Because the reasonable form of banning something is regulating it, and saying that you want to regulate something gets you labeled as a psycho socialist.

Actually, I think this suit had to do more with control than artistic integrity. EMI has not treated its artists very well, which is why many have jumped ship (such as REM, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, et al). This is probably a way for Pink Floyd to stick it to the label. PF has never been overly label friendly anyway.

If this was about artistic integrity only, this suit would have been filed long ago. Singles are not just a 21st century invention. Pink Floyd have had many songs released as singles over the years. I have owned a few 45rmp by singles by Pink Floyd in my day. They have also made several compilation albums over the years with songs from their albums as a way of fulfilling contractual obligations. So this suit was clearly not just about artistic integrity.

Chef? Does he really think there's a chef in the TGIFridays kitchen? They reheat pre-made meals.

People need to learn how to take care of themselves for fucks sake.

Have one or two glasses of water accompany your dinner. There is a special device in your body specialized in excreting excess salt.

Salt not only has a flavour of its own, but enhances other flavours. Enjoy it.

Bert

Though, bizarrely, some people actually prefer to have the analog sticks in the wrong location.

Unfortunately, I cannot count my wife among those.

Ba-zing!

Other than hardware-based features (like GPS & compass) what new features do 3G/GS have that 2G does not? Have you updated your firmware lately?

Just because you fail to be able to do this does not mean an end user fails to comprehend descriptions of what these cables look like, what the shapes are, where they connect, possibly what color they are, etc. End users can be can be infuriatingly dense at times but it is up to you as the support professional to find a level at which they can communicate thier needs to you and you communicate the fix to them. If you cannot do this then you should not be in the support business.

Actually aspirin lost trademark status as part of the Treaty of Versailles following Germany's surrender after World War I. And only in certain countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin#Trademark_in_most_countries

"Until then, this is one more expensive quest for a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. In the meantime, we could be practicing more energy efficiency."

Like we can'tr do both?

A little short sight there, aren't you?

Since most of our oil does NOT come from the mid east, and in fact it supplies China with more oil I find it hard to swallow the 'we are there for the oil' conspiracy.

I wrote a internet public database-driven consumer website in Ruby. I wrote it all in Windows/Postgres and when I deployed on our cloud server rental (Linux or BSD, I forget which) it worked just fine. The intermediate layers (webserver, process host) were different, but the whole stack worked fine. Since then I've never run across a bug that was due to OS incompatibilities. So chalk up Ruby into the multi-platform list.

It was actually named Aluminum by its discoverer, a British chemist. No idea why a bunch of jerkoffs decided to rename it just because they didn't like his naming.

You can use Intel Threading Building Blocks for example, but you _should_ muck around with threads, locks and their type of bugs (dead locks, race conditions etc) so you know whats happening under the hood.

http://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/

Rule #1 is that the user is stupid.

Yes, users are stupid. I worked at a small ISP, and they sold individual email accounts. I get a call one day from a lady that said she couldn't get her e-mail. After a good fifteen minutes of wrangling out exactly what the problem was it was discovered that she couldn't get logged in to her ISP. So, I direct her to call her ISP she gets all pissed off that I couldn't help her get her e-mail. It took another 15 minutes to get her to realize that she couldn't get her e-mail because she couldn't log on to her ISP in order to get connected to the internet. Even after all that she's like "Don't you guys talk to each other?" As if we all know each other, and share account details and such.

It still applies. You just have to factor the gain in, which is a multiplicative factor. If the gain is 15db, then a handset 1cm from your face is equivalent to standing 2.1 cm from the base station. Presuming you're in the center of the beam.

More generally, this UI might end up not much different from current "good" WinMob experience. Specifically - those implementations which put nice, polished homescreen with basic apps on top.

Yes, the basic experience might be nice. But 3rd party apps don't fit. With WinMob7 the situation might be better, after all every implementation will, supposedly, have the same UI paradigm/homescreen...but I don't really see how MS can enforce (with that kind of UI) solid, consistant, easy to follow / forced upon UI guidelines. Getting nice UI will be mostly about tinkering by hand. MS can pull that off with homescreen and their apps. Many of the 3rd poarty devs - not really.