Kadrith

Just because they compete on price doesn't mean they will cut quality or usability. That is what I feel is wrong with the existing inexpensive tablets, they cut those corners, but Amazon isn't known for doing that.

To me the worst part was how they managed the incident. They should never have been hacked, but once it happened they should have been honest about the scope of impact.

I also find it relevant that they started with a platform approach for Zune, then changed it to be vertically integrated. Why would they not consider the same for phones if they could buy MOTO and use them to bootstrap verticle integration?

Or to prevent Google from acquiring MOTO's patents and potentially remove the second largest Android manufacturer.

I think the MS brand has more clout than RIM; if for no other reason than most large companies will have a relationship with MS for other products. In all of the large companies I've worked at buying from an existing vendor was preferable if the products were roughly comparable.

I don't drink Starbucks coffee, so I didn't participate in this. There was already an implicit request that this be used for something at Starbucks; otherwise why would he have used a Starbucks gift card? Does Starbucks now sell iPads?

From what I've read I do think this guy would have broken an explicit request concerning scraping; he seems like just another crook that believes they are innocent and always has an excuse.

Would it work with a black light?

Unless you do most of your communicating with family through Facebook, or use Facebook Connect to authenticate with external sites; then you're just as screwed if they ban you.

In the wrong hands one company controlling too much can certainly cause problems with a lack of innovation. Given all of the things Google has been involved with I don't see that happening any time soon though. That is one other reason I like and trust Google most of all the big companies that show up here; they keep pushing the envelope. Only time will tell the impact that might have on smaller companies

I definitely see Google as a business and know that circumstances can change with a change in management or operating environment; there is no way around that though. In my opinion we can either fight big companies and hope to have the government or other large companies keep them in check or we can try to help shape the environment and support companies that further our best interests.

Because I trust that one company more any any of the other ones. Google's corporate interests are more closely aligned with my personal interests wrt to an open Internet. Sure they have the potential to know a lot about me, but that already happens with a lot of other companies.

I used to do consulting for a company (LocatePLUS) that bought databases from different sources and then linked them. They sold this as a service to law enforcement and private investigators on a per query basis.

One suggestion posted, somewhere, was to cross reference the GMail contact list with people who requested an invite. Then send invites to people on both lists earlier in the process.

It may not be the best approach but it would help bring people into the system with something in common.

I posted this in the comments of the article; but what I would like to see is a link between Google+ and Android Market such that each application I publish creates a dynamic circle. The dynamic circle would contain anyone that has installed my application, if they have chosen to allow it.

Create a system-wide setting in the Android Market around whether to allow this and then if someone wants to get more granular they can use Google Plus. Their email would be masked so that I could not see the address but it would let me contact my customers.

I think this would help address some existing issues while giving Google's android market a way to be very different from the existing app stores.

A good friend of mine does something like this. One day she decided that if a fried said they were going to do something she would ask them "by when." If they didn't know she would ask them by when they would know.

She would then make a note of it and hold you accountable for what you said you were going to do and who you said you were going to be. All that she asked is that you do the same for her. It cut down on people saying they were going to do something just to look good or making promises that they knew weren't going to be kept. She became a very popular person to talk to, when people wanted to make changes in their life she was often the person to call since she would hold you accountable without judgement.

Edit: Fixed a typo.

The things I have done are to start a side project or find something at work I can write a program to help with.

I think it may be more like, you lost your key and the person finding it went to the bank. While there they presented ID, per the banks normal process, and even though the presented ID was suspicious the bank allowed the transaction to continue.

I like the style of Epic Systems in Verona, WI. They have separate buildings connected by underground tunnels with geothermal heating/cooling for all of the buildings. Recently they started putting in solar and are working to increase that to the point of covering their energy needs. Parking is almost all underground with the ground around their campus designated as farmland so that nobody can build on it; they do run a farm on the land as well which I believe helps supply their cafeteria.

Every conference room has a theme and they allow self-guided tours. My favorite conference room is one where half of the room opens up to a pond that has a wooden walk way around it and a waterfall.

http://hq.construction.com/snapshots/0911_EpicSoftware.asp

http://www.jsonline.com/business/123206273.html

I work in healthcare IT; specifically I am the IT Security Officer and HIPAA Security Officer for a health system. In that role I deal with technology, operations and compliance issues frequently. It has been my experience that most physicians care about learning more, but are overwhelmed with the expectations around changing regulations, adopting technology and new demands outside of medical knowledge being placed on them.

Healthcare is in an odd state right now. Technology is being adopted rapidly, regulations are being passed that change how medicine is practiced, patients are getting more involved in their care and the clinical staff is expected to be involved with this while continuing to improve patient care. Eventually all of this change will be for the better, but not everyone handles change well.

I haven't used Safari in a long time, but it used to have non-O'Reilly books. I'm sure some of those publishers aren't as willing to go without DRM.

For the extension developers: How about a way to import lists of sites like this?

I'd like them to integrate the business management portion into Places. That would give companies more reason to create a Places page and keep the information current.

Then I'd create a mobile application so that coupons and management could be done from phones or tablets. This would help with the small business that doesn't have a computer or internet beyond CC processing.

I think the consumer side of this should just be a way to redirect people to the Places page of a business and highlight the coupon that business has available.

Wouldn't you just need to hash the password and do a lookup on the table to see how many results were returned?

Your description reminded me of OneNote. We use OneNote to track things on our team in IT and it works great but we had to come up with some ground rules about the structure. I've shown it to other teams in IT and they don't really get it; they want something with structure baked in or that they can relate to email easier.

But why should Apple need to create Java on OSX? If Oracle wants Java used on OSX they can produce it just like on Windows; if they don't something else will fill the gap.

He isn't banning anything. Nobody is saying that Java won't be allowed on OSX, just that there is no longer a need for Apple to maintain the development.

Some of them are, I report to the CIO directly and sit on the Corporate Compliance board of the organization. I care because I think something like that would make more organizations accountable for being reasonable with executive and management pay.

Is the person who hires you willing to risk their reputation or job that a C++ programmer can do the job when there may be other Python programmers out there?

My wife was one semester away from an art degree and we moved due to me being in the military. When she went back to school after the move they were going to make her take quite a few credits over since it was a different university program. Instead she switched to an accounting and business dual major with an art minor.

I'm glad she switched because a CPA gets paid a lot more than most artists. Her long term goal is to do the books for a museum or art institute. It would let her be near the "art world" but using the analytical side of her brain.

Join Toast Masters. It is a public speaking and leadership organization; which looks great on resumes. Besides looking good on resumes it will help you learn how to think quickly on your feet in a conversation and be more comfortable with random conversations.

http://www.toastmasters.org/

edit: It is also good for networking.

I don't have a degree, I only went to one college class on psychology before dropping out. Currently I'm the IT Security Officer for a half billion dollar health network.

I'm not the normal person without a degree, but the time I didn't spend in college/university was spent learning about computer security. I didn't blame anyone for things not turning out how I wanted, I did something about it.

Someone once told me that there are only two ways to change a situation: you can change the conversation you are having with people or you can change the people you are having the conversation with. You have to be in the conversation though.

I don't know how workable it would be, but I always liked the idea of management's base pay being the average of everyone that worked for them. Any bonuses would have to be a multiple of that base pay; to include stock.

This would ensure that the base salary only goes up if the average wage goes up and clearly define the bonuses. At least for those where the bonuses are published; I'm thinking SEC filings and the like.

In practice it probably wouldn't change much though.

Wouldn't work with my crew; one of the IT Security/Systems people brews his own beer. The best thing with us is being upfront and not wasting our time or we will find ways to waste your time.