Amen to A Christmas Carol. I had recorded it when it was on TNT originally in 1999, but set it aside and never watched it. About two weeks ago I picked it up and me and my family watched it. We loved it, even the four year old and the 2 year old. They rendered their opinion of Scrooge as "He's a grumpy old man who doesn't like Christmas."

I liked it so much I ordered the DVD from Amazon so I wouldn't have to put up with the commercials. Of course, the kids found the "Muppet Christmas Carol" so now it's tough to watch anything but that; but it's okay, I like Michael Caine too.

I've used music at work. Sometimes I've left my headphones on with no music, since they're noise cancelling.

In our office they got us all Plantronics phone headsets. It ain't music, but I can put them on, take the phone off the hook (and hit 'Goodbye' so it goes back on-hook again) and work in relative silence, and everyone thinks I'm on a conference call.

I don't need music, I just need to blank out the ladies in the next cube talking while they're working.

Nope, don't think so. The SAP EDI guy who did this has deployed systems at major companies for about 10 years. He started out with the R/3 stuff and his deployments are now running Netweaver. I think we're cool.

There was a guy who once had a web site where he posted shots that nobody else would see of things like the mating in the VAB, the hardware itself (I remember seeing things like the charges that lit the explosive bolts that held the SRBs to the pad), etc., etc.)

Unfortunately USA (United Space Alliance) got wind of this and fired him because the photos weren't cleared through NASA PAO (the Public Affairs Office) and the site came down. A shame. I've never seen images of what the pad looks like after the shuttle launches except from here.

Now THAT was shuttle pr0n - but this was a respectable 2nd attempt.

Marketing is everything. In our SAP implementation we implemented a rather unorthodox way of defining all of the trading partners that we need to send electronic invoices, etc., to - much different than the "SAP Way" of doing things.

The functional folks coined the term "Magic Table" for this Z-table. The name stuck.

The downside to this is that everyone must think it's truly magic, because a full year after deployment I'm still needing to explain it to people; they must think it is truly effing magic.

We're now developing custom ABAP code for something that this same functional person is calling the "SuperScreen." I guess this SD person should be in marketing. :)

I think the old saw that "Nature abhors a vacuum" would take effect. It wouldn't take long to rebuild a network of networks again. The protocols that are used and the speed and whatnot may be still at issue, but having had an internet and knowing its potentiality, I think that if it were taken down, something would have to be invented to replace it.

Now, if it were 'taken down' because "they" wanted to silence it, I recommend to you the quote famously attributed to John Gilmore: "The internet interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it."

I don't know if you'd ever get it taken down for non-technical reasons (like The End Of Life As We Know It.)

And me here with no mod points. Hah.

Actually, if you take that argument reductio ad almost-absurdum, almost EVERYTHING (solar, oil, wind, etc.) is more or less nuclear.

Maybe geothermal isn't. Unless you go far enough back up the energy "food chain," I suppose.

Just this past weekend I spent with my brother-in-law timing a 98 Passat TDI with VCDS. It definitely made a huge difference.

Going there it was definitely "gutless" and coming away it was like a new engine. (To be fair, the injector timing was off a fair bit.)

There should be a law that agencies enter this information themselves.

Absolutely not. This is exactly why we need this sort of group, to shine a light on their activities. I don't need the fox watching the henhouse.

unless the conviction is overturned on appeal or they are pardoned by the president.

Aha! Found a way out of it, did we Bernie?

I disagree with your disagreement. Debate against political ideology can be rebutted with articulated facts and pointing out the logical fallacies in the original argument -- or with silence. Suppression of the arguments does nothing to further the other side of the argument, but it does make people consider that "where there's smoke, there's fire."

"buying something so you can just turn it around and sell it to someone else for more money"

oh, like the stock market. That's a capitalist phenomenon called "appreciation," is it not?

I believe the answer would be "one."

And that's why I've often used "ELOC," or Executable lines of code.

An
ELOC
metric
for
this
would
count
this
as
a
single
sentence. :)