I'm 51. This is not young in tech. And I'm right now earning really good money as a top-notch Linux/cloud guy. So long as I don't sit on my laurels, and continue learning and being relevant, I see no reason to worry about ageism, at all. Indeed, the longer I work, the more people I know, and the more who have enjoyed working with me, the less worried I am about what would happen were I to lose my job.

Note that there *is* a different kind of older worker: the one who's found a niche in a company, hasn't expanded their skillset, and isn't advancing. Especially if they've continued to get annual increases in salary. Because at some point, they are likely to be introduced to reality in some manner -- the company has layoffs; management changes; the direction of their technology changes. And suddenly, they're out of a job, with skills no longer relevant to the job market, and a house they can't make payments on. DON'T BE THAT GUY.

Went from NH to NE -- North Platte, in southwest Nebraska, to be precise. (Caught some stops like Niagara Falls and Mount Rushmore -- not to mention, say, the world's largest rocking chair and Wall Drug.) And I have to say that, to my surprise, totality was cooler than I had anticipated. After watching it, headed to Denver airport, where I hit the only traffic of note the entire trip: Denver rush hour.

If you missed this one, try to catch the 2024. Really. Totality is just that cool -- though all too brief.

I got my brain thinking 14 trillion. At 44 trillion, it's roughly 2.5 times the entire US GDP.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

That's just shy of THE ENTIRE GDP FOR THE US.

So. Not. Buying.

Unless, of course, "cameras" is code for "leaves," a la HHGTTG.

The Martian did it.

I'm just sayin'. Those creepies wouldn't want to be observed before they hit Tombaugh Station.

Wild bees have largely been dying out (at least, stateside), probably in no small part due to the pests described. Varroa mites, which are a relatively new nuisance, can have a dramatic impact on unmaintained hives.

But not enough that I don't think this is cool.
1) Full supers are *heavy*.
2) They don't lie: between the capping knife, the extractor, cleanup, needing to keep everything bee-tight... it's a bit of a pain.
While the joy of going through "the process," and getting honey in the end, is damn rewarding, I have to say that it's also a Hell of a lot of work. While I think there are legitimate concerns for this product, it strikes me that "I don't like it because it's not the way I'm used to" is probably not a good argument. I used to use bee escapes, which certainly made life easier, but it was still the single most impacting element of keeping a hive. That being said, a lot has changed since I kept bees (CCD, mites, etc.), so I'm unsure what the long-term impact of this would be.

I'm sorry -- I tried to give you a "funny," but it clicked "overrated" just under it. And -- stupid Slashdot -- there's no "undo." Except... by way of commenting, which, at least in theory, undoes all my mods in this story thread. Here goes...

is Still a Lost Art. Thank goodness for "Educating" the Public.

And if it were still a standalone company, I'd find no surprises here. But I'm not sure I'd want to go after *anything* that's under the umbrella of Blackberry right now. In Ford's shoes, I'd've probably just gone with some embedded Linux and called it a day. Unless, of course, they were able to get Blackberry to give them one of those, "You go under, we get the source code" clauses.

The (very small) UPS is there, really, to help me over the 20-second lag it takes the generator to kick in. God bless the wife's annual bonus -- a generator when you're in rural(ish) NH is a really good thing come winter storms.

I've got one, and it's *the same* -- and I care, 'cause on a Model M, I can break 100 WPM -- from Unicomp, and, yes, with USB connectors. Some even have trackpoints (which is what I went with). AWESOMENESS DEFINED.

But I may be somewhat biased.

P.S. My co-workers hate 'em, 'cause it's so damn loud. So do consider them before purchasing for the workplace.

Though it took some doing to supplant Visicalc.

Your comment is way funnier the way you put it, but I trust the Internet as a transmission medium -- so long as I'm using solid encryption. Unfortunately, between reports of NSA backdoors in NIST encryption algorithms, and SSL bugs, "solid" has become a somewhat relative term.

Excuse me. Time to fire up my Tor client over OpenVPN using pufferfish through an SSL tunnel.