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QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 6, 2011 -> 12:45 PM) Actually, you pretty much pegged it. I am very confident the only reason iPad 1 didnt have at least a front facing camera (and FaceTime) was that they wanted to hold it off as the "wow factor" for iPhone 4 and they knew that it would be a selling point for iPad 2. I have to find the exact quote, but Jonathan Ive recently made a comment about how he remembers how apple used to be about meeting the consumers needs and not about making money hand over fist. Found it: "Apple stood for something and had a reason for being that wasn't just about making money." So when can I expect to see Jony Ive donate his millions upon millions...upon millions...to me? Jony Ive owns about 30,000,000 dollars worth of Apple stock.

QUOTE (Lillian @ Mar 18, 2011 -> 12:30 PM) Well, if it's so easy to come up with productive bats, then doesn't that argue for trading some offense for pitching depth? You wouldn't argue that finding pitchers is also a simple task, would you? I don't know who should be shopped, but it just seems there is not enough pitching depth this year, and going forward. Our starting 5 is deeper than a lot of teams...this is discounted why? Because we don't have 30 crappy minor league starters that will probably never see the light of day in the majors?! Even if Peavy goes down, our remaining 4 are STILL deeper than what most teams have.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 18, 2011 -> 09:19 AM) I don't think I ever use the word expert on my resume, and if I see it on a candidate's resume, I make sure that someone who knows that area really pounds them on it. If you call yourself an expert on something, you'd better come ready, or your interview will be very short. This is a big issue in tech, people tend to just smatter tech skills all over their resume mixed in with words like "expert", so that you can't really tell what they are actually expert in, if anything. The problem with this sort of thing, especially in the computer industry, is that claiming to be an "expert" in say, an F5 Load Balancer, would also mean you are an expert in Linux, since they run on top of Linux kernels... And claiming to be an "expert" in an operating system, is just stupid...because it means you know practically everything about that operating system...and operating systems are VERY deep.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Mar 17, 2011 -> 05:34 PM) Haha, I knew as I was writing it that, if anyone on the site would refute what I said, it'd be you. :notworthy :notworthy

QUOTE (MuckFinnesota @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 05:58 PM) You have no interest in anything? What was your undergraduate degree? What did you want to do as a kid? What are your skills in? Sometimes, the things we think we like, we find out after long years of study, that when doing then professionally, they lose the luster they once held. Growing up, I loved computer programming...the idea of being able to command a machine to do what you want, and being able to stretch it's abilities was beyond comprehension to me...I followed this into my college career, earning a bachelors degree in computer science, focusing on programming. Needless to say, three months before graduation, sitting in the computer lab, I looked up at the screen and the Visual C++ code on the screen and laughed aloud, and swore at that moment...I'll never program professionally...I hate it. Fast forward over 13 years into my career in computers, and I've never programmed once since graduation. I consider myself lucky, I figured out what I didn't want to do in the computer field early on, and also accidentally led my way into what I did want to do, which ended up bring computer security...which at the time I had never even heard of.

One of the biggest future industries will be in the security of information, networks, and telecommunications (Information Security). It's going to be more and more of a digital world in the future, and information security will be one of the biggest components of information technology, if not the most important. This is what I happen to do now, and if anything, it's getting bigger and bigger...with everyone coming online, storing information online, and the growing number of devices that are attached to the Internet at all times (phones, tablets, pc's, tv's, etc.), security will be very important considering online finance will be the norm (it's still not the norm, but it will be).

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 15, 2011 -> 02:30 PM) You were asked to come in to interview for everything you've ever applied for? I was. heh

For the record, I've never included a single cover letter with any resume I've ever sent out...and it never affected me.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Mar 15, 2011 -> 09:16 AM) The people who put expert on their resume for a subject matter that they have maybe seen once or twice in their life. I had a person put expert in F5 load balancers. I asked them a basic F5 question about persistence, and I get the well I didn't actually install it. I just logged into the gui a few times. WTF. Really. You apply for a senior engineering position and every product you put on your resume is something you just maybe have logged into once or twice. Or people who are supposed networking people that can't explain the TCP 3 way handshake. How do you put stuff on your resume that you haven't the slightest idea how to install it, configure it, or work with it. I am sure this is the same across other industries. My response: What kind of persistence, ssl? cookie? source? Did I win?

