"A resume is an excuse to reject you. Once you send me your resume, I can say, "oh, they're missing this or they're missing that," and boom, you're out."

How things are in the real world:

"No resume attached? Boom, you're out."

Seriously: Opera, Firefox, Safari. All of these manufacturers have no issue rendering both pages designed to standard and table designed mishmashes. They're getting so good at their implementations of standards support that for 90% of the time, a design will look exactly the same in one browser to the next.

The exception to the rule is IE. The EXCEPTION.

Why? Because Microsoft, or forces within it, as far as this outsider can tell, continually wishes to revert the many-to-many market back to the one-to-many market. They use their size and position to force their way on everyone. Their way isn't necessarily bad, but it's different for the sake of being different to achieve the goal.

From my POV, Microsoft is an increasingly irrelevant player in the web browser world. The imminent failure of Vista will make this more evident. Customers are getting sick and tired of having things break when they upgrade their software.

The fisherman is one unexpected disaster away from death. He, his children, and his wife are powerless in the face of a risky world. I suppose it is noble that he is able to stay content when his children die of preventable diseases, but I am sure he would rather be saved from doing so.

If the fisherman extended the effort suggested by the MBA, he wouldn’t be back at square one as the parable suggests. Rather he would be in a new place, one that I would find preferable.

Rubbish. Again.

Great people shouldn't wear pants. If you go around wearing pants, it sounds to me like you've been brainwashed into thinking you're kind of ordinary.

Are they just trendy? No.

Next question please :)

Bear couldn't cover their margin calls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margin_call#Margin_call).

And now the Fed has helped or guaranteed those investments so that JP Morgan can buy them for $2 a share.

JPM wasn't going to touch Bear's liabilities without some guarantees from the Fed.

Details of the plan haven't been released, but here's a pertinent quote from the Journal (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120569598608739825.html?mod=...):

To help facilitate the deal, the Federal Reserve is taking the extraordinary step of providing as much as $30 billion in financing for Bear Stearns's less-liquid assets, such as mortgage securities that the firm has been unable to sell, in what is believed to be the largest Fed advance on record to a single company. Fed officials wouldn't describe the exact financing terms or assets involved. But if those assets decline in value, the Fed would bear any loss, not J.P. Morgan.

Note that last sentence means the U.S. government (i.e., ultimately every taxpayer) is on the hook for that $30 billion.