I'm sure someone will manage to compile a Debian based distro that can handle x86.

Anyone can live paycheck to paycheck.

I have a colleague who makes mid 6 figures and still can't manage to save more than what's put in automatically to his 401k equivalent by our employer. I also know several friends making ~80K a year that are on the verge of bankruptcy.

It's called living below your means. If you can afford a 1200/month rent, pay 1000/month and put the rest away in long term savings. Put it into an ETF (exchange traded fund) and get an average 5% per year growth.

1 year - $2454
2 years - $5031
3 years - $7737
4 years - $10579
10 years - $30873

The miracle of compounded interest.

You do realize that unless the cell phone knows where you are it's impossible for you to receive a call.

Or do you expect every cell tower to send out every call request to everyone in the world?

If you don't want to be tracked by your cell carrier, don't carry a cell phone.

Convention centers seem a better fit.

People do wander about convention centers, but not run from one end to the other.

The centers I've been to have excellent wifi. They probably already hired a good network engineer.

I started migrating to protopage.com about 1-2 months ago. Took me an hour to get all the RSS feeds in correctly (could have probably done it quicker if I had exported from iGoogle). Took me another hour to get the color scheme to something close to iGoogle.

Now I have more flexibility than I ever did with iGoogle. My only complaint is that the protopage Google Calendar widget only shows a single calendar, while I like to show all my calendars. But I'm an outlier - I have 8-9 active calendars to keep things separate in work and home lives.

Like most humans, cops are lazy. And this is California, not Texas. You're probably not going to get pulled over for Driving While Black. If the cop sees something that catches their attention, however, they'll find an excuse to pull you over.

And, no, I highly doubt that wearing Goggle Glass is going to do it. It probably looks like a hair band or fancy glasses to someone in the next car over.

Actually, I'm pretty sure everywhere I've driven on a highway (in the U.S. at least) there's a Speed Limit sign just after every entry point to the highway.

If I don't see a speed limit sign and I'm on a highway, I just assume it's the limit for the State (usually 55mph, but higher in quite a few).

Dammit. You actually made me feel bad for getting my dad an iMac. He hasn't called me for 'service calls' in ages. In retrospect, it's after I set up that system for him that I started visiting him less often...

Sure. It starts off as a simple project to have fun with his engineers (probably worth the money, just to keep the engineers happy).

Then a couple years down the line he comes out with something that is marketable.

My dad always wanted to buy a boat but just couldn't justify it. Imagine having the option of an electric car that could turn into a submarine?

My thought: Next he's going to invest in biosphere research. Then a completely self-sufficient underwater biodome. Then a moon dome.

We may be in the middle of the origin story of a Bond villain here...

Actually, looking at the beta again, I bet this is exactly what happened.

Someone was tasked to make /. look good on a tablet and came up with this. That being said, /. mobile version actually looks pretty good on tablets, so I think they just had a bad batch of crack when they were making the decision.

WTF does "Load More Comments" do? Load 5 comments at a time?

If you really don't want people to comment, just disable comments. I'll just go to another website to read comments. I sure as heck don't come here to read the articles.

While we're at it, any other sites have good comment sections that you guys (users, not DICE) recommend?

Is there a way to filter by score?

I liked how I could view all +5 comments and abbreviate +3 - +4 comments and hide everything else.

If I got bored, I would move the slider over a bit and read more of the raw comments.

Well, no one expected her apple dandies to be laced with Polonium-210.

Can't wait to see what she hits these guys with.

Can I pay them an extra $1000 and buy directly from amazon? Why get a dealer involved?

(Not that I'm interested in a Nissan Versa. But my point is the same. Car dealers are the scum of the Earth.)

Alt-GR would be great in the US to allow people to realize that these characters were available.

While we're at it, how about bringing back window management keys. When I used a Sun Sparc, we had keys for front, back, forward, backward to allow us to management windows appropriately..