How about total recall? In the end technology saves the day by transforming the atmosphere of mars into something breathable, thus freeing the people from their oppressive overlords..

Ok I'm an Engineer working in Australia. Although I am entitled to 4 weeks of holidays a year my work is project based. If I take holidays mid project I am expected to keep things going while I am away. Fielding phone calls and checking emails at a minimum. However, in between projects I could take 3 months off to travel and have no problems coming back to a job. With 4% unemployment in WA(Western Australia), engineers are in such short supply over here that we are treated like kings and get paid more then we dreamed about in Uni. I spend my days building and creating. If I won the lottery, I would still go to work, I might buy my work place or start my own engineering firm, but I would keep doing what I'm doing.

Do the work you can do not the work you are paid to do and you will be able to get a better job else where.
You're talking like a Union crane driver, who wont do anything except drive cranes. If there is nothing for him to lift he will sleep in his cab rather then do productive work.

I would like to finish by saying that reputation and references are everything in the real world. Pay Rises, Promotions and Future jobs depend on your willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty in your current position. You know what they say, first you get the responsibility, then the title, then the money.

So far the police (in Western Australia) only use social media as a one way propaganda soap box where they spew the latest releases from the media department.
There is no SMS number to report an accident, a speeding driver, something easier then going into the police station and filling out a bunch of forms just to say this guy threw a cigarette butt out of their window.

I think using social media is at least a step in the right direction allowing a conversation to take place between the people and the state.
Would love if more "have your say forums" were brought on-line rather then targeted focus groups during work hours.

5MW? Its sad that one HV pump on a process plant will use all of this. Miners should really have to purchase some of their power from renewable energy. It will stop them(us) from blatantly wasting power because its cheap.

Is this revenge for arresting Stern Hu?
They got Hu, Lets get Yu!

Sorry that was bad.
I guess at least 'Merica doesnt treat industral espionage as treason like China.

For archival use, Tapes will always be better.Sequential read and write is not an issue and Sheer surface area makes it cheaper & easier.

Back in 2002 a lecturer for Computer Systems Engineering explained to me why the GHz race was ending (did end). Apparently the engineers were running into issues with clock propogation through the chip. As the leading edge of a clock propagates through a chip at say 10Ghz the wavelength is below 10mm. Thus before the falling edge the signal would have only travelled 5mm. Different travel paths and instruction times was leading the engineers to impossible asynchronous errors. It was predicted that with modern chip design would peak at 5GHz.
They never quite got that high but he was close nontheless.

Dining alone tonight?

I was referring to organising a dinner with friends. You know the kind that involves communication with multiple people over a period of time enabling all of you to meet at some pre-arranged destination so that you might enjoy each others company. :)

But how do you organise your dinner? Email? Mobile?
I work on a Gas Plant where i must leave my phone at home all day every day.
I felt serious withdrawal. Its a great convenience to be able to make and recieve calls whenever you want.
My friends got used to it and so did I, but it really did feel like i was addicted to it.