Yeah, it's obviously a mixture of things. But "#1 Happy Street" always made me giggle. :-)

I hope there's not really a John Q. Public living at 1 Happy Street*, Beverly Hills, 90210. If so... apologies in advance, mate.

* From My Blue Heaven

"What the frig is the address here?"

"How should I know... Number One Happy Street!"

I take it no one on Slashdot's esteemed editorial team has every lived in an earthquake area? As a former northern CA resident, I'm here to agree with the others that anything less than a 5.0 is not news. Seriously, if I felt a 4.0 at night, I probably wouldn't even mention it to friends the next day. If they're going to start posting about every 4.0 earthquake, I'll have to leave. There are a lot of those. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear...

If you make the system operate like a game, don't whine like a baby when people play. And win.

Radical concept: quit dicking around with the pricing.

Not forever. When updates stop, updates stop. There's a relatively short time when old OSs still get updates.

An up-to-date 10.10 Mac shows webkit version 600.5.17. A 10.6.8 Mac has 534.59.10. A 10.3.9 Mac has 312.9. (According to http://browserspy.dk/webkit.ph... ) Current webkit nightlies (.dmg) won't run on 10.6 or 10.8. MAYBE I could build from source, but a) I doubt it and b) effectively no one, anywhere, does that.

> It is not a very plausible solution for agricultural use-- too
> expensive. Do you realize that those people take the water
> and just dump it on the ground?

HA! I *wish* they would just dump it on the ground. I've driven by farms in the valley where gigantic sprayers are just launching it all high into the air, and a good amount of it evaporates before it even has a chance to hit the ground.

If you shoot a piece of space junk, it splits into two. You shoot each of those, you get two more. You shoot those, they disappear. Documentary on the process here.

Pinky out, near the exit, and over/under, right?

OK, show of hands... before today, who here would have thought "double Irish arrangement" meant something kinky?

Dear LAUSD,

No.

-Steve

Sent from my iPad

LaserDisc's biggest problem was that it was read-only. Compared to "I can watch AND record ANYTHING", the market for "I can only watch studio films" was tiny. AFAIK, the very first LaserDiscs were one hour PER SIDE, so even the first model could hold a 2-hour movie on a single disc. That was the point of its existence.

> Jedi may also need to invest in the DVDs.

Pro tip: you only need to buy the 3 old ones, not all 6.

Fucking fantastic. One more thing I'll need to turn off in every account on every computer I use.

I wish there was one great browser, and not three OK ones.

Does the title "the superbowl of stupidity" refer to the content of your post? Because you seem to be forgetting how Apple did after entering the lackluster MP3 player market, the lackluster smartphone market, and the lackluster tablet market -- each time, entering an existing space and selling orders of magnitude more products than their competitors. Maybe, just maybe, they deserve the benefit of the doubt here.

They included a typo in the summary for extra authenticity. "A r presentative from..."

But yeah, thanks for the reminder that it's "don't bother to visit Slashdot" day.