I initially liked SG:U. I thought it was a good, clever mix of BSG and ST:VOY. I liked the characters, I liked the issues they were facing.

Then season 2 came along. It seemed all of the good-will and constructive storyline was thrown out the window. The show just got weirded, and I stopped watching. I'm not sad SGU was cancelled, I'm sad that they took it the direction they did...

I don't know if it qualifies as good, but the fact that it exists at all is a pretty incredible feat.

http://newtonpoetry.com/2010/09/15/finally-newton-einstein-project-on-iphone/

An iPhone is just a step away from an iPad.

Yup: Paywall bad idea. They will reap the consequences, blah blah blah.

The hardest thing they're going to have to learn to grasp in new media economics is that it's not just their business model that's changing. It's not just that they're going to have to stop expecting people to pay for their services like they did before. Their entire industry is going through a massive shift. Personally, the only way I see newspapers surviving is that they become tremendously small outfits. 10-man operations that produce solely for the web and offer a print-on-demand version for those who are interested. Your staff of a dozen reporters and the hundred people who support them aren't going to last here. Print journalism as an industry just can't support those people the way it used to.

Is journalism dead? No. But I think massive news companies are. Journalists and the "Ace Reporter" are going to become free agents. Newspapers are going to become aggregators of the information they collect, and they'll likely have to secure a story with a fee or a retainer. I have sympathy for the people whose jobs are disappearing, but I think every time a job disappears, a new industry grows and more jobs are created.

In a semi-related note, I think that DC should do a Superman storyline where Clark gets laid-off because the Planet can't support his job anymore.

... If I were the school's network admin, or even the district tech person. Granted that this may be a matter of simply finding a password/watching a password. I remember when I was in 6th grade, we had a teacher who would hunt and peck his way through is password. It was easy enough to catch it.

Anyone else read that as:
Appeals Court Rules On Internet Obesity Standards?

In some cases, it's the challenge. In other cases, it's a need - you want to have a mac, but don't have the money to spend on one. Some cases it's a way of sticking it to Apple for not selling hardware that we want to buy (a mid-range tower.) There are a lot of reasons. I wanted to give my wife a unique gift, so I put an intel miniITX into a G4 Cube case... I still wanted her to have a mac so I went that direction. In any case, the point is to have and be able to use OS X. It's almost never about choosing "the best" OS. If that really were the case, we all (Hackintoshers) would have sucked it up and gone out and bought Apple hardware and saved ourselves the trouble.

Not an open one... not really anyway. Smart phone fill this need already. If someone would design an open-platform for Android, I think that would be a winner. Unfortunately, I don't think that's going to happen. There's little incentive for someone to create a handset that is open-hardware

I was going to make the same suggestion. Arduino is an excellent electronics tool to dive in with Students will eat it up.

Thanks, but we don't need any more socialism. Don't get me wrong, I love Doctor Who as much as the next guy, but compulsory payment for a service/product you may or may not use is absurd.

I guess I expected it to look a little less like a High-school textbook drawing of the bonds. The only thing that would make it moreso is if little Cs were set next to each atom.

I have to agree. I bought WCIII hoping it would be Starcraft. It wasn't. It wasn't close. It was dumb. I didn't enjoy playing it... ever. Tragic, isn't it? RPS was a mistake. I think we're largely seeing Blizzard reverse on that decision, otherwise we'd see Starcraft shaping up to be more like WC3 than the original SC.

I feel like I must be in the minority here. I've never had to wait to use one, I've never had problems with one reading my card, or getting what I wanted. FWIW, I don't park a lot in Portland. The meter systems we have seem to work just fine for me. I don't live downtown, or work downtown, so I'm not there real often, but the few times I've had to use the system has been pretty simple. I think the most inconvenient thing was waiting for the printout.

We're re-writing a lot of our comments from last week, aren't we... http://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/07/30/0341206/iPhone-App-Tracks-Sex-Offenders

While whatever you've read may focus on Sports, common roles, etc, I recommend you take the advice to heart. Recognize that basically, you are still the male, and your wife is still the female. Regardless of how much you try to downplay those roles, I have no doubt that at some point you will see them. My wife is very independent, but occasionally she falls into the stereotypical roles that we eschew so much. Likewise, I sometimes fall into the stereotypical male roles that I generally try to avoid. That's because we're human beings and we have natural instincts.

At any rate, while you may not be interested in sports, it doesn't mean that you're immune to neglecting your companion, and that's the important part. Likewise, there are some ways she might neglect you. Make efforts to talk to each other, understand the needs of each other, and make sure you're doing what you can to care for her.

I wish you the best of luck and success in your marriage. Congratulations!