And somewhere Roland Piquepaille is smiling.

To second your post, my best friend is a Major in the Marine Corps (F-18 pilot). He has an engineering degree from Penn and is one of the smartest, most dedicated people I know. His roommate (also a Major and F-18 pilot) has a bachelors and masters degree in electrical engineering from Stanford. Sure, some dumbass people manage to climb up the ladder, but most of the people at that rank and above are pretty darn sharp.

The sudden outrage is because they're finally selling a device that might actually use that much. I have a Blackberry and an iPhone. The Blackberry is far too painful to use on any kind of media that I'll never come anywhere near the limit. The iPhone, on the other hand, has tremendous internet uses and I could easily see users coming close to the limit.

I felt like Ron Burgundy reading that post.

I hate to sound like I'm defending the studios here, but when any movie with a budget of less than $10 million is considered indie, every movie is a sizable investment. If I were in charge of investing $50 million in a project, I think I'd be less interested in the aesthetics and more interested in the probability of turning a profit, too. But that just covers the green lighting process.

Ralph, I'd like you to meet Barbara...

The summary misses the point of why consoles are gaining so much ground in the gaming world. The main reason consoles are so popular is because the hardware never changes. Most people (like myself) don't want to have to go out and buy the latest and greatest graphics card to run a new game. With an XBOX 360 or PS3 I know that if I buy a title for that platform, it will work. Yes, there are certain exceptions like hard drive requirements, etc., but for the most part it is true. The stability also allows developers to get the most out of the hardware, and generally by the end of a consoles life expectancy, the games are getting very, very good.

There will probably always be a market for the hardcore gamers, but the average, casual gamer would rather play an XBOX 360 at 720P on their big screen than play at double the resolution on a screen a quarter the size.

Or maybe that's one fucking badass planet. The lesson to be learned here is do not fuck with Wasp-18b.

I pity the developer who has to maintain your code after you've moved on.

It's only a matter of time. We're screwed. Nice going, IBM.

And the reason they weren't cheaper had little to do with technology and a whole lot to do with legislation. The government made is so difficult and expensive to build a nuclear power plant that the utilities and investors simply gave up.

Ten years ago, at SONGS, the estimate for installing conduit was $1,000 per foot. Not because there was anything special about the conduit being used, but because of the associated documentation, legal, and filing fees.

This story reminds me of a speech I gave in my freshman english class. I was a news anchor reporting on the first ever Indy 500 for the blind.

"Everything was going so well until they reached the first turn..."

Then I put my head in my hands and wept.

iHobo: No coffee. Takes up table space at Starbucks. Lame.

Greatest complaint about the general public ever.

How do we know? Maybe The Blob was just a really angry algae bloom? Those Deadliest Catch guys better not piss this one off!