for a long time, till they came up with PL/S. The typical mainframe environment was COBOL or PL/I for application programming, assembly language for system and utilities.

"Hackers are not dangerous people, they are misunderstood."

So are the serial killers.

hoping RT will be flying off the shelves --- well, you got what you've deserved.

Virtually every test performed on hybrid drive so far shows that for all practical purposes it performs about the same as a regular hard drive. Research, my arse ...

Me thinks Apple should purchase all those 6 million Surfaces, for, say 1 cent a piece and have a huge party where every Apple employee can smash at least one Surface with a large iron mallet.. Or more than one, depending on rank. Something like what Vogons did to crabs.

hoppity hop, hoppity hop, hoppity hop. Peek-a-boo!

Just trying to put a positive spin on that.

and Windows 8, no doubt.

A nd then - oh horror - you'll find out that your grader used a different software to grade your essay. *Quite* different.

> You will believe this so strongly that when you do not land a job, it will destroy you, and nobody outside of academia will understand why.

That is, nobody except Josef K.

fights the nuclear power. More news at 11.

Yes, P. Baran is the first person I was thinking of. The whole idea of packet switching (as an opposite to leased lines) became the foundation of both DARPA and X.25 networks (and many others like Frame Relay). If I remember correctly, he wrote the paper as some kind of research project.

porn bans YOU!

Clearly not, if the Universe is infinite. So seems like there is no point to migrating to IPv6. Time to start working on IPv8 or whatever.

That's *the American* way, dude.