we own 5 mopeds. Zero electronics, 100mpg, top speed 35mph, street legal and registered, $100 a year to insure all 5, 15+ can get a drivers license, perfect for our small beach town.

can we stop calling audio books a book? since when did listening to someone read count as reading?

that's right, they're scared that we won't and can't work unsupervised. I work from home 100% and have never been to the office- same with most people on my team. We make it work with google hangouts, git, and other tools that work remotely.

+1. 45 here and just left a Java team lead type job for a realtime C++ job on flight systems. Literally doubled my pay too.

forget the 3.5mm, I want a 1/4" jack to plug in my Sennheiser HD 800s

With the new App Thinning tools that Xcode provides, each newly developed app can be trimmed on needless garbage and graphics before it's downloaded. Have a iPhone 6, no need to download 2x and 3x icons/screens, and resources for an iPad Pro.

That's a lotta clams to connect to the net. I wonder how many contractors they had bid for the job? For 5 mil and a few geeks I'd expect to see a 802.11.x connection to span the globe, encode packets on laser, or do something fantastically cool, heh and also be reasonably priced. No wonder our economy is in the toilet. IMHO $262 million could be spent much more wisely. But just think of all the new jobs it'll generate for ice road construction engineers!