I don't know if they're trying to state the annual income, assuming the sale trend continues, or they just fail at math. It seems too obvious a mistake to be the latter, but more blatant miscalculations have been made.

Personally, I enjoy the challenge in discovering and fixing the problem. Being asked to solve computer problems all of the time can be a hassle at times, but, it can be fun. I'm also the type of person that gets bored and re-installs the OS n a pc to have something to do. Maybe eventually, it'll take its tow and I won't get the same enjoyment out of it, but that hasn't happened yet...

It seems to me that voice recognition is not the most efficient way to interact with a computer, especially when the user interface is well designed. For complicated tasks, and for interacting with computers where you may not have a normal desk or terminal, perhaps. As far as voice-to-text, if the recognition is accurate, it can possibly increase productivity depending on the person and their typing skills. On another not, however, this is a way for paralyzed individuals to interact with computers without the use of traditional means. However, using voice interaction in tandem with other means could be a more efficient route. Having a computer run commands in the background via voice commands while you interact with it in more traditional ways in the foreground.

So, say that my forwarding phone is dead/not around and I have a Google Voice number set up as my cell phone to text/call. How am I supposed to login to check my sms or email so I can get the code so I can log in to check my sms or email?

Does Insulting its intelligence (or lack thereof) count? I never curse at my computer, but I routinely lower its self-confidence with insulting remarks.

Yay! Random IT Crowd Reference. The sad thing is it probably wouldn't take much to convince most end users of this.

Change, bad...grumble grumble grumble...

Just because one of the many apps built with KDE has been re-branded doesn't mean everything else will be. Re-branding an app can help them re-market and re-invet the image for KOffice and loosen the implied restriction of running only under KDE. Changing the name of KDE doesn't benefit them seeing as how Desktop environments aren't really marketed to end-users, and even in the Linux world, most either don't care or already have a preference.

Because, the people releasing these hacks go to jail, while Sony breaks their own console trying to stop it from happening. ;)

Yeah, they're Cylons.

I wonder how long until we have no way of distinguishing a bot from a person. existing CAPTCHAs don't work all that well, and I can't see future ones working much better for very long. The Cylons are among us! Any one of us could be one!

Got ED? Get LED! Solving one acronym with another similar one.

[Mod Parent Up +1 Funny] Better yet, you have to go to that location and take a picture and it will let you log in.

Microsoft announced today that it will be retiring it's Windows trademark as well as the operating system. This moves comes after MS CEOs realized that they couldn't compete with the momentum behind popular Linux distributions. Over the next few weeks MS will be migrating all of its existing users over to popular Linux distribution Fedora. When contacted about the decision, they had this to say: "We just couldn't compete with free. We tried offering an inferior paid experience, but our customers wouldn't accept that." Microsoft has gone on record saying that it will fallback to it's hugely successful business of mouse and keyboard manufacturing.