His name was Robert Paulson.

I sent a follow up email to my last potential job's HR department asking "R U going 2 hire me or wat?" - still waiting for them to reply...

There is something to be said for my being born when I was (also having a natively geeky bent to me didn't hurt either). I was born in '72, saw my first movie in the theater in '77 (Star Wars, yay!) played my first video game (Night Driver, yay!) in '79, went to my first computer camp in '81, banging on an Apple ][.

I don't know if I am a digital native - I think of it more like I was a babe on the Mayflower. Lucky me!

Indeed - I shudder to think that this needs to be "soon to be". It should be "now". No food, no drink, no draw ties hanging off of your shorts, etc. Period.

Unless, of course, your main application has gone EOL, and its replacement (and all its competitors) only runs on Windows.

Oops. I meant to moderate this "interesting", and hit "flamebait" by accident, so I'm replying to undo that. Sorry.

Someone from Homeland Security will be with you shortly.

I've wondered about this with regard to call centers. There are stories of call centers where you aren't on the clock until you sit down and log in at your terminal, regardless of how long it takes from the time you enter the employer's premises to get to your terminal. That can be the same amunt of extra unpaid time each day that this lawsuit describes.

You clearly don't have small children.

Very true. When CD-ROMs first came out, 650MB was unfathomably huge, in that era where PCs had 1-2MB of RAM and hard disks were in the 10-20MB range. Blu-Rays have about 50GB of space, but PCs have 8-16GB of RAM and 1-2TB disk drives. They'll presumably have the same durability that optical discs have always had, but they're not going to be able to back up a typical person's data without using multiple media. That means either manual disc switching, or jukeboxes that are either expensive or mechanically flimsy.

They're talking about the end of 2015. Even if they meet that schedule (unlikely--they may get the technology developed, but you still have to allow a few years for everybody to finish suing each other), they would still need to be something like 3-5TB to be useful as backup media.

Just being able to stuff all eight Harry Potter Blu-Rays on one disc isn't enough justification for Yet Another Disc Format.

You send someone out to get a replacement, of course. Junktown might have one...

The problem, aesthetically, is that it's a giant flat slab in the middle of the center console. A few smaller displays on a better-sculpted console would look a lot more appropriate for a $90,000 car. Nevertheless, my friend who's owned one for almost a year loves his.

I'm going to start hyping 4-D printing yesterday.

If you've got a dual-head printer, you many need to restart two spoolers.