I don't carry most of those with me *because I don't want to lose them*. In addition to it not being a cops business to anything other than my first and last name, if I'm not being charged with a crime- First, and Last. That's all you get.

The European Computer Driving License may be helpful here. See http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.5829 for a syllabus.

Professionals are paid for their time. Period. You can slice it however you want, but almost no one works piece meal. Most of those that do are VERY far down the skill ladders.

It was a nice try to slander me with accusations of working for McDonalds. Last time I checked, their POS terminals don't allow the user to initiate a web browser (or any other software).

Wether salary, or hourly, you are being paid for your time. Surely the result are what count (mostly), but there is usually an implicit agreement of a certain block of time, on certain days. If you can't abide the agreement, then you shouldn't make it. However, if you convinced someone to pay you salary, and then just do as you please, that's great. But it's not a career, kiddo.

It was disguised as a normal iPhone 3gs, and had a drop-protection skin around it. To the casual observer (which the guy that 'found' it claimed to be), it wasn't a test-unit.

Not at all...

I enforce the rules THAT YOU MADE UP.

They aren't MY rules. They are YOUR rules.

If you don't like your own rules, then tough cookies.

An anal geek is going to follow the given rules to the
exclusion of all else. A geek's job is to make sure that
stuff stays running. He's responsible for ensuring that
millions of dollars per hour is not lost due to someone
screwing up with relevant computer systems.

This "customer service" nonsense is for burger flippers at McDonalds.

This "customer service" nonsense is what causes professionalism to be discarded in favor of pandering with chaos being the end result.

Can you tell me that password again?

Or perl with the more than one way to do it will make it nearly unreadable if you have a different style in every line

I could see this being useful for Model-View-Controller type applications (dunno whether that's used in Java).

It would be cool to use your screen real estate to automatically open the view and model belonging to the controller you're coding.

Thanks for correcting me there! I've learned something new.

from a grading point of view iv'e never seen how anyone could get anything over 100% in anything unless there is extra credit involved and its being used for individual assignments. maybe you meant that but just saying that iv'e never heard of anyone with 105%+ ESPECIALLY when they only do "pretty good" on the tests.

Oh yea? My boss just busted into the bathroom stall and told me to stop wanking!

If Gates hadn't been stupid enough to give the order to build MS Windows on top of a crappy cutdown CP/M clone instead of on top of MS Xenix we wouldn't have needed Linux in the first place and the computers of the world would not be infested with malware beyond the dreams of science fiction. Gates had a lot of chances to get things right and missed the boat on multiple occasions. Thanks to him the "computer experience" for many is frustrating and annoying and computers are seen to be unreliable.

When you can snatch the Grace Hopper from this poll, only then will you have attained the level of Slashdot Master.

Who are you talking about? Was it someone's birthday when you posted this? I checked wikipedia for March 10th and the only easily recognized name was Chuck Norris - who turned 70 today. If he was born 60 years earlier that would make today his 130th birthday - hence born in 1880.

Although why the world would have been better for him then, I'm not sure.

Could you elaborate on this point? I am not primarily a programmer; I am a networking nerd for an ISP. I have however, in the course of my duties, had to utilize a variety of programmer-like skills. I learned programming originally in perl, because it was the closest thing to shell scripting (which I generally understood enough to accomplish my goals) that met my immediate needs. I'm curious what kind of bad habits I may have inherited from my initial exposure to perl as opposed to, say pascal. Specificity would be appreciated as my goal is not to argue, but to hopefully learn and save myself some headaches...