It's a habit... and not necessarily a good one...

People who spend their lives at a desk MIGHT justify the expense of a phone switch, infrastructure, etc...

OTOH, putting a mid-level cellphone in the hands of each employee, using group texting for announcements, having that phone in the conference room, server farm, and out on-site... can about the same annual costs

Evil Geniuses in Upper Management realize that if you give mobile tools like cellphones and laptops to employees they will contribute massive hours of overtime without compensation... The Pointy Haired types will worry about non-business use between bouts of productivity...

Tablets, BT headsets, VOIP apps, and an internal "social network" might, in the near future... beat anything we've seen yet for business communications...

I check filters when SPAM shows up from the same source twice... or at least when I notice it doing so....

A Jensen Lan Manager tool kit in the locking case, and a Fluke Networks MicroScanner2 ought to keep you in business...

http://www.stanleysupplyservices.com/ is a one stop shop for all of the above.. and their prices aren't too bad.

If you need more than that you probably need to bring in a tech that has them...

A BIG, HEAVY, LOCKING tool cabinet wouldn't be a bad idea after you've put a couple of grand in easily portable tools and test equipment..

This is Not A Problem...

After all the Supreme Court has decided we ARE the race we claim to be...

Just pick your target score and fill out your applications accordingly

You COULD ask to see their "Life Cycle Management" documentation folder(s)

IMHO... If they don't understand the question you're probably going to want more money...

One of my former students called me years back with the announcement that the brief (two hours or less) "Life Cycle Management" addendum I'd made to the Systems Development/CASE class I was teaching got him a promotion to a senior analyst position... That was the one area that none of the other candidates could discuss...

Apparently it wasn't something that everyone was teaching as part of the process of developing maintainable code and data structures...

My NOT being a full time programmer OR teacher might affected how strongly I've felt it necessary to include that subject.. but whenever I've had to go back to a former project... having a fully documented system has kept me from the necessity of reinventing the wheel...

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ONLY a three year old could do it!(VBG)

Sports are artificial constructs in which the players agree to a set of rules... real life isn't a sport.

As others have pointed out, what if that person's concentration results in world improving discoveries or the next amazing invention?

I'll take it a bit further...

Why should ANYONE who is an adult be subjected to regulation about anything they choose to do to their own body/mind?

Whether or not you are "medically trained" just being a slashdot member I'm fairly certain that you yourself research effects, side effects, dosages, and contraindications as well as anyone else?

I'll admit that I'm Darwinian enough to want warning labels taken off of things that any idiot ought to realize they need to use carefully and/or read up on before trying...

But warning labels or not... isn't any risk taken assumed by the person making the final decision(s) on what to do?

Putting laws between people and their own bodies is Bad Government... Laws ought to cover ACTIONS that affect others.

DUI and "public intoxication" are illegal... so much so that diabetics have been shot with Tasers for not responding to police appropriately (at least in the officer's estimation)

We've got the social and public results under control... or at least we've got "available" the means of enforcing acceptable behavior in public.

We've even got excessive laws that allow one's private behavior to be intruded on and punished no matter how little it affects others...

Somewhere we've given up our autonomy for some set of social mores to which we might not subscribe at all... imposed on us by those most interested in gaining power over others...

Today's disastrous effects of violating the standards of "Political Correctness" in the workplace are a prime example of that power... Where the mere misspeaking of one's opinion using the "wrong" word can end a career... (sorry, I'm not perfect and sometimes the "right" word escapes me when I'm in a passionate discussion)

Further, we can't determine a person's exact "state of mind" with any real certainty so why are some crimes "worse" because of what someone thinks?

It is quite possible that there are adults among us that don't need a Nanny State to guide us in our daily lives, including whether we chose to use Adderall to enhance our ability to concentrate or steroids to give us an energy boost... (assuming we're not contracting with others to refrain from either practice...)

/rant off: OK, now I'll got and take MY meds... 8)

There goes the neighborhood... US patent law is so screwed up that instead of fixing it we're gonna add a whole 'nother level of complexity...

Yeah!!!!

I can only offer my personal observations... You can get amazing speed on some networks that cover massively urban areas in the Big City and little else... or you can get coverage that works just about everywhere including out in the sagebrush where I live...

Verizon seems to be everywhere... reasonably fast... with 4G reaching clear up to my place at 4,200 feet overlooking a valley with 40K total residents...

I can't get a decent internet connection, point to point is all that reaches here, but the 4G network would be great if it weren't capped...

Your location and lifestyle are the BIG factors... Sharing the area you're interested in living/traveling will get more helpful advice...

Aside from the unintended consequences of adding tons of water vapor to the atmosphere it's a great idea

Increasing concentrations of the most powerful greenhouse gas, increased precipitation over the most populous regions of the world, and local climattic changes like Phoenix AZ's humidity increase that no longer allows the use of cheap evaporation coolers... are ALL easily projected results

Considering that doing this today will require massive use of fossil fuels, and future expansion will require potentially ecologically damaging processes to produce solar panels the "carbon footprint" of massive hydrogen production/use might worsen any AGW effects...

I'm sure someone will find you a compressor the markets always respond to demand... especially for clean, nearly free energy sources...

And just justifying that by pointing to the released prisoners found back on the battlefield is nonsense!!!

They can't ALL be Bad Guys despite being captured in a war zone... even if they were caught red handed waging war in civilian dress against the Laws of War...

As the guy that used to correct, grade, and return school flyers sent home while my BIL was living with us I think that testing is NEEDED...

Grammer, spelling, and word choice errors were in each and every product sent home... SUPPOSEDLY prepared by the teachers, administration, and even some signed by the School Principal...

I think we just wrote off that year of his "education" when we sent him back to his mom....

A teacher OUGHT to be able to get a passing score on ANY class material they've taught for two years or more... period!

I get enough referrals to people who paid for a repair they didn't get that this doesn't surprise me at all... despite being mostly retired I can't seem to turn them down...

The last time a customer wondered why my rates were a couple of times higher than the "Squad" troopers all I could tell them was "I guess they know what they are worth..." (I guess I should have pointed out that I only charge once for repairs, when they're done right)

Kinda puts the term "putting on my thinking cap" a reality!

If that gesture, and the vocalization that goes with it had been the result of years of development... theory, observation, experiment, peer review of the results and publication in journals for those interested in the subject.... would that change anything?

Using the "Scientific Method" to harness an unknown (to us) type of energy would satisfy me as science/technology....

After all, if you take certain rocks, process them a certain way, and then arrainge the resulting material just right you can power an aircraft carrier for it's entire projected lifespan on one fueling....