Close. It'll be Wonder Woman.

Maybe you missed the part where they said "looking forward to not trucking my laptop around everywhere"

A cell phone fits in the pocket. A tablet does not. He'd just be lugging around something lighter. I believe his goal is to not be lugging anything extra around.

As a 45 year old working in the industry, my first thought is find yourself a nice quiet place to cry.

But honestly if you can do it move to management. If you've got a proven track record in the field, you've got a good chance at being one of those magic managers who actually can manage programmers (it's like herding cats). They won't respect you of course, but at least you'll be able to communicate with them which is huge.

And the IT managers I know make decent money.

Personally, I'm too much of a BOFH to go that route.

var filterEmail = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_.-])+@(([a-zA-Z0-9-])+.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
function validateForm() {
    if (!filterEmail.test(document.newAccount.username.value)){
        alert("Please enter a valid Email Address.");
                return false;
    }
}

And I'm not updating it.

I use one of these. It's been working well for me for about 5 years now. It gives them a message more polite than I would and then hangs up.

I don't work for them or anything, I'm sure you could hack together a similar device, but the dumb thing just works. Only drawback is you need to be at the phone where you plugged it in, or buy one for each phone.

Maybe we're just looking at the new cold war.

I'd say China's gonna take this one.

Where's Cherry 2000?

Obviously, he is saying the "first initial source" where he obtained the video content from was a DVD or BluRay, presumably saying he ripped the movie himself to a media server or maybe even has a jukebox media server (being a member of the 4-digit club, he might).

But picking streamed as a source would imply things like netflix or amazon streaming, where the initial source is some other content provider.

Scott E Fahlman, if you're on here, please reply to parent.

What
Could
Possibly
Go
Wrong.

I ALMOST feel bad posting the obvious, but.. whatever.

Who specifically? Because I have skill, and want out of the states.

Oh, they were. Right up until that blackout where the only guy with the key to the diesel generator on the roof slept through the whole thing and the data center shut down.

Bad times.

Don't feel too bad, I worked for a company that punished employees for working overtime to get things out on time. They finally solved the problem by making all IT staff salary.

So it goes both ways.

There are lots of them around. Search ebay for "IBM Model M". And yes, you can get USB.

What could possibly go wrong?