Research doesn't bear that out. Multitasking reduces efficiency, interrupts and context switches hurt. If, for your specific workload, you find it's a net gain... well, more power to you. It's not one-size fits all.

That's the point. 'My way' allows my coworkers to decide when they can be interrupted. 'Your way' allows people to demand focus.

It probably varies by job and by person. I find it helpful to talk with my coworkers, but a distraction to overhear them.

A mailing list, irc channel, xmpp muc etc. allows me to collaborate on my terms. I can rethink and edit my response, and if I'm in the middle of something I can read it later and respond then. Conversations typically don't work like that.

It doesn't?

Client support is a bit spotty (iOS Mail.app didn't support it, stock Android client doesn't either, alternatives like k9mail do), but that doesn't mean it's not there.

I don't think that's entirely true.

Since... iOS 5, I think it is, Apple maintains a signing window for devices. Assuming you never have any problems with your phone, you can keep using iOS 5 indefinitely. If you ever need to restore the phone though, I believe you will be forced to update to a current version of iOS.

I hadn't thought of that, that seems much more likely.

If the infections are targeted, perhaps the font is dropped to allow found printed documents to be linked to one of the targets?

Not that they're total shit from a security POV? (warning: pdf)

Is it that hard to search?

What are their users? Reprapers? Reprapists?

The irony is that when you get a bit older you'll realize what stupid questions those are.

What kind of piss-poor cpu can't decode mpeg2 in several times realtime?

The article implies h.264 acceleration for levels less-than-or-equal-to 4.1 works fine as well. Scene rules for x264 releases say respect 4.1, and most hardware players top out at that as well... so who's clamoring for it, and why?

I make enough that I'd max out the EI cap here, though that's still something like 20-30% below the median income for families in the area according to statcan. It's almost like different areas have different costs of living, huh?

I live in a small but comfortable apartment, but around here that goes for slightly north of $2/sqft. If I move further away from work I can get slightly more sqft, but it doesn't get any cheaper because the difference is eaten up in transit costs. Food and misc other expenses eat up most of the rest. The only way I could afford a kid is if my wife was bringing in a second income.

Yeah, I'm the 1% :P

Unfortunately the employer doesn't exist in a vacuum, and the grocery store, my landlord, and the various other services I consume are all convinced they also deserve a premium.

Citation needed.

Up here in Canada, employment insurance currently maxes out at $485 per week. That's taxed, of course, so what you actually get comes out to something slightly over $1600/mo.

If you live in the middle of nowhere and own your property, that might possibly be comfortable. Maybe. For some definition of comfortable. $DEITY help you if you live in an urban area though, and you rent or have a mortgage, or have dependents.

1. The guy who designed the freeway overpass, your doc, your dentist, and your kid's teacher all did a bachelor's degree at some point. It may well have had no particular application towards whatever professional/graduate degree they ended up getting, I know plenty of people with arts degrees who have Master's degrees in CS.

2. Nobody grows up aspiring to be a shelf-stocker at Walmart. Your 'over-educated' (as if there is such a thing) waitress is stuck in a dead-end job with no use for the skills she (and you) paid for because of the grotesque un/underemployment rate. The world needs ditch diggers too, but a depression doesn't mean we should stop educating people.

I can't believe someone is seriously proposing we need *fewer* educated people.