One college I have gone to uses a separate domain for students from faculty and administration, @stu.college.edu versus college.edu. They use firstname.lastname, and then firstname.lastname#. They use Microsoft Exchange. Another college I attend now uses a unique ID created partly out of the firstname and a seemingly random 7-digit number, so John9999876@college.edu. This unique ID is also used to login to the student center to access registration, email, etc. It is different from the actual student ID number. As they use Google Mail, it may be generated by Google. My daughter's university also uses Google Mail, but she was allowed to create her own ID, firstinitialmiddleinitiallastname#.college.edu. In business, I like to use firstname.lastname@business.com or firstinitialmiddleinitiallastname@business.com, with dupes using full first name or full middle name or both; sometimes using nicknames or fullnames, like bob vs. robert. I try to respect the preferences of the user if possible. You could use any combination of these. You could use child domains based on named colleges within the university, such as wpcarey.asu.edu or engineering.stanford.edu. Or you could come up with an automatic random email ID generator or use mainframe login ID's, etc.

And my Red Stapler, and that's all.

That would have to be on Skin-a-Max...

If there are more engineers, but a lack of jobs, the newly-trained engineers will create startups. Just look at how many startups in this country were created by engineers from other countries who came here because of the lack of opportunity in their home country. Entrepreneurship is the real driver of our economy and of innovation.

And you wonder how the Zombie Apocalypse began...

'The Green Berets' starring John Wayne was the first time I saw it in film.

Well, she may either be misquoted or mispoke; Hp probably has 40-50 Laser Printers, but 50 'different models' or SKU's of each containing different powercords and localization for 50 different languages/locales.

Well, we've all been anxiously awaiting the return of the Wartburg and Trabant, yes?

As an IT worker refugee from LA and San Diego, I can tell you I moved out here and not only immediately made more money than I had been in San Diego, I could afford to live here. I'm a bigger fish in a smaller pond. The tech sector is one area that has been pretty steady through all the downturn. Ebay, Paypal, Expedia, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citibank all have major data center operations here. There are hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies with IT presence here. It's not just Intel with yet another new Fab in Chandler every couple of years. It may be hot as Hades, but land is cheap, power is cheap, connectivity is plentiful, the cost of living is low and the standard of living is high. I miss the ocean, but we have lots of beach.

Once they commercialize this, it will be found to cause cancerous-like growths in the brain and begin the zombie apocalypse!

This article is obviously written by someone who hasn't bothered to take a look at Metro development on Windows Phone. Having a locked-down environment does not prevent anyone from placing free apps in the Marketplace nor providing the source code. Marketplace, like iTunes, does have some control of what can get published, as all apps have to meet established criteria. Tell me, do we really need to tout 500,000 apps, when 100,000 have some sort of flatulence sound as their reason for being? Not having Chrome or Firefox or Opera on Windows Phone bothers me not a bit. The environment is web-based, and the evermore slight variations in the way the different browsers present the display can wreak havoc on the user experience. Microsoft is right to control this. The fact that API's are not available to allow an alternative browser to function on Windows Phone/Windows RT as it would on a full Windows 7/Windows 8 client probably points more to the relative youth of the OS. For once, Microsoft is taking direct control over its future, and following in the footsteps of the beloved Jobs. Windows RT tablets will directly compete with the iPad, and offer pretty much the same user experience. If you want something more robust, use Windows 8. If you want to write more robust applications and provide you sourcecode, write for Windows 8. It will be a much larger audience anyway.

Then you really don't need to have or use a Windows 8RT tablet. When Microsoft has 80% of the tablet market, then you can bitch and moan.

My buddy and I did this in chemistry class in 1981, using a bunsen burner. Then we made nitroglycerin. When it turned red, we rushed it outside where it blew up the flask. We have enough hydrogen to last basically forever. This could be the key to switching from petroleum.

There will be TWO Windows experiences: one for ARM-based devices exclusively running Metro applications, and the traditional Windows Desktop (sans Start button) that will run thick apps, traditional Office apps, legacy apps as well as new Metro apps. The Metro UI is strictly a web-like experience. Nothing in it would prevent porting to yet another chip architecture if necessary. If you want to use the touch-friendly Metro interface on your desktop or x64 tablet, you can; but you're not forced to. If you want Office on your Metro, there will be Office 365 as well as the Metro-ized Office apps. This is not much different from what Apple is doing. Both companies will be getting there at about the same time.

I echo many of the other statements posted. I had an Olmpus SP-350 for a long time, great little camera, but last year I got a Canon T2i, which is fantastic; 18Mp and high-def 1080p video to boot. It does way more than I know how to do yet, but the flexibility that it provides, allowing you to 'grow into it' is without equal. You can get its little brother, the T3i fairly reasonable, or one of the other EOS DSLRs. Check your Best Buy or Fry's ads, after going to Canon USA, of course.