If the health care reform plan goes through then it signals the end of civilization as you know. Just look at where I am from, Canada, where we introduced universal health care in 1962. Since then, we've been living in barbaric fiefdoms, the likes of which have not been seen outside of the Hyborian kingdom.

Move to Canada.

Didn't we see an article recently of a CEO stating that netbooks were on the way out?

I would have loved for this technology to have existed when I was in elementary school. We had ridiculous rules in place that even once we had arrived at school, nobody could leave any of the schoolbusses until all of the schoolbusses had arrived. It was a breeding ground for sadism.

I gotta say that I was really disappointed that GQ printed the article. I normally have great respect for their journalism, however in printing this it seems like a cheap shot at selling more magazines.

I am not certain what will be more astonishing: watching this succeed or watching it fail.

I second that emotion. As somebody who as well periodically suffers from depression, I find that I turn to the internet as a source of mental stimulation. Something to keep my brain occupied.

I haven't found better pricing than Openco.org for a professional solution.

*waves hand* These aren't the droids your looking for.

The problem here isn't that the coders are spending alot of time slacking off, talking about football, or browsing the web. The problem is that their output is of poor quality and consistently late.

If the code was high quality and delivered on time, than the apparent slacking behaviour could go on indefinitely unnoticed. Or who knows, perhaps even noticed. But when somebody in upper management walks through and questions the slacking, the direct manager would be in a position to say "the code is good and is delivered on time." Ask the same question now, and the direct manager would have no defense.

Situations like this can not go on indefinitely. The quality of work may improve (unlikely) and this will no longer be a problem. Management may lay down the law and put a stop to the slacking (somewhat likely). Your customers may get fed up with a poor quality product (quite likely) and take their business elsewhere putting you and your team out of work. In either case, don't think that nobody will notice your effort. If you have a strong work ethic, stick true to it. If and when the axe falls, you might be spared. And even if your not spared, some day you might wind up working for one of the slackers you were working with and that work ethic of yours will likely be the reason they remembered you.

To Andrea Thomspon's credit, Astrophysics is very difficult. It's my guess that the source material (i.e. press release, article in a science journal, etc...) was neither well written or clearly explained.

Do you hate yourself too? Your reluctance to capitalize "I" implies you have low self esteem. Perhaps if you learn to love trousers you will learn to love yourself.

CTO: "So you stopped doing SVN commits and you just make changes on the production server?" Developer: "Yes." CTO: "Why?" Developer: "..."