Uh, ESB was most definitely just a money-grab. George Lucas initiated a Star Wars sequel to raise funds for his real dream - Skywalker Ranch.

He just happened to pick a good director for that one, who made the problematic script work well.

Which one will let me capture at a high frame rate (>60fps)?

And for you young'uns, what do you suppose your C++ or Java development times would be like if you got one compile a day?"

The development time might be a bit longer but, dammit, the code would be a hell of a lot better.

Perhaps we should go back to that system.

*sigh* I miss my Zaurus too. I still have it - a nice SL-5600 but the frontlight (not a backlight) burned out years ago so it's only good directly under bright light.

The precision with our without the stylus far exceeds anything I've seen in a capacitive display.

Pay As You Earn. Submit one IRD number to the payroll office when first starting work and then forget about it.

A more useful metric, IMO, is how reliable the suspend/wakeup cycles are. For example, a particular Fedora 16 box I ran would suspend/resume with 100% reliability. That is, it would suspend every time you asked it to, and wake up every time you asked it to. Another Fedora 20 machine has 100% sleep and 0% wake. ie it goes to sleep and NEVER WAKES UP without a hard power cycle. Another machine had 100% sleep and about 75% wake, which is again utterly useless.

Like another poster here, I also disagree about the carelessness aspect. In my misspent youth I have crashed a motor vehicle through a wall and hit several large rocks in the middle of the road, and the only damage, other than to my ego, was a few dents in the bonnet and undercarriage respectively. There were no fires nor engine failures.

Designers must, MUST, design for conditions well above what they would consider the boundaries of reasonable use.

More of a concept illustration. What the video shows is how someone can superimpose two videos and move the Opacity slider a bit.

Radio failure is no longer an acceptable reason for simply falling out of the sky.

Even consumer-grade copters now have enough sensors and smarts to ascend to a safe altitude and return "home" if the transmitting signal is lost or garbled. Of course that doesn't prevent them from running into obstacles along the way (tree branches, power lines, etc) but barring catastrophic power failure they should never just drop like that.

At a stretch, perhaps there's a passing resemblance. Personally, I think it bears more resemblance to the Millennium Falcon.

But I don't want the large prominent power button to automatically shut my computer down. I want it to "ask me what to do" if it is pressed.

Sadly that option was taken away in Windows 7.

I transitioned to their "premier" pay service a while ago so this doesn't affect me, though I still know a lot of folks who have been using their free service.

You owe me a new keyboard. :)

Actually, although he hasn't been necessarily starring in hit TV shows lately I'd say he's a very relevant nerd.

Look up some of his stuff on YouTube.

Seriously.