A Mars colony would seem to me that it would be more likely to work if it was tried first on the Moon. With supply lines being so much shorter, eventually a fairly decent size colony could be built, in a much shorter time frame. It really seems far less complicated than building the ISS. Supply ships wouldn't have to dock and all that, just land somewhere fairly close.

All the supplies to build it either place could be sent beforehand. I can see support for a one way trip to Mars being a lot higher if there was already plenty of food, water, and oxygen there. We already have sent a bunch of other crap there. Why not send a ship or two with some bottled water, and food just in case? Or maybe some fine wine? Or some whiskey or vodka or something?

Then what happens when one needs to reformat and start from scratch? Most people reading this here would use IE6 to download Firefox, or at least IE7 or IE8, but the general public would probably get the SuperCoolUnsupportedBrowserVirus from that site they went to that made them have to reformat in the first place.

As much as I hate tickets, I think they and all these other states with budget problems need to tell their cops to step it up a notch and give a lot more speeding tickets and such...

I know an ex-cop who claims there's no such thing as quotas...in these tough times, there need to be, and they need to be way, way up there...

Let everyone in, and let everyone drink....

But I'm sure someone will object to that too...

I'm pretty sure SuperSpywareBrowser2009 isn't named that, but it surely exists...but one in the top X amount is if you let X get big enough. Is Microsoft really supposed to add SuperSpywareBrowser2009 to their list. Then they'd be the ones getting sued, rather than SuperSpywareBrowser2009. It might very well be the #6 browser in the market...

They went the wrong way with this though, I wonder if they could have gotten around all of this by installing Firefox, and Safari, etc but not given a desktop shortcut...or something...or even given them one, most people would still click on the blue e...

There was someone who thought Smart Appliances were a smart idea? They've only been talking about this for over a decade...it's just now people are figuring out it's a dumb idea? Why would anyone want to subject their appliances, of all things, to omething that's completely unnecessary, and will cost a lot of money to fix when it glitches, which it most likely will, like they did with their cars? I'm sure anyone who's had to pay for an expensive repair for a car problem, due to a computer problem, will never buy one of these appliances, that is until, like cars, they are the only models offered...

He should have said he thought they were breaking into it and he was taking a picture to send to the news and police and asked to see their identification. Only idiots would break into an ATM in front of people and not be wearing security guard uniforms.

Less than 20 minutes...when I first bought it two years ago still less than two hours, and yet they advertised wide screen for viewing movies...most of them are 2 hours at least...it seems like this most important feature is much harder to find out compared to things which are comparatively rather unimportant on a laptop these days like hard drive size, amount of memory, etc...

Why is the presumption is that they cannot experience pain? I always assumed they did until I was told otherwise by some "expert." Was this always the presumption, or only after they were dissected, and studied and compared to mammals? I'd presume they do feel pain as they seem to avoid it in pretty much the same way mammals do. Or do only humans feel pain, is that what we are presuming now?

They don't stay in my ears. I don't see how anyone can walk or jog with them, and yet I see people doing it all the time. They fall out at least once a song with me just sitting in a chair. I used to have an older set of earbuds back in the 90's, they were a bit bigger, and had little foam things on them like regular headphones do, they didn't fall out nearly as much...did I permanently stretch out my ears?

I prefer FM to a CD because usually the max volume is much higher.

I don't get it...they practically have a monopoly on their main products, it would seem if ANYONE would be doing alright in a bad economy, it would be Microsoft...even though sales probably are down, they are still rather high, and the actual cost of producing a DVD-ROM is rather low compared to the price of the products, which is very high due to lack of competition, and it's not like there's huge development costs either, since their main products are basically the same as they have been for years and years, with a new look and a handful of new features and bugfixes...none of this makes any sense...

But what about the whole iostream.h getting deprecated thing? Or this previously unnecessary using namespace std; statement?

Honestly, I haven't used C++ in quite a while, and barely even recognize it anymore it's changed so much...really, LINQ is an addition you can use or not, they flat out changed the C++ language for whatever reason I don't know, what I do know is if I have to code in C++ ever again, there's a far more substantial learning curve than simply learning LINQ was for .NET...

I went there to buy a CD awhile back, (when I was in college, maybe 4 years ago, in a small town with no indie record stores) and they absolutely insisted on getting my phone number before they'd ring it up...I eventually just made one up...I wanted to buy the CD, why did they need a phone number...to telemarket me later, and get an exemption from the DoNotCall list because I'm a "client" is the only reason I can think of, it's not like there is some sort of technical support involved...that really turned me off as a customer and I don't think I'm the only one...

Why not delay forever? The whole switch was a bad idea anyway. It is an inferior technology to analog for over the air period. There was never anything wrong with analog. There is plenty wrong with digital. Why isn't everyone talking about canceling the switch completely?