I just looked at Antartica in Google Maps. According to Google, it's bigger than the rest of the continents combined! Forget about raising ocean level. That fucker's gonna extinguish the sun if it melts.

[Citation needed]

You must be new here.

http://xkcd.org/378/ There you go.

You shouldn't have a problem getting another job outside the gambling industry. However, even if you did, the gambling industry is HUGE. From the experience you get at this job, your knowledge of the industry will make you attractive to future employers.

Also, if you don't have a problem working in the gambling industry, you probably don't want to work for any future employer who does.

You are suggesting that XP doesn't have any bugs in it? Surely you jest. Have you ever tried setting up multiple keyboard layouts? Yeah, it will randomly switch to another layout while you are doing your work, and switching back to the other layout does absolutely nothing. The only workaround is to restart the computer.

Oh but wait, that's not a bug, that's just a preference. Forgive me for preferring that it work correctly.

If the economy gets bad enough, even the most talented IT people won't be able to find IT jobs. But McDonalds and WalMart are doing better in this climate. Not to mention, I would hope an IT person would at least be the manager at McDonalds, not flipping burgers, but whatever.

Working at McDonalds for 8 hours while looking for a programming job the other 8. Unless you don't need to sleep, open source development will take a back burner.

Oh, we are talking about just the US, aren't we? (Insert sheepish grin) In that case, you're right. The US government won't do shit.

Dude, you're preaching to the choir. And the government hasn't just gotten involved with the browser tie-in. There was/is that stuff with the EU and publishing specifications for their smb protocol.

If one of the parties is a convicted monopolist, the government does get involved.

If you were typing in the Dvorak layout, you wouldn't have to worry! 'c' and 'v' are really far apart in Dvorak.

:-)

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. I am not an expert on the anatomy of the hand. I am only relating my personal experience. With that said...

I must strongly disagree that moving as little as possible gets you CTS. The hand is an incredibly complex part of the anatomy, and it didn't evolve in order to allow us to type. Therefore, any thing that resembles typing (computer typing, playing the piano, guitar, violin, etc.) must be considered an unnatural activity. Not that people shouldn't do these things, but that they should be careful when they do.

Conventional wisdom, especially in the area of playing musical instruments, suggests that in order to avoid CTS, the hands should stay as relaxed as possible when doing one of these activities. I don't know what research in this area has revealed (if anything), but I do know that staying relaxed has worked for me, both in typing and in playing the piano, and it has worked for countless other musicians.

As far as Dvorak is concerned, current computer keyboards require you to contort your hands no matter what layout you're using, whenever you have to reach for keys. The hand cannot be relaxed when it's contorted. I've found that Dvorak has moved the less used keys to those contorting areas, so you contort your hands less. Therefore, I agree with the original poster that Dvorak feels better.

I did a little googling on the Reach Method you talked about, and it looks interesting. I'd like to point too though, that it could be used equally well (if not better) with the Dvorak layout.