For people that actually socialize it provides benefits. I've reconnected with old friends, made dates, organized parties, laughed (at someones silly pictures) and learned (from someones interesting post) countless times on facebook. I've found a few people that meant a lot to me, and have restarted some kind of relationship with them. I've joined groups that share like interests and attended events that I would have otherwise missed. It has value. I don't know of any other thing that does this stuff quite as well. In short, it's a useful way to communicate with most everyone you know.

I can't speak for twitter, but millions of other people find use in it.

The whole "I'm to cool for the popular social networking sites" crowd gets on my nerves.

Because here we sit, sharing opines with like minded individuals on a public website.
Does that make us elite?
Pot-kettle-black as they say.

I was wondering why it was less popular.

featuring tech 'tips' that recommended calorie counting, finding recipes, and watching cooking videos as ways for women to get the most from a laptop.

Here's what my 25-35 year old female friends do with their laptops:

Music (iTunes, iPods, iPhones), Social Networking, Pictures of their Kids, Casual Games, buy nice bags for them, watch funny videos. One friend is especially into fashion, so maybe she'll look at dresses online and such.

None of that non-sense quoted above is cool or fun. And, it's available on anything with Internet so how is it special? I'm guessing the larger laptop purchasing female demographic is, you know, more young and more trendy then recipes and watching cooking videos.

Really Dell? It's 2009. Fire your marketing director.

It's ONLY legitimate purpose is to prevent other people from plegiarising and/or profiting from an original work.

Which, in fact, encourages creativity and free expression.

Bots and spammers typically wait for the holiday weekends; like playing your starters against their backups.

Those people.... I feel your pain. I've had the pleasure of "turning off" the spam filtering for a few customers that had to be sure they were getting everything. We don't offer this as any kind of service, since I have to put rules in about 7 postfix servers, but I did it because these people were adamant.

One lasted about 10 hours, the other a day. Say uncle. That was satisfying.

You know, I obsessively played a game called Starflight when I was 11 or 12. That game was a springboard for a lifelong interest in space and astronomy. It also inspired a few years of bedroom programing in an attempt to recreate it. It was pretty unique in that it was fairly hard-sci-fi with lots of accurate terms and ideas.

Don't underestimate what capturing the imagination of a child can do for their adult life. We need better science education in this country.

The court document is authored by Jessica A. Nye Science Gal.

Perhaps that was your joke? :-)

Don't read it. Or, read it and lean and absorb what you need or think is conscionable.

It's one of those books you must divine the higher meaning of. It has specific examples that are somewhat evil and tells a narrative that is sometimes unsavory. That does not mean there are no lessons to be learned for the betterment of your manhood.

It's a bit of a cautionary tale as well.

I believe most of your good human qualities are quantified by what you do with the people you meet, not how you meet them.

For better or worse, it will help you in striking up conversations with attractive women. I'm sorry, that's mostly harmless.

I'd recommend that anyone that's tired of this "shit" read The Game by Neil Strauss.

Now, you might have to slightly disregard some of your morals, but the methods in this book work.

Also, try to find a well groomed friend (preferably female) to give you fashion advice. Women enjoy making over geeks. You *have* to go shopping sure, but nothing is ever easy.

This is a great idea. It effectively doubles the real-estate usable for interface. You won't get smudges on the screen now. It's more comfortable like they said.

With bigger screen people could even sit opposite you and you could watch what they do.

A face to face game of transparent screen checkers would be sweet.

I think it's meant for comedic inflection. Really big things are often funny.