He talks a lot about how his 5 things are personal for the user and IT is used to providing uniform solutions, so IT cant help. What he breezes over is that much of what IT does (and is up at night about) isnt really about providing software and services, but data and infrastructure, and that his 5 technologies (well maybe not social media) are all dependent upon IT provided data and infrastructure to be useful. When the unaffiliated device or software tries to connect to the infrastructure or data that IT is responsible for is the interesting problem area here, and he glossed over it without really adding anything new to the conversation.

If in your current position you consider higher management friends, you shouldn't be shy about being honest with them. Tell them your situation. If you have a real relationship with them, they will appreciate the honesty and the opportunity to try to do right by you and keep you for the long haul, rather than have you stick around for a short time out of 'loyalty' and feel bitter.

Maybe they can offer to let you telecommute once or twice a week to save on your commute. Maybe they can give you a raise. Maybe they can't do anything, and will just wish you well. You'll never know if you don't give them the chance.

Why compare read and write speeds on huge (and in a few cases low rpm low energy use) drives like these? For most users, the selling point is huge amount of storage for large files (video etc) in a single drive. Energy usage and heat producion might be relevant, and maybe a quick speed benchmark to give people an idea of what the drives are capable of, but 5 pages of speed benchmarks is silly. The differences in speed are so small really (20% between the fastest and slowest seems about typical) as well. Who buys 3 TB hard drives based on speed benchmarks? Give me big cheap drives with a decent warranty please, Ill use SSDs when I want speed.

In korea, Broodwar is huge, SC2 is growing. In the US and Euope, SC2 is all I really hear about. There are a number of big name tournaments: IPL NASL and MLG being the 3 most well known. With HD web streams and large prize pools, these events are what people go to a bar to see. The smaller more frequent tournaments (often 10+ a week) are promoted on team liquid and reddit

They just want to get him to go to Sweden....

I dont think he meant that all software used by the government must be built by the government coding office, but rather that all software created for government should come from the theoretical government coding office. If that is what he meant, it makes sense to me. Most shops wouldnt let the marketing department, for instance, hire a group of programmers to build some software for them without at least involving IT, and really most shops would require that the software be created by developers in the IT department. Having programmers or contractors working for every government agency imaginable, reporting to people who dont specialize in managing software development, is silly.

exactly. which is why it makes no sense for microsoft to be behind psystar, who are pushing for apple to take that new attitude

The Russian president just gave his state of the nation address, and suprised some with his calls to prosecute and end corruption, modernize and privatize industry, and strengthen democracy. This police officer may be speaking out, at least partly, because of what the president had to say.

the two links just above the horizontal ine on his website: http://dymovskiy.ru/

or: http://dymovskiy.ru/video/1.avi

http://dymovskiy.ru/video/2.avi

Strange, this indicates that verizon got in trouble for this exact practice back in 2007 and was supposed to stop.

I worked in the gaming industry, and didnt have any problem getting work afterward. My next employer was pleased that I had worked in a highly regulated industry where if our new code caused downtime, we had to explain to a state gaming board about how it happened.

I know adding more developers can slow down production in the short term, but 5 years on I would think they would have been able to scale their programming staff up a bit more by now. New ui elements (gear manager, quest helper, even voice chat) have tended to be late and light on features, so thats one area I would think could benifit from more bodies in the future.

This is right, but not entirely. Decommissioned GOES satellites go into a non stationary figure eight orbit. This is how GOES-3 is able to provide communication with the south pole. (See the bit about GOES-3)

It seems strange to me that you couple content additions (new dungeons, quests etc) with character balancing in your patches. Content takes a long time to develop, with the time between 3.0 and Ulduar having been what, 6-7 months? By coupling character balancing changes with the content changes, yu end up waiting 6-7 months to balance over and under powered classes, when many of the changes involve modifying a coefficient, a base dmg/healing/whatever amount, or a cooldown. I can understand that some balancing requires development, but there seems to be a clear divide in most cases between the work required to add content and the work required to add new talents or spells. Couldnt you do seperate patch iterations for class balance and content addition? If you did that, wouldnt it allow you to react more quickly to imbalances without causing the feeling that too many changes occured at once that was felt in a previous patch?