There is another factor, too.

IT has become an established discipline, not unlike accounting. The demands of the business world have created structures and bureaucracies.

15 years ago there was a real...

OK, pet peeve time.

I ABSOLUTELY HATE our new habit of naming parks after sponsor du jour. Have our teams lost all pride of place.

Originally parks had names, names that stayed...

swapping wireless mice between adjacent cubicles is nice.

years ago I did some work in Forth, you could redefine EVERYTHING even operators and integers. Simply redefining "4" to 5 could produce...

the self defense robot looks like an updated 'watermelon patch gun'

Two comments:

First Steve Ballmer. He was probably making some statement. Certainly, anyone who had a potential deal with someone as influental as Ballmer would have to be really stupid to...

There are two general types of areas typically included in the term 'social responsibility'. One is not doing harm to one's locality, staying well within the law on safety, pollution,...

While you're car shopping, there's always this one:

http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/search/veyron/video/x157l2_bugatti-veyron-at-top-speed

Though I won't be buying one (my two vehicles are an 89 Wrangler and 71 Chevy...

The politically driven fear of nuclear power unfortunately is one of the things that caused the extent of CO2 that we currently have in our atmosphere. Tremendous mistake by society....

I am a SQL user and not an employee of any software company.

I am not sure what your objection is here:

The fact that Bob Boule has been "outed" by an employee...

Wow, can't believe I just read that from iain.  I'll agree that male and female biology is different, but we aren't slaves to our biology.  Propensities for things are specific...

You mean the same government that has massively violated its own privacy laws because of an administration's obsession with 'expediency'?

Not sure if it would apply in this case, but a rule of thumb in a situation like this is to consider that you have made an erroneous assumption and...

It will be interesting to see how the quoted examples work out after the original breathless magazine feature hype has died off. Remember the new economy?

Results only sounds good, and...

I have only 200G at home, and it works.

My wife, avid Photoshop user (and now administrator of a Photoshop centered website) has 600G on her machine and a 120G USB...

I enjoyed working from home, and will do so again if the opportunity presents itself. However, you lose a lot of the benefits of "team" programming when you are home...