlement mentality.

Pray tell, what part of the programming world does your experience apply to? Thanks.

See here an interview about the tools he uses for his amazing drawings: http://thetoolsartistsuse.com/2009/08/tom-gauld/

Hardly an insightful comment at all - sounds more like winy and mean. Pay close attention to the timeline: the advice from Steve Jobs, at the time it came, was foresight. Comments like the above are hindsight at best, merely stating what the situation currently is. Well, guess again, since this is about the time before the situation was _created_.

<quote>That is why I bought a Grand Seiko and a pair of Koronya shoes. </quote>

I think  people who know about Grand Seiko tend to actually own them, or would like to. Which one's correct in your case, if you don't mind?

Why would it need to be novel?!

This is about repairing a historically significant computer, not cheap internet publicity stunts. What sort of ignorant voted that comment "informative"?

I'm proud to be deranged then. You can have your sanity - its blandness goes great with the mediocrity of Java.

Yeah, and C++ had it since before Gosling decided C++ wasn't good enough for him.
Ever since its inception, Java has steadily acquired lame, non-generic, basically hacks of implementations for features in C++ which it strived so hard to shun. Mainly due to Gosling being not smart enough to really understand C++ in the first place. Honestly, read some interviews with him, he's just guts and bile about it, no logical arguments whatsoever, typical I-don't-get-it-therefore-it's-wrong, holier than thou attitude.
The tasteless, confused hamburger that Java is today is the result of its small minded creator and the barriers built in since the beginning. Doug Lea's work turned the crapfest Java was into a workable platform for serious applications, but that's about it.

Don't fucking call random people code monkeys. Mind your fucking manners, sir.

that this is about getting the phone numbers - another way to access users and feed them delicious Facebook and approved 3rd party apps goodness, I'm sure.

Telecommuting means, literally, commuting at a distance, or remote commuting, just like television means vision at a distance, or remote vision, and telecommunication means communication over a distance.
As such, the word "telecommuting" is a pleonasm and thus nonsensical, the creation of a very confused, uneducated person.
Teleworking on the other hand means working at a distance, or from far away (from the office), and the term that should be used.

Totally brilliant idea: make version designed for priests only, and after "the sinner"'s done putting their sins in, and eventually adding some audio notes, the confession is packed up, encrypted, and uploaded to some central servers, from where it can be picked up by any of the priests who have the other application - a bit like voicemail + text for them. They go through the confession and record an audio reply, which then gets routed back to "the sinner". This is perfect!