IMHO upgrading javascript to a full blown programming language that can run in, or outside of a browser would be sufficient

Node.js. Node-Webkit if you need client UI.

Boom. Done.

You can turn off the ability to locate (or at least get a general idea of the location) your cell via triangulation? WOW!

yes, exactly :) I hadn't been able to find it in a while. Thank you!

The evidence shouldn't be too hard to come by. For a while Youtube offered a page showing statistics for your ISP's streaming rate vs other ISPs in the same general area.

I was on FiOS at the time, and the streaming speed was pitiful (could barely stream 360p during peak hours on youtube), while the average in the area was significantly higher. Switched ISPs (yeah, I had a choice at the time), and sure enough, it was all better.

Its a knee jerk overreaction to people being so freagin retarded in this country. If you don't have laws, enforced laws, with teeth, people do whatever to the full extent of what is allowed, with no common sense whatsoever.

Now, everywhere in the world has that issue, but just not to the full extent the US has it (as far as the "first world" goes). I've lived in multiple countries for a number of years, and now I'm in the US, and its just shocking. People smoking while leaning on a no-smoking sign. People screaming on top of their lungs in the street at 3 in the morning. People letting their dog bark for hours while cheering it on. Lines while waiting at a busy bus stop? Hell no! If there's no risk of jail time, not only someone will do it, but a LOT of people will do it.

And people pointing laser pointers at anything and everything.

Its such a ridiculous society that doesn't give a flying duck about their neighbor. EVER. So you end up in a world where everything has to be fucking spelled out with someone in uniform wacking them behind the head all the time like little babies, or they won't apply the slightest bit of common sense.

Until SP3 it had an issue where randomly the registry would get corrupted and it would blue screen at boot, requiring a system restore. It didn't happen often, but no matter your configuration, the longer you used it, the closer to 1 the probability of it happening. The issue was fixed in SP3 and then life was good.

XP also took until SP2 to be bearable... people forget history so quickly.

At the same time, now Powershell (which can be accessed remote and ecnrypted, like a typical Bash over SSH), can do pretty much everything out of the box without needing to add anything (aside a certificate if you want the encrypted part), so you don't really need the UI anyway.

IIS, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server etc, all support it just fine, and you can obviously run any command line utility through it for anything that supports it.

Its rare I ever hit RDP on my windows servers anymore. There's no point unless you're dealing with software that seriously needs an update.

Yup. The customers pay for downloading from their ISP to their home. Netflix pays for streaming from their CDNs to their provider(s). What happens in between is the problem of the ISPs.

Comcast wants BOTH the customer AND netflix to pay for the download part. Thats where it gets messed up.

There's a few "3-monitor-in-one" curved monitors around (I don't know if they're actually sold and too lazy to check, but Alienware showed a prototype years ago). It looked pretty freagin cool in games.

While too short for taste, Nexus devices at least have a well defined/known EOL, so they're good for that.

Too bad the nexus program is probably not gonna go on for much longer though :(

There's 2 big use cases for desktop virtualization. The common one is to run a ton of desktops of off little hardware, with the idea that most people only read emails and use MS Word all day anyway. Big cost saving.

The other is purely to have desktops centralized in a data center so you can have data center admins deal with them instead of needing (as many) on site tech monkeys.

I worked in companies where it was the later. The users still needed 16+ gb of RAM, dedicated powerful hardware, etc, but now if something blew up, you didn't need to send someone at their desk to fix it, and you could still just move the image to a different machine while the first one was being fixed.

This technology seems very well suited toward the later.

Of course I do. This one has the nice side effect of easier collaboration than any other I can think of, though!

Auto-commit is probably overkill, but: distributed source control.

I commit to my local branch at every semi-reasonable checkpoint, and yeah, after a while my commit messages look like those from that XKCD about git. Every so often I'll push to a private remote branch as a backup.

Then when I squash my commits and push the atomic change to the main repo, yeah, that will be a deliberate, reviewed and well explained commit. But only then.

We're not all on SVN and SourceSafe anymore!

and how do you plan to get your free movies over the "innernetz" without doing business with the same monopolies? Who cares about cable TV. Its cable internet that doesn't have an alternative in most places. TV's easy to replace, the internet is getting close (not the same, but slowly creeping up) to being as important as electricity.

Unrelated to the topic, but being qualified for the job and being qualified for the interview is 2 totally different things in the IT and software development field, since there's so many bad interviewers out there.

I wish I could screen for the interview before agreeing to do it. Would save me a lot of trouble.