Yes, I'm a developer at an EDA company, and it is the same with me. I have a rack-mounted server somewhere on the campus, and I use Nxclient to connect to it, along with VPN when I'm at home. So no matter where I am, I get the same desktop the way I left it, as the server is rarely rebooted. We have a large code-base and there is a huge array of tools needed for building and testing, so it wouldn't make sense to try to get them on a local machine.

Someone above said it was about 'control', but that's only partially true. Yes, the tools and source-code are centralized. But it also gave me more freedom, for example, using Ubuntu on my company laptop, since all I need is Nxclient (or VNC) it order to get work done.

I also didn't have a clue what it was. But as soon as I saw that it had a Linux version, I was happy!

Is it possible to run NetFlix in the Android emulator? I know it would probably be kind of slow....

I agree. And I also thought the idea behind the plot - that a computer program takes on the personality of the person who wrote it - was really cool.

It's back to the future... well, the 80's. You could target MSDOS, Windows 3, GEM, AtariST, Commodore, Mac, or various flavors of Unix. It did make for lots of employment opportunities for software engineers, so let's hope the same is true now.

You must have had one hell of a good lawyer!

They say you can read in a web browser with javascript enabled.

Uh oh... my facebook friends will see that I'm driving an 11-year-old Saturn, so, being the trend-setter that I am, they'll decide it's cool to keep driving an old car forever. And there goes the auto industry!

320x200? Some of my favorites are 80x24 characters!

Wait... I just got an email: "I'm Syndi, a nice girl from alpha centauri. If you visit my web site, you can see some pictures of me."

I acquired 8 virtues playing Ultima.

True, and, of course, Google has been trying to do this for quite a while. When I got an email from someone with an Asian name, I got ads for martial arts schools. And when I did a search for 'broadway theater tickets', I got ads for gays.

Have an attractive young woman do the licking?

I'd hope that most of us have a general idea of what goes on in an automobile. We know that electricity is used to create sparks in the engine that explode gasoline, which was sprayed in by fuel injectors, and we know there's a coolant system with a water-pump and radiator. I don't do any work on my own car, but I'd know that I was being scammed if a repair shop said they needed to 'reverse the neutron flow'.:-)

OTOH, I really don't have clue what computer viruses and spy-ware do, even though I've been using computers for years and am a software engineer. But then, running Linux (and in the past, Unix), I've never had much need to find out.

I'd like to meet her. She sounds hot!