No, not directly. But there were many predictions of things like "shopping from home using your videophone" or groceries delivered automatically after your refrigerator ordered them from the supermarket -- things that implicitly or indirectly predicted the internet.

On the other hand nobody (here in the US) would have stuck his or her neck out and predicted power companies shutting off your appliances during the day to prevent brown-outs. It would have been unthinkable to predict that we'd never have enough cheap power to do everything we'd want to do, when we wanted to do it.

At this rate I bet that $1B valuation and IPO will be all smoke.

Now we just need flying broomsticks.

Clearly a lot of drivers I see on the road are over-medicated.

I can haz apocolyse

It's not facebook and it's not tulalip.

I scored a google+ invite, wanted to check it out. There's no there there. Yet. Will there ever be? Some estimates of 10M already signed up. Now what. Everyone else is still over on FB. I'm thinking it could be the next Google Lively.

Will anyone got to Tulalip?

The Bears won in 1986 against the Patriots.

You're probably thinking of the Cubs winning the World Series, or even just the NL championship.

Wait, you run Linux and you don't know how an ISP can block ports?

Anyway, there is some anecdotal evidence that Verizon is no longer blocking port 80. And a co-worker confirmed that port 80 is not blocked on his residential FIOS service. That's three.

But I suppose Comcast is, for all practical purposes, a telco too.

I buy broadband only from Comcast, and at a discount too from a reseller.

One month my bill doubled -- they started charging me for CableTV. Call them up, ask them why CableTV is on the bill. Wait for them to look up my records, then the lie that "someone at your address authorized the add on." I tell them "nope, I'm the only one at this address with the authority to do that, and I did not, so take it off, I'm not using it, I'm not paying for it." Next lie was "oh, we'll send someone out, you'll have to be at home for the service call." My response: "How did it get added without an installer coming out? You didn't need someone here to add it, you don't need anyone here to delete it."

My wife and kids are finally trained too. Verizon sales droid walking the neighborhood rings the doorbell when I'm not home, tries to sell my wife or kids, I forget who, on FIOS. Nope, they told the rep, you block port 80. The sales droid had no idea what that meant.

The ones I know of are sitting in dealerships waiting for suckers, er, customers to walk into the showroom.

Now 1,000,000 is a number. 10,000 is a number. We call that being specific. Many? How many is many? 900,000? Or three? There's no validity to a report as vague as this was.

Douche? Way to go with the ad hominem attack. That always lends cred to an argument. Not. Well, at least you posted with your real /. account. That puts you about one step above the other basement dwelling anonymous cowards that posted their ad hominem attacks. Have a nice day.

Right. I don't blame it on MBA though per se, but PHB. My undergrad was Bus. Admin, emphasis on MIS (then, now I suppose it would be IT) basically the undergrad equivalent of an MBA. One of the things I remember from a Management Theory class I took is that one part of a manager's job is to be able to do their employees' jobs when the employee can't, e.g. because they're on vacation.

The anecdotes in this thread about managers who couldn't do their employees jobs, e.g. reboot a server, have no business being a manager.

And every 2U server I've ever seen has a clearly labeled power button. What kind of cheesy-ass hardware are they using that even a 6 or 7 figure CEO can't find the power button?

Oh, and seqway is a scooter, seque is a transition from one thread to another.

sounds to me like you have a good case for a wrongful termination suit.

The same sort of management short-sightedness happens in engineering and software development all the time.

Case in point, at a Fortune 200 companythe senior technical staff all left the project I was on left over the last three years, leaving me as the last senior person. Management saw it as an opportunity to save money and rarely backfilled, and never with senior people. I saw the writing on the wall and started looking over two years ago. Last summer I took a three week vacation and absolutely nothing got done while I was gone. You'd think that would have been management's wake up call, but for some reason it wasn't.

Not too surprisingly, management were blind-sided when I resigned earlier this year.

that is all