pretty soon youll have a robot designing and building computers - but of course you will have to have programmers to write the code for those robots to do such a thing.

i am surprised that advertisers haven't gotten the fact that just because you put an ad in a paper you can assuredly say that that person will buy from you or whatever,. most people have tuned out ads completely. the same goes for tv advertising. how can you charge someone for ads when you cant give them hard numbers on exactly how many people are looking or viewing ads.

i should also add that if you are sick but not deadly sick you can stay and work from home. So thats a nice little bone they throw us.

unless you have something wrong with you that makes you have a likely outcome of getting sick very often there is no way that you would need more than 5 weeks for vacation for a year and sick leave. Most places give you 3 weeks of vacation and 1 or 2 weeks of sick leave. I was more on the line of administratively it makes sense , no need to have a separate "sick leave" code or anything. Its just all thrown into the same bucket.

We get 5 weeks of vacation per year(not counting holidays). We can use it how we need to. I have had this my last 2 employers now and it makes sense. Whether you want to take off for Christmas, goof off or if you get the flu, to the company its all the same.

What problems have you had with subversion? we are moving to git but ive never had any issues with SVN, at least in Eclipse.

If you are software development shop there isnt much need for teleconferencing or webcams. thats what IM is for. And if you absolutely have to have a one on one with a team member then use skype or something. I am on a mobile dev team and we sit almost next to each other and we still use IM. everything from subversion updates to where we want to go to lunch. You could find a great developer such as myself, offer me a bit more money because you dont have to spend resources on business things(electricity, space for me to sit or meal perks to offer). Heck ill even use my personal computer to do the work, so you dont have to even buy me that.

And when i mean offer me more money i mean more as in less than what you would pay someone who lives in NYC because living in Florida is WAYY less expensive to live in but enough to make me happy as I can stay where I am, dont have to move away from family, can enjoy my 300+ days of sunshine, beaches, etc and can continue to not pay state taxes.

I am competent in OOP fundamentals...C++, Java, Objective-C, OpenGL/ES(currently focusing on iOS/Cocoa development) but I am not willing to relocate to NYC from Florida for TONS of reasons. Do you allow people to work from home? Maybe you arent looking for my skills but if you are and you are serious about finding good developers then maybe you would allow telecommute. Just thought i would throw that out there.

hello from Hattiesburg, MS.. since im down in your part of the country - be sure to invite me to your gumbo party.

NASA/Stennis Space Center, Mississippi. Used to be in the top 10. they have fallen way behind.

what are they going to do next? disallow Wi-Fi so i cant store my stuff on other devices via my own wireless network? Just because you dont have a storage slot get on a wireless network and do what you want.

lets talk about what isnt clear to you then? what is so vague that it isnt apparent what the founding fathers meant? I am sure a lot of us can think of privacy being a main issue. Obviously they could not account for technological advances that would dictate an update the constitution to provide citizens the right to privacy, regardless of any technological advances. I agree with that. But judges or the supreme court shouldnt be the ones to interpret the constitution and apply that law to this current day and age to make a ruling about some privacy issue. As someone said below, we should be exercising our power as citizens of the United States to bug the hell out of our representatives in Congress so that 2/3 of the house and senate will vote to amend the constitution and that after that 3/4 of the states approve it in a bill before going into law. If your congressman or local state representative gets in the way of that or doesnt agree with the people on this then vote them out of office and put someone in who shares and will act upon the views of his or her constituency. Thats how it is supposed to work.

but judges are supposed to rule as the the current constitution states. It is NOT their job to say, "well this part of the constitution doesnt make sense now so lets make a ruling to interpret it that makes sense in this day and age". I repeat that is NOT their job. They are to rule on current law and constitutional basis - not to change or modify that basis based on their own personal interpretation. They are to rule on a law as is. Period. If you want them to rule on a law make a ruling on a constitutional problem then CHANGE THE LAW BY RATIFYING THE CONSTITUTION that reflects the day and age. Surely if 200 years later it is acceptable by most for X and Y because A and B really dont apply to this day and age then it shouldnt be any problem getts 2/3 of the house and senate and 3/4 of the states to sign off on the change. But this is not any judges job - even the supreme courts job, which are supposed to make a ruling on current statutes. Not make up their own interpretations and make rulings on those interpretations.