Please note, you could install a different browser then IE6 on windows 95/98, but that did not stop the anti-trust law suit from happening against M$ in the 90s.

Open Office on the cloud would allow you to run it on a device that supports web browsing, but does not have precompiled binaries. A good example would be a tablet, or smart phone.

Thought of Al here. Either scenario is funny--though ones a comedy and the others a tragedy.

Interestingly enough, the dark green states in that map seem to roughly correlate to how much nuclear power is produced in the state. Go figure.

Though I question the numbers.

In Maryland, I can buy all Wind Powered energy from Ohio (which is actually cheaper then the mostly coal mix that I get by default). I have to imagine that that would lessen the impact.

I recently learned that ORACLE is an Acryonym. It stands for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.

If it's at the bottom of the pack, who is at the top?

OpenStack is a cloud infrastructure built by rackspace to replace the VMWare option--cause they didn't want to pay the licensing fees any more.

What I want is not a dock for my phone, but to have its screen be stretchable to adjust the resolution. Extend the canvas out for when you want that extra real estate, but collapse it back down when you want it to fit in your pocket.

I had a friend who built an entire fake persona that she used to answer her security questions. Address, parents, pets, you name it.

In hind site she was probably a little schizophrenic.

I'm having trouble finding qualified people in general it seems like. People want oodles of money, but don't know anything about databases, and have never worked with an external API. Tons of PHP developers are script kiddies who want to pump out Drupal sites, but know little to nothing about real programming (What's Big O? I don't know). When you tell these people that we want real programming, and not some front end development, a lot of them seem to loose interest beyond being downright unqualified. Beyond that, I don't really understand how someone crapping out Drupal sites can expect to ask 80-100k.

The bigger problem seems to be a lack of CS students. I don't particularly think that DC is stealing our talent (We are not particularly looking to make anyone do that hour commute--it is pretty brutal). I have personally seen more (entry level) people decline because they talked with Google, who wanted them to move to NY/Cali to make 60-70k--and Google has that epic reputation like cocaine to rats.

Last I checked, DC people were moving into my old place because the rent was cheaper. I had a friend who shared a room with 5 people, and paid 1k himeself to share a bathroom and kitchen. I had a 2 floor window, and NY style loft for 1.4k at my last place, and a 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom apartment all for myself for 1.4k at my current place.

I did the DC grind for a while, but the people get on my nerves.

No need to deny the cultural DC/Baltimore divide--we all know its there. Last I checked the politicians (republicans anyways) were the ones looking to get on with the sodomy in the bathrooms anyways...

I am not in that man-trap. See my other post.

Nope. Baltimore. We are looking for a mid-level candidate. 80k is a lot of money in Baltimore. Not for senior people, though no one really wants to pay a developer 150k. Even still, I have only seen a couple 150k candidates that I'd be willing to hiring (actually, only one).

I have the same experience, though most people are offering similar salaries to what I have.

It's called top grading. Hire people infrequently (aka only hire the best), and fire often (aka fire those hire mistakes pronto). Top grading is one of those buzz words, but if you have a large enough team it will build a lean and mean team of kick ass people. Kick ass people means none of those people who you wonder what they are doing, because they are in fact not doing anything.