it depends. and on a lot of factors. will get you ahead if: - if your company's culture rewards people who have merged their office and personal lives, where employees "hang out" at the office after hours. - your superiors know that you are a/the key member of an important, but short-staffed, project, and your extra hours contribute to its success - it is a smaller firm or department, where you aren't just another face in a large crowd... this kinda goes along with the previous 2 points. - there is actual the possibility of upward mobility where you work will just burn you out if: - your company culture is more traditional, and you are expected to go home to your family after your shift. - your superiors don't respect you, and are just taking advantage of your willingness to work long hours - you work in a large firm or department, and your immediate supervisor is not in any position to promote, or recommend anyone for promotion. The people making decisions on advancement have no idea who you are, and don't care who you are. You are just throwing precious hours down a corporate rat hole, so some trust-fund brat can make extra money doing nothing. Stop this now. Of course, these are just generalizations. Your specific situation is unique, so use your gut and you experience to determine if giving extra time to the company is worth it.

I've gotten the impression that Intel has lots of stuff prepped, and ready to deploy, in response to any threat by AMD.

Ethereum is a good step on the road towards a block-chained cryptocurrency, that will actually take off... but I don't think it currently has what it takes. The next step, which learns from Ethereum, and addresses problems, might be the one that makes it big.

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Like all good ideas (or even "bad, but intriguing" ideas), it has resurfaced several times, and will continue to do so.

Kinda. For very simple data-flows, SSIS can do that from drag-and-drop chart building that resembles UML. For more complex things, you will still need to write some basic SQL in SSIS.

I might install this just to scratch the nostalgia-itch... I'm imagining that it is so out-dated, that I will want to go back to KDE after a few minutes.

Agreed. I listened to his whole speech. The vast majority of the reasoning he gave, has to do with everyone else being allowed to increase their emissions, while we not only have to decrease ours, we have to pay those other countries for the privilege. This story is just another misdirection attempt.

pretty much. Unless you're LGBT, then you are also a member of the Grand Coalition of Self-Identified Victims, aka The Democratic Party.

The only way to get a decent view of what's going on is to check multiple sources. I prefer to get my US national news (as opposed to local news) from foreign sources. DeutscheWelle, the BBC, are ok, but Russia Today is one of my favorite sources lately. There are usually a couple of blatant pro-Putin propaganda articles there, but ignore over those, and you get a lot of unbiased recounts of things that actually happened in the USA... not a load of pointed conjecture, or opinion-posing-as-news.

It was very hard to choose just one of those topics. I am very interested in all of them.

Your opinion of what Microsoft should do is not news.

I don't know anyone in IT who doesn't have to spend a little time here and there working on stuff that is outside their job descriptions. What makes them special, just because they work on network security?

Exactly. At the end of the day, it's all gambling.

I don't understand their business model, but am curious to learn. Can you explain it?