If anyone has ever seen the asinine PowerPoint on the "Netflix culture" (follow their careers link), you'd understand why this company has been screwed for a while.

A more self-entitled group of assholes is hard to find south of Menlo Park.

Women. Of course, this is slashdot, so a lack of familiarity with their habits is not surprising.

For the ten-thousandth time, it's not because your Funtendo or SmartFone will cause the airplane to suddenly explode on the runway. It's because the FAs want the smartphone addicts and social callers to _shut up and pay attention_ to the safety briefing.

Go on and on about how you've seen it before. I'd still wager that 80% of people on every flight in the US have no idea where the nearest exit is if they aren't allowed to turn their head.

In Denver a couple of years ago, people were jamming the asles with the airplane ON FIRE, off of a snowy runway in order to...get their laptops.

Given the ridiculous state of air travel and attention spans today, I'd say getting people to shut up and pay attention might be one of the toughest jobs in the world.

Good god, first post, and we're already in a Boeing/Airbus pissing war.

This article is about the Boeing. Can we discuss that aircraft's unique capabilities, or does EVERYTHING have to end up like the old Mac/DOS Warz?

Ares Five is alive! Or is it?

I fail to understand your comment about LH2/LOX versus JP7/LOX. What is the point you're trying to make. Then again, you seem to be under the impression that the Russians are making Atlas V now.

Might want to take advantage of proofing before you hit submit.

"Also, if Apple were to have pressed the discs and boxed and shipped them, Lion's release date would have been later than today"

Bull. Design and printing of packaging never gates schedule like that. You could have stacks of boxes ready a week before GM.

When you buy an Air you get a USB restore stick with OS and factory-fill apps, but Lion removes the need for a separate physical boot device for reinstalls, so chances are that Apple will use the cloud/app store more and more for reinstalls, banishing physical media forever.

Hopefully our ISPs can keep up....

Really?

What overseas airline are you flying that's so janky there are no power outlets at the seats?

Even cheapo American Airlines installed seat power on it's 20+ year old domestic service MD-80s years ago.

PC vendors don't restrict your ability to install an alternative OS.

Nor do they subsidize the purchase of your PC by signing you up for a monthly service contract. There's no ETF when you sell your PC after six months to but a better one.

The carrier can do what it wants with its equipment.
 

Wow. For the vast majority of people who are affected by the difference in these platforms, this means exactly squat.

Glad you're impressed. Now you see why Steve Jobs is CEO of the second-largest company in the US, and Andy Rubin is a geek at Google.

I certainly don't hold material gain above all else, but Rubin's reply shows exactly the kind of hubris that Google is getting a bad reputation for here in the valley; it's a bunch of geeks on a power trip in many cases, hence the arcane and off-topic interview question highlighted in today's Mercury News. Google makes engineers feel special, Apple engineers look at the numbers and balance sheets and say: "Our products rock". They don't need to be told how special they are simply because they can decipher a piece of code. They can see it in customers' faces.

The vette also has a ridiculously tall top gear, which at 60 mph is ticking the engine over just a few hundred rpm over idle.

Helps fuel efficiency at highway speeds immensely, given the low cD of the vette.

You'll never be able to build and support hardware while maintaining your current net profits.

Penny wise, pound foolish.

Fucking gasoline explosions, how do they work?

Lion is plausible, but I suspect it will be called Leo.