Spoken like a true TeaParty ideologue. While the initial rollout of healthcare.gov was an unmitigated mess, the recovery will in time be recognized as one of the greatest tech successes. The initial design goal was for the website to be able to accommodate 50,000 simultaneous visitors. On Monday December 23rd the website was supporting 83,000 concurrent users. About 2 million people have enrolled into healthcare plans, 1.1 million through healthcare.gov. Quite a substantial number from those six people that enrolled the first day!

Regardless of what you think of the individual mandate or health care reform, that is a remarkable tech turn around - taking millions of lines of pre-alpha code in October to production status by the end of the year. Here is a short video interview with New Relic, one of the companies behind the turnaround.

For all the bad politics our government might have, do not underestimate its propensity to solve a technical problem.

I hold out hope.

Because it could be a competent competitor to current Apple products?

I know I want an Apple II smartphone that I could play Oregon Trail on and make phone calls back to the '70s with!

Stack rank for grammar = 0.

When can I buy an OS for a future "hackintosh" that I might build?

Don't you mean EXORAGE?

MIPS are for kids!

I haven't been following the marketplace (and why I asked the question in the first place), so I would not know who would be the best to go with. But clearly there are services that can handle the load.

Why can't they just drop a contract in Oracle's lap to handle the website from start to finish? There has to be more than one CRM platform out there.

FTFY!

Yes, they do. The reason is that there is a large number of elderly people calling themselves the tea party, who spend all day on the comment boards telling everyone that gravity is Obama's fault and that he is the Devil's child.

I know I'm tired of it. Good call Popular Science.

If after self destructing, an F-16 engine falling on you could still wreck your day.

"This isn't an iPad 2" and "This isn't an iPad 2 pro".

My bet on the third icon (from the page);

Soon, we'll be adding you to our design process, so that you can help us shape the future of Steam.

So maybe they will listen to customer's input.