the World is more than Downtown Seattle, yanno?

(BTW, I get better than 2MBit on my cellphone).

I don't watch TV, there's too much violence.

I was just reading Dickens.

short answer: yes.

oh, a bit like McLaren's new electric car... looks great, it's practically silent.

Until the 385lb battery runs flat after six miles.

Not to worry, though, because it also has a 2.something litre V8 hooked up to a generator! AND THE DRIVETRAIN!

I think someone fucked up there in the design department. "Build us an electric car." "OK, we'll just sneak in a petrol engine and a fuckoff big red button on the dash, nobody'll know..."

AC is bang on. A diploma only means that when you took a three hour exam you had the ability to recall from memory, something you read in a textbook. It does not make you smart any more than donning a black cotton belt makes you Pat Morita's stunt double. Only innate skill, common sense and most importantly, experience (in ANY field) will not only get you hired right off the bat but will more likely ensure retention than a college degree and no work history.

Anecdotally, I have received resumés, over many years and in two industries: ICT consultation and law. Of all the ICT speculative applications I ever received, I called ONE for interview in 2004. He was a pleasant guy, about 25, had nothing past a few average-grade GCSEs under his belt but he had worked since the age of 13 (paper round), later in a warehouse until he was 20, then food retail. He wanted in on the ICT racket. I called him in because he printed his resumé on a home built printer (he even supplied a polaroid of it!), on a computer he built himself, using a word processor he coded himself from the ground up. OK, he didn't have a college degree, he didn't have anything resembling even a vocational ticket in computing, but he had two things I was looking for: the drive and determination to achieve, and the willingness to learn and demonstrable *experience* in problem solving. I mentored him for three years and to this day he's still consulting.

Not quite. The key phrase "team player" indicates an ability to identify the skillsets of work colleagues and to delegate work according to those skills, not according to office politics; it's a human resources management tool, not a primer on how to win friends.

In my experience, a good boss who isn't technically minded will take advice and just let the tech-heads get on with it, and look forward to a viable result*. If there's more than one boff in the mix, a good boss will take regular updates and stir the pot as necessary. Sometimes that will involve some firing and hiring of new blood. If it takes an unsolicited approach by an employee to make the boss aware outside of a regular departmental meeting that something is wrong, then he isn't a very effective boss. This goes both ways: if you have a complaint, document EVERYTHING, who did what when and what the result was, summarise it, summarise the summary and take it to the next meeting.

*that's what I do. I'm no code monkey, if I need something to spin I don't know or particularly care about the mechanics behind it, I just want the spinny thing to spin. That's why I surround myself with people who know the shit I don't.

um... nope, it wasn't, I was being serious like "CIA running disruption ops in the Middle East including enabling al Qaeda rebel groups" serious... but hey... :)

Not specifically, but you could search for Synchronar, Nepro, Sicura, Cristalonic, Alba, Seiko and Citizen...

So she always has some handy to deal with all the crap he throws her way!

stop the transactions, you hurt the value. This is a Fed operation, because they can't control it they're trying to destroy it and make it look like script kiddies. So fucking transparent...

"Basil, this coffee tastes like shit!"
"...it is shit, Austin."
"Do you kiss your mother with that mouth? ...and this isn't actually that bad... a bit nutty..."

Really?? Prior art on commercially available solar embedded displays goes back to the 70's...

moving controls off the main unit is an absolute abortion of a design decision. Case in point: the Grundig MD-P1 personal minidisc player. All the controls are are on a pod, the only control on the unit itself is a mechanical eject. It works great until the cable splits, then you have a paperweight unless you want to fork out for a spare control pod - which is also the only way to connect a pair of headphones.

(source: had one)

I have a MotoRAZR V3i and a V3r, I'm pretty sure you guys can't be referring to either of those as "worst phone ever" because frankly, they're the best phones ever.