So they did you a favor. Most places don't tell you that they are completely clueless and wrong-headed before you start working there. Imagine what your boss would be like. Wait, you didn't still want to work there, did you?

That's exactly what is being done. Ships operating in US and Canadian territorial waters must use fuel that meets emissions standards, starting back in 2012. Mexico is actually looking into joining this zone.

The emissions standards will get more restrictive over time, and ships built after 2016 will have to meet additional standards that would probably make it impossible to burn the garbage bunker fuel without destroying their engines. So they will have to choose between cheap fuel and North American access. Right now I believe that they have cleaner fuel in one tank and switch to using it upon nearing North America, but that's not going to be an option going forward.

Unless you're going someplace where people know what a real bow tie looks like, everyone is just going to think that your "bow tie" is falling apart.

Many of these rust-belt cities have struggled for so long that suburban sprawl has been quite limited. Many of them have intact urban downtowns that are run-down and many of these towns and cities have been focusing on smart urban renewal of these downtown areas. They won't be making the same mistakes again. And they don't need a whole generation of investment to make them great little places to live.

If your driving was purely urban, your Prius would beat your Jazz (called the Fit in North America, BTW) handily. Yes, the Fit/Jazz is extremely space efficient, but it is still quite a bit smaller than a Prius. There are certain uses in which a hybrid beats everything. Diesel is the same way - long distance motorway speed, optionally with a heavy load to carry. But getting a diesel to meet anything more than basic emissions requirements has made them very complicated and expensive, with high maintenance and repair bills on top of that. Financially, they make less sense than they used to, especially now that the small turbocharged gasoline engines are available fairly cheaply.

As for electric cars, well, once Tesla's gigafactory is running at full capacity, Tesla will be able to build enough cars to grab an approximately 0.5% worldwide market share. It's a drop in the bucket. Now, slice that battery pack up into 10 or 15 pieces and install them into some plug-in hybrid cars with small turbo gasoline engines, and you have all the makings of a company that can compete with BMW and Mercedes Benz.

The state of Indiana has about 6.5 million residents and has about 200,000 enrollment spots in its two major highly-ranked research university systems. It's neighbor to the west, Illinois, has about 13 million residents but only about 70,000 enrollment spots in its major highly-ranked research university system. It's neighbor to the north, Michigan, has about 10 million residents but only about 100,000 enrollment spots in its two major highly-ranked research university systems.

You're right, Indiana sees education as an export industry, but they've created a system that allows that to happen without hampering their own residents. Other states could learn from them.

Github, Meetup, and LinkedIn. So you want to hire people that spend all their time doing social networking, or people that actually work during work hours and have hobbies in their non work hours? I work in a smallish shop - only about 22 developers out of 70 total employees. The best developers we have are basically unemployable by your standards. At best they might have a LinkedIn page that hasn't been updated in 3 years.

The points-based immigration system that Australia and New Zealand use strongly favors educated American couples in the late 20s. If you graduated from an American university, have a spouse that also graduated from an American university, have 5 or more years of job experience and are less than 30 years old, you will probably have enough points to get an automatic permanent visa. But... You'll get a high standard of living but you'll also have a high cost of living. You'll find it difficult to save money, while all your friends and family are far away, reachable only by long and expensive airline flights.

*cough* South Dakota *cough* They lost. It's constitutional. And in the recent Obamacare court cases, John Roberts brought it up as an example of something the government was allowed to do.

Sure, but on iOS an app is suspended when you are on a phone call unless the app has used the system APIs to enable background execution. There are only a small number of background execution modes and your app must declare which it plans to use. When it comes to location-based background execution (the most likely use of the gyro), your app still gets suspended. The system wakes it up periodically and sends location updates to a function in your app and then gives the app a small time window for that function to return an expected value. It is very much a discrete task-based multitasking system - completely different than normal desktop machines. Good sometimes. Bad sometimes.

If you are using Outlook/Exchange, you can simply schedule a delivery date/time for the email. It's one of the not-too-hard-to-find buttons on the "Options" ribbon called "Delay Delivery". It's actually less work than typing "I know you're on vacation and I don't want you to do anything now, but I know I'll forget if I don't send this now. When you get back..."

You're doing it wrong, for exactly the reason you are sending CCs to people that are out of the office. By the way, what happens if you hire a new person, or an existing employee starts working on your team? Does someone on the team need to go back and re-send all those emails that document the product you are working on? Because maybe they need to know this kind of stuff - if someone that is on vacation needs to know what you did in the past, new team members do too. Have you been organizing your emails over the years? How long will it take you to get that stuff sent out - how much of your current work will be delayed while you accomplish this extremely important task?

The Chromebook in education is a lot more than just a $150 laptop. It's a whole suite of apps and services, and all Google asks in return is to data mine the students for the rest of their lives.

Of course you can run VMWare on the Surface Pro 3. The Core i5 has all the Intel virtualization technologies so you could go further than just VMWare if you wanted.

I needed a Windows machine for remote work and got the new 3. I find it to be a very nice machine. Not at all perfect, but I am quite impressed. And I have found that it has nearly replaced my iPad as an eBook reader. The large (for a tablet) 3:2 screen is fantastic for reading.

OneNote is a bit odd though. You get the touch-enabled version installed out of the box, which is great. But if you install Office on the machine, you then get OneNote 2013 as well. When you press the stylus button to instantly bring up OneNote, you get the touch-enabled version. But it seems that at other times, you are not quite sure which version will load. However, they are interoperable and they save the files in the same location, so it really doesn't matter which one loads. It's just odd, that's all. Maybe the next version of Office will combine the two versions.

Did you bother asking the dealership what the cost to reprogram was? It might have been very inexpensive or even free.

My local Volvo dealership plugs the cars into the computer and runs diagnostics and software updates as a matter of course (no charge) any time you bring the car in for service. Their labor rates are competitive with independent mechanics and they offer a free shuttle to/from work, so I just have my maintenance done there. They clearly want repeat customers (they need repeat customers) and in my opinion are doing quite well at it. I've had a number of German and Japanese cars and prefer the Volvo approach. I'm not interested in fancy drinks in the fancy waiting room - A) I take my coffee black, thank you very much, and B) don't really want to spend my free time in a waiting room.