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This is the one thing that tempts me into a Kindle. I wouldn't want to replace my existing books (or stop purchasing new books when available), but an increasing amount of 'long form' content I am interested in seems to be in digital-only format... and self-printing is prohibitively expensive.

edit: of course enhancing the internet increases the number and frequency of people interacting with their search, adwords on pages, and feeling comfortable with web apps (helping create lead for Google Apps B2B)

Please do Austin. :)

It's still going to be a bitter pill for the old customers, but it IS better than saying "Sorry, you gotsa pay more now! Suckers!"

(personally I think the other comments about google doing it mostly because it is a hard, cool, worthwhile challenge are most on the money though)

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/08/gmail-plus-smart-trick-to...

Edit: Another anecdote that pops into my mind is Edison needing 10,000 tries to make the light-bulb. This means he failed 99,999 times. But we remember him for the success he had. (Queue pedants correcting the details of this anecdote ;))

I do believe if I was funding an IRA/ROTH-IRA with that money I would be much better off. However, we are not funding OURSELVES, we are funding those who came before us. And while we may not get our payout (may not be funded my those who come after us) the fact is that those being funded right now deserve what they are getting. It's pretty selfish to just say 'if it isn't helping me, why should I care?'

JPEG looks better to me. It's only a data point of 1, but it's the most important data point to me. ;)

This is a bit of a harsh thing to say... but is it possible they were not able to find a business model due to lack of trying?

No idea what your service is about and if that level of security matters.

I have tried to motivate usage of a engineering-team internal IRC channel and spread the use of screen-sharing software, but when people are physically so close the standard response is "why don't you just go talk to him?". Makes sense until you mix in the element of "I don't want to talk to him when he is obviously concentrating." Sprinkle a touch of e-mail overload making that medium useless and you have a strange atmosphere of working in proximity with one another, but not necessarily together.

"separated work from personal life."

Sorry, but this whole defense is just making me angry. The issue for me is less that the long hours are worked (everyone there is there voluntarily, etc), the issue is that posts defending it in such a way that glorifies it. When you are throwing out statements that imply if you love what you do you will work 12 hours and if you work 8 hours you are watch the clock.. That indicates you a building a company culture of heroics that looks down on lesser people who choose to work with a reasonable life/work balance.

You have to understand that people would not be so critical about this point if they didn't feel an emotional stake in it. Since they are (presumably) not employed and directly affected, my belief is this: the mentality is dangerous and it spreads. Your employees will one day spread out and take that culture with them.

I escaped from the digital games industry for this very reason. What might have started as a cultural thing for a few early core companies is now an INDUSTRY WIDE practice of overwork, mismanagement, and exploitation. The culture continues to be persisted through hero stories. I have many friends still in the industry who seem bipolar in their stance towards it: One day they are complaining how on the nicest weekend of the summer they were working towards TRC requirements due to an overly ambitious schedule, the next they are bragging about working that weekend as proof of how hardcore they are and how much they love their job.

It's psychotic.