I forgot to give my last horror story on this...

After working at a company for 1 month, they decided to re-create their enterprise system from scratch. This led to mandatory 60+ hours a week, and we were expected to work more than that. The pinnacle of the treatment came the week of my wedding. I worked 60 hours by Thursday night. I had to take Friday off to help set up for the wedding. They required me to use a vacatoin day even though I had already put in 60 hours.

You need to remind him that if you work your ass off, you see no benefit if the company sells a few extra units.

My experience is that people who are truly financially vested in their own small company often have a hard time understanding that their employees can find jobs elsewhere if the company goes under. They cannot see beyond their own situation.

If you truly like working there and want to keep working there, then you'll probably need to roll up your sleeves and do what you can to make sure the company stays afloat. If it's just a job to you, remind him that there have been class action lawsuits recently over expected un-paid overtime where the employees have "won" (EA ring a bell). If he wants you to work extra hours, then he needs to pony up with either paid over time or additional vacation. It may take some numbers on your end to make him see your side. Let's say you have a salary of $52,000 ($25 an hour). If he expects you to work an additional 10 hours for free, your rate just dropped to $20 an hour. That's a 25% reduction.

Personally, I have left the companies where this has happened to me. They kept looking for ways to get "free labor" out of us, and I wouldn't take it.

I don't want my handheld to be a smaller version of a console. I want it to offer me games that I can play on a small screen and are still fun to play. A higher poly count on a small screen isn't worth ponying up $200+ for.

A friend of mine was recently (summer of this year) a juror in Michigan where one of the charges was accessing someone else's e-mail. She was found guilty of this charge despite the fact that she was given the password previously. I would love to put the links in for the exact law and the court case, but I'm lazy.

The thing that got me about the law is that it is perfectly legal to draw funds from someone's bank account via a debit card if you know the PIN. Just by knowing the PIN, the law considers it consent to access the funds (obviously assuming you were given the PIN and didn't get it through nefarious means). I would think the same goes for e-mail, but it doesn't.

"Those who can, do; those who can't, teach".

I hold a BS and MS in CS. The problem is that everyone I met during my college years had no desire to teach. CS isn't a field where you get a degree in so that you can teach (at least not at the HS level).

I had a mixed experience in HS. The first two classes taught qBasic and then Visual Basic (5.0 I think). These gave me a very good foundation for beginner concepts. The higher level class was updating the website for the HS using Front Page. The problem was that the teacher's knowledge was based on reading a teacher's book instead of real world experiences. To him, it was much harder to get the web pages to look good then it was to write an IF-THEN-ELSE statement, so he made that class the higher level class.

To me, the real key to getting people into CS is to show them that it's not rocket science. If you tell the computer to do something, the computer does it. Start with decision graphs and flow charts, then teach them how to implement those in a language.

It also helped get people into the classes in my HS by telling them there was no homework since all work had to be done at the few licensed machines we had.

I'm guessing that they are using the random bits about literal latency ranges and what band is used to give them an idea that could get a patent. Since companies could not get a patent on the representation of the human body, the original GI Joe had the right thumbnail on the underside of the thumb. Put random information into a patent, get patent, sue anyone that uses any bit of information in your patent, and hope for the best.

This has been true recently, but not in the past. The Gamecube was a more powerful N64, the N64 was a more powerful SNES, and the SNES was a more powerful NES. If anything, they were the trend setters for the next console is just "more powerful".

Someone go get Samuel Jackson and let him know that he's got a movie to be in.

It's good to know that science can definitively prove why I'm a freak. Father - 6'0", Mother - 6'0", Me - 6'10"...

I personally can't wait to see Google seizure between every word I type in. Great idea guys... How annoying would it be if someone tried to answer a question that you were asking after every word you said?