Here's the damages: More than one person who has been hired by my firm has been fired for a falsified CV/résumé (here's a thought - why is it that US wants to use a French name, and the UK wants to use Latin? (Curriculum vitae) - pretty screwy...I thought we both used English, but hey...) . We check *everything* you put down. If it says that in 1988 you worked for 3 months in a pizza parlour, it gets backtracked and checked. If it doesn't add up, that's it...you're out. No "if...". No "but...". How would you like to be just settling into your job 6-7 weeks in, only to be frog-marched to the door and ejected? I can't believe this stuff still goes on...

You correct it. You take your lumps with this employer. And you drop the guy who hacked your resume.

It's OK so shorten your resume. It's not OK to falsify anything on it.

You should have dropped 'em the first time. Now that you know this guy fakes resumes you should never touch him again.

You may be having trouble now because there's two versions of your resume getting to some HR departments and you're flagged as a fake. If you keep getting no-replies you may need to include a cover letter explaining that a(n unnamed) headhunter had previously "enhanced" your resume and circulated this false version, that this one is true and correct, and you no longer do business with him.

Yes, by BPM I was referring to the DDR setting used to control the speed at which the notes flow past the screen. The reason that it must be turned up for higher difficulty songs has less to do with the number of notes on the screen at once, and more to do with the amount of separation between them. At low speeds, there are not enough vertical pixels separating the notes to distinguish the order that they are actually coming in, and whether they are simultaneous (jumps) or not. When played at "normal" speeds, the notes will even overlap each other making a solid "wall" that is nearly impossible to work out, even if you were to pause the game and dissect the screen at your leisure.

Some reasonably visible changes since I was born - not all invented since then, but all rolling out in a major way:

Transistors were still replacing tubes when I was a kid
Integrated circuits replacing discrete electronics, semiconductor RAM/DRAM, microprocessor
Plastic replacing many glass containers

Hand held calculators, Personal computers, handheld computers (Newton, Blackberry, iPhone)
Modems, cable data services, wireless data services, BBS systems, Internet / World Wide Web
CB radio, pagers, Cellphone, texting, internet phone, video conferencing, web conferencing
digital cameras, digital video
Medical electronics - heart monitors, sonogram, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
analog electronic watches, digital watches, LED and LCD display watches, other gadgets using LCD displays
GPS

Most of the spread of cable TV, digital cable, digital TV broadcasts, internet video/TV
Most of the change from B&W to color TVs; big screen projection TVs, flat plasma and LCD TVs, tiny portable TVs
Videotape and DVDs, now BluRay disc,
Sony walkman, MP3 players, CD audio,
floppy disc, hard disk drive, CD ROM, DVD ROM, BD ROM
Video games and PC games, handheld game units, DnD / roleplaying games

Jets replacing prop planes for commercial travel, private jets, cheap/mass air travel
Further decline of the train and interstate trucking.
Interstate Highway system development/build-out
Cargo container shipping
Sputnik, communication satellites, spy satellites, earth-observing satellites
Man in space, Man on the moon, Space Shuttle, Skylab, International Space Station

teflon pans, Microwave ovens, Dish Washers all became common in the home (all invented earlier)

White dental fillings mostly replacing silver and gold. Near painless dentistry - getting a filling was horrible as a child! Workable implants.
heart pacemakers, stints, numerous chemotherapy advances

Not TOO bad a record of innovation...

I think they're a common side-effect of sickle-cell anaemia, a mutation which also provides resistance to malaria.

Linux on the PS2 or PS3 has nothing to do with that tax, which was eliminated before either was released. Where are you people getting your information?

Not to worry. Even if MS whipped out their absolute best fat-wallet, arm-twisting, favor-calling lobbyists and somehow got this concept generally accepted inside America, there are plenty enough people outside the US who are wise to the ways of The Vole who would keep this from being able to happen on a worldwide basis.

Thank Deity...

What is the deal today with trying to get rid of the simple menu bar??

Note sure. If they had moved everything to intelligent contextual menus it is one thing, but I just find the easter eggs easier to find now than the options the menus provided. This is clearly a MS-Windows centric thing, since on MacOS X getting rid of the menu bar in application would sure look odd.

Fro the diesel generator? I have no clue. I'm a PHB over app development. The systems and the infrastructrure people are responsible for the generator. I know that - monthly - they shut off the power to the building and ensure the KVM keeps the server room and associated items live during the 15 seconds or so it takes the generator to kick in and power the rest of the building. We have a seven-story building with about 1500 staff members and roughly 900 workstations/peripherals.

'It's not reasonable to expect an ISP to guarantee a certain speed...'

It is if they advertise it.

Comparing the cost of driver updates on a per console basis doesn't make much sense. There is a one time cost to create the drivers plus maybe the salary of one programmer to maintain the drivers. Per console, that's miniscule.