I'm pretty sure that's the idea.

It could also be the precursor to outsourcing your services.

Make you guys wear uniforms until people are used to looking for the uniform, then when they replace the workers, people no longer have to look for you, just the shirt.

As strict as the Apple store is about getting actual useful apps in, and screening all kinds of apps based on one or two system calls, clearly the only way this could have happened is if Storm8 has someone on the Apple App Approval Team who they know. Otherwise, how would something like this have gotten past such a stringent code review?

Pen and paper got me through my math classes in school. Then I'd transcribe the equations later into digital form.

I gave up an 12 year-old career in IT (check my uid. It's proof). It eventually got to the point where I could see my future, and the future of the industry, and I wasn't that enthused with what I saw. So, I jumped.

Quit my job, enrolled in grad school, and am completely changing careers. I'm finding it's pretty easy to leverage my IT knowledge in another field because I'm able to easily assess what is and isn't possible. There are a lot of industries out there that drank the IT Kool-Aid pretty late in the game, and a number of people who have no idea what it's capable of. Given the current market, anyone who can see through the fog of IT and can suggest actual solutions that make or save money (or both, ideally) can generally make a good go of it.

So, will I miss no longer being in IT, no. Will I always think in IT terms? Probably. I now just apply it in more creative terms.

I don't even miss the money, because I don't think the work/life trade-off was worth whatever supposedly "inflated" salary I had.

I'd be willing to go into more detail, but I don't know what would come of it. I know I'm happier so far.

They're going to need it as a competitive advantage. As more smart phones come out, they're going to have just as much impact on AT&T's network, and then everyone will be contributing to making the network slower.

If they don't upgrade, someone like Verizon is going to see it as a competitive weakness, and capitalize on it once they get their smartphones/iPhones (when the exclusivity contract runs out). The iPhone is just a harbinger of what's to come with mobile devices.

While I understand the benefits of applying an early adopter tax, it also makes AT&T vulnerable in a market that's pretty competitive already.

Only in your dreams.

Your UID isn't low enough to be that old.

You're lucky your keyboards had keys. We had to mash the letters into the paper by hand, with a hammer.

-R

It probably already was.

And since Best Buy records the serial number of every piece of electronics sold (it's frequently on your receipt), it's easy to find out who has what.