With so many issues facing our nation, this is the retarded shit they are focusing on? Al-la-cart TV channels and Commercial Volume

No wonder we are a country of ignorant fat ass's and the rest of the world hates us.

graduating college ,going to work, getting girlfriends \ married, or dying of heart attacks would be the best guesses.

People tend to generalize however from what you said you should have no problems with your career. The over 40 issue in my experience is that programmers either get burnt out on doing the same thing for a long time, or refuse to keep up with current trends. You will get people that say they have been writing shell scripts on unix for the last 30+ years, well thats great, but what else can you do since not every thing is a unix shell. The fact that your actually looking to improve your knowledge makes you even more marketable and desirable as an employee. people that just want to do the same thing over and over again till they die will not make it in todays IT world.

i think some one forgot the 'B' at the beginning of the first word.

ill take Windows activation over RHEL activation any day.

This is actually a touchy subject. What the bill does is excludes smaller companies that make under $1 million in profits as to promote small businesses (the good). It forces larger company's to charge sales tax, from a business perspective this makes sense as to create fair competition (the bad). From a consumer perspective this sucks balls and I probably wont be able to afford all my newegg gear now (the ugly).

so i fail to see the importance of this.

+1 informative , with my imaginary points

that worked out well for me as well before Windows 7 came out, got them a mac mini and they loved it. they would call and i would just tell them what ever it is they are trying to do it doesn't work on a mac. Now it sits in the corner collecting dust while everyone in the house has their own laptops running Windows 7.

always trying to shove something down a 14 year old boy's throat.

Even If they made the best Windows OS ever, it is already tainted by the name alone. If Windows Vista came out with a Windows Vista 2.0, would any one have bought it? Fuck no! My suggestion to MS is to distance themselves from the Windows 8 brand, bury it in the back yard and don't look back. Make the Metro UI an add-on option but boot to a typical desktop and start menu out of the box.

Next your going to tell me that portable devices have over inflated prices just to turn a larger profit.

Any one that would use Slashdot in their greeting would be hung up on. "Oh Slashdot, that website with all those shit disturbers...we will get back to you on that."

Its Monday morning, stop asking so many damn questions until I've had my coffee.

am i the only one that chuckled when they read this?