Just just communication skills - far too many younger people have never been told how to dress for work or for a job interview. Everyone working in an office should own at least one decent suit. Learn when to wear a tie. Cover your tats is you have them. These things are noticed by people who are in charge.

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2009 called and wants their first gen android phone back.

        3G connectivity
        480 by 320 3.5-inch display
        expandable memory via a microSD up to 32 GB, 2 GB included
        256 MB RAM
        3.15-megapixel rear camera
        1.0 GHz Cortex-A5 processor

It's time for Congress to disassemble this agency. Their track record of protecting the American public is horrible.

... because his suicide was a direct result of his prosecution and punishment. So unless they can return Alan Turing to life this pardon doesn't mean shit.

I run x11vnc on my Linux desktop and connect remote using androidVNC. Neither are likely to phone home to Google.

I've said before the Surface marketing was one of the nails in the coffin. The TV ads mostly featured hipster dambasses dancing and hiphoping while spinning the Surface tablet. Very little if any product knowledge is communicated.

MS has to tell people WHY they should choose their option over iPad and dozens of Androids, Kindles, and Nooks. There are tablet for all price points. Some offer decent performance and graphics. Others are affordable. Surface is.... from Microsoft. I guess that's all you need to know.

Then there's the Metro GUI fiasco. MS basically appologizes for Metro on Windows 8 and offers a Metro-less option on the new betas. What does that tell a potential tablet buyer?

I think this thing will be discontinued within a year. If I were a Surface owner I'd be hoping for an Android or Linux port right about now. Can you root a Surface??? I guess I'm lucky I don't need to worry about that one.

Best Spaceballs call out ever. Sorry I have no mod points right now.

Correct. It is something you can elect to do. It involves sticking a huge damn needle through the mother's stomach. That alone prevents many tests from occuring and will be one of the obsticles to this gene therapy's future potential.

I'm so glad we have a two party system where one party is so very obviously good and virtuous and the other is evil for all to see. We should keep voting blindly along party lines based on the rhetoric these people speak rather than looking at their actions.

I must excuse myself, the Two Minute Hate is about to begin.

TFA fails to mention you have to pay to assign words to a location.

If I were tasked with creating an automated seaerch tool to look for my client's copyrighted material the first thing I would do is assign a scoring threshold that estimates the likelihood of infringing content. This is a case where that threshold was clearly not meet.

Unless there is punishment for these types of blanket requests copyright holders will continue to abuse the DMCA takedown process.

That's not at all what I said, but nice try to inject your adenda into a discussion.

>> "I find these ads ridiculously pretentious"

To the extent they are emotionally manipulative I'd agree, but they're light years better than the choreographed hip-hop dancing in the Surface ad. Little to none in the 'product knowledge' category. In the MS ad I see dancing, the "kickstand on the back of the device, the cover/keyboard, and fleeting glances at the screen. Surface has a user interface (Metro) that MS just removed from it's desktop OS. That's a loud message. MS nearly apologised for Metro on the desktop but they expect people to want this on a tablet?

Even in the Apple "signature" ad I can draw the conclusion of using Apple products to video chat, listen to music, take pictures and do creative things. The commercial is sappy but it does tell people something.

Apple's emotional advertising is due to their stock price taking a pounding. They have no new killer app or product in the wings. A new iOS and that strange little Mac Pro aren't going to find love on Wall Street. Apple is in a position of selling you stuff you're seen many times and have very likely used or own in an earlier form. There are no suprises or "one more thing" to spring on you. I have to guess it's becoming hard to sell iPods/iTouch devices.