Christmas trees, candy canes, snowmen, Rudolf, elves, Grinch, 1-horse open sleighs, presents, stockings, Christmas lights displays, eggnog.... not really religious stuff there and none of it biblical.

Santa.... eh, might be based on something religious but certainly not a religious icon today.

No, most of Christmas has nothing to do with religion. It's a bunch of winter solstice celebrations crammed together into one big holiday.

I have no idea what half of you are talking about. This is a simple RMA thing.

You order 2x4GB of RAM and they send you 2x8GB of RAM, what do you do?

These guys didn't get a product out of the blue, their order was filled incorrectly.

If you're looking for lightweight on Windows, check out xmplay. It's sitting at 334.4k. Sounds good, supports a lot of formats, has plugins, skinnable, integrates into your context menu if you want...

Not affiliated with them but I've used their program happily for years now.

http://www.un4seen.com/

Newborns just got squeezed through a hole they shouldn't be able to fit through. They are a lot less fragile than I am.

Every new parent has paranoia about their child. Paranoia can be profitable.

I still trust them a hell of a lot more than I do the other big players in technology.

Eeeeew

In order to prevent people from feeling the economic pain of Obamacare it is necessary to inflict economic pain.

I loved his stuff as an ass-kicking young man but as I grew older I lost interest.

But his written work hasn't impacted me nearly as much as the hours spent playing Rogue Spear.

Yes, we read the Wall Street Journal and watch Fox News.

Any other questions?

I'm not sure why you feel the need to be polite at this point.

I wish I had mod points. So very true.

Until we're prevented from voting for the candidate of our choosing, we can only look at ourselves to blame. Well, and those around us...

That's why "fixing Washington" shouldn't be at the top of the to-do list. Fixing ourselves should be. Start with education, fixing poverty, income disparity, and somehow break the media's stranglehold on keeping us befuddled. Then the problems in Washington will probably fix themselves.

Discussing art on Slashdot is like discussing cross-stitching on a drag racing forum. Like discussing particle physics on a doll collecting forum. Like discussing baseball stats on a recipe trading forum.

Nothing like getting a bunch of borderline Autism Spectrum Disorder technology nerds to argue about exactly what makes art the most useless endeavor in the world.

I loved that Best Buy commercial where their employee recommends the Surface for car enthusiasts.

"It's great! It has a USB port, One Note for taking notes, and Excel for tracking everything!"

Really? Excel is one of your top three selling points to consumers?

You are a genius. I thought I should tell you that.