I question the idea that funding of military is good for the economy. Military spending is often on manufacturing of non-renewable items. Items, like bullets and missiles, that need storage when not used and can only be used once(often to destroy objects of value).

As opposed to producing things that have utility value, like fishing nets, rakes, pots/pans, etc.

Yes, intelligence satellites became used for GPS and stuff, but what if money was used for civilian benefitting tasks to begin with? Would it have yielded better economic results

I agree! OEM's put very high premiums on any changes to standard config. So, if you want a better vid card or a mem upgrade (two easy ways to bring a PC over 1000$) It's cheaper to buy the components than to get it from the Dells or HPs pre-installed

yeah thinking the same thing.
They say that it's square miles in area, so, let's say 2. As this is microalgae. algae would be 2x10^6 sq miles in surface area. Earth is 197x10^6 sq mile in size.
so, a hecto-algae would cover the entire earth!

totally agree! they (artist/publicist) should either buy a pro photo or schedule a session where they get all the privileges. Then, they can donate it to open source. It shouldn't be that expensive, maybe a couple of hundred dollars, for the millions that can see their clients is a small price to pay

No, they're just creating skynet.

Proof is in the video, ~36s mark

When companies go into feature race, they forget that it quickly becomes diminishing returns. As the features you enable are less and less likely for your client base to be interested in.

However, if you improve the performance of your core functions (thru UI or speed), your entire customer base gets improvement and have a real reason to upgrade

I agree that there should definitely be consolidation
Personally, I like Java because there is a set of useful libraries (threads, tcp/ip, etc) that you can rely on being there
As opposed to C/C++, where even POSIX compliant libraries for each are not necessarily compatible. Wasting developer / designer time on evaluating utility library instead of business logic

the title as:
"Craigslist Shielded from Prostitution in SC"?

1. Intel raises chip prices 20% across the board, citing increased operating costs

2. In 3 months, Intel record revenue. Though lower margins to pay fine

3. In 6 months, Intel record record margins as prices are not lowered

4. In 12 months, Intel fined again.

5. goto 1

I think that the poster meant that vitamin PILLs don't grow on tree, which is technically correct. Ironically it misses that tree born fruits/fungi provide vitamins

At the end of the day. Having a meeting moderator that establishes a clear meeting agenda, prepare the necessary meeting fora, moves the meeting along and keep it on track is the key of the effective meeting. Otherwise, 40min meetings would just stretch into 1hr plus meetings that don't accomplish anything, just like regular 1 hr meetings

Yah, last time when I did that, Linus said the same thing and I said "April Fools! wouldn't it be funny if you actually ran that! haha! I would never produce crappy code...right... that's the ticket ... haha!"

This has been going on since the dot com days. Kids walk in asking (closer to expecting) about bonuses, cell phones, travel, and perks in general. There is never thought that such things have to be earned, more that they're owed that for showing up.

That aside, it is not true of every one I've interviewed. Still lots of well grounded kids out there. But there is always distance between school and reality. Like why everyone is not on latest version of every software package. Why your work PC is weaker than the one you got for yourself 2 years ago. Why the product you worked on thinking is the greatest thing since sliced bread hasn't taken over the world, etc

Although, has there ever been days when kids graduated with an we're not worthy attitude?

It's people!!!!!