Let me get this straight, the New York Post histrionically asserted something with little consideration for a developing story and ran with it before all the facts were in?

NO WAY.

Did you know that water is wet, too?

In order to kill somebody with a knife, you need to really, really want to. You need to consider the biology, see them as a person. You need to work at it.

To kill someone with a gun, you need to be in the vicinity of the person and you need to point at them. You don't need to humanize them at all.

There is a difference.

"But since nearly 25 million people are expected to use this tool come this Christmas, this will definitely benefit Bing in the ongoing competition for online map applications."

Yeah? Prove it.

Spatchcock it, obv.

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/11/how-to-spatchcock-a-turkey-thanksgiving-butterflying-roasting-recipe.html

Your friend was doing it wrong. The intoxicant helps draw connections between things you wouldn't've necessarily thought to connect beforehand, gives you ideas, sends you off in an unexpected direction.

The work that derives from that initial idea, the actual making stuff of it, should be done sober.

If a message is "encoded" it doesn't imply one way or another whether it had been decoded at some point. Just because the message is "encoded" doesn't mean it hasn't been decoded; decoding a message doesn't change the state of the original message as it's still encoded.

Undecoded is more precise.

Personally? Uniball Micro. Perfect balance of usability, ink color, balance, weight, etc. I'm left-handed, too, so quick-drying ink is essential.

I find most "fancy" pens to be too large, preferring a narrow, unadorned barrel. I write a lot, and each pen lasts months. And their blue ink is gorgeous.

I have boxes of them in storage in case they ever stop being made.

a 4th gen iPod is $199; 5th gen is $299. Slotting a tablet between those two makes sense, especially considering that they serve different purposes and speak to different consumers.

Romney kept his job as governor and ignored his position and the commonwealth he was entrusted to protect for a year to run for president. Obama resigned his position to run. There's a big difference between those two courses of action.

Sorry guys, but you're a bit late - Slashdot hasn't been this kind of community in a decade, and even if it was, the whole point of the place (Natalie Portman and grits aside) is that we don't have to interact with actual people to talk about tech stuff.

Crap like this is unsettling. We're not FARKers. We don't interact IRL.

It's like you have no idea who your readership is.

Seriously people, stop suggesting typewriters - they're a bitch to repair assuming you can get parts, which you probably can't, are way overbuilt for what he requires of them and, at this point, probably cost more than his $50 budget anyway; all he needs is a qwerty layout with error-checking to make sure the kids are on the right track.

Just because something is mechanical or non-powered doesn't mean it's simpler, easier, or cheaper. Try to answer his actual question without getting all condescending about it.

--Triv

Yeah, because the population of /. has aged somewhat, and we now know that your standard supermodel isn't exactly be a font of meaningful conversation, and probably wouldn't give a shit about you in the first place.

Being old and self-aware is fucking rad, don't let anybody tell you otherwise.

At my company, you write an evaluation for your manager in which you rank yourself as either needing improvement, meeting expectations or exceeding expectations on a variety of points, while your manager simultaneously fills out pretty much the same evaluation of you.

And then both evaluations are handed to a senior person in the office who doesn't actually know you that well or what you do, who gives you exactly the same, barely cost-of-living raise as everybody else he doesn't work directly with, regardless of what the paperwork actually said.

The disconnect is startling.