Better yet, I would prefer to have a ticking box to not see complaint and rant articles than blocking out advertisement...adblock works wonder for the later, but not the former, which is far more annoying.

Amen to that. I am buying Apple apps because they are convenient, far more apps then I have bought all my life. If Apple/the film industry wanted to put music and films at reasonable prices, with the infra-structure they have already in place, they would take the market by storm. There is a lost opportunity here.

You got it wrong. Manufacturers are taking undue advantage of Low end models to do beta testing for the higher ones.

No need to "wonder" about such uses, there are plenty of applications to monitor bandwidth usage, or then you bring your own proxy. But then again, when needing more resources it would be useful to check for capacity *beforehand*. We also have this problem here, the bureaucratic process for booking rooms is very well organised, however people take for granted Internet access and forget it is also a resource that has to be managed.

How about blocking youtube during regular office hours, opening it up only in the morning lunch time and at the end of the time? It is probably more due to streaming movies than apps.

The problem is not them taking the jobs, they are brought to reduce costs, bring down the power of unions and bring the nacional salary means down.

There are some obvious rules - avoid black and dark blue it is connoted with work. Do not buy them on the cheap. Unless on a tropical climate, avoid light colours. Black shoes go with almost everything, not so much with brown shoes. A couple of months ago, after a work meeting, I went shopping with a suit and a matching overcoat a present for my wife, and the amount of attention I got from the store attendants was ridiculous. I use to wear suits almost everyday, nowadays less than 10 days a year.

On a related vein, best lies in the industry, that work specially dealing with the young work force: - "I am giving you less than you asked, because I want to evaluate and give you a raise in 6 months" - "We will promote you accordingly to your skills" - "You are being promoted because you are an outstanding technical guy, but you dont write good reports, and do can not do the accounting and quality work in your projects" Face the reality, people who judge people by the way they look, by the way they bullshit their written deliveries to the customers, and by the way they screw their customers will never promote you to senior or to management. They have to bullshit just enough to keep you around while they need you. Run for the hills and change job ASAP if this scenario seems familiar.

Indeed. In Europe too, and the places where they still wear ties at work are the places I am quite sure I dont want to work there.

It is not. Let get straight, suit is a professional atire, much like a MacDonalds or an army uniform. Suits are only appropriate for weddings, formal occasions and not much more. Only people who really dont know how to fit in will select a suit as an elegant dressing. Furthermore, there are suits and suits, when I was a consultant 15 years ago I only used suits that cost more than 800 dollars, at least.

Judges neither take lightly you not taking a lawyer, nor take you seriously. My father lost a very clear cut case because of this once, despite having worked as a paralegal a couple of decades before.

Great story you have. Was she applying for HR?

He is being sarcastic. The road in front of their entrance is really tidy in comparison with "something else".

There are places to wear suits, and places not to wear them.As there are the places for bathing suits. It is a matter of common sense, you would not come in a bathing suit to a wedding or go to the pool with a suit. As for devs or sysadmins, when we see an office full of suits, it is an huge red flag. HUGE one. We know we wont be evaluated fairly, the standards of evaluation are just fluff, bullshit talk and keeping up the appearances because they do not know any better, and have also to promote and protect the inaptitude of their peers, and corporate politics are far worse there than in other places. As for suits, to go out, or even to the workplace, if I want to stand out from the crowd, I prefer to invest in slightly more expensive and fashionable clothes than suits. Lets face it, nowadays the suit is no more than a garment for formal situations, and a uniform for sleazy politicians and greasy salesmen. Your paragraph also shows a prejudice against your coworkers and that you are an idiot who likes to pretend to be something else. Nobody is forcing to work with stinking people, you can always change places and go work for suppliers of warm bodies in suits, like Gartner. Maybe if find the life there more akin to your aspirations, who knows. I did enjoy it, and will sure not exchange my work with "scruffy" people back to then again.

No, it didnt. Word Perfect excellent, I actually used it in DOS to write technical manuals. What really happened is other players used their dominant position to effectively lock them out of the market. Microsoft worked with the Apple teams to produce Microsoft for Mac. Windows was also shipped with buggy and/or incomplete APIs and then only Microsoft Office brought the additional functionalities/patches bundled with the product to ensure the competition could not write a stable/faster competitor. This not taking in account hidden/barely documented APIs and the bundling of other software.