It's the same as all my others. *************

This. Trackpads are for novices. Trackpoint is so exact, fast and close that you can work circles around people performing the same tasks and using a trackpad.

Ditto. A thousand times this.

This. A thousand times this. Since the mere passage of Obamacare without any actual introduction of features aside from kids on parents insurance through age 26, premiums have risen annually by double digit percentages, co-pays and prescription drug costs continue to rise while pay remains stagnant and all this happened when the risk pool should be better by having more (presumably young, healthy) people insured. I doubt you'll find anyone arguing against healthcare reform, but this is not the solution. The solution needs to be hammered out in the open instead of a fly-by-night bill that had to be passed before anyone could figure out what was in it.

This. I want to know who these people are that supposedly prefer Bing over Google. They must all live in Redmond.

True, and as a Sprint customer, that means exactly jack shit. I have 3 phones on a family plan with unlimited data. The price would be fantastic IF we could get data to flow. 3G speed? Fail. 4G WIMAX (our phones are all WiMax models)? Fail. 4G LTE? According to the comments on this same article on the Houston Chronicle website today, FAIL. We started on Sprint when we were all on a family plan, thinking when the contract is up we're gonna have to cough up some cash and go back to blue or red, 'cause yellow isn't cutting it. It wouldn't matter if Sprint was GIVING unlimited data away, it's practically unusable.

^^ THIS.... I'll need to enter this in our TLA library. You'll hear it again one of these days.

... is new again. I've been centralized and decentralized multiple times. I swear, some people make a good living pushing the beans back and forth across the table and declaring victory. There will always be economies of scale for centralization of shared services and there will always be techies with some level of intimacy with the business to support their applications and communicate requirements. The fact that self-service IT continues to grow simply reinforces the need for champions/advocates at the business level that help requesters pick and choose their products from a service catalog. At the end of the day, Joe User couldn't care less where his services reside.

I would mod this up if I had points. This came home to roost with me just this week. I started a contract gig for one of the O&G supermajors whose new contractor policy is BYOD and they use a vmware/mokafive VM to give you access. So here I am, doing the same work their employees are doing with powerful dedicated machines and multiple displays on my laptop running a Win7 VM on top of Win7 (see: splitting resources) because said company is too tight to provide tools to do the job. I guess it's not a problem if it takes me longer to read the fine print or manage issues as I'm on their very generous hourly rate but I'll be damned if I'm gonna drag my dock and 24" displays to the office. Sure, VM makes sense to them from a cost perspective (no capital for workstations) but the cost savings end there. Another clear case where bean counters rule.

I just used my mod points or I'd have modded this one up. Don't forget some companies are laying people off and moving jobs to lower paying areas of the country where they can hire less experienced folks at lower wages. They lay off and then re-hire and claim job creation.

If I had the points, I'd mod this way up. Classroom training is no substitute for real world experience.