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I'm just hoping that a tiering of QOS from a technical standpoint is not entirely ignored. Perhaps it's something already being addressed by Net Neutrality proponents.

Edit: Here's an article from a Cisco podcast that discusses this same issue I've mentioned: http://www.ciscohandsontraining.com/2009/09/need-for-qos-ver...

Net Neutrality proponents seem to want to do away with QOS entirely, but this seems to be on the grounds of ensuring the big operators don't use it for evil.

QOS can be an extremely beneficial thing. How many times has anyone been on a Skype call when the video dropped or the audio came through garbled? How many of you want to ensure that when you're playing Call of Duty that the very milisecond you hit the trigger for a headshot, your packet doesn't get dropped and you miss your target? On the flip side, how many of you don't care if an email you send gets sent that very milisecond or one or two seconds later? And who would care if a podcast you have downloading from iTunes overnight takes 15 minutes or 20 minutes?

This kind of QOS ensures that video, audio, and gameplay get priority over other forms of data that are not as time-sensitive.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, because this overall issue does seem a bit complex.

There's of course, the added reward of having learned and accomplished something new.

Hmmmmm. Let's see. Something is missing here. I can't quite pin it down. What is it? Oh right! Music, books and movies!

Convenient to just have blinders on to Amazon, iTunes, NetFlix and the like.

Oh, this chart must be before 1990. Aha.

While he is happy for now, Mr. Carroll worries about what will happen once he has finished the more interesting work of overhauling the department. He wonders how long simply having a job will be enough.

This does not sound like a person that is happy. This sounds like a person who feels embarassed, forced into a position he feels above, and typically jealous comparing himself to his friends' success. It's kind of pathetic seeing someone trying to fake taking the high road ending up with remarks like this.

The good point he could have arrived at is to put less emphasis on things a child is not immediately acquiring. It would be like trying to force-feed mashed potatoes down a drinking straw. Perhaps sometimes it's math. Perhaps sometimes it's music.

Instead, he just says, stories and language are the important part! Leave math for later!

What a buffoon. He started with a bigger picture that ended with a close-minded detail.

To the original author, remind yourself that "not everyone is you." Kids can grow up to be scientists, artists, doctors, lawyers, even gasp mathematicians! And we all take different paths, even at a young age.

Hackintoshing a netbook is really just for fun and novelty.

Consider from Star Trek, Data's quest to understand laughter. He could replicate it. He could understand it. But he could never feel it.

Honestly, the only upgrade I would want in a new Commodore 64 is the ability to play games immediately without having to wait for floppy disk load times. And I'm not talking about using emulators. I want the same software, same hardware, same peripherals, just no floppy disk waits.

Considering there are many people that want a browser that has a low profile and gets out of the way, what would Firefox need to do to fulfill those people's needs other than to just leave well enough alone?

You wouldn't exactly have a 37 signals homepage that showcases Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, Campfire, and now introducing World Feed, the solution to World Hunger!

First, he says he would never sell the company, not for 150 million dollars, because he's not in it for the money. So, ok, he won't sell the company.

However, he also said, you should always be working on your best idea. If you're not working on your best idea, then you're doing it wrong.

He says that 37 signals and its products are his best ideas.

Ok, following me? If one day, he came up with some idea out of the blue, out of inspiration, out of some life-changing event, out of...wherever.... and that turned out to be a better idea than 37 signals....ummmm then what?

Then he should sell his company to go work on that "best idea". No?

For example, have you looked at some of your coworker's desktops? Everyone sets it up differently to how they prefer to work. Some have icons littering their desktop. Some have 50 apps in their taskbar. Some people like to use spotlight. Some people like to click through folders. There will always be a better way, certainly, if they so desire, but some people just like things the way they like it. And if they're happy with that, then they're happy. And that's the most important thing.

I, myself, sifted through a few of them and landed on one that I quite like. I've lived with it for a day, and I like it. It's not distracting, and it livens up the grayness of the toolbar a little bit.

So I fall on the side of people that like it. There will be some that don't. But again, you have the choice to do so or not. Nothing to create a whole rant over!

I mentioned this in another comment thread, but there was an article about Gary Kasparov discovering that a human supported by a computer can beat both a human or a computer alone.

Technology simply makes mundane tasks easier so more energy can be spent on creative possibilities.

btw, I've had my own poor experiences with Media Temples grid service and won't be using any cloud services again for quite a while.

1) Commute - wasted time and energy sitting in traffic, plus added stress depending on amount of traffic. (not to mention all that gasoline!)

2) The walk-by - trying to get work done when anyone can just saunter over and ask you a question, or just shoot the sh*t.

3) Noise and smells - people playing music randomly, loud conversations, YouTube videos, someone eating a smelly burrito, chinese food

4) The cold starter - someone has a cold but feels fine or wants to show they got guts, spreads the cold to 50% of the office.

5) Constant trivialities - walkby hellos, lunch anyone?, who's driving?, peeing next to someone in the bathroom stall

Anything else to add?

This is a classic case of quality vs quantity. Depending on my workload, I have sessions of varying time of hyper-activity. If something is highly urgent, then these sessions can endure for as long as I need. The only thing I require is that I'm not that tired.

Luckily, I work in an environment that only requires results. Time is of course tracked, but the ultimate reflection of my value is in my creative thinking and the actual work that gets done.

I don't think companies would want to spend money for weapons, nor the cost of training employees to use them, nor the liability of what happens if they are used and any ensuing results. They want the police or government to simply take care of it, and they spend no money at all. Unless that happens, it's probably less cost to simply accept piracy as a cost of busienss.

For the reward to capture or off a local elder, that just opens up a spot for another person to fill in.

Advertisers are paying us loads of cash! And guess what? People are paying us to see them too!