Certified Novell Engineer (CNE) boot camps produced a generation of sub-par sys admins
Microsoft Certified Engineer / Developer (MSCE/D) produced a generation of sub-par engineers / developers

This is just more of the same :) The wheat will separate from the chaff and the consultants will make a small mint fixing all of the bad code

I spent I don't know how many hours navigating then running the C-64 BBSs in the mid to late 80s. God those were good time! haha

One person in particular sticks out in my mind, mainly because of his distinct voice, the BBS with 8 high capacity 1MB floppy drives (yes 1 whole megabyte), and running afoul of some other pirates and having (allegedly) all kinds of stuff shipped / ordered to his house and service and god knows what else... Pira-Ted!

Toshiba's had one for a few weeks (at least)

http://us.toshiba.com/computers/laptops/satellite/U840W/U845W-S410/

Migration requests to Production (signed off by the person who requested the change/bugfix/new dev/whatever) are supposed to be to QA (who does the migrations) by the prior Thursday but that can be modified as necessary :) This is for any of the dozens of systems we develop for - the several-hundred-page in-house ERP system written in .NET, the legacy Oracle Forms system being upgraded to .NET, or the myriad one-off special purpose web sites.

If it's an *emergency* it can be slipped into Production during the week as needed, but as the process has become more refined over the last year, they try and not do that unless absolutely necessary

If everything moves to the metric system how will we measure things without units like

- libraries of congress
- earths
- olympic sized swimming pools
- shittons (although there are metric shittons)

??

Still more secure than PINs of 1234, 0000, etc and passwords of (well) "password", "god", "joshua", etc

Makes perfect sense!

If they deny it, they're lying
If they admit it, it's because we forced them to admit it "by knowing what they're doing"

*Cue country music for jeans with kevlar codpieces or freeze dried food or Reynolds Wrap*

How are unmanned flying vehicles any different than manned helicopters and airplanes used by various agencies during the course of duty? Manned aircraft are used daily for any number of law enforcement (surveillance, speed traps, border protection, etc), fire protection, crop dusting, and even news and traffic gathering?

Why is not having a pilot in the actual aircraft a reason to pull out the tinfoil and white noise makers?

"But they can arm them" isn't a valid excuse because there's no reason they can't arm a piloted aircraft.

.NET, C#, VB.NET, and F# are all free... Download the .NET framework, fire up a text editor, and use the command-line compiler.
Visual Studio Express versions are free... Wrap a GUI around your development.
Parts of ASP.NET are even open source now... And they're accepting contributions from the public.

What exactly hasn't been contributed?

From the Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research#Laboratories), all of the following have come from MS Research

C#
Comic Chat (IRC Client)
F#
Sideshow (Became Desktop Gadgets)
Surface (TouchLight)
SenseCam
ClearType
Group Shot
Allegiance (Game)
Songsmith

I'd say C#, F#, and ClearType are pretty big contributions

Hell, you don't need a critical health problem to be treated. The ER at a lot of public hospitals has become the general practitioner for many people. Got a cold? Go to the ER. Stub your toe? Go to the ER... Better yet, call 911 and get a free ride.

Yes it's a victimless crime to possess anything, but the subjects of child porn photos are most certainly victims.

Assuming the environment can "balance itself out", could "global warming" be the environment's way to increase the temperate zones on the planet in order to allow for more foliage to grow? Could the reported excess CO2 be the environment's response to feed the plant life in these new growing areas? Maybe the environment was cold and created homo sapiens to warm things up?

Maybe god created us because he wanted plastic?

*shrug*

So add them to the "Quick Access Toolbar" up at the top of the window and you're golden. Don't like the toolbar there? Click on the drop-down and have it displayed below the ribbon. Don't like the ribbon taking up space? Click that same drop-down and minimize the ribbon.

Want to copy them from computer to computer? You can do that too!

Copying Office Quick Access Toolbars

When I first saw the ribbon in Office 2007 I was apprehensive but I've come to really like it.

After getting my first modem for my C-64 (that used the audio out of the C-64, connected to the audio in of the modem, to generate touch tones), I remember having to go to a couple of computer stores (remember them?) to get something called "Punter" lol. It seems so long ago :( You damn kids with your smart phones and multi-megabit connections, get off my lawn!