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Mar 15, 2011 -> 09:17 AM) But how many other historians from the time were around who we have works from? Obviously it would have been nice if Herodotus or Thucydides had mentioned something but all of the other classical historians who much is known from (Plutarch, Arrian, Strabo, Pliny the Elder) lived 500 or so years after Plato. Most information was passed on orally so it's not that surprising to not be mentioned elsewhere. Also, as someone else said, there's no way of knowing what kinds of writings have been lost over the years. Who knows, there could have been something lost when the library at Alexandria tragically was destroyed. Speculation of what may have been doesn't matter, that's the problem. My contention isn't that a "lost continent" cannot exist, or one (or more) didn't sink somewhere in the billions of years of Earths vast history...my point is, that it was not and is not the Atlantis Plato was talking about. The story of Atlantis, as told by Plato, is usually referred to as a parable and as such, is not really intended to be taken literally. I believe Plato was discussing what he would consider an "ideal state", and used the fictional Atlantis as the description of that ideal state. Atlantis has merely become the default name we were going to attach to the first "sunken continent" we found, despite the fact that there may be more of them and we just haven't found them yet.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Mar 15, 2011 -> 09:22 AM) If I could go back in the time, the first place I would go is Alexandria to stop the fire. then maybe go see the birth of Jesus. You probably just destroyed the future in doing so. Good job.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 15, 2011 -> 09:03 AM) A worthwhile note from the UCS... The melting down reactor(s) in Japan have now released significantly more radiation than their "Design-basis" level... Translated...when they were proposed, there was an estimate of the largest amount of radiation that could possibly have been released in any accident or combination of accidents at the plant. These estimates are standard practice in nuclear plant construction, and are part of the basis on whether or not a plant is approved. The plant has already released more radiation than that level. To me, this is strong evidence that the safety projections simply cannot anticipate complex failure mechanisms. This assumes that they've taken the same exact safety precautions that we have. Even then, in light of what happened in Japan, the US is going to undergo a ton of new regulations and safety spending on our nuclear facilities -- this I guarantee.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Mar 15, 2011 -> 08:59 AM) So what is it that we should do to keep companies from shipping our jobs to another state/country? Obviously passing this bill wasn't the solution. There isn't much you can do anymore. Companies do have to consider the future, however. Being shortsighted now for quick profit may end up costing [a company] dearly in the future. For example, all is well and good right now in China, the lack of basic civil and worker rights, low to no overhead on environmental cleanup, caring for workers, no pensions, no 401k's, etc...however, in 10-20 years when they're deep into their industrial revolution (we already went through it, they're going through it now), where workers begin to unionize (it will happen), and demand fair rights and fair wages/hours (again, it will happen), this "cheap labor" house of cards is going to fall apart at the seams.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 08:00 PM) When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich. Is that what happened in the great depression?

QUOTE (iamshack @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 07:12 PM) The way you phrased it made it seem as though if you did indeed recall it correctly, the issue had been definitively settled. That is clearly not the case here. What you apparently meant is that if you recall correctly, some scholars believe Plato used the story of Atlantis as an allegory of some type. Yes, this is what I meant.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 05:52 PM) I'm reporting you to the Department of Justice for filing a false complaint with the IRS. I have a friend that works for the Department of Justice...he will make sure your name appears where my name should appear, and you will be reporting yourself.

