We have a lot of issues with crappy connections to remote offices that would pay mega bucks for this kind of bandwidth. The main office in the big city has a nice fat 100 mbps connection, but their remote offices are stuck on 6 mpbs down and a measly 1.5 up - which means any time the try to transmit data back to the mothership, they're waiting 10 minutes for a single record to update. It sucks.

There are some constructive games, to be fair. Cooking Mama on the DS taught me how to make perfect tamagoyaki,

I hear this sometimes, when in reality the major barrier to new market participants is the fact that banks don't want to loan to anyone who isn't already profitable. It used to be that a start up business could take out a 100K loan, boot up, run for a few years, have the initial loan paid back in 5 years, and be good to go. Heaven help you today: Banks weren't even loaning to people with perfect credit back in 2009, and they're only starting to ease up now. Regulations have zilch to do with it.

There have been a lot of advances in contact lenses over the past decade. These days, I wear a pair for a few weeks nonstop, and when they start to get itchy, peel em off and toss em and start with a fresh pair. About the only time I notice them is when I first wake up, and a few drops of solution solves that problem.

That said, when the Goggles were introduced, Google said they'd have a pair that were designed to clip onto regular glasses instead of be stand alone glasses unto themselves.

I'm wondering how these will fare compared to some of their sci-fi counterparts did, actually. So far the most interesting take on augmented reality I've read/watched has been from the series Denno Coil, but this sort of technology has featured in a few other dystopias, too.

Generally, the office music station is set to the eighties, but occasionally it's "ABC Lounce Music" off iTunes, or the seventies, or when one of us does some particularly outstanding feat, a station of our choice. We do have personal headphones, but that's for webinars and junk that other people probably don't want or need to hear.

The general rule in my office is to ask them a medium-ish question, and then if their answer involves within a minute or so "Google search" you know you have a winner.

Yep. I've worked in two "paperless offices" so far, and what happened was that people ended up having to print out everything anyway. For one thing, it's easier to get someone to sign a sheet of paper in blue ink and just tuck it away in an HR folder than it is to implement safe digital signatures most places. If you're having a discussion about a complex help desk ticket, and you want someone to take a look at the specific ticket but it's nearly identical to twelve other tickets, you have to write down the ticket number... or hey, just print out the ticket and hand it to them (as my boss did to me twice this morning.) And heaven help you if the Internet goes down and you're using SaaS. Suddenly, everything has to go into temporary Word files... which are later on printed out so they can be entered into the system properly.

I would disagree, given that -- while not a legal requirement to do so -- many sites have a policy of suspending or banning users who receive more than a certain number of DMCA complaints. Thus, it has become an impolite method of contact de-facto.

Yes we did, you just had a reading comprehension fail. The plant is being built in Hainan (a province of the PRC). The press statement is being issued from Taiwan ROC, where Foxconn's corporate offices are.