There was a time when IBM preferred to hire Liberal Arts majors and teach them to code than to hire CS majors. Not sure how IBM hires now, but coding doesn't require a CS degree. All it needs is someone who doesn't mind spending lots of time writing detailed instructions and can tease unambiguous specifications out of the managers. If anything, it should be easier for someone without a CS degree to code now that the languages are becoming more idiot proof. Not that Liberal Arts people are idiots. But, hiring managers are if all they know how to do is hire CS majors for every job that involves using a computer.

Urine may be mostly harmless, but if someone can get close enough to pee, they can get close enough to dump small quantities of something else. It sounds like the reservoir has a security problem, not a urine problem. Now that it has been publicized, the government is open to lawsuits or even false alarms from people who want to cause trouble without actually going anywhere near the water.

It's called a work bench. Time was, engineers always had a workbench with a tall chair called a stool as well as a desk which was used to stack free magazines on.

Are the wife and daughter men? He's still the man of the house, he just got outvoted.

People are much better at thinking of what we already have and making it better in quantifiable directions. That is what that Byte cover is showing, what we already had, just smaller. So called "disruptive" changes, where we go off in a new direction, is much harder to predict, but when it's done, we get the "why didn't someone think of this already" sort of talk. So many companies are focused on optimizing what we already have instead of playing with ideas without a ROI that is obvious to the people controlling the money. That's why I think technology companies should be managed by engineers and people who read a lot of sci fi.

It literally said "exporting water". Only way to make it true is to consider evaporation to be a form of exportation, maybe if the wind blows it into another jurisdiction. Sounds to me that they should recapture the water in the curing barn if they can't encourage it to rain again within their watershed.

In the meantime, I'll make a point of not eating crop grown in California, plenty of locally grown around here, except for pistachios and I can get them from outside of California, too. That would do more to reduce water consumption in California than the Asian alfalfa export argument since I'm not in Asia and can't influence the consumption of alfalfa in Asia. But, what about the California economy? Seems it would hurt if people stopped farming.

How does it help California for Americans to go vegan when the problem you choose to highlight is alfalfa shipped to Asia? The flow of your post seems to indicate we (Americans who aren't in California) should stop eating any product of California. Then, suddenly you started talking about alfalfa, which I don't eat, and beef, which I require to be grass fed in Georgia. I don't think much California beef gets shipped to the east, it's the cornfed stuff from the Midwest we gotta watch out for.

Not much about methodology, but they show more rankings and pretty visualizations

http://www.trinet.com/document... [trinet.com]

Quality of Life is not factored into to Adjusted salary rankings, but is ranked separately. The rankings are almost inversely correlated with Austin in 2nd to last place and Atlanta in last place for Quality of Life.

Big surprise, huh:

http://www.trinet.com/document... [trinet.com]

Quality of Life is not factored in, but is ranked separately. The rankings are almost inversely correlated With Adjusted Salary 1st place winner Austin in 2nd to last place, and 2nd place for Adjusted Salary Atlanta in dead last place for quality of life.

http://www.trinet.com/document...

Quality of Life is not factored in, but is ranked separately. The rankings are almost inversely correlated With Adjusted Salary 1st place winner Austin in 2nd to last place, and 2nd place for Adjusted Salary Atlanta in dead last place for quality of life.

Terms are poorly defined because a lot of issues are still being worked out. Language tends to lag. People work things out for themselves privately. But when they want to discuss things, they need labels. Originally, all the labels were ugly medical sounding terms (or worse) that imply they are sick or immoral, in need of a cure, not just different. Words with healthy connotations did not exist. So when they go public, they must invent words. People don't all invent the same words even for the same situation and not everyone in the sexual configuration discussion has the same situation. The "normals" frequently aren't aware of the issues at all until they encounter the words, then society at large works on these issues, and eventually the terminology stabilizes. It takes awhile.

Unreasonable people expect everyone else to do and think exactly like themselves, and consider anyone who does and thinks rationally, but differently, to be unreasonable and irrational. Reasonable people know that in real life, there is usually more than one correct answer.

Here's an interesting chart and even some drawings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

The bottom line is there are two sexual extremes, male and female. People tend to concentrate on the differences and language reflects that, but in reality, men and women are more alike then different. Hormones have a lot more to do with development than genetics. Some people don't naturally produce enough to be unambiguous.. But, we have more or less the same organs. In guys they drop and either grow larger or atrophy. I don't know if anything atrophies in women, they just move and develop differently. When women get hernias, internal organs want to come out the birth canal. When men get hernias, internal organs want to come out the birth canal except in guys, it's called something else.

This chart shows scientific names, but if you take anything away from this, pay attention to the Skene's glands, which is usually called the G-spot. Unlike the prostate, it can be pressured from either side.

Cloud is uploaded personalities orbiting in space, reference Rapture of the Nerds

A lot of decades old computers and software were completely replaced just prior to Y2K. Plenty of Cobol programmers were writing patches, but I think plenty of companies realized that this was finally time to go new. Not enough cobol programmers to go around and besides it made for a good sales pitch. No way to know for sure whether it was necessary, but I do think there was a lot of truth in there. But, it's hard to analyze a problem that was anticipated and dealt with.