for #1 - like Clark Howard (AM radio but he's often very good on practical stuff - Every hear someone old say "dammit, I ended up with too much money!" Didn't think so..). Learn what a deliverable is and deliver them. In fact, under-promise and over-deliver. Once you're sure you know EVERYTHING about something, take five and ask "what did I forget / not think about". Better yet, do that with someone else in the room. Get a mentor or friend whose criticism you trust. Better this get done by someone you like than someone who can fire you. Want to impress people with your individuality and your passionate feelings? Put them into your work. That's why you took X career in the first place. Feed your awesomeness into your work rather than making people think your true self lies somewhere else (cat / car / frisbee collection / mustache wax collection / etc. - this sort of thing is perceived as tedious and leads co-worders to first think, then hope you have much better things to do than force yourself to work with them). Learn to think like your customer and like your boss. They may but always be right, but you'll be less deer-in-the-headlights when the inevitable pushback comes. Focus. Multitasking is a cruel invention to test your character. Draw a line for work's encroachment into family and friends and make it plain that you will work like a dog for your scheduled time, but after that, crossing it will be done only in cases of a problem needing doctors or lawyers to help fix. Of course there will be exceptions, but you can always make exceptions, moving that line the other ways is an order of magnitude more difficult. Better yet, be the sort of person who lets colleagues share the good parts of your life - parties, get-togethers, etc. so they see the value of the rest of your life and you theirs. Talk to those above you and below you in an organization. Find out ahead of time what they see as absolutely necessary to define success and use that information to work with them. Everyone has different agendas and personal goals, but define the common goals as soon as possible and make sure everyone pulls in the same direction, they can spin off their own little pieces as well.

bed springs?

they reset spontaneously and could save this mission...

and not as a verb. Using "hope" as a verb in spaceflight hasn't always gone very well in the past.

please don't burst my bubble.

Now if they can just replace solder and thermal paste with duct tape and concrete patch....

in number and complexity. I use Keynote, mostly because you have a freer hand in designing, which makes you think about what you want to do. I've seen countless presentations forced/stuffed/mangled into following the default PPT slide format *AND GRAPHICS* because people would sooner live with a bad default format than think for themselves.

any indication, Dell is doomed. You know, proprietary ports and everything...

Ah but would it be permissible to scan both the embedded sensors for spoiled milk and spoiled meat on the same device? The story I always heard was that there was an unspoken agreement that Brillo and SOS were different colors so that you could have one to clean cooking utensils for meat and one for cleaning milk product utensils. Only glitch is that SOS pads didn't go from red to blue until 1960 or so, and the relatives who told me that were keeping kosher long before 1960.

"GREAT SCOTT !"

So we can keep separate internet-things kosher?

one can now wistfully remember the birth of Windows. I was 6 years on Macs (supporting 28 units in a school) at that point, and remember looking at the Mac graphics and then the Win graphics ("I don't care what it takes - bonuses for anyone who can make this OS look sorta like AppleWorksGS!"), the placement of menus inside individual Windows ("How can we make people spend MORE time using our product?" "You mean USE it more, right boss?" "No, just spend more time using it.") and the mouse driver ("Remember that great scene in Bambi when he's on the ice? Let's make that an easter egg." "Sure, boss, we can have a little movie pop up when you hit crtl-alt-shift-esc-b" "No, you moron, I mean right there in the mouse behavior - it'll be a cherished childhood memory every time you try and point to something." It all but turned my mom & dad's Leading Edge D into my happy place. But hey, at least Media Player was included!

Instead of by the device. Problem solved!

Cuz I have three cabinets full. Not sure I'll hand over Oregon Trail, tho.

Five years to get from no rockets to an interplanetary orbiting probe. The video they produced clearly shows the launch from somewhere near UAE, so they're not just going to hire an existing launch-proven company/state to give their satellite a ride. Ambitious. Highly collaborative with the existing science community. Aces. There's a woman as Co-I on the project - well done. They're not going to try and land, good idea. And the not-landing part will fill in some pretty significant gaps in mars atmospheric science. The only true unknowns are how many freshman US legislators will become outraged and demand a congressional hearing.