They have gotten too big. They could stand to lose a few pounds, I mean money.

Near Space Corporation? That's a terrible name for a company. Though it may be apt for what they do and their honesty is commendable but it also gives away what they cannot do - "Oh we actually wanna be Space Corporation but we have neither the money/technology nor balls to do it, so we're just gonna be content with Near Earth Corporation"

Ask Canonical. If they can't give a good solution, they deserve to fail.

10000 sheets per workbook? Yup, lack of sheets was exactly what was stopping me from using Calc.

Seems strange that this showed up under it.slashdot instead of yro.slashdot. This itself seems an ominous sign of shifting trends. YRO category is becoming obsolete!

If Amazon can sell a book for $23 million, what's wrong with Best Buy selling a $1000 HDMI cable?

No matter what rare combination of factors have given rise to life on earth, universe is so incredibly vast with an astonishing number of planets that the same combination of factors is not only bound to arise but arise a large number of times. It only means that it might not be easy to find life within a few light years.

Opera is one browser I have always wanted to like and make my primary browser but have never been successful in doing it. The browser is fast and has great features but a few things have always prevented me from making it my primary browser -

1. No RSS live bookmarks. Once I got a taste of live RSS bookmarks in Firefox, it was hard for me to read RSS feeds in any other way, no Google Reader, no RSS reader would do it. I don't want to open a separate window/program and pile up RSS feeds in there. I love it the way it is in Firefox. You just read them in a drop down menu off the bookmarks bar and they automatically get discarded as new ones come in.

2. Website compatibility - This may not be Opera's fault but nevertheless it works against them. Lot of sites still don't work right in Opera and some flat out refuse to proceed unless some other browser is used.

3. Per site default zoom level - These days screens have high resolutions. Lot of sites show up as very small text (Tom's Hardware is one, another in NY Times). In Chrome when you zoom a website, it remembers it forever. The next time you go to the website, Chrome shows it at the zoom level you set earlier. It remembers different zooms for different web pages. Opera has just one global default zoom setting that applies to all websites and actually lot of websites look terrible when zoomed in Opera (try Tom's Hardware). Also, Opera's rendering of input search boxes get screwed up when a web page is zoomed. Try editing a query on Google when the web page is zoomed and you'll understand what I mean.

If they fix these three issues, I would make it my main browser immediately. For now it has to be Chrome (sigh!).

The reason outsourcing does not give back the expected returns is because outsourcing companies employ fresh out of college graduates that do not have necessary experience and skill. They frequently lie about skills of team members to the US clients. They hire cheap fresh graduates, pay them good salary by Indian standards so those graduates stick it out and charge US clients lower than US market hourly rates so that it is an attractive option to the customer. Their main profit lies in the currency exchange rate between rupee and dollar. Foreign exchange is their real business, not IT services. They don't care whether they are programming or doing tech support in a call center or doing janitorial work, - as long as the difference between rupee and dollar is huge, they make money.

Maybe for you. Sorry to hear that.

Agree with you there. I like Big Bang Theory as a comedy but hate that they only strengthen 'the comic book nerd who never gets laid' stereotype.

What's with the same old stupid 'girlfriend' humor? Geeks are themselves responsible for their 'girlfriend-less' image. Because they somehow manage to take pride in disparaging themselves when it comes to girlfriends and don't miss any opportunity to project themselves as lonely, girlfriend less pr0n addicts.

I recommend - Kennedy Space Center in Florida. That's from where the space shuttle used to get launch. It's pretty cool. Soudan Underground Mine in Minnesota (neutrino detector) - Also there is Lake Superior coastline close by so it can be a fun trip which gives you your science fix (neutrino detector), creep fix (being three quarters of a mile underground in a mine) and nature fix (beautiful Lake Superior coastline and state parks)

This is probably not a good idea. Not everybody cares about software even though almost everybody uses it in one way or the other. Unless your target audience is a geek/nerd crowd, this is a bad idea. It may seem a great idea to you but an average person would think it is a terrible gift. Give them what they like, not what you like.

HP board is a bunch of retards that is determined to screw up a perfectly good company. I think it's time for rest of us to move on and let HP be.