D5 was pretty solid. There are quite a few who still use it - including me. Don't forget the platform it has to work on, and who created that platform. Every time i install vs for a look i nearly puke.

and no retarded one-button mouse (touchpad/trackpointer). but on the other hand, I'm not retarded. I want two or three mouse buttons

Cue the superior mac user...

Untold fear, tension, sweat beads. A thousand times almost, but not quite, tapping one of those new fandangled buttons.

Will it explode, what about my warranty, will she divorce me, what will my colleagues say...

So he never actually does the unthinkable, quietly switching it back to single button mode.

And that, my friends, is why there will never be more than one button on a mac...

Exactly, because they know no-one is interested in their haemorrhoids...

On a more serious note, IANAL and all, but in general, contract law says that terns and conditions are part of a contract, and both parties have to agree - no agree no contract. And yet, if we are subject to an early termination penalty, and they shift the goal posts, changing the contract, and we don't agree to that, they claim they still have a right to the early termination clause...

Would it stand up???

All your base are belong to google...

I thought everyone knew that the man who goes around putting fluff in your belly button is the same man who goes around putting bits of carrot in your chunder, even though you haven't eaten carrots for a fortnight...

150MW Data Center...

If a 7.2MW plant can power 9,000 homes, then a 150MW data center would use the equivalent of nearly 200,000 homes...

Didn't seem right so a bit of research found...

"5MW - the power consumption of a large data center today, according to Subodh Bapat, who runs Sun's energy efforts. 50MW - that's the average large datacenter in 2020, he said."

from some greentech mob

So we either have typical media numbers spin, or that's one mother of a data center they plan to build.

Or in this case, when they put pen to paper...

Possibly, but I reckon it is more a case of the attitude of the relevant players.

In some cultures, companies still approach their business from a "provide a quality service for a reasonable price and the customers will come" philosophy. Are you old enough to remember companies like that in western countries?

Unfortunately in our capitalism at all costs way, too many companies approach their business from a "how much can we milk em for, how do we lock em in" philosophy.

So when there is some new you beaut tech just waiting for everyone, we get a situation aptly described in TFA as

"it is completely possible nothing will happen in mobile payments in the next five years if everybody keeps thinking only about their own piece of the puzzle."

Read as "piece of the pie"...

The classic story was the one about the Americans spending a $million creating a pen that worked in zero gravity.

The Ruskies? - they just used a pencil...

As if on cue, from two days ago...

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20090107

You have never seen ms source code have you???

I could say something corny like "I for one bow to our new non-iterative overlords..."

But seriously, can you tell me for which languages iteration is not a core concept???

Are you a self taught vb programmer per chance?