I remember the film, but didn't know it was originally a book!

Aliens, not Alien.
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I don't think it's a typo - I *think* it's saying "Trenk has recently completed bid litigation over $100 million" (i.e. he's taken it to trial, to conclusion)

All told it's a vile (and very legal) sentence with no punctuation. The proof-reader in me can't find a way of writing it in a better way though (well, not without rewriting the entire sentence)

Considering a lot of the humanity I work with or commute with, that's not such a bad plan...

I certainly type URLs most of the time rather than the extra layer of hassle / data mining / records that going through [search engine of choice] requires.

Sure, if I don't know the URL I'll go through a search engine. But why would I bother searching for slashdot when I know it's slashdot ?

(Plus having auto-complete/auto-suggest in the location bar - which makes it even easier/quicker to start typing the URL and get there)

You do realise that this means there are now people of voting age who have *never* been without text-messaging ?

Damn, but that makes me feel old.

The Status for dreamhost is always available on http://status.dreamhost.com , which I understand is a completely separate hosted setup. I know it's been available when the rest of DH has been broken.

They also have a twitter feed for their status, @dreamhoststatus, I think.

Phone support is available, but at a fee. Email / control-panel- based support is (IME) excellent

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I worked with a company that did this. They figured that some people are just naturally unlucky, and threw 25% of applications in the bin
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The best answer to "Where do you see yourself in 5 years" is always "Doing your job. Only better." It won't get you the job, but it's always a great answer. As for "What are your goals?", I normally respond with something along the lines of either "They're the things I want to achieve", or "They're the milestones on my way to being better". Not exactly helpful answers, but correct nonetheless. Which *really* annoys interviewers.

Yep, and that's fair enough. But a couple of dozen is still roughly 10 times less tabs than the OP was claiming. I can understand 24 tabs - maybe even double that up and round it to 50 - for the scenario you mention - but still, 200-300 tabs? Just seems excessive to me.

And how many of those "200-300" opened tabs do you actually use on a regular (daily/hourly) basis? Personally, I've never really found a use for more than about 10-15 tabs at once - when going through a news reader and wanting to read individual articles, which get 'new-tabbed' - and even then I close them once I'm done.

Matthew Reilly's books make Dan Brown look like high art. You can tell he's just dying for them to be made into films - and has even marked out the sequences that'll "wow" the audience the most. (Count the exclamation marks, highest-number wins the prize) In particular the "Scarecrow" books are just *awful*, IMHO

I knew you were going to say that

And spells Proprietary in a *very* different/new way too

Well you've got (among others) Peter F Hamilton - global warming, politics etc. (Mindstar Rising trilogy) or epic saga dealing with space-faring cultures and humanity facing the realisation that Death isn't the end (Night's Dawn trilogy), along with many others. Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash, Diamond age etc., and his most recent (in the last month) Reamde looking at the successor to World of Warcraft Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon (and the rest of the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy) is a stunning 'new' work, well recommended China Mieville - Perdido Street Station and Scar in particular Charlie Stross - Halting State is another one about a future with distributed 'augmented reality' games etc. And not one of 'em talks about social networks etc.