Toss as much CPU and memory as you want at a chatty transaction and you won't solve the problem. What about the cost of your 2000 users of the application that wander off to the coffee machine while they wait for an hour glass to relinquish control to them? Over the years I have seen wanton ignorance from programmers that ought to know better about efficiency, scalability and performance.

Really the climbing at that altitude is an abuse of the human body. The people doing so are managing risk and doing a bit of personal extrapolation to sense whether with the current environmental conditions and how they feel will allow for a summit attempt.
So it only makes sense that errors in this estimation process are going to be revealed in the later half (i.e. the descent).

Unless Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris and Clint Eastwood heroically fly a rocket into it and blow it up...they will be missed.

And if so we will have a remarkably short period of time to write a paper about it.

I have observed that engineers can write bad FORTRAN in almost all programming languages.

Yes indeed we are all drinking the pee of something or another. The only exception would be fossil water that predates life forms or comes from places that have never had them - like comets.

I think collections like this will very soon start to become more mainstream. Consider that for decades farmers would accumulate rusting hulks of past generations of implements. At some later date those have been lovingly restored in museums or even put into a new life of use at places such as Living History Farms in Iowa. So much innovation has happened within living history that it would be a shame for that insight to be lost. Sure in most instances the new rightfully supplants the old, but an exotic cooling solution from decades past might be the cat's meow tomorrow. An understand of where we have been helps us understand where we are now.

An excellent short list and although this may be somewhat inherent 1,2 and 3 it is unique to a more experienced person. Most people with 15+ years of experience have had at least two employers (not counting coffee shop jobs). Many have had to reinvent themselves. Maybe they were engineers that discovered an aptitude and interest in IT. Although I am in IT, my products support an engineering community. It helps a great deal to understand the needs of the end user if you once worked for a company that designed and built something. So from this, a person may have evidence that they readily adapted to a new environment, new technology, new people, new customers etc. All of which could be a positive indication that they could do so for your team.

I think the tipping point between greed and altruism has a little to do with diminishing returns. A millionaire might consider the warm fuzzy feeling of putting a $20 in the salvation army can in front of Target worth more than the plastic stuff they might buy with it.

Why is Canada always considered the reference implementation for universal health care? Germany has had "socialized" medicine since the 19'th century. It works (German's have a knack for measuring things) and it's cheaper to deliver than the US.

If you want to live in a place with low taxes and minimal government, a place where there are more guns than people, a place where personal protection is the norm rather than a government service...if you want all those things, you are describing Somalia in the 1990's. You missed out on paradise!

Ask the families of the people that crashed into the Mississippi River where the I35 bridge used to be.

The governor provided the comforting words that Minnesota had few bridges in disrepair than some other states.

Whoever comprised the one seat majority in the senate is apparently the most powerful person in the world as they have been able to single handedly thwart agenda of the executive branch....maybe they should be president.

Yep

I read it too.

If you're in banking, you must have noticed the fact that the increased cap of FDIC insurance from $100k to $250k will only apply until December of 2009, after which it reverts back to the limit of $100k per named account holder per financial institution.

How many people might get suckered into longer term CD's (Certificates of Deposits, not the ISO-9660 type) that might go over the boundary of the TEMPORARILY raised FDIC insurance caps and end up either inadequately covered or stuck with early-withdrawal fees?

Either way, NONE of the articles I have read make any statement about the fact that the so-called increase in the FDIC insurance from $100-thousand to $250-thousand is only going to last the length of calendar year 2009. That's a sham and a disgrace.

Kris