I think it is high time that Cory was referenced with the phrase normally reserved for XKCD ...

''Obligatory Doctorow story...'''

When I was 14 we put together electric circuits on a cheeseboard; the capacitor on mine blew up and a fragment would have hit my eye and blinded me if it wasn't for my sturdy NHS spectacles. Those were the grand days before we had sissy things like safety specs.

Of course I'm being a bit precious here - an eye patch for life would have been cool right?

"Of the ten or more creative ways to look at this situation, caveat emptor drives the hearse" - you lose, OP wins.

Sir, you are a scholar.

Obviously I disagree with you entirely.

Either his employer behave fairly and offers him the right compensation for the work they have asked him to do, or they behave unfairly and they do not.

Employer-employee relationships should not be a free-market free-for-all.

1. Most bosses would rather drop an employee rather than give in to demands. This is management 101 and why we need unions. So do not threaten anything and don't stop doing work.
2. Ask for training. It'll cost your boss and you'll learn something. But don't do it if you have to commit to a minimum contract term.
3. When you have learnt enough from your new role (but before you learn too many bad habits) start looking for another job. Then leave. Don't stay at your current job - they may offer you more money to stop you leaving but they will always see it as betrayal and kick you later on.
4. If your employer had any respect for you they would have automatically offered a promotion to you - they did not - so you should leave.

Well the collaboration features are worth more to me than the polish of MS Word (the same polish that overwrites styles for no reason and crashes documents with tables in the header I guess ;)

Lovelock has been wildly misquoted in the media on this and other statements in the last few days.
Tuesday morning he was on BBC Radio 4 and faced John Humphries and gave a very good account of himself, correcting some earlier misquotes.
He promotes an unpopular agenda (it's too late - let's live with it) so he is the enemy of all sides in the climate change debate.

Cool - well then I'm in when Xonotic releases.
But calling me a 'little human' - well that is certainly a new kind of insult I guess.

As much as I love playing Nexiuz I can't really support this move. It's off my PC and will never return. I'm sure no-one really cares, but I do, and I guess that's what it's all about in the end - what I can live with.
If PS3 is closed - then DON'T RELEASE TO IT...
Back to BZFlag...

Because everyone knows that Google IS the modern internet.

One thing has always bothered me about the violent video game issue - is that they are really sold on being an almost immersive experience, and we know already that repeated exposure to violent images makes kids immune to future violent images (hell, same for military vets., even me!) so how exactly do video games get away from saying that they do not make kids immune to images of violence?

Cars, they don't make you _feel_ violent -- neither do planes...

Anyway, Switzerland is a wonderfully democratic country so this not really a big issue for us to get worked up about --- not unless I can go burning images of Christ and the US flag in Texas...

Speaking as someone who works with teams in England, India, Poland, Switzerland, Germany and the US - I can tell you that 'speaking up' is definitely a trait stronger in England than anywhere else.
People in the England do it too much, India not enough, the Polish are about half way (they speak up, but about weird things). The Swiss are way more cynical than I thought, so they speak up like the British do - in a mildly sarcastic way (which never helps).
The US team, well they are strange, because they speak up only when they have prepared an exit plan - it's almost as if they have some sort of secret evil plan ... perish the thought ;)
In summary, everyone should be English.

The only thing I think will be useful to come out of this is the coincidental visit of Lexx (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVshOOG2hcc)

Zotero is brilliant. I could go on about how I use it every day at work and it makes everything a hell of a lot easier, but instead, just check it out.
Versioning of documents it doesn't do - but that's what Mercurial is for I guess.