Have you tried dry humping another person on the stage. I hear that works well for popularity.

Of course, a corporation is an entity created by laws of the incompetent government, who then pays the same corporations in a way that doesn't ensure a quality deliverable. A publicly traded corporation is legally obligated to not leave money on the floor, so if the government makes it easy to steal from them, then the corporation is required by the government to do just that via securities regulations.

OK, John Stossel :)

Bah, that implies there WAS a plan. I think it was more just an ad-hoc collection of contracts that accreted a non-functional web site as a result.

Sounds like bad insurance. We just had a kid and paid $100 plus $100/day for the hospital. Came to $400 total. We've spent more than that on pictures in two years. And my insurance isn't even all that good. My previous company's was much, much better.

I do have FiOS and it is battery backed up, but you are responsible for replacing and paying for the batteries. They don't even do a good check as to when the battery won't take a charge. Even with battery, you get significantly less than a day's worth of standby time. POTS gave you a minimum of 24-hours.

FiOS is moving their customers to VoIP-based telephony, and it's generally not very good. Lots of times where calls don't work, no dial tone late at night, etc. The old POTS circuit (which they removed) was archaic, but had much better up time. On the other hand, it's cheaper and they throw in all the "features" you used to have to pay for like call waiting, caller ID, three-way calling, etc. Not very hard to do with VoIP, of course, but at least it's cheaper. I looked into dropping the voice part, but it came down to less than $10 a month for unlimited long distance, voice mail, etc. Hard to say no to that, since it still sounds a ton better than AT&T cellular.

Probably depends on where you live. Where I am, UPS is pretty good and FedEx sucks so bad I no refuse to order from companies that use them (I'm thinking of you Harbor Freight.) The most annoying this is they leave packages in front of your garage door, so you conveniently run over them when you leave. This is despite many complaints. They claim that people like it that way, but no one else is that stupid. And when the product is damaged, they claim it's not their fault. That and FedEx ground is slower than loading packages on cats and having them deliver across the US.

That's the point. There is software that can be used to run any company in any field. It's called a compiler, although it does require a good deal of customization.

Because computers are hard and most developers don't have a degree.

I write cross-browser code as well, and other than the generally broken JavaScript engine in IE (that raises an exception for things that no other browser does), I find that for CSS, things generally work better in IE than Safari. Safari is rapidly becoming the IE 6 of the modern era. So many bugs in Safari that just never get fixed. Table styling in particular with col-spans are just broken and have been for 5 years.

Of course IE 6 and even 7 aren't useful ad browsers, 9 and 10 aren't too bad.

Particularly when everyone is moving to tablets.

I've got Eclipse Juno and a later version of VS installed on the same relatively fast PC (solid state disks). Neither are speed demons, but I think VS is slower, particularly when building. It's somewhat amazing how fast Eclipse builds my project with over 1000 classes, whereas VS takes about the same amount of time to build a C project with 10 files small files.

Then it's not morally right. It's morally less wrong.

So violating an agreement where you swore under oath is morally right? I'd say keeping your promises is the morally right choice. If you don't like what you are agreeing to, don't agree and sign.

I believe PBR is actually cheaper than bottled water. I'll still stick with water, though.