But look at this from the other angle: the browser is not cutting edge, it is mature and stable.

On my aging Mac, I started out with Safari, then switched to Firefox when Safari started getting buggy as hell for no apparent reason. A couple months back I switched to Chrome just for kicks, but after a while started noticing it wasn't as stable or bug-free as Firefox (specifically, Flash would die and my Youtube vids would have to be restarted, also when I have lots of tabs open some pages appear to be blank even though they have loaded and are supposed to display content on them). So I switched back to good ol' Firefox. Sure, maybe it's not the fastest, the sleekest, or the most advanced browser on the planet, but it's damned reliable and eminently useable!

I have no clue who my future employers might be (I suppose that would depend on which field I get my degree in), but I could definitely ask some people who have management and HR experience. The reason I posted this to Slashdot is because it is like asking 100,000 people at the same time. Seems more efficient. :)

"How valuable is an graduate degree earned online?"

Oh, the irony. Maybe I should become an hero.

Auditing the fed is often used as code to mean investigation into the fundamental business model. The problem is that if it ever became mainstream how the fed really works, it really will threaten the dollar. I would like to see citation of your claim they have published the numbers, I know they have published SOME numbers, often heavily redacted though. Some facts about the fed. The Federal Reserve is a private institution. The Federal Reserve holds a monopoly on the issuance of currency in the USA. Prior the the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act/TARP Act of September 2008, commercial banks were required to hold 10% of deposits as reserves. Part of the reason for the credit spread blowups of October/November 2008 was because in the same TARP Act the Fed was allowed to pay interest on deposits without publicly stating the interest rate. As a result of various acts of Congress in 2008, the Federal Reserve now has the authority to buy all sorts of assets (commercial paper, corporate bonds, mortgage loans, etc.). Much of the Fed's activity is not made public because of the use of off-balance sheet vehicles. There is debate over the constitutionality of the Fed's various powers. Also that If all money created is debt and counts as principal, where does the money come from to pay interest on this debt? It comes from the money that gets printed in the future. This is why inflation is a natural result of our current monetary system. This is often what you hear Ron Paul talking about on the floor. The teapartiers have unfortunately locked onto this as a talking point, but often lack facts, and hence it often gets dismissed as a conspiracy theory. I think the biggest benefit of auditing the Fed, is publicly knowing who really owns and controls it, knowing that a foreign company might control our very monetary system should at the least make one pause and research it a bit more.

I am a Russian citizen and do not believe western democracy is the best form of government. I also think you believe it not because of some deep comparison and analysis you performed but because it has been beaten into you head since you were a kid. Democracy is just a way to elect a strong capable leader. We already have a strong leader and a system that passes authority to another strong leader. Why do we need crazy election eccentrics? On the other hand I have been following Western election and USA elections in particualr and I do not for a second beleive the system worked to provide you with a good leader. If the system worked than why was Bush Jr, the president, not once but TWICE?? Was he really the most capable man for the job in America for whole eight years? If the system misfires so badly why keep it.

"Unlimited" is just a holdover from 56k modem times. They offered a number of minutes per month for the basic subscription fee, and over time as AOL and MSN and the occasional third leg battled it out for customers that number increased fairly consistently. Pretty soon it was $20 for unlimited internet. 5k transfer per second, 2592000 seconds, that's 12960000k or 12656m or 12GB. It would be impossible for you to download more data than that (we'll ignore compression since the limit ignores compression, and today's compression is better if not eactly the same).

If you consider your bandwidth as above, there is an upper limit on your current transfer per month, which is the unit by which you're paying. So it's imposible to offer "unlimited" access is there is a bandwidth limit. $20 for 12GB then would be maybe $30 now - for a 12GB limit? 24GB would probably be worth $40, unlimited would be pretty expensive.

So even limited, we're a lot better off. If we understand there's always a limit, that is, and if the ads quit saying "unlimited". The dial-up days are over, we're buying in bulk now.

Holy shit -- I actually agree with westlake. This Sam Imperial White must be some good beer...

Seriously, I don't have a problem with how Canonical is approaching this. They are making this license easily available to OEM hardware vendors, if the vendors wish to purchase it. That's important for vendors who want to sell consumer-ready devices with Ubuntu pre-installed, in countries like the US that lumber beneath the yoke of intellectual monopoly laws.

Intellectual monopoly laws are unjust, and we should all work to have them repealed or struck down. One could plausibly argue that, until they are overturned, conscientious citizens have a moral obligation to violate them. It is however much tougher to argue that a company such as a hardware vendor has a right, much less a duty, to civil disobedience.

I'm lucky in that I live near a MicroCenter store, and they are currently selling the i5-750 for $180 and the i7-860 for $200.

Since they both use the same socket, the extra $20 for a lot more performance (133-266MHz, depending on turbo-boost, plus twice the threads and better virtualization) is a no-brainer. Even with the $40 bundle discount on AMD CPU/motherboard from MicroCenter, Intel is still far and away the price/performance leader.

Yeah, they also had to pay off retailers to keep them loyal.

Things could have been considerably different today, with athlon beating PIII's (in performance and price), as well as netburst being a major fail on release (and arguably during it's entire lifetime). Crooks.

Same. $2/GB if you go over, too. You get a warning page at 75% and 100% (and the one time I went over without realizing it, I really wish they'd given another at 110%, if only so I wouldn't be so surprised by the bill)

And I'm sorry for my rude reply; I was out of line.

You know, a 15 second Google search would have turned up the results: http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=24630623195&sid=5000

Good idea. Don't forget to tell them why you didn't buy it.

Here's a link to the developer's (Proper Games) contact page: http://www.proper-games.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=35&Itemid=55

And here's one to the publisher's (Capcom) contact page: https://shop.capcom.com/DRHM/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayContactFormPage&SiteID=capcomus&Locale=en_US&Env=BASE&resid=S9FRGwoBAiMAAFFzqmEAAAAD&rests=1272009021063

If you'd actually read the article, you'd know why they consider it to be a next gen Apple phone (many parts inside branded APPLE, in a case designed to make it look like a 3G iPhone, behaves just like an iPhone when you connect it to a Mac, uses the Mac proprietary dock connector, etc, etc). Are you saying that everyone at Engadget had been fooled, or are you saying they are playing a late April Fools joke on us? Frankly I don't think either is very likely.