Can't blame the good doctor, he didn't put those lustful thoughts for your mother into your head either. ;-)

Now explain what is this "Windows" I keep hearing about...

If you have a wireless access point of some sort (and what home these days doesn't?) what the hell's the point of this article? In three sentences, let me summarize it for those who don't want their precious time wasted.

Go buy a cheap NAS box sans hard drive for $40, install a cheap / spare hard drive and plug into existing router / network. Use existing backup software on your winblows machines to backup to the SMB share. Post lame article on slashdot that will irritate the technically competent.

This is slashdot, not the official Cult of Apple fanboi site. Gawd... I seriously take issue with the gay Apple logo photoshopped onto the Linksys router.

Just off the cuff, the Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor is made in the same FoxConn sweat shop, runs android, and costs roughly half. It's not equivalent if you're comparing it to a full-on tablet with a hard drive and a full blown OS. But when held to such standards neither is the iPad I/II. It's an overgrown phone that's not a phone.

As to your other inquiry, I used the term "trend-setting" in a derogatory sense.

Color me a bigot, but every morning when I see a 3 minute segment on the national news shows covering the newest iFad, I get enraged and change the channel only to find the same thing on all the other networks. Why is this news? Who's wheels does Jobs have to grease to get so much free exposure? Luckily I can count on later that day coming here to /. and finding a fanboi thread wherein I can vent my frustrations. :-)

Ahh, that's better.

If by fear you mean the sight of him is frightening, then yes, quite. But let's not get carried away, more than Gates?

While I hold an appreciable amount of disdain for the man, I also have ample respect for anyone with his marketing genius. He really knows how to keep the rats coming back to press the feeder bar. Consumer lending institutions appreciate this as well. It's what feeds our economy (to the Chinese).

I've never seen a dog that _didn't_ love beer, though they're rarely exposed to it naturally (if you consider accidentally to be natural).

My boxers are partial to malty octoberfest and ipa styles, but FWIW they've also been known to lick their own orifices.

Amen! This is a long anticipated move that is very much appreciated. Way to go Broadcom.

Now what will it take to get you to apply the same logic to your 7400 series video SOCs. And get Realtek onboard while you're at it. You would sell product like the proverbial hotcakes...

I can't speak for all Slashdotters, but I personally bag on Facebook because it's little more than a conglomeration of technologies we (the people with gray hair) have been using for nearly two decades. FB took the tools we developed and put a pretty interface on it all and suddenly it's the best thing to happen to the internet since Napster. Nevermind what will happen when 'everyone' adopts it as their primary storage for digital media and contacts and it goes away for lack of a sound business model. 'Fad' is an ugly label to those who've found themselves labeled so I find no fault in those who are defending their stance. I guess time will tell - I still wretch when I hear mullet jokes...

I've been invited dozens of times, and it's quite annoying to have to tell my brothers and sisters why I don't want to hassle with it just to see their photos. I simply have no desire to reconnect with people I didn't like in the first place. The people who are important to me still use a telephone (even though I wish some wouldn't). I don't need another medium upon which to ignore those I find annoying.

Having suffered from an alcohol induced lack of judgement and a poorly executed arm band which I am now in the process of chemically fading so it can be fixed, I have to echo this sentiment. If you aren't 100% sure what you want, then you don't want a tat bad enough to get one.

Asking anyone else for suggestions of what you should scrawl on your skin for the rest of your life is a recipe for disaster in the highest possible magnitude.

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I really hate reading this. "I love Myth, but it required me to actually do some work". Remind us all again how much that software cost you???

Myth, while not without it's share of issues, represents a monumental acheivement by the devs. It can do things no commercial product ever will, like run your very own shell script after a recording completes. I've invested hundreds of hours worth of 'nerding' in it since .19, and I will happily continue to do so in the name of shunning all forms of DRM.

Man up or open your wallet and purchase something ready-made. Either way, quitcherbitchin!