I'd note how nice BFG was. Their customer service was great in my experience. They did not require a receipt. Lifetime meant life of the company. They were clearly trying to honor older lifetime warranties, because they had a deal where you could give them your old AGP card and for a low sum of money, they would give you a much newer model PCIx card.

That's true. I saw it in this documentary

I'd guess it's not cheap to start an airline, and with lots of existing competition, I'd guess that makes it more difficult, although by no means impossible. Free market you say? Since the government has (and probably will again) just bail out the existing airlines, even though they have failing business models, that removes the possibility that the established carriers can go under, which prevents the opening up of demand ($) that a new company could try to fill. Less available revenue combined with greater competition decreases the likelihood that a new carrier enters the market. Oh, and lets not forget the TSA makes air travel horrifically painful no matter what airline you fly, thus (IMO) causing even an awesome airline to still have a awful overall travel experience.

And then the face of the kid who gets somebody else's calculator where the equals button doesn't work. And maybe the face of the kid who is tech savy and figures out he got the cheaters hacked calculator, as he may ethically ponder - cheat myself and get a better grade, or turn in one cheater who without their cheating instrument will probably be toward the bottom, but if they are turned in they may be removed from the curve all together.

Wow for $100 million dollars you think they could design a freaking menu interface. The beta was absolutely terrible, not intuitive at all and you end up with like 3 chat windows for talking with one person. I hope it was 100% remade before launch with some of that 100 million. The gameplay is ok, it feels like Starcraft but with better graphics. So if you are feeling nostalgic, you can drop $60 or just buy an old used copy for probably $5. I'll probably still buy it just to play occasionally online with friends though...

Indeed. Some studies suggest that what is called Emotional intelligence (or sometimes 'EQ') is a better predictor of success in life.

I can't wait for a mobile browser (running in android) that uses addons... specifically adblock.

money != productivity"

Yeah. It looks and reads like a science fair project...

Pseudoscience is the word you are looking for. Sadly though since it has the suffix science in it, some people might see that word as a credential...

Dell will step up as soon as we start seeing the articles "Dell factory workers committing suicide". Apple didn't do this out of the kindness of their hearts, they did it because they were getting negative PR from it.

Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither

Maybe the next study should be on how we are becoming more cynical. The underlying cause of our cynicism is perhaps the same as our lack of empathy...

Common geeks, ascii code (hold alt and press 230 then release) - tadum ->
Well it doesn't work.. I stand corrected, or slashdot translates it too well and it's just to small to see.

This could be just what geeks with alopecia need!