Wow, sounds a bit familiar. I don't know how some people sleep at night. A manager is supposed to defend their people to the death, much like a captain going down with his ship. I don't know how the world got so far away from that.

Hurry up science....as my age moves forward my hairline moves backward, my time is limited!

Yes, that's pretty much exactly what I meant. I had a similar problem in the past. I had a co-worker that was effectively a net loss for usefulness. She would come in and do more harm than good every time she touched code, so not only were her contributions not helping, but it would take time away from other team…

It's almost hard to justify being outstanding at many jobs anymore. Here are a number of reasons why I've encountered:

When I went to the UK in 1996 for a trip, I ate a lot of fast food. I have some food allergies and I couldn't trust a lot of my other options, so I ate BK and McDonalds quite a few times.

I'm fortunate enough with my house layout that my computer and both the bedroom and living room TV are all reasonably close to each other. So I have the hdmi computer output going into an HDMI splitter, feeding my 27" LCD monitor and both the bedroom and living room tv's. It's convenient to have at times.

I finally retired my 8 year old Philips rear projection this past fall. Mine too only had component for HD - and one at that. I had simplified the setup quite a bit by using a powered switch with a remote (from monoprice I think) that had 5 component and coax (orange 5.1, not red/white stereo) audio connections. …

You hit the nail on the head - the only way I could be happy with a peer getting paid more to do a similar job is if they can do it as well as I can or better.

The only way this even remotely stands a shot of working is if it's a position that can directly translate to profit. Virtually every company on earth doesn't have the budget flexibility to just randomly add a new position, unless there's a specific value/revenue proposition tied to it.

I had read that 5 million had SHIPPED, not 5 million had been purchased. I'm thinking millions of these things are, and will continue to be sitting on shelves.

Barring living at home with mom and dad, how exactly do you avoid a big mortgage or rent payment? Because that's really what you're suggesting here. Most people are spending a good chunk of their monthly income on putting a roof over their heads

if anything, I think this is the perfect time to change screen sizes - take the outgoing iPad resolution of 1024 x 728 and set that up on a 326 pixels-per-inch retina display, and that gives you a 4" display, and a screen that is .14" taller than the current one, and .35" wider.

Good, they need to get on this....because this is me.

First off, zooming is always an option. In terms of the fine details though, I guess real-world usage will tell, but based on how useful the iPhone's 960x640 pixels are, I think it will hold up very well. I can look at a desktop-specific website that's targeting 800 or 1000 pixel width in safari on my iPhone 4 and…

I would love to see a remote desktop app updated (like logmein) but I haven't seen one yet. One of the selling points for me on the new iPad was that I could remote into my home computer at full resolution.

the blazers pull a lot more money than the pickups. if this is a real 2wd truck and not a conversion, it's actually pretty rare

I like it a lot. I have a 72 blazer myself that I'm going a somewhat similar path with. I do think they made some strange choices though.

There's a tire place a mile from my house where the owner and employees have some sort of Dodge Rampage/Plymouth Scamp fetish. At points, there are as many as 5 of them parked there. It's such a weird sight.

that screams mental hospital to me.

The problem with texting at red lights is that people don't just text at red lights. They're still texting when the light turns green, annoying all the people in the cars behind them. The car behind you beeping should not be your indicator of when to go.