"While the goat didn't survive long due to lung defects this gives scientists hopes that it will be possible to resurrect extinct species from frozen tissue."

That was about how my 8.10 experience went too.

How can Dolphins save you from the net when they get caught in them all time?

Most people, I think, don't even know what a Trojan is, so why should they care about it?

IMDB > Actor biographies
Google Images > Special Artwork
YouTube & Movies Sites > Deleted Scenes and Behind the Scenes Documentaries
Blogs > Director's commentaries
Apple/Youtube > Upcoming releases
Ripping Disc to cleanse the movie > FBI Warning
Watching mold grow > Overdone menus
Surfing the net on my own > Launching my browser with your dumpy "special access" software.
Root Canal > DVD Quizzes

And now...

Downloading Demos > Having them bundled

Hooray, I love more garbage that will make my movies seem even more dated when I watch them 10 years later.

Who am I kidding? They probably won't even put the demos on the disks...they'll just waste your bandwidth by using BD Live to download the demo.

I've used Mandrake/Mandriva a couple of times too. Ironically enough a number of computer science peers jeered at it, calling it "n00b Linux".

You know, because we should all embrace distributions that are a pain to get working properly.

I heard it used to belong to some ridiculous group claiming ufo defense or something.

Finally I can join the ranks of my wife's Tupperware, Mary Kay, and Stamping Up crowd!

I'll patent this idea first and then all your class action lawsuit moneys are belong to me!

I'm both a coder and a manager. When I first started, the meetings drove me bonkers. After wasting enough time, I decided to ditch them altogether with my boss's approval so I could finish a big project.

I learned my lesson quickly. After each meeting that I skipped, my boss would show up in my office (effectively destroying the block of time I was saving), and then he'd tell me about 5 more projects brought up in the meeting that were automatically approved. More work was actually created because I wasn't there to shoot down off-track and silly ideas in these meetings.

I started showing up at meetings pronto to "keep the company on track with IT and software projects". It was worth it to waste 8 hours a week in meetings to avoid months upon months on projects initiated by people who had no clue how technology works.

Yep, two of my scanners died in Vista. At work we can afford to order new ones. At home, Microsoft lost a customer to Linux.

A customer who happens to be an IT manager with a newfound respect for FOSS and a dislike for complex licensing.

Windows 98 was what Windows 95 should have been.
Windows XP was what Windows ME should have been.
Windows 7 is going to be "what Vista should have been."

However in this case, Windows 7 is barely different than Vista. The only reasons I hated Vista was:

1. Like previous MS operating systems, they relied too heavily on Moore's Law. Only this time it bit them. Requirements for reasonable use were way too high, and hardware didn't catch up until just recently. On the contrary, people were used to their 5 year old XP running nice and quickly.

2. Vendors were still failing with drivers left and right, and then there was the whole 64 bit thing that people had been refusing to embrace.

3. The interface change was "different".

What's actually different in Windows 7? Nada. It was supposed to run faster than Vista, but the closer it gets to release time, the more I hear of "The speed is about the same, but at least our hardware has matured now."

Vendors who didn't build drivers for Vista are finally saying "Gee, we're two operating systems behind so maybe we should support Windows 7." Vendors who previously built drivers for Vista did little to no tweaking to get things working for 7. So now your support is covered.

Virtually nothing has changed other than our hardware finally caught up, and people are adjusting to the "Vista"-esque UI. So once people get used to Windows 7, err, "Vista SP3", the dumb ones will say "Why was Vista so bad?" The semi-smart ones will say "Why did we waste our money on an operating system that's not new?", and the geniuses will be cleaning up on the 2nd-hand market building home Linux servers.

Yep! Reminds me a lot of the early days of universal instant messengers like Trillian that logged into ICQ, MSN, etc. Protocols kept-a-changin', upgrades kept-a-happenin', and now it's all moot.

You said it perfectly though. This will be a much shorter war. Basic users could upgrade ICQ at the the drop of a hat. Upgrading iPod firmware to keep up with the war? Heh.

Of course you have. I've also seen cars tow boats, carry more than 5 people, have hot tubs in the back, etc, etc...but most don't.

Indeed. I'm getting really tired of reading about prototypes with amazing mileage that:

1. Will never pass a crash test.
2. Don't have seat belts / airbags
3. Have no radio, AC, or other features.
4. Can't hold more than one or two people.

I've owned these amazing machines for years. They're called motorcycles.

LOL - Jedi Hand Wave. You painted an awesome picture with this story.