So I almost lost my breakfast over this one. The amendment doesn't say word one about getting anything useful, only that the spending continue. The legislators in question don't seem to care if the money spent returns anything worthwhile, only that we keep spending. Barf! No wonder everyone hates politicians.

The price of Matlab (minimum of $2000), more like $10K for a decent set of tool boxes. They charge 20% per year for 'maintenance', though thankfully you don't have to buy a maintenance contract to use the software. And for all of this, they can't be bothered to support 64 bit integers? I'd be asking very pointed questions about why not, if I had a license.

As if I didn't have reason enough to despise Apple, they pull this sort of stunt. And yes, I blame Apple completely and without reservation, whole-heartedly convinced of both malice and the intent to cause harm entirely beyond the pale. Apple as a company, and as a way of doing business, deserves only contempt and scorn.

I have to agree, I would never buy products that are hostage of the distributors good will. I own several Ubisoft titles, an in general I thought that they were excellently done. However no matter how good the game is, the current DRM scheme would keep me from buying it. No matter how 'evolved' or 'improved' they try to spin it, I won't be buying games that can't be installed on a stand-alone machine, non-networked computer.

I'm one of those people with difficulties with binocular vision. I normal vision is entirely 2D...no depth perception at all. Apparently I"ve never had it, and until I watched a 3D movie (at the age of 39) I never knew I was missing anything. Needless to say when I first experienced depth perception I just about fell out of my chair. While I haven't investigated trying to correct the vision problem, I certainly am a huge fan of 3D movies. On the plus side, from my perspective normal movies are just as good as real life.

Gamification is not a word. More importantly, depending if you use a hard 'a' sound (as in play) or a soft one (as in plan), you get a completely different view of what it's actually supposed to mean. Personally I like the soft a version instead.

PS If you don't understand, read more 40's detective fiction and pay attention to the slang.

Just a bit of statical analysis:
30,000 flights/day * 365.25 days/year*10 years = 110 million flights.
22 laptop fires
1 in 5 million odds of having your flight involved.

Apparently someone decided that they needed some press coverage, as I'm not buying it as a credible hazard.

I'd be interested to know what telecom gave the researchers the data. If I'd been a customer of that company, I sure wouldn't any longer. I think I'll switch cell phone companies and phone numbers, just to become part of the churners.