I'll second that - while I don't use a drobo - it's on the purchase list.

I'm highly technically competent - I use an opensolaris fileserver with ZFS and some terabyte drives - and sure, I can expand it and do all kinds of cool things - but in the end, I could get the same features I get there (the ones I actually use) out of a drobo, with less hassle.

With my fileserver I have to know a bunch of stuff about how to manipulate it to expand it... with a Drobo, you have to watch some blinkenlights and just pop in bigger drives when you need to grow. It locks dives when you shouldn't remove them, and is dead simple to use. From all my research, it's unparalleled in the ease of use department for joe average.

I last played DOOM online in 2010, DOOM was release in 1993. The online multiplayer was added later I think though.

Again though - if they want to say "your app shall not consume more than ## battery units per ## time unit" then fine. if that outlaws most flash apps, that's fine too.

then
a) it should also outlaw things that aren't flash that have the same problem
b) if I DO make a flash/java/unity/whatever program that doesn't have this problem, then apple should be fine with it.

Well, I(nor does anyone right now, really) have no idea of the details of the trading platform being used (if, indeed, its even relevant). However, I've never seen (nor heard of, nor have the folks who I've talked to who have worked with institutional investing) a system where you type in the amount of stock you want and then put a letter after it.

Maybe we need a Top 10 Articles that IT Rags Rehash Endlessly...

I would imagine a great panic since neither country has publicized any weapon other than a nuclear capable ICBM and our intelligence probably would confirm this. This is a stupid comparison. Obviously an ICBM from Russia/China is a nuke. And obviously our missile defense shield would eliminate a single ICBM threat not requiring a full nuclear retaliatory action.

Continuing our game.. now I'm imagining I'm Iran. I think I want to nuke someone.. oh wait our nuclear launch vehicles were just blown the fuck up an hour later. What the hell just happened? Oh that's right, the Americans have a 60 minute counter to our stupidity. So we're out of nukes now, time to invade Israel with conventional warfare because we should respond to the American action? I doubt it. More like we deny we were going to nuke anyone and blame the US for terrorist actions against our country.

And as for inspecting our weapons. We only need justify our weapons claims to those who hold an equal threat of invading/annihilating our own soil. Iran does not fall into this category. Iran can either choose to believe the public intel or test it's luck against it. Which do you think they will choose?

those trainers existed because a local engine could be cracked. Tying data to the server changes everything. Even moving a small part of that engine to the server would cause a major problem for the cracker.

Have fun building a trainer for a racing game when the local client is entirely dependent upon the server for the positions of the other cars.

I don't know. Maybe FTL travel was developed as a military technology for galactic-scale battles or something like that.

Again, this runs into the whole problem with how ridiculously far apart everything is astronomically. If you want to develop FTL for military purposes, this presupposes that you've already found an enemy to fight where FTL would be an advantage. Presumably, any non-FTL-capable race will be just like us: they won't have any idea if other intelligent beings even exist, so they wouldn't know where to go to find these new enemies. The only exception here is if two races developed independently on two different planets either in neighboring systems, or in the same system somehow, and learned about each other's existence somehow.

The fundamentals of modern physics were developed in the first half of the 20th century with two world wars.

The two world wars took up a large part of the first half of the century (and then the Cold War took up even more), but that doesn't mean that every advance during that time was created for the wars. Einstein didn't create the theories of Relativity just so he could build a bomb; theoretical scientists like that (who are much closer to mathematicians) aren't really thinking of practical applications early on. IIRC, he came up with a lot of his stuff while he was still a patent clerk.

Remember, the whole Industrial Revolution was still going on in the early 20th century. That drove lots of advances on its own, without any need for a war.

Even if I like your way of thinking, being a pacifist myself, I really believe it to be wishful thinking. Unfortunately.

Well, for what it's worth, I'm not a pacifist at all. But I only believe violence is necessary to secure peace, because so many people (e.g. violent criminals) easily resort to violence to get what they want at the expense of others. I think any highly advanced race will either simply not have problems with violence (sort of like ants, who only use violence against non-ants, and never against other ants of the same tribe), or will have figured out how to make themselves evolve (with genetic engineering if necessary) past the point where they're predisposed to it.

