We had folks who were able to take two or three weeks off to go to India, but I think in general you are right...its tougher to ask for those. Also, the fear was that you'd get LESS actual vacation time because your boss would be stingy with approvals, but that wasn't the case, at least with our boss.

I was working at Broadcom when they switched over to this system. It works out for them because they don't have to carry unused vacation days on their books anymore, which somehow yields savings. And it worked out for me because I knew I could bust my butt on a deadline and take a week off afterwards to recover…

Really, the iPad is now in evolutionary rather then revolutionary mode. Same as the iPod and iPhone.

Its never lupis!!

Eh...if you flip it around, you can argue that if the quarter of the Android user base that is still on Froyo haven't upgraded their phones to a newer operating system, then maybe Gingerbread or ICS doesn't offer enough of a value proposition to them to pay for a new phone. Think Window's XP vs 7 for corporations.

Sure, but the point remains, as their networks get faster, their costs go down but they still charge the same per MB or text message.

Actually not true. The cell companies benefit greatly when they move to faster tech. They are all bandwidth limited (at least in the US) and while they still charge the same for your text messages or 2GB data plan, those data bits get transmitted faster, and overall network usage (congestion) goes down. So they can…

The catch is that it is only useful for point-to-point communications rather than broadcast. And I suspect its also limited to fixed points rather than mobile ones, because the antennas are probably fairly special and expensive. But the last is just a guess.

Now they just have to make it hover, and I'm sold.

Its been known for a long time that Black-Scholes is inaccurate (google fat tails). Without B-S, the difference in the last 5 years would have been precisely zilch because the institutional trading world has moved on to proprietary computer modeling that is far more sophisticated than this crap.

Not impressed. That thing will pop open all the time, and while the keys won't fall out, it will be constantly poking holes and getting caught in your pocket.

Dude...go back and read what I said. I'm saying the labor market is tight (ie...very low unemployment) for my corner of the semiconductor world. There are NOT a lot of qualified guys waiting for work in my industry. There is full employment, and salaries are going up, except for at my company, which is why we've…

Use a trailing average filter to filter out water weight fluctuations and get a true picture of your body weight trend over time. If it slopes down, then you're good.

Try about twice that range, which is actually the high end of the industry average. Sadly, the offer range isn't up to me. That's up to the company bean counters.

The wording in this article is maddeningly vague. Across the entire semiconductor industry...maybe jobs are being lost? It depends on how you define a semiconductor job.

Wow...I've never had so many responses from a comment before. How cool.

Someone told me once that the number one cause of failure for cell phone tower antennas is shotgun pellets. Apparently hunters sitting out in the middle of nowhere waiting for deer get pretty bored.

Good thing they did this over a city with gun control laws. Here in Texas some redneck might have tried to shoot one down. :-)

I used the software when I was right out of college and everything was fairly simple, tax-wise. I'm an electrical engineer, I figured...I'm numbers savvy. I'm comfortable with technology.

Wow...he's like an anti-evil Vladimir Putin from an alternate parallel universe: