I'm sure it involves toddlers in some way. Nothing is more random than the things they do and say =)

PowerPoint implementing spreadsheet-like functionality using VBA on the backend.

If someone has a blind spot like that it doesn't mean they can't excel in fields that don't cross into that blind spot. Belief in evolution has zero bearing on whether you can accurately create a circuit diagram or write a program.

Lucky for you your work wi-fi doesn't use an Enterprise CA certificate or you'd be out of luck. Surface RT refuses to talk to anything that's not signed by a public certification authority that it trusts, and it doesn't seem to do wildcard certs either. We had one for testing and couldn't even get it on the network. iPad and Android devices at least let you just click through a warning.

The pro is a reasonable business machine. But at that I would really just prefer to give the user an ultrabook with Windows 7 on it. Especially at that price point. Also the RT is junk from a business perspective, I can't even get it set up to where it receives email because it refuses to play nice with internally signed certificates. Which also prevented it from getting on the wi-fi. The pro, with a full version of Win8, would get around such issues. But at that price why bother?

SP2 was the last fundamental change to XP's architecture (to the point that some programs that ran on SP1 *stopped working* with SP2). It added Data Execution Prevention and some other under the hood goodies. SP3 was basically a security update rollup with some essential hotfixes thrown in for good measure. Nothing major changed architecturally.

I just wish they would have released one final update rollup with all supported public updates to make it easier to get people up to a final patch level. Having to have 150+ post-SP3 patches makes things a bit cumbersome when fixing PC's for people that never upgraded.

You joke, but there do exist Pumped-storage hydroelectric facilities. It's been suggested that these could be used in combination with solar generating plants to provide electricity around the clock.

When I went back to school for my Master's degree everything was being taught in Java as the new teaching language. It took me less than a day to pick up enough to do the assignments competently. Admittedly jumping from a C background into Java is not a huge leap, but in the end it's all just syntax. Programming principles never change.

When you go to hire a developer you're not just looking to hire someone who can code in the latest fad language/API/SDK. You need someone who knows software development like a captain knows his ship. I promise you that 20+ years of software development will be worth way more than the 22 year old kid who knows Ruby on Rails because he learned it while studying in college. That experienced developer can pick up whatever tool your company standardized on and yeah, it may be three months before he's all the way up to speed on it, but then the years of experience will begin to make themselves tellingly felt vs. a kid who happens to know the tool already.

Hiring for the tool is stupid. It would be like looking for a columnist who specifically has Microsoft Office 2013 experience and filtering all the applicants who only used Google Docs in their previous jobs. Either one of them can write copy.

That's pretty funny. You do realize that a lot of people lack the requisite skill set to be their own boss right? It's not just a matter of risk, it's a matter of business sense, accounting, paperwork, and all the other attendant infrastructure required for a successful business. And even among those with such aptitude many just have bad luck and can't get a business off the ground anyway. It's not a lack of maturity or willpower, it's often just a function of how we are that prevents us from striking out on our own and being a job creator.

It's broadcasting EM spectrum and that can be used to lock on to the sub's location. They're not saying the device is being hacked to cough up its GPS location, they're saying that the device is spewing EM radiation that gives away the ship's location.

Well, or when you're out in the wilderness. Any state/country/territory with vast swaths of untamed wilderness really needs to allow for carrying firearms openly at least in said wilderness because of wildlife. Even gunphobic California tends to let you do that in unincorporated areas of the state because it would be unsafe not to.

I think that could make for a good final exam for law students. Sell your book openly and successfully defend the case while representing yourself. If you manage to do this you graduate =)

Unless he's a professor of English that's not really relevant to the discussion.

It wasn't addressed to him is the key point here.