Or it's the Konami code, your choice.

DDWFTTW? WTF? UUDDLRLRBA?

I'd personally be happy with some 21st century 'tang.

What, you expect me to RTFA?

Yes digging a hole in space is a dumb idea.

I have noting further of value to add to this conversation.

Piece of cake, right?

I'll bet most of the people reading this poll had to look up Felix Unger and Oscar Madison. Chrissake, The Odd Couple went off the air in 1975.

I did the same thing with the Pixel (typing on it now). Put fedora 18 on it with kernel 3.9, which supports the trackpad. I did this after reading Linus Torvalds' experience doing the same thing, and being in a situation where my eeePC was feeling rather old and clunky. The screen on the Pixel is fantastic - simply stunning. Is it worth $1300? With 4 GB of RAM and a 32 GB SSD, probably not for most people. I'm a scientist who does a lot of coding and graphical visualization, most of which is run on other computers, and it has proved to be worth it for me. I really like the feel of the keyboard, although I miss some of the keys that are on a standard keyboard.

The PIxel is a strange beast, but Google has the money to try these things and if the screen on this thing becomes more common it will be good for everyone - although the touch capability of the screen doesn't do anything for me (who wants to put fingerprints on their laptop!).

Somebody in Boston U-Streamed their scanner - there must have been 250,000 people listening when they had the guy cornered in the boat. I was one of them and for an hour or so was listening while on Fark.com. I was pretty obsessed for that hour and heard when one of the cops announced they had him in custody. Then I ate dinner and watched the tube with my wife.

Oh there is feedback all right - it's called student opinion surveys. For those of us on the tenure track, getting bad enough feedback can cost you tenure - and your job.

I am an early user on the Blue Waters petaflop machine (http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/). Mean time to failure for such a huge machine becomes a real issue when you have about 700,000 cores and who knows how many spinning hard drives and all that network infrastructure. However I and my research collaborators have managed to get jobs through that take on the order of 12 hours of wallclock time without a hardware fault, which is amazing IMO. I do wonder whether we can simply continue to expand the same basic computing infrastructure to a 10-20 PFLOP machine. There will have to be redundancy built into the hardware of any such machine such that if a compute node goes offline it seamlessly offloads it to another. Writing fault tolerant massively parallel code is possible but very challenging and most scientists won't or can't do it.

I had no idea getting dressed was so mentally taxing to some people.

The president, I can understand (he's always in the public eye) but the others? Whatever, dudes, you have/had more money than God, if you want to wear the same clothes every day, knock yourself out, but don't give me this bullshit about expending energy on deciding what socks to put on in the morning.

I was in Boulder, Colorado for a while a couple years back. Those bumper stickers are everywhere. Then again, it's easy to proclaim platitudes when you are wealthy enough to be able to afford to live in Boulder.

One day out of the corner of my eye I saw, not "COEXIST", but "CRAPFEST". Every time I see one of those dopey bumper stickers, I think, CRAPFEST. Which is kind of what organized religions really are, a big, giant crapfest.

First of all, WTF does this have to do with tech? This is one of the most inappropriate stories for a News for Nerds site.

But, since we're all nerds, we do our homework, right?

Anyone who wants to engage in an informed discussion about this issue should, at the very least, read the fact finder's report:

http://www.ctunet.com/blog/text/FactFinderCOMPLETE.pdf

Yes, it's 80 pages long and still requires a fair amount of context.

I am so sick and tired of idiots blathering on about (a) lazy selfish goddammed overpaid teachers or (b) without unions we'd all be working 752 days a week in sweatshops.

I'm in a union, been down this road before, it sucked ass. I still have a love/hate relationship with unions. But unlike binary data, things in the real world are rarely black and white.

Wait, I'm an idiot. He specifically says he doesn't have a degree. Stupid small font. Carry on.

Andrew C. Oliver is a professional cat herder who moonlights as a software consultant. He started programming when he was 8 and cut his teeth on GW Basic, BASICA, and dBase III+. He is most known for founding the POI project, which is now hosted at Apache. He also was one of the early developers at JBoss before it merged with Red Hat. He is a former board member and current helper at the Open Source Initiative. He is president and founder of Open Software Integrators, a professional services firm with offices in Durham, N.C., and Chicago, Ill.

And he has a degree in computer science.