Trademark != copyright, dude.

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That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

"War on Terror" is largely a US/UK initiative. Other Western countries (and GP talked about "the West", not "US") don't have much to do with that as a whole - only the more meaningful parts, such as trying to stabilize Afghanistan.

Yet, if you turn to the guys on the other side of the barricades - what are they saying?

Bomb, bomb Denmark!
Bomb, bomb Germany!
Bomb, bomb France!
Bomb, bomb Spain!
Allahu Akbar! ...
Nuke, nuke Denmark!

If you can explain how U.S., or invasions of Arab countries in general, have anything whatsoever to do with opinions expressed by Muslims in the video linked above, I'm all ears.

So, you going to port liberty over? ;) So we don't have to try and run it in Classic. And yeah, I remember you as another regular from the old PalmOS mailing list about 10 years ago

Liberty was written in 68k assembler :) we ported it to MIPS for a contract job. but no; gameboy emulation; plenty of other options available out there.. but i do intend to bring some of my other palm os games up-to-date :P

I'm not saying they did a good job of it. Just that the concept is good.

I'm hoping that there is fallout from this not only for Best Buy, but for the manufacturers who are preloading all this cruft.

No, I'm not missing that. I'm just saying that most of us don't need to engage in the careful art of real "system tuning".

IMHO, if Best Buy were charging people $40 to reinstall the OS and drivers from scratch, install all of the applications the customer wanted (and none that they didn't want), and do some basic post-install configuration (set up user accounts, click "OK" on all the EULAs, install all updates, etc.), then I would think that wasn't a bad value. In fact, if that was a service that they would do for any computer you brought in, assuming they did a good job at it, then I might advise computer novices to take their computer in for that service every year or two.

I'm guessing that's not exactly what they're doing, though.

Sounds like someone's been a victim of one too many Rickrolls....

But you just named things that don't affect the flight itself. Nor do they affect the reporter/congressmen/businessman's work if they are not allowed to have toothpaste in their carryon. Comparing the backlash of not being able to clip your fingernails to that of not being able to use a laptop is silly.

I agree with this in principle, but, in practice, it doesn't seem to come up as often as one might think. I frequently use NCSA's Lincoln cluster with 384 Teslas. Early on, I discovered some "hard" memory errors (repeatable bad bits or rows). These were very early boards, which apparently hadn't been fully tested. This prompted the admins at NCSA to write the GPU equivalent of memtest86, which they ran for about a month if I recall. After removing the boards with bad memory (about 3-4, if I recall), they didn't encounter any "soft" errors (i.e. random bit flips). NVIDIA's Fermi will have ECC, which is reassuring, but I have found the present generation, without ECC, to be quite reliable. I should also note that the hard errors I found always resulted in NANs/INFs, etc., which are very obvious. I'd be more concerned with "silent" errors that subtly change the results.

Heck, I would even pay a small monthly fee, maybe a buck or two a month to port my existing cell phone number. This is a number I have had since cell phones became popular. I would gladly port it, cancel my current Verizon phone, and then shop for the best plan out there regardless of carrier. Google voice would free me to have a device and plan morph with the changes in my lifestyle over time.

That feature isn't available when using your own number, only when using a number assigned to you from Google.

...Then right before April 1st.

You can trade while playing WoW. I can't see why you couldn't fly a plane.

Yes, the DMCA is stupid.

Now, can I ask WHY people buy T-Shirts, undies, etc from big designers?

I just don't see why you would buy something for $100 from a designer label when you can buy something without a name on it for $4. I mean, the amount of marketing that has to go into this must be insane! It would be one thing if the big fancy labels used legitimate, well-paid, non-sweatshop labor to make these things, but I don't see that happening.

Amen. Did you know 100% of criminals were children once? Childhood leads to criminal activity! Where's my multi-million dollar grant?