Finally, as far as galactic-scale battles go, why would anyone have them? Wars are usually over one of two things: resources or ideology (which includes religion). Advanced aliens are very unlikely to have resource wars; with all the uninhabited planets and moons and asteroids out there, and the fact that such aliens are advanced enough for FTL or any decent level of spaceflight, it should be pretty trivial for them to find all the resources they want in their own systems, or in the many uninhabited systems around. Why go engage in a destructive war with someone on a faraway planet if you can get the same thing without a fight somewhere else, probably no farther away? Secondly, advanced aliens are unlikely to be religious and want to convert all the other aliens they can find. They'll have evolved past the need for making up myths to explain the unknown and the afterlife. And finally, what kind of aliens are going to go look for other aliens (who might barely be recognizable as "life" to them) just so they can have a capitalism vs. communism war with them?

Exactly. If employers want to discourage job hopping, they need to ensure that compensation keeps up with experience. Many companies seem to think that they can continue to offer poor raises and people will stay out of "loyalty". Well, that ship sailed a long time ago. When you get a miserly raise then you hear of someone else being hired on in a similar (or sometimes lower) position for 50% more than what you're getting then you're told raises are being held in the low single digits this year, what exactly are you supposed to do?

Though personally, I don't really like the whole automated raises thing. People should be encouraged to negotiate their raise and justify it each and every year. This would work best for all concerned.

My anecdote deal with a private company, but I think it is still applicable to people working a government job.

I worked for a 1000+ person manufacturing facility. Everyone on the shop floor was hourly as well as a lot of the office workers. The "Higher Up" office workers were salaried. Salaried was really cool at that company. You didn't clock in and you could just take off when you needed to. Salaried workers would do a 12 hour day and then take off 3 hours early later in the week to take their kids to the doctor. Need a three day weekend? Get your work done earlier and take the day off. Decide you want the day after Christmas off? Ok. Having a salaried position was pretty awesome.

I am pretty sure you can imagine how this turned out. Most of the people were very happy to have this flexibility and worked really hard for the company and were reasonable with their off time. A few people were not. The worst offender was an Engineering manager who took off 77 days during the year. The company responded by saying "Hey, you guys obviously cannot be reasonable about this so salaried employees will now be punching the clock. They will also have vacation days just like hourly. You want 3 hours off? That will cost you a half day."

The moral of the story? Time and attendance isn't "Slavery". It is pretty much necessary. You can try the "Honor System" with employees and many will be pleased but you'll always get those that want to abuse the shit out of it and laugh about making money without working. The idea of every average Joe being a good honest person working for corrupt politicians and CEO's is pretty naive. Put Average Joe in a position where he can screw someone out of money and there is a decent chance he will.

I fully agree that a helmet is a great idea. I'm just saying that there is bound to be a lot of things other people also think are great ideas as well that you won't like so much.

Of course, I have heard from others that they prefer NOT to wear a helmet because it increases the chances that they'll end up quadriplegic rather than dieing in an accident. Right or wrong, that's a choice they've made. It is probably cheaper for the taxpayer if they just die rather than requiring rehab and special equipment for decades.

I certainly would not think that refusing medical coverage because someone wasn't wearing a helmet, butcher's glove, plate mail, etc to be a good idea.

It's also incontrovertible that not skydiving will prevent 100% of skydiving related injuries. The same for rock climbing, skateboarding, etc. Many people do things that are not really NECESSARY but do carry a risk of medical expenses. Those who don't are often sedentary, and so have a risk from that.

Maybe what this kid needs is a iPod Touch or the upcoming WiFi-only iPad. If data plans are unreasonable with the roaming charges, maybe he can just do the smartphone-like things in WiFi zones, and keep his current phone-only device with a phone-only plan...

There's lots of published advice about how to run the gauntlet of the hiring process for candidates but little published on how companies can "up their game" when looking for new employees. The emphasis on the employers part seems to be minimal work rather than maximum quality.

If customers were already paying a ABC channels, I hope Cablevision reduces the bills for all of their subscribers, otherwise it's going to be even more clear to their customers that Cablevision is screwing them over.

Yeah - I had a 69 t-bird that ran like a top except once - when the brake pedal depressed all the way to the floor and didn't do anything. Scary as shit but fortunately I had just put the car in reverse and was backing out of a parking spot. I was able to put it in neutral and activate the manual parking brake before I hit anything. It never happened again and my mechanic couldn't find any fault. So yes, this type of problem is older than people are giving it credit, and not just Toyota.

And the problem wasn't between the pedal and the seat - but you'll have to take my word on that.