You need to be in NYC as the programmer is usually in a team with the Ph.D in Econ Guy, the crazy math Statistics and Stochastic Calc Guy and the Finance Guy.

"We're talking about the future of almost all knowledge acquisition and yet schools don't spend nearly as much time on this skill as they do on other equally important areas." I wouldn't be surprised if schools are still teaching the use of the card catalog.

The problem is that fixed focus cameras are also good enough for facebook. Redoing the focus in post production isn't something 99% of people would ever do for a facebook photo. They usually go straight from the camera to the upload with zero image editing.

Don't forget, we also just came out of a crazy bad recession. This would have been a bad time to release a new console and it is harder for the companies to justify console development costs when investors are demanding cost cutting. Additionally, TSMC has been stuck for over a year on the 40 nm node. The cancellation of the 32 nm process may have impacted some of the plans of the console makers. If they were planning on a chip that simply wouldn't be feasible/economical without a die shrink, then now have to wait for 28 nm to become a widely available and high yielding process, but so far this process is not ready for production silicon. TSMC won't be able to produce the quantity or yield of parts that the console makers will need on 28 nm until at least early 2012.

To get away from the word "sport" you could say: There are plenty of games that are fun, but there is a niche for a game that is competitive. The gist of what the Blizzard guy is saying is that a balanced challenging competitive environment isn't created by just throwing every fun unit that you can think of into the game. Unbalanced games devolve into single strategy borefests, while well balanced games let a variety of strategies be viable. Basically, single player could have more powerful effects if nukes could blow up entire bases or if the mothership's void lasted longer. However these "I win" spells would look cool but not be fun in multiplayer after the first five times (or when you are on the receiving end).

That is fine if you are working in project management, but what about sales or reporting? Fully fleshed out reports often aren't fit for external consumption. If a sales guy puts a 20 page detailed report on a prospects desk, that is going straight into the waste bin when he leaves and the sale is lost. A great example of reports for perpetuity are quarterly earnings presentations by publicly traded companies. They are both presentable and very much crafted to be part of the permanent public record.

PowerPoint is great for presenting data in ways that aren't possible with white board and marker: - Excel and PowerPoint can make better charts and tables than freehand * Histograms, org charts and pie charts are more understandable than handwritten or oral raw data * Charts can contain more (accurate) data than can be memorized in a practical timescale - Some data in a presentation may be needed "for the record" * Hard copies allow clients/prospects/listeners to not focus on taking notes * For proposals, terms and conditions must be offered in writing * Some presentations satisfy legal requirements (e.g. due diligence) * Written (legal & compliance) disclaimers may need to accompany discussions

a large part of what these companies are paying for is that they are only two hops from the servers for the stock exchange. The idea is that the router of that data center is directly wired to the exchange (which is in the same or an adjacent building) without any ISP in between.

Higher spreads increase the amount of money that the market makers (Wall St) make off the trade and decrease the amount of money that goes to the investors (the buyer and the seller of the stock).

You can have sex with women at work by following a few simple rules: 1. Be handsome 2. Be attractive 3. Don't be unattractive

Just tacking on more numbers becomes a problem because IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long and not 32 bits like IPv4. 1.1.209.85.255.147 is only a 48 bit number. An example of a 128 bit IP address in decimal would be 209.85.255.147.236.152.95.220.51.119.152.21.201.103.118.1 Having to use up to 64 digits to describe one address is not efficient, even if using only numbers are easier to say or remember than alphanumeric hex.

It is a clever way to get around the fact that FPS games are ridiculously clumsy on iOS. Rail shooters were replaced by FPS games about a decade ago with the use of mouselook. No mouselook on iOS means we need to rethink what games are made for the device. Try Nova or EliminatePro for iTouch/Phone/Pad, those FPS games have controls which are much less precise than a console gamepad which is much less precise than mouselook. If you were the developer given a hugely detailed first person environment but were constrained by touch and accelerometer controls, what type of game would you make?

This is why most companies use virtual desktop such on VPNs when remote computers log in. The actual data can be accessed without being permanently stored on the remote PC which is logging in. Many large corporations have specific rule regarding thumb drives. For example, my last employer only allowed files which cleared compliance for client consumption to be put on thumb drives.

It seems like it could affect GMail and online backup sites, the argument against MP3Tunes is that letting people store their files in online password protected storage is analogous to making illegal copies. It would be crazy if GMail scrubbed all of my attachments or Carbonite checked my online disks to make sure that I didn't have copyrighted materials. This judgement would not affect Pandora or Usenet.

It goes much further than a dollar not spent on content a dollar that can be spent on hardware. In a world where copyright material is never shared for free, imagine what the demand would be for 64 GB mp3 players, 1 TB harddisks and media extender boxes. Major sections of the hardware market would go down the tubes when 50 GB of data seems monstrous again like during the pre Napster days.