The creation museum is not far from Cincinnati, in Northern Kentucky. The seriously messed up thing is that they use DINOSAURS to promote the creation Museum. I am guessing they will use scientists to promote the theme park.

I thought it should be STATUE instead!

So all this posturing about "sheeple" means that we are getting smarter! I guess it also proves evolution too...

I am sure everyplace would have their share of stupid drivers, but I think we have a higher share of them here. The standard operating procedure for merging here to never let anyone in front of you... ever. Just speed up move and brake hard. Since you don't want to let your adversaries, er... fellow drivers know your intentions, never signal your turn. Given that our fastest drivers drive in the lanes designated for slower drivers because some drivers drive just under the speed limit in our fastest lane to "set an example" for the faster drivers, Ohio is a real mess. The other fun thing is our cops (local and state) will bust you if your even 5 miles over the speed limit. Beside the obvious life saving measures, our traffic flow, and even our wallets improve. On a side note, has anyone done research on the impact of NOT losing 35,000 people every year. I don't want to sound morose, but wow that would have major implications on our resources. I would rather keep people alive and try to fix our resource problems though.

Are the carriers planning on having a crappy network and charging us for signal boosters? My house is over a hundred years old, and I bet it has some special materials in it, because it is where signals go to die. If I could get solid reception without have to leave my house for a signal for $250, I would seriously consider it.

As a longtime developer using Windows, my dream was to move our desktop machines to Linux ad use virtual machines when needed. Since this was my idea, my windows machine of 5 years was wiped and replaced with Ubuntu. About a month later, I haven't had any need to return to Windows. We use Notes as our mail, so I have a Linux client there. Firefox, Open Office, and my IDES also have a Linux version. My machine runs faster, and it is easier to find things! My music plays fine, and my printers and network were found without issue. Ubuntu is not exactly like Windows, but when you learn the Linux way of things, it works out better actually. With that being said, the laptop and desktop are being replaced with mobile devices. I don't think the form factor has been settled yet, but "smart phone app" metaphor is clearly the popular OS choice. I love the Linux packages, but the "app store" seems to work better for most users. The good news is those run Linux too.

That is an interesting metaphor because in America, our Kindergarten teachers are more like cat herders!

The problem is not Agile versus Waterfall, Its the lack of documentation early in the process and knowing the business needs during the project. It should be that management approves the project, business analysts get the business needs and create requirements, and IT reviews the requirements and builds the software. The reality is that management used to be IT, so they *KNOW* what the issue is and writes the requirements, system analysts are used in place of business analysts to write the requirements, and IT just has to "get er done!". By the way most companies aren't software houses, so why the hard deadlines? Oh yea bonuses are attached to the projects. As I deliver my project on time I get my bonus. It doesn't matter that is a feature starved,half-assed implementation that make everyones job just that more difficult.

Not to sound like my tinfoil hat has gotten too tight, but really is this warfare? So our grid goes down. Does this mean we can't live? Does it stop us from growing crops, transporting them on trucks, and buying them in markets? Don't we have the resources to build other technologies to provide our food and shelter? If the Chinese crippled us via Cyber Warfare, they would lose all of their economic power. We buy more of their junk than anyone else. If China used this as a method of physically taking over the US (they already own our stuff) I am sure the nukes or an EF bombs would put us all on the same playing field.

that CNN is reporting it. I remember when people here were saying this, but the mainstream press had nothing but glowing things to say about Microsoft. The fact that the mainstream press is NOW saying it, means that even less technical people are looking elsewhere for the toys.

As a Java guy, our choices were IBM, where all of their stuff works, only after that add crazy cruft to it and you talk to three different IBM support specialists, or Oracle, where stuff works, but everything they have cost three times as much. Oracle clearly cannot run a community, but there is no money in it. Without a community, Java as a language will die. I think the Java language has been dying for sometime now. Most major enterprises as still running EE 1.4. This will give some credence to .Net taking over the enterprise. I guess Spring can take up some of the EE stack space too, but I don't think there will be a clear language leader in the future.

It's not like there's a lot of 3D choices. Most of the movies I saw in 3D still work in 2D. Until there is something really compelling *cough* porn *cough*, it's not going to fly off the sheleves.

It works for Fox News!

The people writing the laws ARE Lawyers! The Legislative and Executive branches are full of lawyers. We have over 50,000 federal laws and growing daily. Add to it state and local statues, and it's amazing that more people aren't in jail. Compound this fact that most people can even understand the laws (because lawyers using their pedantic language), and there is little hope of defending yourself. That's why any bill is well over 1,000 pages.

apparently leaves a mark!