I'm not at all surprised by this, actually.

In my experience, there is a significant percentage (IME, most, but others may differ) of businesses that rely on Best Buy for hardware replacements. They see additional hardware lying around as a waste, and will not keep spares handy.

I can EASILY see this happening. EASILY.

*looks in his datacenter*
Ext3 is ubiquitous.... EXT4 is comin'. VERY few of the others around...

Most of our folks are customer facing and =have= to have a personality to get past our interview process.

I've recommended not extending offers to prospects because of personality dissonance despite having the technical chops.

True enough. I'm a bit irritated with myself that I hadn't purchased a couple just as a 'savings' plan :(

Their full-time economist isn't all that great.

Honestly, the market is continuing to succeed in SPITE of him, not because of him.

I can haz ISKies?

I generally make about 50mil a day, mostly through PI. If I actually tried, I could make a ton more. Heh. People who complain about making ISK in EVE are clueless - you don't have to live in Null or grind missions to make that kind of dough, either.

Umm, no. EC2 is not 'open'. You have access to their API to develop applications that run on the Amazon cloud, but in no way are you able to replicate that cloud internally without completely re-engineering it.

If you want to work with a truly open solution - http://www.openstack.org/

You seem to be focusing your definition of 'cloud' on application development environment clouds, while the poll is including IAAS clouds as options as well.

Let's be honest - IAAS offerings have there place, as do SAAS clouds. You need to select the correct tool for the job.

I don't seem to recall any other "Highlander" movies.

Please. Please do not open that door in my mind. Please?

Not really - since the Prius DOES get the benefits that the Volt won't be.

So... yeah. It makes very, very little sense.

I've taken, and aced, the RHCE twice.

If you know wtf you're doing, it's really not that hard.

The RHCA exams, on the other hand... *twitch*

Uh, no. China isn't 70% of the global WoW player-base.
40%. Maybe.

Most folks estimate that the US + EU population is somewhere between 5 and 6 million.

"Silly... which is exactly why Economics is not a science and because there is no Nobel Prize for economics."

There isn't?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences

I recall similar discussions still ongoing in RGMD and other similar newsgroups and mailing lists at the time.

At one point, I'm pretty sure that someone had a working inter-MUD connector going on, but I can't for the life of me recall who or where it might still be found.

I also work in the US, and I've never started a position where I had less than 2 weeks of ETO or vacation.
The one place that I had offer me 1 week of ETO got a nicely worded "hell no", even though the offer was for 15k more than I was making at the time.

If more people started quitting jobs that don't give acceptable amounts of ETO, as well as refusing to work for those places in the first place, the more likely they will be to increase that benefit.

Yeah, I know - easier said than done, especially in this economy.