Maybe I'm just too old and grumpy, but I've been on the internet since the days when the most useful protocol was telnet, and I thought the same thing as you did when I saw wave. In fact, I tried asking a bunch of much younger people about it, and the best answer I got was that "it allows you to collaborate".

Q: "better than a shared whiteboard and phone call?"
A: "well, no . . ."

Q: "How do you keep everybody from trashing the design with their own agendas?"
A: "You can roll back"

That's the solution? To restore from a backup and waste everybody's time?

While Wave was definitely cool, and I don't fault Google for releasing it (I love playing with new stuff), it bugs the crap out of me that Every New Thing gets a fresh round of "buzz" and internet cheer-leading whether or not it's better than or even as good as what we already have.

There are plenty of pages where the site just will not load unless you give permission to run layers and layers of 3rd,4th,5th party scripts. What can we do as consumers or developers to prevent such behavior on the part of websites?

Install User Agent Switcher and browse as Google.

nobody blows off Google.

There's a ton of money to be made in legacy maintenance. And there's a ton of available work for companies that actually have money. Chances are that anybody who still has legacy COBOL apps from the 70's will be here long after you're retired. I know this because maintenance is about 80% of what I do.

Sure, COBOL, SQL and batch jobs aren't glamorous or exciting, but I don't care because I stop by the client location around 10am and leave by 2pm, and make more money than when I was working 12 hours a day. When I want excitement, I go SCUBA diving and when I want to relax, I take a vacation. I took about 6 weeks of vacation last year

Don't try to compete with recent grads by learning The New Hot Language. It's irrelevant and you'll never be able to stand out. Do all the old stuff you already know (COBOL, etc.). Few people learn it in school and fewer want to do it. This means you can select only the jobs that pay well and make you happy, set your own hours and actually have a life.

I cannot speak for these guys, but where I work, software I write for the company stays with the company. If I were to leave and go out on my own, I would be violating the terms of my previous contract so in effect I would have to write my software again. I'd be very surprised if this weren't the case here as well.

Rewriting it is an opportunity not a problem. Any software that's been around for more than few years could use a rewrite. It gives you a chance to "design in" all the crap that got "bolted on" after the original design was found to not-quite meet the requirements.

Number of my countrymen to be killed or wounded while Clinton nailed a fat secretary: 0. Number of my countrymen to be killed or wounded from the two wars started and unfinished during Bush's administration: 5,589 and rising. And which one did we try to impeach? Yeah, I kinda do miss Clinton.

No shit.

In any case, I think one of the perks of being president is that you should be able have all the girls you want, legally. And for some reason, I don't think there would be a shortage of volunteers willing to do the president.

A happy president is a president who isn't wandering around the world waving his dick at foreign leaders.

In any case, the penalty for attacking the US should be death. Not widespread war; just kill the specific assholes who attacked us. The idea of invading an entire country and expecting a good outcome is both ludicrous and outdated. We need more "ninja assassin" types and much better intelligence. Not more guns and bigger bombs

You're an idiot. The window is six feet tall and has no shade - I live on the plains, and I get direct sunlight through it all morning. Likewise in the jeep - clear glass, no tinting, Bright as hell all around. Clear enough for you now, dimwit?

You're fixing the wrong problem.

Instead of switching to a screen that spreads the glare out over a larger percentage of the screen, why not move the screen to a place that isn't in blinding sunlight?

Even if you're a small municipality, I'm guessing you have enough residents that Comcast doesn't want to lose the entire town.

Explain that Time Warner has managed to solve this insurmountable technical problem and can deliver both analog and digital signals and that if Comcast can't you'll be putting the franchise up for bids.

Don't tell this to the tech monkey, send it on official letterhead to the biggest cheese that would still care about a town of your size.

I'm not sure these are general purpose computers. It sounds like some sort of tool or device.

AV software will never catch everything and just gives a false sense of security.

My suggestion would be to maintain a clean image of the OS and blow the whole image in, instead of trying to clean the machines.

Aside from anything else, I believe you have more liability if you to a bad job of something (cleaning the virus) than if you do nothing or do a clean re-install. I'd vote for the reinstall. New viruses are very stealthy and getting better all the time. I don't know of any reliable way to detect them all and you'll be miles ahead to just drop in an clean OS image on to the boot media and know it's all good.

Sprint gives me unlimited texting as part of my smartphone package...

The data package is free, right?

If you cna fir ta use for it, that's your problem.

This is too easy. I almost feel guilty.

If you cna fir ta use for it, that's your problem.

Ummm. . . Yeah, what you said. I think.

If someone is interested in somethign else, twitter is a great way to stay in touch. I have a twitter account with several other people for the sole purpose of posting grams of fat we eat. Since none of us really know each other, we can get on someone case when they don't post or eat too much fat. It's been a great tool for that.

The amount of crap food you eat is fascinating beyond belief and I'm sure well worth both your time and money, and that of a bunch of strangers. Verizon and/or Sprint thank you from the bottom of their Balance Sheets

Which brings me around to what twitter, et al, actually is: a tool. If someone thinks a hammer is useless, it's th persons fault, not the hammers.

Twitter is the ultimate (for now) "self-esteem" boost, making the senders feel important and the recipients feel connected. However it's all really an illusion. What you ate for lunch is completely irrelevant and the people who read what you had for lunch really aren't connected to you in any meaningful way.

You suffer from a hubris attitude, and myopic mind, and you let your ignorance allow you to be more arrogant. "y the time someone hits 50, they should be on their own" because everyones life is just like you, right fuck twad?

I'm pretty sure you were trying to be insulting. But it doesn't actually matter.

Anybody with a few really solid technical skills, the ability to take a risk, and the ability lower their shields long enough for some coaching in various aspects of social interaction in business can be a sucessful consultant.

Replacing your current salary will generally take about half the work you're currently doing (maybe less if your current employer is really riding you)

And even though you were an asshole, I didn't get mad. Because nobody pays me to get mad. It's counterproductive because it's not billable and spoils my mood. Now go back and finish those TPS reports.