Drugs have helped my career tremendously. I may not be the best developer, but I've been promoted beyond all of my hung-over, buzzed, and fried co-workers.

The problem with that is when someone names the not-yet-released product and then it comes out late. I remember that Nantucket's Clipper used to have names like 'Spring 84' and 'Summer 85'. This worked well until 'Summer 86' came out in December of 86. The next release was something like 'Clipper 5.0'.

You've got it backwards. America's only real enemy now is it's own paranoia. It is the one sinking "billions upon billions" into weapons and systems that they will probably never use. The rest of the world (Russians, Iranians, random terrorists, whatever) only has to keep promoting semi-plausible "threats" that cause more spending and the inevitable bankruptcy that will follow.

A strategy that worked great for America in the Cold War and is now working against them.

You mean apps like Word and Excel? Somehow, I don't think MS wants it's customers to stop running apps like those. Unless they really think people are going to move to the cloud-based versions.

Google is becoming virtually useless for searching for solid, non-biased product reviews. Amazon is ok, but limited to reviews by users and Consumer Reports is very good but reviews only a limited number of products.

Hello Sweetie!

Repubs will change their minds 15 seconds after MSNBC becomes an ISP and it's their content that's being limited. After that, of course, the Dems will have to be kept in line by Fox News becoming an ISP as well.

In the early 80's I once asked a friend of mine, who was good at scrounging, if he could find me some 'cheap mass storage'. I should have said 'cheap hard drive', which is what I wanted.

He brought me back a paper tape punch device. No reader, just the puncher. Also, he could only find about 50 ft of paper tape. He was slightly indignant when I didn't take them off his hands.

I have always wondered if he ever made it work with his Apple ][.

Dude, it's Wall Street. They don't have to live with consequences.

The innovation isn't in the ability to search. The innovation is to file a Patent and collect money from other companies. Sadly, most of the 'innovation' coming from the US in recent years seems to be coming from the marketing and legal departments of companies like Apple.

I thought that SPDY's only reason for existence is to push more ads on people. Why else would anyone want to use it?

That does help. Thanks!

Instead of being afraid of terrorists, we are now afraid of the TSA. I guess it's just trading one form of terrorism for another. Since the TSA has come around, I have refused to take my children on vacations that involve going through airports. Sorry Disney World, you're too far away to drive. We've been going to local attractions which have been just as much fun, if not more interesting. Nothing like family bonding on a camping trip!

And so I suppose that Teller has never ever ever performed a trick that someone else developed and everything he has done is truly original work.

uh, well perhaps they discontinued it because it destroyed their manhood?