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COBOL developers are in demand at many large, multinational corps. Mastercard, for example, uses it heavily. Text books on COBOL are rare, and few have studied it in formal education. The best part is that offshore's don't offer COBOL skills, so job security is quite high.

Part-timers can actually slow down a development project, so they can cost you more than simple idle resources. Full-timers are often made to wait until the part-time resource is available. And sometimes the part-timers get caught waiting on each other. If the team is larger and international in scope, scheduling and resource utilization can become gridlocked. That's why two part-timers are not equal to 1 full-timer.

I would love to be there so I could scream "stand on one foot! Do the Hokee Pokee and turn yourself about!" Detroit kids will learn that conducting is nothing more than waving your arms to a programmed pattern.

Conducting is about 1% physical the rest is musicianship. Gestures are used because they are silent. And during the performance, what happens next is based mostly on what has happened up until that moment.

ASIMO knows only gestures. It knows nothing of the performance or whether the musicians are even playing, so why not make it funny to the audience?