On the contrary - it could be argued that Apple's entire success as a company is due to their packaging on all levels - packaging features, packaging software, packaging hardware, packaging services, packaging their brand. Nokia's problem is that their good packaging tends to stop at the box.

Apple packaged the original iPod by taking mature features that already existed in other music players in the marketplace, and wrapping them together in a more attractive product, with a slick design and lots of storage. They packaged OS X by taking an established operating system (BSD) and throwing some pretty on it, some of which was innovative, but most of which was simply combining existing ideas into an attractive package. The iTunes store was only notable because they negotiated slightly more flexible DRM terms and didn't close down in 2 years leaving its customers in the cold, like so many predecessors. The iPhone packaged the PDA and phone in a smoother and more attractive way than other products had done before, even though there are few truly unique features in it that were not also being implemented in some form by its predecessors and contemporaries (including Android, which also started in 2005.) And throughout all of these product launches, they had the marketing muscle to successfully focus attention onto the shiny and away from the omissions.

This is not to denigrate Apple's success, because they seized upon a truth that eludes many companies - packaging matters, as much or more than the product itself, and if you can consistently combine great packaging with good products, it doesn't matter where the functional ideas came from originally. Sometimes the packaging is the innovation.

Depends where your code is. If it's hosted on GitHub, they have a simple but decent issue tracker that integrates really well with code commits.

"We had to send daily reports to the CEO, which would in turn justify our salary. Failure to do so meant a deduction in that days's wage," said a vice president, who resigned on the same grounds.

Any company that responds to crisis like that was never going to make it anyways.

Counterintuitively, emissions are generally much worse with modern motorcycles vs. modern cars. In most cases, the only green benefit it gives you is roughly double gas mileage, but even that doesn't makes up for the increased harmful emissions. Motorcycles are not the green machine you think they are. There was a whole Mythbusters episode on this awhile back.

Tamrac is great. I've used this one for about 5 years now, fits all my expensive electronics in one carry-on bag for traveling. http://www.amazon.com/Tamrac-3380-Photo-Laptop-Backpack/dp/B000XXBMCY

Nothing. I'd wager parent is just venting because of some strange issue he ran into. Our Ubuntu production servers have proven more reliable than our Fedora servers. No big difference though.

My dog is terrified of beer. I think it's the carbonation. I have had a cockatoo that was addicted to coffee, though. Also pizza. Strange bird.

CrashPlan is pretty great, but the Linux client was too much of a resource hog when I used it. Whether that's bad programming or that fact that it's a Java service, I don't know.

Works for me in Chicago. I'm guessing it's his broadband router that's doing this, intercepting port 53 traffic and forwarding to the DNS servers it got from DHCP.