Depends.

Have you been keeping up with new technologies and languages? Are you as proficient in them as the new grads who studied them in school and have two high-selling smartphone apps? Then you'll do fine.

Are you still insistent that the best way to do anything is in C? Are you completely crippled by the thought of doing anything over the internet? Then you're screwed, and probably deservedly so.

This article only somewhat reflects reality. There's a huge amount of respect and jobs for people who have been in the field for a long time, but ONLY if they're also current in their knowledge. This is a field you just can't stagnate in.

So what are YOU doing? It's the people's job to control their government. These people wouldn't be in office unless they were put there by the people.

Don't like what they're doing? Vote them out.
Don't like the field of candidates? Run for office.

The beauty of a democracy is that real people can make a huge difference. The drawback is that everyone thinks that all the other people will do it for them.

That didn't stop Windows.

I've run into plenty of people who have loudly proclaimed that they've been IN THE FIELD FOR 30 YEARS, but yet don't know how to do anything on modern systems, don't understand the internet, etc.

Old, "experienced" people aren't worth anything unless they've kept their skills up to date. In cases like that, people fresh out of college with no real-world experience may actually be better for a job.

Agreed.

Tolkien's strengths were never in the quality of his writing. (though it's still tons better than a lot of authors)

His strengths were always in his ability to build a world - to make a place and its inhabitants so memorable that they'd be remembered for ages. He succeeded greatly in that, and has likely influenced the fantasy genre more than everybody else combined.

Why?

Many big companies have strong presences outside of the US, and receive a majority of their revenue from international sources. If they have their headquarters and most of their workers in the US, though, their expenses are primarily in USD. If the global economy gets stronger as the US economy gets weaker, it can actually be beneficial for these international companies. The exchange rates will be more favorable, and their expenses will be a lower proportion of their overall revenue.

What we're seeing now, though, is actually the US economy remaining relatively strong in relation to most other world economies. Yes, a ton of people are out of work (which is extremely bad, don't get me wrong...), but that's slowly recovering, and we're still far, far, far, far, far better than the EU situation.

A few, actually. The pattern with them, though, is that they're all older (60+) and have been with the companies for a loooooong time.

I think the difference is that many companies in the past would promote from within, and the best workers would rise to the top. Nowadays, this seems to not be the case - workers who do well are kept in their positions and the top level is hired from the outside.

Of course it's not "very good" security. Neither is Android's face unlock. Neither are PINs. Neither are passwords. etc. etc. etc.

The whole point of things like this are that they're better than no security and that people will actually use them. You can have the best security setup in the world, but if users never enable it because it's too much of a pain in the ass, then it's worthless.