Let's be honest. Kids go to college to learn how to make money. Explain to them what kinds of jobs they can get if they take the time to learn linux. My impression during college was that programming on Windows was a way to make money, programming on Linux was programming for fun or for a cause. Now I'm out of college making money programming on Linux and doing some cool stuff too. I would have paid a lot more attention had I known...

I have the same name as an NFL football player. That should narrow my true identity down to a few thousand.

No, get the hell out. Its amazing the difference working for a company that cares as much about its employees as it does its bottom line. Refreshing. Enjoy your paycut buddy. Happy employee, that left HP

I couldn't agree more. The pay cuts were severe. All of the top performers on my project left. I left the day I was fully invested in my retirement.

I've read numerous statements claiming that Hurd was an "excellent" CEO. That depends on the perspective. From a shareholder's viewpoint, he was a terrific CEO. From the employee's viewpoint, who all (exempt employees) took a 5% and many took upwards of 20 to 25% pay cut, he was a terrible CEO. Imagine the fury of the employees that took 25% pay cuts hearing that Hurd got to keep his job after stealing $20,000 from the company. Moral at HP is bad enough.

I had a VX6700 phone with Verizon with winmo. I tethered it, had excellent reception everywhere, except 3G was lacking in rural areas that I frequent. I paid out the wazoo for this plan. I switched to Sprints Everything plan and share it with my wife. Service has been good. Excellent EVDO coverage. I'm now running a Touch Diamond. Again, I am able to tether this phone (winmo) at no charge (minor registry hack), requires no driver on host pc. I've been a Sprint customer once before. Customer service has much improved (although I think with customer service, its all in who answers the phone). Obviously coverage will vary, I'm in the midwest.

I have an HTC Touch Diamond. All text messages I've received since the new year are showing from 2016.

I think this is just a really fancy way of saying people really like to play "Capture the Flag" in Call of Duty. I like to play that one too :-)

I use a Polar heart rate monitor. It stores my last 50 workouts which is helpful for me to see how dedicated I have been each week. It requires additional hardware to download it to a computer which I don't have, so I can't say much about that. What I do love about this the most is that the workout machines at 24 hour fitness (and even most machines at hotels) will detect the heart rate monitor and display the results on the machine's digital readout. This is extremely useful when doing fixed heart rate training. The machine will automatically adjust to keep you at a target heart rate and you don't have to hold the grips for it to get your heart rate.

I drive on a major freeway to work every single day. Hundreds of thousands of vehicles pass along this same highway. Am I seeing an epidemic? Far from it. I don't even see many accidents. I haven't ovserved a fatality on this stetch of highway in years (although I'm sure that there have been). In fact, I've seen studies that that have shown that the number of fatalities while driving is lower than it has been in more than 40 years (US). I am not going to argue that using a hand held navigational device does not increase the liklihood that a driver will be in an accident. My argument against this law is simply that this is not an epidemic, and that the convenience of using such devices outweighs the increased liklihood of getting into an accident. Its all about cost-benefit. There comes a point where the benefit of increased regulations no longer outway the benefit. I prefer of life of convenience, even if its at the expence of a little bit of safety.

How is a kitchen faucet any different than a shower head? I can honestly say that the shit I put in my sink is a hell of a lot dirtier than my hair. Wouldn't sticking your glass underneath the faucet and then going straight to your face with it pose just as much of an inhalation hazard as a shower?