Most people have been sold a bill of goods.

Bandwidth is cheap. Very, very cheap. Getting cheaper all the time. Once it's fiber to the home, the rest is all done. Top tier providers get bandwidth so cheap it's almost free.

It should be a national embarassment there's not gigabit infrastructure everywhere. Props to Google for helping out the shame.. and may they eat the lunch of all the incumbents.

Major impact. Patent battles. Still used today.

Confusing as hell command line switches to create an archive. What more do you want?

I'm getting my grey beard. I'm an EE; I don't do tech so much anymore, but I've done enough and .. seen things.

The myth that good programmers cannot find work is just that. What is a myth is how common "good" programmers are. I only know a few, "good" programmers. Some of them have degrees, some of them do not. The common thread is that based on their demonstrated proficiency and speed, none of those people are out of work, ever. Spanned over decades.

Go out and hack on some projects. You will be noticed, and you will find work. I know very few people who can write device drivers for linux - and the ones who can, don't have much problem with finding work. GPA not required.

If you have real tech chops and can't find work, you need to learn how to network and go get out and hack on some things, work on the kernel, write some apps and give them away.

Oh.. and get off my lawn.

My last foray into an Intel motherboard was a
X58 adorned with skulls. It didn't work very well.

I replaced it with an Asus.

The fact intel is making hardware adorned with skulls is confusing enough. An amendum to the don't buy audio equipment named after natural disasters rule of thumb, you shouldn't buy computer gear with skulls on it.

Enthusiast hardware isn't going anywhere, but it will be getting more expensive. Intel is a chip company not a motherboard company after all.

Come on guys, put in the support for people glasses.

Like.. there aren't a lot of nerds who wear glasses or anything.

I'll even volunteer to test.

Has everyone forgotten this?

It's _insane_, people go off about the environment, and everything else, but right now, there are between 3-5,000 nuclear weapons aimed at every major population center on earth.

People are crazy.

Peferably with E-Ink, that I can write on, in similar DPI to a fine engineering pencil?

I want one for specification sheets and notes. That's it. Doesn't really even need much of a OS. I have a desk full of paper. I will gladly pay $$$$$ for this device.. and I am sure that others will too.

The retina ipad is good, but it's not paper.

What happened to Kiki? :)

I wish they'd spend more time protesting nuclear weapons. You know, the ones aimed at them.

So what happens when one of these third parties is detained as a spy, if their compromised computer is detected at a border? Depending on where you go, taking a machine with you sounds like it could actually put your life - or at least, your freedom - at risk?

Have we given up even maintaining the facade of the rule of law now?

Just get up and walk around and think every 15 or 20 or 30 minutes. You're paid to think, after all.

People might think you're strange, but thinking walking around works for me. Good for your circulation, head, gives your wrists a break, etc.

I'm looking at 40 coming up and I'm still in good shape. I credit that technique and never learning to "properly" type.

The device is cheap.

Plastic comes in grades. The cheap shit plastic appears to be the most popular. This is the industry term in injection molding; the "shit plastic".

I'm drunk and ranting about a cheap plastic shit disease nobody is talking about and from what I can see, appears to be endemic and terminal in consumer devices manufactured today.

Help stop the pain. Don't buy cheap plastic shit.

If your Blackberry Bold is feeling as solid as an iphone, something else is leaking into your food..

I love technology.

You pick up a blackberry. It feels like a cheap plastic piece of shit.

You pick up a acer. It feels like a cheap plastic piece of shit.

You pick up a HP. It feels like a cheap plastic piece of shit.

You pick up a (insert anything electronic and mass produced that the bean counters got at). It feels like a cheap plastic piece of shit.

This is because.. they are cheap pieces of shit.

Pick up a nice Thinkpad. It does not feel like a cheap piece of shit. Especially the old ones.

Pick up ANYTHING APPLE. It does not feel like a cheap piece of shit.

If you are in charge of decisions at a large company publicly traded and cannot figure out what you do to your product image.. those little cents you save here and there, all turn your products in to cheap feeling plastic pieces of shit. Your brand also turns into a piece of shit. I feel sad for HP. At least SGI died.

Rant off.

I work for the government and print thousands of pages a month.

I am not reading all that (and yes, I have to read it all) on low-DPI crap monitors that are issued to me, and nobody in my department has any power to change right on up.

Until I have a 30" high DPI display at work - like I have at home - my eyes will be reading off the printed page.