While your astounding power to neither make sense nor to engage in mature discussion does indeed intimidate me, I will risk pointing out that, for example, a box of Rice-A-Roni is much cheaper than "salad in a bag" (both convenience foods in a sense).

I don't shop at whole foods-type stores. I suppose you will probably come to my house and pour the aforementioned sweat in my doorstep to show me what I'm missing out on. Can't wait.

They don't believe so (I also heard the story this morning), as they asked people who came into the store if they had done so because of the FB exposure. No one had (though one generous soul donated $10 on line because of it). Not a great way to spend $240 on advertising.

This is a true statement. I am technically obese (it "happened" over time - I graduated college in very good shape), and self-started a push to change that. In three months I've lost 14 pounds (the rate of loss has slowly increased as my body adjusts to the new activity and eating routine), and part of that has been eating less, but also reducing processed foods and cutting out fast food entirely. It IS expensive to eat more healthily (I earn well, but am by no means wealthy); the one benefit of this is that I am forced to eat less as I can't afford to stuff my face with quality foods.

In the long run, I hope to avoid the far more expensive costs of diabetes and heart disease treatment, so the up-front costs of eating well and exercising (if one chooses to join a gym rather than walk-run-bike-etc.) will hopefully truly save me money in the long run.

Hehe, EVERY opinion here is an unpopular one! :)

I personally think that the attempts at making Office more accessible (Ribbon, chiefly) are good and effective, and I've been using Office since 1992; I think Win8 on mobile is brilliant (though on the desktop they are probably looking at a kludge at best, though perhaps it won't be as reviled as Vista), and if they keep that sort of engineering in mobile moving forward they *could* perhaps gain respectable market share.

Microsoft has a solid history of ignoring new trends (if you don't like IE 8 or 9 now, go back to IE releases prior to 6 and see how much they ignored the importance of the Internet), then purchasing their way into relevance. I hope that their ways are changing in this regard, because competition matters. Without a spur to push it forward, progress and innovation can, and usually do, stagnate.

Ballmer has no charisma, but (and it's a big one) IF Win8 succeeds, MS may be able to push its way towards consumer consciousness and respectability again, which will make this not so important.

At the end of TFA, they stated that these CEO's, like those of RIM, et. al., should quit. I believe they're speaking of active CEOs.

What ever happened to being enthusiastic about a dream realized, one that dares to push the boundaries of what is current? Most posts here seem to be very much against this, and some with reasonable arguments as to why, but I applaud this engineer for trying to do something creative that could prove to be a test bed for technologies that we don't today have. He's combining his love of a forward-thinking creative mind's output (Roddenberry's) with his own can-do attitude. I think it would be a wonderful achievement.

Exactly so. The latest K-Lite Mega Codec Pack was released on April 24th, and - as it has for as long as I can recall - it includes the wonderfully minimalist and functional MPC.

Sounds like what has happened at EA. I wonder what their average programmers' ages are, and wages.

I was an Air Force brat (my father flew KC-135 and KC-10 tankers, "flying gas stations") and we were stationed at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana, a major B-52 base. I can confirm that I have heard from airmen the same things you have stated. B-1 has some excellent qualities, but cost of operation is not one of them.

Initially created to be a low-level penetrator capable of delivering (relatively) low-yield tactical nuclear payloads deep into the heart of the USSR (thereby avoiding setting off Russian ICBM early alert systems that a ground-based missile launch would cause), with the end of the Soviet Union the B-1's primary mission was diminished/removed. At that point, cost of running the damn thing (various sources put the amount at roughly twice that of the B-52 per flight hour) makes the BUFF (Big Ugly Fat... ahem) a smart choice for supporting ground troops, etc, with conventional JDAMS, at least for the US's current engagements.

If Cold War-era threats ever rear up again (and there are a few countries who could still pose these types of challenges), the B-1 and B-2 will be the strategic platforms of choice. In conventional engagements, the B-52 has proven to be far more than simply adequate.

VERY funny post :) Still, hang in there - I hope it will happen for you. I was over the average age of "first contact," but eventually all of those things came about in my life. In fact, I just proposed yesterday (seriously, I did) - and yes, she accepted. Second time for both of us, but that's okay. Trust me, if someone would have ME, you have hope!

I could see this working as it does in some films, but eventually, just like with anything else, the "Ooh shiny!" factor wears off, and people will tune them (ads, discount offers, etc) out the same way we do regular ads, rough language on TV (compared to what was allowed a few decades ago in the US), and so on. Not that it won't have an effect at all, but our passive filters will adapt.

This was first published in the Washington Post, right? ;)

Wish I had mod points for you. Positive ones :)

I'm pretty sure OP was not referencing hygiene.

That would be everyone who drives for pleasure.