Sure, you get to hold the target.

Companies want people to work on the things they already have vs the things that are a year away? No way! Color me amazed.

What's the matter Slashdot, not enough Microsoft bashing this week to keep the ad numbers up?

From orbit, just to be sure.

You might want to get your ass examined, because your head is currently up it.

He can ride the "me too train" on hating anything new.

I would sit in the cantina and threaten to kill people with a tray. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw

What's most amusing about this comment is that the poster is just as close minded as the people he's trying to make fun of.

Never had a single false positive with it. Odds are your's aren't. Beat it trollboy.

It's not a news flash and most people don't care, for better or for worse...

Then leave. This may not be the best Ask Slashdot ever, but it's a reasonable question that many people are probably asking.

10 or 15 seconds?

[quote]I'm trying to work out why any self-respecting geek would participate in any pastime that requires passive, slack-jawed consumption of entertainment over something that requires active involvement/[/quote]

Seems better than them posting judgemental "I'm better than you" comments on slashdot.

Sales tax is a state tax, this was federal money are you reading the same newsletter?

No it really makes it look planned.

Why do you think it's so cheap to manufacture over there? hint: Less regulation. You get either environmentally safe expensive manufacturing or cheap earth destroying manufacturing.