The structures are fine, it's just that turnover at the higher level is low.

There are usually as many manager as lead level developers in IT (at least there should be, where lead is the technical equivalent of director). The leads manage specific development activities (and should not be micro-managed). And if the manager/director and the lead(s) are competent (or in with upper management, or good at manipulation, I've seen it all), no one else can move up.

So, the senior developers will probably leave, after a few years, to seek increased salary or a lead position elsewhere.

In order to retain knowledge (this is very, very important), the leads should be carefully selected and compensated well. Then, turnover at the junior and senior level isn't that painful. Promote internal staff to leads, they will have the institutional knowledge that needs to be retained.

I thought you were referring to the companies themselves, and not public action persuading the government to create/enforce certain labor laws.

Sorry for any confusion.

No. That would be "vote with your wallet".

But, in the case of public companies, the shareholders could do this. But it would hurt the share prices.

And for private companies "vote with your wallet" is the only viable approach (and by viable I mean there is no approach actually).

Since all that was lost was supplies (while critical, there are future shipments and I'm sure they have emergency procedures to send up supplies if needed), it's not crass to say "Go Space-X".

There are multiple players in the game of space, and Space-X is the one I root for, they get me excited and are very ambitious.

I watched a few space shuttle launches live while telecommuting, and watching Space-X attempt a rocket recovery is just as exciting. Maybe even more so since it is something that has never been tried. They didn't fail by much last time, and there were explosions!!!

Anyway, I wish the crew of the ISS health and no need for good luck (planning, prep, and execution, but please no need for luck).

I'll agree with the scanner (unless I need legal quality I just photo paperwork in good light with my phone), but this 2TB Seagate drive is very small (and cheap at $90). There's always at least one in my laptop bag.

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-...

You win!

You made a horse analogy on Slashdot about a car named after a horse. That is a many layer onion.

Fantastic.

Seconded (no karma available).

We're on our third Nexus 5 (all off Swappa used, they are $200 now...) after my wife took her's out of the case and cracked the screen real good (it's the backup phone now, just did the transfer yesterday).

Mine has a good case and has survived falls where I expected destruction (5 foot drop onto concrete, with direct corner impact). Get a good case.

Very solid with Kitkat and Lolipop. Still very powerful regarding performance.

For the record I did like my iPhone 4 (it was rock solid, but never updated and new games required the updates), but wanted a more open development environment for my phone platform.

Damnit. I tried. I've never tried first post, thought I could pull of an XKCD reference.

Damn you! (your post wasn't there when I typed a longer version of yours...)

https://xkcd.com/538/

Bam! My first obligatory post on Slashdot.

Someone has probably posted it while I typed this though...

The summary appears incorrect. The linked article says that MS has annualized revenue of $6.3 billion from "cloud" business.

Google's $1.57 billion translates to an annual number of $6.28 billion from Amazon Web Services.

I'm not sure how either company defines what is included in those numbers.

Does anyone have better information or metrics?

I am 41 and would want to work for Google to ruin everyone's (I'm talking the entire Earth here) mapping experience...

Almost all of the best music ever is about 50 years old (The Who, Rolling Stones early stuff, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, etc.). I would even include the Beach Boys (Good Vibrations, 1964, 51 years old, I've listened to it twice in the last week, God Only Knows was 1966, 49 years old)...

Everything done in the mid-1960's and prior is 50 or older. The best time for music ever to me was 1965-1975. And 1965 was 50 years ago.

There is a metric shit-ton of money being made off this stuff.

One of the coolest movie experiences I've ever had was watching Hot Water (1924) starring Harold Lloyd in a church with live organ accompaniment.

The link I provided was to the current Music Freedom offering.

I don't use it but was aware of it when I signed up with T-Mobile last year.