There are a lot of people who have no interest in desecrating their books, and for them that method is useless. This is a non-destructive method. Note in the article it mentions the 90 degree bend to not destroy the spine as with flatbed scanning.

Not competing for dollars, but for eyeballs. The army wants to be able to get people to play the game and be influenced by it. Making all of thier strategy available to everyone could allow private gaming companies to beat them to it. That would mean less eyeballs and wow factor when they finally do release a product.

I consume many terabytes of data an hour, once you consider visual, audio, and sensory perception. If you're going with raw data, you just only really need to know the number of hours awake to figure out the data rate per year.

Most techies don't want to move into management (myself included). Some can resist the push, while others are swept into it. I suggest that those who are truly technically excellent (beyond their peers, no matter how good those peers are) have a good argument to stay but must make the argument themselves. We need some pillars of technical capability. The rest are likely to become less interested/aware of newly evolving technology and eventually can be more capable as a manager using the experience learned. That's a natural transition, but can be jarring if done too soon or too fast.

Then there's the more common category, those whithout technical or leadership skills. Those folks often make the transition earlier because they're not motivated by quality or productivity. They languish in middle management.

So I suggest that you assess what career path best uses your skills and preferences (as you can see them now). Achieving that at your current employer may be difficult, but it's worth knowing if fighting to stay technical is really the right path for you.

I would have suggested a catapult to the same location, but that method is probably easier and more legal.

IANAL, but consider that the $700k of dammage occured in the US, so the crime is against US companies which the US government is trying to protect. Hence a trial there. The hate crime might be considered to be against the British people, and the British government is prosecuting a crime by and against British citizens. Those two scenarios are not as similar as you are painting them to be.

The name a company applies to the position can indicate how the management views, values, or understands the position. As a software engineer I wouldn't apply to a job titled 'IT guy'. It's not the only indicator, but it certainly is an indicator. Talented candidates have to filter out the companies that look like a poor fit. Don't worry though, the desperate candidates will apply no matter what the job title is.

Perhaps this is a way to scare off the non-technical folks from jailbreaking. I'm not sure if that not-so-accurate advice is a big problem. Maybe those who jailbreak should understand what they're doing, or avoid doing it. Hacked technology is all kinds of fun until the idiot masses get to it. For instance, nobody cared about MP3s until napster let every idiot with a computer pirate mass amounts of music. Then suddenly MP3 was a bad word and we have DRM shoved so far up our butts that our teeth hurt.

I'm glad that got modded as insightful rather than funny. Giving free tech support to family without giving them an incentive to learn to stop installing viruses and such is NOT helping them. Even if you provide some free help, remind them of how much that service usually costs. Otherwise they'll think your time is as worthless as theirs is.

Hate to break it to you, but you just asked us to carefully read a sentence listing three developers, and then you claim that there are two. A little ironic as you are harping on the article for exagerating the extent of the exodus...

Basically, some people can definitely hear the difference, and those people must seek higher quality products.

I haven't directly tested my ear lately, but I've found that I've put up with so much poor quality material that I usually just automatically adjust and it doesn't bother me. On the other hand I have a friend who was so bothered by 128Kbps MP3s that he was encoding 192Kbps or usually higher to preserve his sanity. That was before FLAC, which would be the logical step now.

The carriers have different relative strengths in different areas. Maybe Sprint is the winner in your area, but VZ may be much more reliable in other cities. Consumerreports did a comparison of maybe 25 cities and found quite a bit of variation (but all of the carriers sucked to some degree).

That's a good approach. Perhaps another prong in the strategy would be to show that it is cheaper to roll out the freeware than to track down all of the licenses (sometimes it's amazing how hard it is to track down licenses we *know* we purchased in my organization). All it takes is one pissed off ex-employee, and you'll have a BSA audit.

Also, by lowering the cost of paid software on new machines, you'll lower the cost of adding new machines. That allows you to be more flexible and, um, operate at business speed. (you just gotta know management lingo)

With the thousands of languages and acronyms floating around, there are bound to be collisions (e.g. IDL=Interface description language, interface definition language, or Interactive Data Language). However, I doubt this would have been a big problem if the collision wasn't with something so big as Google.

I agree. If the problem is that bad, technical measures must also be applied beyond just user education. It also sounds like the web browser may not be locked down (such as locking IE down or using FF with noscript).

If they're using file sharing software sit down with them and explain that the choice to use many file of the popular file sharing programs also comes with free infections. Talking with them may be more effective unless they need an authority figure (web-based materials) to back you up.