Last message between Drone and Ground Control: Can you hear me now?

I know i'll get flamed for this, but, come on, it's 60ns. we're really gonna spend millions of dollars and hundreds of hours of time over 60ns?? Yes, I know, over large distances it's a different story, but is this really as big a deal as people are making it out to be? I'm just asking.
Isn't it quite possible that Einstein just rounded down when he was calculating 'c'? ;)

Because it's easier to kill terrorists than to kill cancer

Personally, i'd be ok with everybody bringing an uzi on flights if i never had to walk through another security checkpoint for the rest of my life.
They should hand out guns at security checkpoints, like bags of peanuts. 1 terrorist with a gun onboard versus 200 of us passengers with a gun. i'll take those odds.
I'm joking of course. mostly.

From the platform highlights..

this, to me, is the most signifigant part of the release. End-users and IT people have been asking for this forever.

I don't agree that it's the norm, even for a small company. You don't need big money, esp. for java development.
We're small and we get by well. cvs, eclipse, junit, cruisecontrol, ant, rpm. Throw a little money for Jira and you're doing pretty well.
But you're there, so either run or try and change things. But believe me, it's not easy. Developers get engrained in ways of doing things. And even if it's for the better, changing that takes time. Convincing your boss and a senior dev guy to start is your best bet.

At least for me, the thing that's wrong with a pretty desktop environment is trust.
Instead of editing a config file directly and being at the heart of the matter, you're trusting a program to do it for you behind the scenes.
Maybe that's ok for the lay man, but i could never get used to it. I want to know what's going on. It's like the people that say, why don't you use webmin to edit your web/mail/db server config files instead of doing it manually? I can't trust it. Simply have not been able to get past it..
But, that's me.

that's what i preach. password sentences. i'm over the 8 char min, upper case, special character required passwords.
i'll do 14 char minimum, no complexity requirements, 60 day expire all day long.
I like to pick something that's relevant to current life events, like:
"i have a crush on the pizza delivery girl!"
It also helps that you provide actual disincentive. If through regular auditing you find a user's password stupidly easy. like joebobjoebobjoe or a user has written their password in plain sight, they have to wear the company 'Dunce' hat for a whole day. More subtler is revoking a user's internet access to all non-work related sites and services for X days for a security violation. gmail, hotmail, facebook, etc..
Works better in smaller companies :)

I like how the analysts talk about churn and that the increased revenue will make up for the lost customers, but they don't talk about the potential customers the increase may scare off. What's that number like??
I think a modest price increase would have been fine. 10% maybe. But 60%? come on.

and see, if he would have just applied for press credentials beforehand, he could have claimed freedom of the press and been fine.

in response though, yeah, it's relatively innocent, in the grand scheme of things. we've become such a bunch of whiny and weak people in this society. ooo, he took a picture of me, ooo the camera stole my soul. grow a backbone. it's a freakin' picture.

I 2nd this.
Go back to your 9-5 job. Nobody in their right mind would start in this job with hindsight. So take ours.
It's like having a newborn that gets up at all hours of the night, and NEVER grows up.
Forget taking a vacation and not having to worry about anything. Maintenance at 3am, check. Network goes down at 3am, check.
You know those few people you see driving on the roads at 3am? All admins.
On the other hand, you're usually considered pretty indispensable. But you'll never know it because you'll be wildly under-appreciated.
If you do do it, resist the urge to grow a beard and get fat. Resist the urge to talk down to end-users, especially since they will most certainly deserve it.
Never make a policy 'optional'. Never recommend..require. Never assume people can't possibly be that dumb. Prepare for the worst, and then a little further. Think about the possibilities you haven't thought of. Label Label Label. Inventory Inventory Inventory. Document Document Document. Always wear a grounding strap. Dust kills. Heat kills. Don't throw water on a router that's on fire. Educate users that they shouldn't plug one end of a network cable into a wall jack and the other end also into a wall jack. Oh, and don't skimp on hookers.

+100 for Thinkpads.

I had an employee that was in a car crash with a tractor trailer on an interstate (god rest his soul). His Thinkpad T41 was recovered. Couple scratches on the case, passed all hardware diagnostics, booted up and just kept right on goin. Can't beat 'em IMHO.

I may be missing something here, but are far as i'm concerned, humans already have depth perception, and have since, oh, i don't know, the beginning of time.
It just seems like the companies touting 3D are making it sound like depth perception on a 2D medium is some new fangled thing that they invented.
Take a piece of paper, draw a square on it. 2D. now, draw a cube on it, wow, it LOOKS like 3D.
So who cares about 'technical' 3D when we can already perceive 3D on a technically 2D medium? I could give a shit about real 3D.
But opinions are like assholes..

Some company is going to make prescription 3D glasses, available at your local optometrist.

You think i'm joking (and i kind of am), but you just wait and see, it'll happen. Some guy reading my post is filing for a patent right now.

in your analogy I assume you actually own the car, i.e. have the title.
I wonder if you leased it, if the dealer is under the same obligation, since they own the car. Granted, you might be able to sue them for breach of contract, depending on the wording of said contract.
Similarly if you had a loan with the bank for the car, would the dealer be legally required to only release the keys to the bank?

'From his perspective' is the key phrase here.
Judging the competence of his superiors is outside the scope of his job responsibilities.
Denying the company access to their legal property, i.e. the passwords, is considered theft.