QUOTE (Tmar @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 05:47 PM) If you recall correctly? What, you were around back then and he told you so or something? I don't even know what this is supposed to mean. IIRC can apply to a lot of things, including reading information in a book, or even on the interwebs. Since when did this apply only to things that were told to you?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 05:40 PM) I'm reporting all of you to the IRS. I reported you to the IRS. I told them you won 50,000$ playing craps in vegas, and then bought 50,000$ worth of merch from Amazon.com.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 05:24 PM) Aren't you continuing to ignore the fact that we can't magically instantaneously go from 0 states with an appropriate tax law to 50? No, I'm not. Because all 50 will never do this, therefore I can't continue to ignore something that will never happen. I mentioned that this doesn't work without a playing field. I wish the playing field was level, but wishing it to be true doesn't make it true. We can play the IF game all day long and get nowhere... Or we can discuss what is actually happening, which is what I'm doing. Be that as it may, continue spinning tales of unreality...while your utopia sounds ... well, utopian ... it's not happening.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 05:24 PM) I can choose to live in reality but not actively participate in what I see as a self-destructive cycle of funneling ever-increasing amounts of wealth to a very small handful of people as more and more Americans struggle just to get by day-to-day. It'll get worse long before it gets better. This isn't even about America and Americans anymore. It's a global thing...a world economy...and there isn't much we can do about it but make do...just like our race has always done.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 05:19 PM) You're not doing a lot to convince me otherwise, there. You're basically saying that we need to keep giving in to the demands of businesses more and more or they'll ship our jobs to another state (or more likely another country). Like I said, the most business-friendly environment is a pretty terrible environment and that isn't what states should be trying to out-do each other to reach. edit: my snarky posts don't mean I don't understand and haven't considered what you posted before you posted it. The problem is, my proposal is reality based. Yours is utopian based...and doesn't exist. Until the rest of the country (and world) begins to play by the same set of rules, stop pretending there is a level playing field... There isn't. And wishing there was won't make it happen. You can choose to live in reality, where businesses live...or you can go on ignoring reality. That's that.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 05:14 PM) I rephrase it to "a race to better corporate subsidies". Sometimes those subsidies are better for the state than not. IE, come here and we'll give you a tax break. BUT, we get the jobs, the taxes from those jobs, people spending money here that they make from those jobs, etc...all taxable, despite the corporate break. It's taxes on top of taxes on top of taxes because of a simple subsidy. Not to mention that the states still gets SOMETHING of a tax from that company, despite the subsidy they gave them. NOW, don't give that same company that "deal", and they just bring their business elsewhere...and now your state gets NOTHING. Last I checked, what I wrote above will equate to much MUCH more than nothing. Yea, that sounds like a race race to the bottom...in dummy ville. You guys need to think before you speak.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 05:14 PM) aka, the bottom Absolutely incorrect in every way. I need not go into why, because it's clear you don't get it at all. Edit: Nevermind, I went into why below...and I think, after reading what I wrote, you'll understand why.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 05:04 PM) That's easy to say, but it's not quite that cut and dry as you took it...so allow me to re-contextualize what I meant by that race to the bottom line I used...because it's not quite right. While IN may make less money via taxes in that instance (sales of Internet goods), they will get people to move there if that's where the jobs start appearing, and those people living there will generate them more tax money than a simple sales tax on Internet purchases. See the issue? Like I said, it's a bit more complex than a direct race to the bottom. So, actually, I take my line back of race to the bottom, because after thinking about it, it doesn't make any sense to say it, since that's not true at all. I rephrase that to "a race to better business friendly decisions".

QUOTE (iamshack @ Mar 14, 2011 -> 04:43 PM) EVERY state is seeking any and all sources of money. And once enough of the initial dominos fall, the rest will really start tumbling down. Then you'll have a few states who try to become a haven for this sort of thing, ie Delaware for incorporation, the handful of states with no state income tax, etc. The problem is, it always comes from somewhere. Nevada has no state income tax, but it also costs between several thousand and several hundred dollars to register your car every year. Indiana will happily take the business, and when a neighbor that close doesn't play along (I.E. charge tax to Amazon, etc.), many businesses will be welcomed there with open arms...until that house of cards falls apart, of course, and they eventually add taxes, too...but until that happens, they have an advantage. It's states competing with states in a race to the bottom, essentially. Fact remains, as I stated from the start, this tax bill still doesn't help IL. If anything, for the short term, it hurts them, as businesses will go to IN now.