I agree. Here is what I was thinking about (in the shower no less) this morning

How about the movie / music / tv industries provide a pay portal. A site where people would just go and pay "what they feel is appropriate" for a work?

So it would work something like this. Make the movie / song / tv show and distribute it via the normal avenues. Let the rest of us obtain, distribute, and pay what we feel is appropriate for the work. So lets say one was to download an NBC tv series that is from via P2P. It turns out quite a good show and one enjoys it. You might figure that's worth somewhere in $1-5 per episode.

Then one could browse over to www.nbc.com/PAYUS and pay the amount directly to NBC

The best thing is that 90% of this is already in place and NBC wouldn't need to invest in much new infrastructure to capture the revenue. The only missing bit is the website where one can pay for it. At least way, they would be capturing some of the lost revenue from "pirating".

I have a thermometer at my desk that reads 23.3 degrees C. Now that may seem hot to most of you, but believe me it isn't. I have a heating / cooling vent directly over my head, dumping cold air on me all day. I sit here in a long sleeved shirt and sweater, all day every day.

Let me google that for you:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=arm+architecture

I listen to music passively. I never listen to the words, and the music is a great way to drown out background noise.

http://www.hibermate.com/images/3m-ear-plugs.jpg

Earplugs for everyone. Buy a set for each developer and then maybe the boss will get the picture that office chatter/noises are very distracting.

Or remove the drive, put it in another computer, install the boot loader and off you go.

Without physical security, you may as well have no security.

If you've ever worked for a software development development company, it goes a little more like this:

CEO: "Are we going to meet the release date?"
Project Manager: "Most of the work is done, but we still have some bugs to work out"
CEO: "Release it, we need the revenue"
Project Manager: "But it's still pretty buggy, users are going to notice and not be happy about it"
CEO: "Release it, we need the revenue"
Project Manager: "I really think we should push the release date out a couple of weeks"
CEO: "You're fired!!!"

CEO: "Head lead developer, we need to release this software ASAP"
Lead Developer: "Yes Sir!"

Well that truly sucks. Maybe time to consider VOIP phone service. I really do not want to have to deal with Bell again.

I sure hope it doesn't affect home phone service. I have mine with Teksavvy (along with my DSL) and I'm quite happy. Long distance in North America for $20 flat a month. And on top of that, really good rates to Europe (as cheap as most calling cards, but without the stupid rules that eat away the remaining balance).

Maybe they want to buy GM?

Not to be rude, but that is somewhat shortsighted. Today != 15 years from now. With the masters, you likely have a better chance of bigger $$$. Of Course, your mileage may vary.

Disclosure: I'm a CS, but don't have my masters and have been working for 10 years. I don't think that's limited me so far, but I have 30+ years left in the workforce. So I may hit this ceiling someday.