So is masturbation, but I don't see anyone giving out about that!

What about Rods, Poles, Hands and Perches?

I happen to have at least 4 rods 37.56 hands length of books at home and I am sick of being ignored.

Jerk!

If when I flipped up the top of the gear stick on my Aston Martin DB5 there was a little red button there. And just for kicks one night I decided to press that button while I was entertaining the latest of in my series of hot babes and she happened to be shot out of the roof of my car, I would be a little ticked off (and Q would also get an earful).

It's been a while since I've done any Windows programming, but IIRC, if the cursoron function is available for 3rd party vendors, then someone in Microsoft explicitly exported that function. It didn't just get there by magic. Who is at fault? MS making the function available and not documenting it and then changing it.

That's the same bullshit line that Mozilla tries when plugins break Firefox.

The OS is there to serve the end-users via vendor applications, not the other way round. In fact, on its own the OS is effectively useless.

You have to ask yourself why are there shortcuts? If applications can be written that can ignore the control established by the operating environment then what hope is there for even a basic level of security and stability.

Granted the hole is in Vista not Windows 7 - but I seriously doubt that it has been plugged.

It's a derivative work. So the royalties are still due.

However, I do believe that 'aful' is actually covered by GPL - and so maybe it is the OUP that is in trouble.

Either I don't understand what you are saying - or you are wrong.

You and I are not dead ends - every creature between us and our bacterial forebears was an evolutionary success. The "aunts" and "uncles" that didn't reproduce are evolutionary dead ends - but that does mean their successful siblings were.

And there is nothing that says that once you reproduce you can't be fossilized. And on the flip side, you cannot say that those that were fossilized didn't reproduce...

Dinosaurs eggs are definitely evolutionary dead ends - but dinosaur adults are not (necessarily).

There's nothing to see.

Ha! I crack myself up.

In my experience (blah blah blah), those who don't do stuff outside of 9 to 5 aren't necessarily bad at what they do - but people who are bad at what they do don't stuff outside 9 to 5.

It shouldn't be expected, because that's stupid, but it should be a note in the margin.

I'm extremely positive towards the guy but really I don't think he's done enough to deserve this.

Just like that other chap who was always making wild statements about what Microsoft was going to do next.

They let him go too. What was his name again? Will? Billy? ...something.

To be fair, if the guy gets the thing to work then he can call it whatever he wants.

Up to this point a 'hyperdrive' is a product of science fiction, so the only way you can stop him is to present your hyperdrive.

Fuck it, if he wanted to he could call it an 'Infinite Improbability Drive'.

He was sleeping with the FBI director's wife.

If 50% of the roads were mined, would you still use them?

Are you lost?

I've chalked up 20+ countries, but it's very easy to do that when you live in Europe.

Someone could travel the whole of the US, racking up thousands of miles and see loads of interesting stuff, and still end up with 0 other countries visited.

In Europe some people could visit 6 or 7 different countries by just going to the shops.