You actually link to the wiki entry and are presumably a mathematician or statician and yet do not know that the only person with an Erdos number of 0 is Erdos? How is that?

What business of yours is his leisure time? What an self righteous arse you must be to write such posts? What are you doing on slashdot anyway with your doubtlessly full "fostering relationships" schedule? It's striking how often judgmental people like you are hypocrites. Can you show that your lifestyle even matches your own criteria?

That might as well be but we are talking about openness. Get with the program please. NOBODY is saying that you can't have proprietary platforms, a lot of people just prefer less lock-in to more and are therefore "skeptical" if you also get to pay more for the privileged of being able to do less with your stuff.

why would you want to? To run apps that aren't available on mac os for starters. Saying "licensed Hardware" is a nice euphemism for a vendor locked-in OS. I don't have a problem with it but personally I find it ridiculous to pay extra for a simple chip or modified bios or whatever tells OS X it's okay to install on the mac hardware.

It's on youtube, fool. It's Web 2.0. It's a Määääääsch Up! Where have you been? Don't you know that combining exiting things in novel ways was invented together with HTTPXMLResponse?

if done right you indulge your partner as well ;) ... anyways, it's fun and it's healthy so why is it termed an undesirable outcome?

Says who!? You? Interesting. Got some numbers?

Your sig and your comment go together very well Sir ;) ... (tip: it's prudent to buy what you need in winter in the summer and vice versa. It can be A LOT cheaper that way)

Why go to Banards star? It's not the closest, it doesn't seem to have planets and it flares so if it does they definately won't have life. It's so old there are probably not a lot of heavy elements in the system either. I would go to Alpha Centauri. 3 Stars for the price of one! And a huge habitable zone(s) to boot!

You have the same HR problems on an oil rig. Of course, space assembly requires a space elevator so it's not much of a problem to swap out crews every three months. Lots and lots of people are willing to take these types of deals: work 3 month, play 3 months and get a shitload of money for it.

Shield, knows your ignorance and foolishness really no bounds or are you just not ashamed anymore?

I'm glad you have an environment that works so well but if you connect your box to the net without a firewall and indiscriminately execute any code you download your OS will not save you. Sooner or later your box will get pwned regardless of what you are running ...