Your close but then you go off into the wrong direction. There's no reason why a company needs to do R&D when they can just come up with that one thing and patient it, or just buy a few patients and sit on them. Then rake in the royalties for years to come. Why divert all that money from the stock holders when the nest egg will be pumping out golden eggs.

I think that if a govt. wanted to really push businesses to start really developing, they need to revamp the patient system to limit the amount of time a company has exclusive access (which granted will start driving companies away) and then add economic incentive's for developing new tech.

I noticed that a lot of people seem to submit recommendations about your interaction with customers, but you could be also servicing the servers and network. If that's the case then add in there the number of outages that had no impact to the users. A power supply in a server went down, but the server had dual power supplies and no one noticed. Someone had a good idea at convening management to spring for that extra money. You connect your access switches with dual links and one of them went down?

If your going to collect metrics, let them know how much downtime the company avoided because you guys did your job. I've seen too many bad metrics around how much a person caused the company, only to find that 80/20 rule ended up biting them. 80% of the work was done by 20% of the workforce so all the murphy law scenarios only hit a limited number of people because they are the ones that did all the work. While all the people that sit back and did nothing reap'd all the metric glory.

I think you missed the point of the poster. His complaint was that with some of his instructors there was no discussion happening at all. I can only assume he was alluding to people that felt that their research was their primary purpose and the teaching was a necessary evil, never putting any effort into it.

I can stand on the same ground as him. I've had some instructors that couldn't seem to get done with class fast enough. I think that the only reason they even held the class for a full period was because of the amount of information they had to convey by the end of the semester. While quite of few others, were exactly has you described. They knew their stuff, would frequently describe new methods being used. If someone asks for more information about a topic, they could speak volumes. I just wish all my instructors were like that. Maybe I wouldn't of had to spend so much time trying learn thermodynamics on my own from the text book. Oh wait, that was the semester I discovered DikuMUD, never mind that last statement.

And with the same truthfulness you could say we have the highest corporate in the world (according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_around_the_world it's 38% federal with an additional 12% state and doesn't count local taxes). It's not until you take part in all the nice tax loopholes that you get an equivilent tax rate that's at the record lows. Unfortunately since many businesses are small, they can't afford the tax lawyers to take advantage of all the nifty loopholes.

If you actually listen to Tea Party whole stance and what many speak about at the rallies, it's to lower the tax rate overall (lowering the 38% to something reasonable) AND to get rid of the loopholes. Allow the local computer store up the street to pay the same tax rate as Best Buy down the street.

I know it's hard to actually hear words through the shrieking, but I'm sure that even you equate someone stealing from you, with your liberty. It's a question of do you equate getting charged left and right for something as stealing. I pay my sewer bill every month, I expect that that money to go to the upkeep of the sewer system. To have the sewer company turn around and tell me that they are going to charge me an extra fee depending on how much non-grass area I have in my yard (thus assuming rain run off into storm system), after I'm already paying for my use of the sewer system. Me... I find thing close to stealing from me.

If you check that image, his tree model was able to pack an increase of 80% cells in 50% of the surface area he placed in the normal flat panel model. The tree model has the advantage that it doesn't have to rotate in order to achieve direct sunlight during the day/year. So it's inventive in his being able to achieve cell density that other people haven't seemly taken advantage of as of yet.

Well obviously you didn't go to an American college. "losing" vs. "loosing" is in the Grammar 301 course, not Spelling 101. I decided to minor in mathematics, rather than continue on with the English curriculum ("then" vs. "than" is only 201).

I don't think that the person isn't interested in learning, he just doesn't see the value in learning outside what he feels he needs. The grandparent post is more spot on, he doesn't see the value in the other courses. Of course when he has a job in the profession and he's told that he needs to write a document on requirements or a system design, he'll sit there and tell himself "Well if only I had an example to work off of." If only he had those courses in Writing and was forced to write the papers and thesis' all the different types of writing assignments that college level courses make you grind through, he'd have the experience. He wonders why he'll need a class in Speech, when he just wants to be shut in a dark room, downing Mountain Dew like it is going out of style. Then when trying to do a presentation to a group or a conference, he'll wonder why people are loosing interest in what he's saying, or he'll wonder maybe there was a better way of arranging the material.

I never saw the value of many of the classes I took in college, while I was taking them. But between then and now, I've had projects and requests in which the experience and the things I learned in those classes came in handy. It's not to say I could live without them, but it sure made things easier that I already knew them at the time and didn't have to learn it at the drop of the hat, or that what I learned previously gave me a different perspective that allowed me to build a better system.

My 2cents, time learning something is time spent well.

I view this as the real investment. It's not to get any synergy from Skype but to prevent what could happen to the Windows Live platform if FaceBook were to assimilate Skype. Once they have Skype, they are going to let it burn, in my opinion.

If you have to be told and reminded about class base routing, back when it was developed, then get off my lawn.