andrewbadera

... don't really care. Not that interesting of a service. Not to mention my grammar & syntax testes just shrunk into peanuts and shot into my throat.

Wish I could undo my upvote. The seizure is still subject to court proceedings. FUD.

I get the low space message with what seems like a fairly limited number of apps installed, caches cleared and as much as possible pushed to SD ... what is the actual capacity there? HTC Incredible in my case ...

Have you been reading the news the past 15 years? That's precisely what derivatives are used for. Derivatives, and bought-and-paid-for auditors who also provide "consulting services."

... but ... my head will be so cold!

I would imagine it has to do with variable penetration and/or a form of constructive interference or resonance, due to factors I couldn't specifically identify offhand.

You can press harassment charges, and potentially litigate civilly.

Businesses doing business on Facebook is exactly more of the kind of thing Facebook wants, don't kid yourself. They won't pursue a lot of this stuff directly themselves, but they're happy for anything that drives revenue without pissing off users. See: Asana.

"if your company's name includes the words 'tweet' or '140' in it, you're f---ed."

Relevance? Are you the same guy telling people "I went to high school with that chick" when looking at porn with comment features?

Nothing stunning, no new thinking, but a good set of broad fundamentals.

That's kind of precisely my point. NYS business climate sucks for startups and small biz.

Effectiveness of group brainstorming was disproven years ago.

As someone who does and has worked on enterprise-grade software, and someone who now helps client teams facilitate development, both in-person, remote on-shore, and remote off-shore, I can confidently state: it all comes down to communication, and a lack of communication not only dooms telecommuting, but it's a strong indicator of longer term failure in the parent company.

If ideas, thoughts and facts cannot be clearly captured and/or communicated in a facile fashion, any complex project is risking higher failure rates. In-person buffering is a crutch at best.

As an RIT alum and lifelong NYS resident, where Digby was born, I have to say I'm a little disappointed that the NYS business/tech climate wasn't appealing enough to stay in our state.

Those profile lists aren't complete. For more discussion, see the Google Buzz list where, until the Buzz team released their own firehose, any of us who wanted a firehose had to build our own. Also noteworthy, it's easier to just download and parse those XML files -- why use a search engine for that to begin with when it's already aggregated for you?

Ads link to malware.

Gary's Guide is a good tech events calendar with a lot of startup stuff.

"base" URI may consist of host+port+path not _just_ host or host+port. you don't have to switch subdomains or hosts in order to provide RESTful interfaces.

BizSpark/WebSpark blow away any complaints or concerns, valid or not, of server or hosting costs as almost any valid, new/new-ish software startup should qualify.

On the other side of that, MySQL enterprise licensing is only marginally cheaper than SQL Server, and one might argue lacks features and rich toolsets to work with in the enterprise. And in the end, most web-based startups are really SaaS so yes, you really do need to be thinking in terms of enterprise, and minimizing annual cost of delivery and ownership/subscriber.

This is all about "me my shoulda coulda woulda been the best" type BS.

I bet Japanese drive a lot fewer miles per capita. Small islands. Lots of public transpo.

My first thought as well. Battery life on my Incredible is poor at best as it is. I don't want to pony up for an oversize battery and wreck the profile, I need it to fit in a case/holster/mount/etc.

The point from the Dalai Lama's perspective? To defend his culture in the face of modern science.

The point from the perspective of the rest of us? Analogies and recognizing analogous forms are a good way to expand one's mind. Gaining respect for introspection as well perhaps. What's the point of asking what's the point, except to come off sounding like a conceited ass? (And I'll be the first to admit here, it takes one to know one.)

The Dalai Lama says pretty much the same thing quite a bit. A quick read along these lines would be The Universe in a Single Atom.

Could you elaborate on the pilot pricing a bit more? Very curious.

That's just it -- many of these listings are misnomers, targeting the naive and/or desperate. Why beat that horse any more than it already has been if it's not even an accurate use of the term?

Get someone -- a friend, a consultant -- with domain knowledge and preferably hiring experience to help write your listing, screen and interview your candidates. Make sure your qualifications are spot-on, well-targeted and appropriately descriptive.

I am currently 31, living in upstate NY.

I started college fulltime at 18. I started in physics, switched to IT. This was 1997.

I was working in the field for the likes of IBM and Xerox by the time I was 19. School quickly became deprioritized. This was 1999.

9/11 hits. This is the same year, or year before, I would have graduated on-schedule. A month later, I get laid off of an extended contract I'd been working for a year. For the better part of the next eight months, I can't get an interview aside from one job in Montana. MONTANA! I scrape by on freelance work. I land a job paying 50% of my last salary. After six months I switch over to a job paying 70% of my last salary -- still very disappointing, but livable, barely.

End of 2005, I quit that job and go back to Xerox for a second contract. Almost returned to my pre-9/11 salary. I happen to wrap up my associate's (AAS) degree in IT at this time. Six months later, I relocated to be closer to family. That job, in 2006, finally put me substantially over my pre-9/11 salary, at about 80th-85th percentile for my role nationally, and about 95th percentile for my role locally.

My independent consulting work starts growing significantly around this time.

In late 2008, I finally crossed the six figure mark in fulltime salary. I also made a healthy five figures in indie consulting in 2008 and 2009.

It would have helped me, I think, to have a degree PLUS my experience after 9/11. I don't think a degree alone would have done much for me -- all my four-and-out classmates were out of work and/or getting paid less than I was myself.

Does my AAS help me now? Doubtful.

Would a bachelor's help? Not salary-wise ... but it would be a nice step on the way to that Master of Science or MBA that I've always wanted ...

You're in luck: silky smooth it is. Upgraded sensor over the Nexus One. Better multitouch, better responsiveness in general, lower battery drain.