They used to offer the core functionality, without all the extra clutter and crap the regular version had. Mobile websites were quicker to load. Then mobile exploded in the marketplace, more companies started paying more attention to their mobile presence, and now often the mobile sites are no better than the web versions.

Either are improved by focusing on functionality first.

Trust.

It's earned from open communication, then living up to your word. No disclosure, no trust, no investment.

As an employee, my next question would be, if they aren't communicating with their most valuable assets (customers), what aren't they communicating with their next most valuable assets (staff)?

Business will help you no matter what you get in to. It's worthwhile, but if you don't care about it, you won't invest yourself in it and really appreciate it.

Sales/marketing takes more natural ability than book teaching in my experience. Here you REALLY have to have a desire for it, or you get burned out quickly and hate your job.

Starting your own business requires some level of knowledge of both, as well as finance/economics, or complementing your team with those knowledgeable/trustworthy where you lack.

So you have figured out what you are currently doing isn't your passion, now figure out what IS your passion. The only reason I was happy with the career I've had is because the day to day job I enjoyed, in all aspects of my career, including current. Explore other venues, talk to friends, see what excites you, then pursue what permits you to be involved in that.

(I've managed multiple businesses, owned a tiny company [short-lived], then worked for others in creative fields, now manage property investments and wear multiple hats, none of which required even my high school diploma, heh.)

The other trick is to find something fulfilling that capitalizes on skills you have in other ways. Also, ask friends what they see you possibly doing other than what you are doing. I encouraged a friend to become a childrens' librarian over a decade ago, she's been enjoying that work ever since. Another friend is in the process of transitioning his career to reselling/auctioning, totally up his alley.

PS: Networking is required/a given in all options, to various degrees, so it's not a separate consideration.

Coed, "There I was giving this bloke a blowie out back when WHAM, I get knocked out by an economics text...what are they suggesting?"

Odd, in my state it worked fine...no, wait a minute, it's only Oct. 4th, who in their right mind with technical savvy or experience would access such a new product in the first week of it's availability?

I live in one of the most population dense states. My current health insurance is paid up through the end of the month. I won't be accessing the exchange for three weeks yet because everything in the article is obvious, but even if implemented within the time constraints to the best of their ability, will still probably have issues in the first few days.

Duh.

Either way, the part that cracks me up, is the NSA was outed, but Euro countries have been doing the same thing, China has been actively attacking, aside from presumably passively monitoring traffic, any country would be foolish to not use the resource available to them...which means specifying routing just means you are choosing who listens in on you, and their friends, and the company the NSA sets up there.

That fails cost/benefit analysis.

The virtual world of Second Life was inspired from an attendance of the Burning Man festival.

Why would nerds want to socialize with other nerds and creative people and others? To be inspired, to network, to create, to pursue their desires, to recreate, to experience life, to [i]fill in the blank[/i].

Most folks I've met who knew what the Burning Man festival was have been nerds. Who else would engineer the various contraptions that Burning Man features/celebrates? Ever see an overhead shot of the geometrical layout of the city?

Many nerds don't hate others, or even their comments.

In this case, they explicitly say not to strike, but to use the preexisting system rather than the fingerprint scanners.

They might lose luggage more if it results in others paying to promote their brand name! Folks down the road won't remember why BA is in the forefront of their subconscious when they go to purchase tickets... Smart of Jet Blue to try to get in on the attention too.

This is one of the big problems with trying to warn folks off bad service, you really need to promote every company save the one you aren't a fan of or it just ends up good for them in the long run.

Destroy it, heck no! Think of the possibilities? Teen girls could prevent their boyfriend(s) from texting anyone other than them. Enemies can disable one's fav game or pr0n access. In the midst of a test, mysteriously cheat notes aren't accessible. The kids who hack this stand to make lotsa' cash, or gain sexual favors, or whatever kids want nowadays...Adderall.

No worries, it'll never hit the market, the summary says MS is seeking a patent for it. Of course, the government might realize granting a patent means preventing this tech from becoming available, but probably too late. ;-)

And what does any of that have to do with lie detectors, the first amendment, and the summary?

According to the law he was prosecuted under and plead guilty to? Apparently he himself, a judge, the prosecutors, the people who wrote the law presumably, and those trying to hire honorable people for federal agencies (*snicker) disagree with your interpretation of that. But who cares, it still doesn't relate to the summary or polygraphs.

Think about it this way, if the devices didn't exist, and he told someone what he did, he'd still be guilty, and turning in another person for something unrelated has no bearing.

The summary is trying to do what you are attempting to do, downplay the facts and draw in unrelated red herrings to push an unrelated agenda.

Not speeding 364 days out of the year doesn't mean you don't get a ticket the one day you do speed. IE, being a law abiding citizen doesn't mean you can't break a law, knowingly or unknowingly, either way, he wasn't prosecuted for his speech, and the law he broke by suggesting someone downplay a family relationship to deceive the feds isn't imperiling free speech or in any way related to polygraphs.

If you assume he took a plea deal, what other charge(s) did they drop for the deal? Your suggestion makes the poor guy sound worse.

I do agree that our justice system is lose-lose, especially for the poor saddled with families.

He already plead guilty. Ironically the summary lies, he fell for entrapment, providing a lie for an undercover investigator to purportedly get a federal job dishonestly. Wire fraud is in there too. Sorry, I read the article.

There's nothing first amendment related, you can tell people to befriend the examiner, control their breathing, put antiperspirant on their fingers, and be anxious for early control questions so you seem less anxious for later questions.

If he'd simply responded, "I can't provide answers you should give" instead of, "tell them X", he'd have been fine.

I do feel for the poor guy, he's literally poor, had a failing business and was trying to generate side income to support his family/kids by charging people for what is in the wikipedia article on polygraphs, and obvious to anyone who had parents they lied to.

Actually, it sounds more like they should have hired the guy to help them out.