Haven't "docks" been in use since BEFORE Microsoft introduced theirs with Windows 98?

Cases in point, NeXT OS, and IBM's OS/2 4 Warp, both used docks (a dock launch bar in NeXT's case, and a task bar launch bar in the case of OS/2. The Mac OS only picked this up as an official feature with OSX, while before that, you had to run a 3rd party app to simulate NeXT OS' docks (at least back in 1992 with System 7 on).

If one was to claim copying was made, then didn't Apple swipe their docks from NeXT OS (yeah, that was also Jobs' baby), and for that matter, didn't Microsoft in fact swipe their quick launch bar from OS/2 4 Warp?

And before any Mac fans mod this down in an effort to try and rewrite history, remember that the original Mac interface itself was swiped from Xerox PARC. They admitted to it themselves, and after introducing it to the mainstream, the idea of moving an arrow back and forth between graphical icons pretty much became the defacto standard.

It's that, or spend the rest of your life using CLI for *everything*.

A few years ago, I breached the question of the digital transition for television and its inevitable environmental impact as hundreds of millions of TV sets go this route: http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/21/2128220.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Actually, judging from this article, we've not only ignored the iceberg, but invited it in for a hot cup of tea, and asked how many people it would like to kill while ignoring the sinking ship entirely.

It's sad that seven years down the line, the obvious severity of the issue has not only gone ignored, but even condoned to date. Hell, even as I write this, I'm on a 5 year old Tablet PC that I also use for graphics (using an Intel graphics chipset, *gag*), most of my electronics are over 5 years old. What's the oldest electronic devices you use today, hmmmmm?

What about the absolute FIRST Doctor, from Dr. Who and the Daleks? Sure, he's human in that one, but Peter Cushing was 53 at the time that was released.

AND a whiz!

He's gonna need a Gallifraean urologist after this one.

They actually DID do that in one of the comedy spoofs of Doctor Who, I forgot which one. The Doctor gets gunned down and becomes a hero to the Daleks and The Master, and somehow regenerates a thirteenth time, to become a woman. At least that's what I could recall.

I took one look at this guy and thought, "He's not a Doctor Who, he's a Doctor Huh?".

He kind of looks like an amalgam of the last few Doctors (including the unofficial one from the 2008 Xmas special, and the one from the Fox movie).

And fell upon their nightsticks several times by accident, before somehow retrieving one of their guns and shooting himself 48 times, pausing to reload inbetween.

Seriously, dedicate a portion of the land towards geothermal power. Any good cook, and any good engineer will tell you that when you want to keep heat under control, you reroute it elsewhere. Build some geothermal plants on the spot, you know how deep the magma is, then building vent/transfer systems around the caldera will in fact cool it down to prevent an eruption, AND you can sell the electricity generated for, well, generations.

Sheiss, it's so simple, should I really be the one suggesting this? I'm a high school dropout (intellectual as I am), and it's really that obvious.

Yeah, but the problem is, the US Gov't excells at doing senseless, stupid things in record time. Logical, intelligent things, that takes decades to accomplish.

Don't worry, they'll make it even dumber in no time.

Sure, all they need to do is show a slot machine, showing that if you use 3 7s, you win, if not, you're screwed and lose all your money. Apple would LOVE that "Windows is a Gamble" opening.

BTW Steve Jobs, you now owe me $5,000 for that idea, large bills please.

Considering the Apple Lisa came with a $10,000+ price tag, I seriously doubt there were many, if any, home users.

IIRC, other previous software would also give picture previews as icons, such as ACDSee, Thumbs Plus, Adobe Photoshop, tons more prior to 2001 AFAIK.

And turn your office building into a giant Virtual Boy display. If LCD Glasses are available, you could even emulate the 3D effect by setting each bar to the right flicker rates.

Here's where you get into that tricky logic loop. Under most state laws nowadays, it's possible to prosecute minors as adults in many cases, including this one. YET they took pictures of themselves AS minors. So in that case, doesn't the fact they're being prosecuted AS adults mean that no crime actually took place? If they were taking pictures of other teenages, then yes, it would be a criminal act, no question. But if they're taking pictures of themselves, then it shouldn't count.

It's like arresting the corpse of someone who committed suicide on second degree murder charges.