I used to be one of these night shift people. I was definitely underpaid, but I used my spare time on the job with a laptop and a book learning to program.

Here's the scary thing, plenty of people made it extra, extra easy for an employee to steal. We had this ridiculous backup process that had to be run nightly which would make our computers inoperable for about 90 minutes. If someone with a reservation came to check in I could do so, but any walk-ins would have to wait. Around 2-3 times a month people would come in so exhausted from driving all day that they'd just hand me their credit card and say "I'll pick it up in the morning, just give me a room key". I think that since it was an upscale Marriott people just assumed everything was safe.

That was probably intentional, to make it seem like it was really written on a PDA with a crappy keyboard.

The only thing worse was the actual Doom 3 gameplay

I actually really enjoyed the gameplay. The moment I discovered the idiotic system of codes for the weapons lockers, I went online and printed out a list so I could ignore the various PDAs and audio messages.

The biggest disappointment of all? I got my hands on that leaked E3 Alpha, which was about 10x more interesting and scary than the actual retail game.

The worst offender of all time was a game I had very high hopes for. Constantly jotting down locker codes was bad enough, but having to leave the game to grab a code from that Martian Buddy nonsense website made me stop playing.

I suspect people who actually think like this are the reason GA gets a bad reputation.

Isn't this sort of mitigated when people put Google Analytics at the bottom of the page? I've never noticed any slowdowns waiting on GA on any of my sites, and I have GA scripts at the bottom of every page. The absolute bottom.

To use the show Breaking Bad as an analogy, it's Walter White vs. Jesse Pinkman. Who would you want making your drugs?

1500 PHP (A$40)

Their currency is PHP? That's awesome.

I thought it was 17 years? Wikipedia to the rescue...

Sounds overbearing, but how many people (myself included) have thought "Damn, wish I had patented that 10-15 years before it hit the market"?

You're trying to claim that a person with music blasting in their ears can listen to a flight attendant more accurately and attentively than a person without music blasting in their ears?

Sounds like you're trying to pick an argument. It's a little early for that, and I'm not interested.

Not all commercial aviation accidents rule out the possibility of survival.

Really? Doesn't having music pumped into your ears kind of interfere with hearing audible safety instructions? Reading does not.

Actually, in a roundabout way, it does have to do with safety.

Takeoff and landing are the times in flight most likely to result in an accident. If things do suddenly head sideways, people distracted by laptops and iPods are much less likely to react accordingly and survive.

Most people in the aviation business know this is the real reason.

The review was ok, but the customer images really summed things up nicely.