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Meanwhile, I bought an original iPad, and a first gen iPod Touch that my kids are still happily using today. My 19 year old daughter learned (via Youtube) how to replace iPod/iPad …

my biggest f-up happened during a 4AM call - I deleted an entire filesystem... twice...

Before all those late-night commercials in the late '90's ("Make $70K a year!!!") only people that were interested in computers chose a career in them. We make, on average, twice t…

This is a sad article. There used to exist guidelines to beahvior, one being "don't fish off the company dock". Following that would eliminate almost all of the sexual harassment B…

Pretty soon all descriptive words are going to be deemed bad and banned. Whatever happened to "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me"?

yeah, it's easy to cry when you see a real artist working on something, and you have to go back to your etch-a-sketch.

Quit yer whining. Wait until you're almost 50 and all your dreams are nowhere in sight, you have kids to feed, bills to pay, and a boss that has the intelligence of a cantaloupe. I…

nah, the guy that demoed it talked about iterated fractals (hence the IFS company name). And this was EARLY 90's, a black and white laptop.

you're talking about chunking: at first you try to remember everything, then as you gain experience you learn you can abstract certain items away to a general model of them (chunk)…

I saw this back in '90, showing an aquarium, zooming into a goldfish, zooming into its eyeball, and then zooming into the Earth. I always wondered what happened to the tech. The co…

What? You don't expect them to act in a moral fashion, do you? Business is a game, and most business people play it like a game: how far can I go and still be within the rules? Whe…

because rules and regulations are links in the chains that bind you. rules and regulations created the corporations, rules and regulations tax you, rules and regulations throw you …

The first hit is always free. This is a trap for new companies. Microsoft doing what it does best.

ahh, but who provides the framework that denies the local governments the right to implement this? That's right, the Judicial branch (local, state or federal). So, while corporatio…

The Iron Law of Bureaucracy at work: http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

I see what you mean. I think the reason why it may be appropriate here is that poor health and being overweight are big risks in the field of sedentary occupations. ftfy

ketogenic diets have loads of health benefits (reduction of insulin sensitivity, reduced incidences of epileptic seizures, etc). I am unaware of studies that point to benefits of h…

same concept as applied to other human cultures: Aztecs, Incas, Native Americans, Africans - they're all considered 'at one with nature', superior to European culture, when in fact…

Yeah, most companies treat people as replaceable cogs, when they should be treating employees as (for example) plants that need cultivation and care. Training should be considered …

Put Drs/Hospitals/HealthCare in place of the other car, and your body in place of your car. The analogy works very well. ACA is acting as the bank in the car insurance analogy, dem…

Nothing? So the fact that young (presumably healthy) people HAVE to buy insurance to make ACA a success means nothing. It's pretty clear that the mandate IS Socialism.

Looks like the US Constitution is becoming more of a propaganda document as we move along the timeline. So I would have to say it's not just a failing of a formal Communist Party, …

Obamacare is closer to car-insurance, with the caveat that even if you don't want a car you still have to buy the insurance. THAT is what has most of the nay-sayers agitated. Medic…

"This is unlikely to have happened under a system of legal drugs. I've never heard of Walmart -- where legal products are sold -- putting out hits on people." Take a look into the …

If you want to be treated equal quit crying when you get treated equal! Being interrupted and having to prove yourself are things males require of each other. Does sexism exist? Ye…