This is why I had the goat leggings I purchased wrapped in Hanukkah gift paper and topped with a big red and green bow.

directly involved with the financial disaster of 2007 - 2008. Its that easy. OWS is a reaction to those sectors and players directly involved with the real estate bubble and the sub-prime mortgage mis-deeds of big banks - and Wall St. Technology served to make all that possible but it was greed - corruption - and politics that made the disaster. Those are the areas that OWS has (or will) focus on along with the business as usual (no CEOs or senior management go to jail -- but rather get bonuses) environment in DC and Wall St.

People are fed up - and I am one of them.

The haters will find no peace .....

No matter your technology religion Steve Jobs had an impact - a huge impact. The word iPod is a part of our lexicon. The iPhone has spawned the whole sector called smart phones, The iPad is doing the same. And as another poster noted he took UNIX to the mainstream with OS X. That may have been one of his most gutsy moves. The man had vision. The first computer I ever touched - ever used was an Apple II in college in 1981. Can't believe he is dead at 56 --- hell I'm only 55.

RIP Steve Jobs

Another example that starting AND maintaining a music / media service is not a simple task. First you have to deal with the nuts in Hollywood on DRM and music catalogs etc. --- Then you have to have a coherent vision for your service and superb software --- Oh, and it would be good if you had either a cool device for consumers ... or a seamless way for consumers to get their media to any number of other devices. Lastly you have to have staying power to go on and on and on and on

Love it - hate it - or just use it ---- iTunes has been there for 10yrs (an eon in tech time) ..... surrender, it just works .....

This is what happens when you turn over manufacturing to a 3rd party that you have no real control over.

Yeah - good luck with that. Oh and those fake Apple stores .... they were going to build those anyway. Apple just helped things along by sending China all its design info.

I hope this happens to many "American" companies who outsource manufacturing.

Just rename it the Ronald Reagan Space Telescope and poof the House of Reps will support it

Our tech teacher designed this type of approach 3yrs ago and its a popular class. Using Gamemaker software gets kids into the class who might not go for straight up programming. The path is: Game Design 1, Game Design 2, then Java. At that point students can continue on to advanced Java projects that they define themselves. The other neat thing we do is in the Game Design 2 class there is is 1 large project - students form into teams of 3 and then they are matched to 1 or 2 Art students. They learn to work as a team with the art students doing sprite and background design.

You grouchy old timers need to remember that back in the day '70s-'80s computers were still an uncommon and exotic thing. And I can recall being thrilled to pound out BASIC or Pascal or C programs. These days kids are surrounded by computers (and flashy programs) from birth. So naturally I don't think they would be drawn to a pure code environment immediately, but after a couple of terms of learning programing basics creating games --- they can see the possibilities.

They both passed away about 10yrs ago. Its something you are never ready for - you accept it and move on. And you always wish for one last conversation.

what the number of security / virus issues was (or wasn't ) during the period of using Linux in the office ? I do tech support for a medium sized school district and we are constantly getting pretty sophisticated phishing emails to some of our staff. And some staff still fall for them or send out emails or try to reply ... Fortunately we are 70% Mac based so most of that just blows by.

The issue with teachers is that they regularly email parents and students who may have infected PCs and their email addresses are then harvested.

and the perfect disguise above.
Under the cities lies a heart made of ground
But the humans will give no love

You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain

La la la la la
La la la la la

The oil companies screwed you again .....

you really have no idea what you're talking about. We were in Germany for 3 weeks visiting friends in Hamburg during August. We had planned a 4 day trip to Paris via train. The German trains were nice and we rode all 3 types: a small commuter train, a medium sized inter city train, and Germany's high speed train out to the French German border (Strasbourg). But the French TGV was truly impressive and awesome. Quiet and smooth - no click-clack rail noise, seating was very comfortable - and the speed - wow. And the power -- in really open flat country you could feel a slight pressure against the seat as they opened up the juice. We arrived in Paris well ahead of schedule - and well rested. I felt totally safe during the trip.

I believe we need to start with 2 North - South corridors -- one on each coast. Something like Seattle to LA with limited stops: Tacoma/Olympia, Portland, Salem, Eugene, Redding, Bay Area, Sacramento, LA.

AND - we should partner with one of the existing high speed trains in operation to leverage at lease some of their infrastructure parts - pieces - engineering. Things are cheaper in volume and why re-invent the rail-bed and rail technology.

mid thirties and just average users -- average meaning they have actual normal lives and would never ever be inclined to look at slashdot.

I do tech support so I am always either getting questions or hearing about tech stuff from the clients I support. So a married couple (both just average Joe and Jane users) decide to upgrade to smart phones. She goes to BestBuy gets a new iPhone for her and the android model her hubby wants. That night she is busy setting up her phone - downloading some apps - taking pics and emailing them - etc. Meanwhile hubby is getting uber frustrated trying to get anything to work on the droid etc. The next day she returns the droid and buys another iPhone for hubby ...

I'm no fan boy and I have issues with many things Apple does - but they do understand the user / customer experience

- hard at work stealing our information and creative processes. People (that includes politicians + CEOs) just tend to forget that China is not some quaint country that has rules of law and enforces those laws. This is a state run government and economy - anything goes to enrich the state and acrue power. We've already sent most of our production machines over there - now they are coming back to collect any intellectual property they can grab as well.

They are starting to eat our lunch and will shortly just take our lunch money

And contrary to some comments -- Ford makes some damn fine vehicles -- I dearly miss my 2001 F-150 4x4 - great truck