The point John makes (I heard it on Twit.tv podcast as well) is that if you replace Apple with Microsoft, and Microsoft with Linux the argument stands true. Microsoft just told their customer to buy based on cost. Its hard to bet Free on cost, so if people stop and think about this ad campaign, MS is pushing people to Linux.

Obviously that is the place to be for all startups wishing to "take over the world."

With or without the laser equipped sharks.

If I were a writer I would try to write a SCi-Fi novel about this type of thinking taken to the Nth degree. Alas I am not a writer so the world is spared.

But I think this type of thinking is great. I wish my house recaptured dryer heat (and humidity) in the winter. And that I could pump refrigerator heat directly outside during the summer.

Seriously, its all about networking folks.

For the record, that is a cut and paste from the NASA announcement.

I love your comment, ROFL.

Does your money go somewhere other than your ISP for those videos? Yes! It is a target.

IANAL, but it seems this is dangerously close to Anti-competitive monopolistic business practices.

I've always thought that the "no purchase" required line in these was a legal maneuver to keep the contest from becoming a raffle, and there by becoming gambling, which is illegal in most of the US. (Unless of course it is done by the government to increase tax revenues.)

The real problem is they normally try to make an American version of the British show. Most of the time this means it gets gutted, with all the good parts removed. The only exception to this I can think of is The Office. I think the US version is doing better than the UK version, I don't really watch either thought.

A Sci-Fi comedy would probably not appeal to a wide audience, but I have watched the entire RD series more times than I can count. Once in Germany, countless times on PBS in the US, which I taped off the air in the days before DVRs and watched countless more times. Then when a friend bought the VHS tapes of the series. Then when I joined Netflix I watched it all again!

Love RD! When will it be on DVD or Bit Torrent (about 30 minutes after UK airing?).

This looks like an April 1st press release. Or a sad company looking for every movie tie in they could find.

If its real, I guess we can expect 400 new super villains per year. Who is working on Spiderman suits and genetic engineering?

Perhaps we will need the Qualcomm Crocaeagles sooner than we expected!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3agYeT-T9co

Really when do they want to do this?

I think everyone reading slashdot wants this to happen, and knows what would make it happen. The only question here is can government ignore the lobbyists long enough to do the right thing.

For those that need a monetary reason to save the environment, this is a poster child. We can learn a huge amount of useful things from studying nature. If that nature is allowed to die out, then we will miss out on the hidden knowledge.

I have long thought that IBM or Oracle would buy Sun to control Java. Yes there are innovations that come out of Sun, but hold long can Sparc compete with Intel/AMD and Solaris compete with Linux. Sun just doesn't have the resources to win both of those battles. Java is their trump card, and they don't know how to monetize it. Unless they figure out how to profit off of Java, I see them dieing a slow death.