Seeing as how the guys who make all the really bad decisions (mgmt) aren't unionized, you can't really blame them, can you?

No, no, those are book critics.

I told you, you stick them in the walls and don't tell anyone. Sure, that doesn't stop the hassle of installing them, but you won't get the wingnuts wandering in because they won't know they're there.

You can absolutely make the cell smaller, and the thing that att is selling to people for home use is about the size of a book. What this means is that you can make small GSM cells without obvious infrastructure - stick them in the walls for all they care.

The unlocked Iphones have been fairly consistently priced at $850-$900. given a 24 month commitment and an $80 cell phone bill, that's $1920 + $200 for the subsidised price - assuming that att pays retail (they don't), you get about $1220 over 24 months = $50/mo for service + profit. nice business to be in.

I'd say they are all marketing terms, sort of like MS and their DNS from days of yore. That said, hosted scalable VPS instances are damn useful, provided you actually understand them

Comcast offers a 'managed DVR' thing, which you might have been referring to.

internet streaming or DVR streaming? DVR streaming doesn't count towards the cap, and the, ahem, content I've gotten in HD is closer to 1.5G/hr

it means the time from unemployed without notice to having a job was a day.

you could host the stylesheet somewhere sensible.

Why would you do that? It's enough to do things like run two DCs that can each handle 60% load or three that each handle 40% load. Not that much more expensive, and downtime turns into "the site is slow". There are architectural concerns, especially with data replication, but this is definitely doable, and it doesn't cost a mint.

What the fuck is that supposed to mean? It's got words in it, but is entirely vacuous.

BTDT, 2002 was absolutely awful. I'm in Seattle, and 2% is about right over here. Had a contract end early last may and got a job in one day (24h), so it's not like I had much trouble.

One? Lose a raid stack and you're toast. It's always been at least N+1 redundancy for your tier one crap. The cloud stuff is there so you can scale up quickly. Shouldn't be base load or anything.

Unemployment is closer to 2% for tech workers. Basically, anyone who's reasonably good and wants to has a job.