it also depends on altitude.

as you go higher up (mountains, etc) the weight of 1KB is lower.

(wait, wut?)

the battery is a few pennies.

the out-of-date ones from china (ie, all of them from china) are good enough for a week's worth of travel time or more.

offer the job at the end of the interview? that happens?

rarely. RARELY! any company these days is going to do due dilligence and perhaps even the week long (or longer) 'background check'.

I'd love to meet a company who can hire on the spot. never seen it happen in my 30+ years of working in software.

I've been out of work for a while, now.

high pay? pay AT ALL? where? when can I start?

(yes, the job market still pretty much sucks. getting better but its not an employee's market yet by any means).

this is actually how UPS, the shipping company got its name.

it was a phonetic spelling mistake: they meant to call the company "oops!".

(the more you know...)

man, that takes me back. I first saw those SW indicators on DEC disk packs (rp06, rm05, the old school vax/vms disk platters on a spindle). fun times.

you mean buy a product that -needs- to always be connected to the public net, is written by the premier privacy snooper in the world and you have no true idea what's going on behind the scenes?

gee, I can't imagine why its not more popular.

my 50+ years of life and 30+ yrs of computing shows that PHB's use exchange and the engineers use regular old email (wanted to say sendmail, but we have gotton beyond that, right?)

I'm an android user, but only because I hate the rest. that said, I'm not at all in love with android, its design, its 'usability' and its poor app and o/s stability.

more choices is better and if you don't like apple or android, what are your options? dumb phones?

bring on more choices. I'd be happy to drop android for another. I have no dog in this fight but the usability issues I have with android make it a frustration exercise most of the time for me.

I don't, for a minute, believe this is there for the business guys.

more and more, government does an end-run around laws by having a company do its dirty work and then contracting to the company. we see this a lot in lots of areas, where it would be 'bad' if the gov directly did X, but if they were clean-hands and did not do X directly, they can escape the laws.

this is what I worry the most about. not sony or some stupid company but the fact that this lets governments who are out of control (ie, all modern ones) skirt the laws that are supposed to ensure a just and lawful society, where we could trust our leaders to look out for our interests.

don't look one step ahead, look two steps and you'll agree that this is not just possible but a standard MO.

blueray runs 'mobile code' when it starts the disc.

for that reason (a big one) I refuse to buy BD discs or even support the business model with recorders/players.

I can't know what they run and it could be harmful. I refuse to play that game.

Just don't ask me to do the pom-pom thing... it's not my thing

that must be the other poster, then; that goes by the handle 'girlInATrainingBra'.

(not kidding)

have you watched modern US style TV lately?

I took a long break from TV and recently had a look again (was traveling and so was hotel bound and resorted to looking at what's on, these days).

its really IQ-insulting in every single way. very hard to find anything that could keep my interest and didn't talk down to me or assume I was a neanderthal.

TV has gone to hell and shows no signs of reversing the trend.

this is a fair yardstick to compare where our 'attention span' sits. and its not a very flattering statement to what the media thinks the US viewers want.

internet for the populous is not much different.

dancing pigs will always have a market...

its been my experience that, yes, they want only young workers.

young workers don't know (yet) about all the mgmt games they can and will play on you. you'll do what you are told, you'll drink the company kool aid and you'd work yourself to death for them, thinking that there is some notion of loyalty or 'spirit'.

its all BS but they want you to believe that and they are happy to take advantage of younger workers.

otoh, younger workers really do have a 'fuck it' mentality and are usually not as serious as the older guys (again, just my experience, ymmv). younger guys will go out partying and not always be in great shape when they come in the next day. otooh, older guys often have families and if they have young kids at home, they might not get as much sleep due to that.

also note that if you are over a certain age, HR thinks twice about bringing you on since, when its time to let you go, they have to prove it was -not- age discrimination and its extra work and risk for the HR peons. your health insurance is also more expensive and does cost the company more.

re: job hopping: I was guilty of this in the dot-com 10 or 15 yr era. now, I'm happy to stay at a stable place (are there any left? I wonder) and not really looking to move around anymore. when I was younger, I loved moving around to diff companies and while this gave me a more varied and valuable experience base, companies act like its a crime. of course, companies and groups are anything but stable, these days, so its a pot/kettle/black syndrome.

Someone who is 58 could easily have grand children in the work force. It's unlikely they'd be in management though.

unless they work at google.

(and yes, that was a stab at the very (cough) 'youthful' employee base at google.)