I'm waiting for Google to buy the railroads and integrate them with personal rapid transit.

To get users to upgrade their systems to Windows 8, MS should run lots and lots of TV commercials featuring the beautiful, awesome Windows 8 splash screen.

As soon as people realize how breathtakingly beautiful the splash screen is, they'll run out to Best Buy or wherever and buy a Surface.

If that doesn't work, buy more TV commercials with tighter close-ups on the beautiful, beautiful, utterly awesome Windows 8 splash screen.

There are already lots of US laws and regulations that mandate how IT is supposed to be procured and implemented by the US Government (see, e.g., the Clinger-Cohen Act.)

Each of these mandates came about because Congress became tired of funding IT projects where the money just vanished and no IT system was stood-up.

The botched implementation of the ACA website raises questions not of "wheelbarrows," but how and why EOP/DHHS managed to bypass or ignore existing mandates.

They practically roll up the sidewalks in SF at 9PM. If you want late night food, you have to go to some place in the Castro, a club that serves food (assuming they let you in), a bar (kitchen usually closes at 10), or go to the waffle house, Denny's, Mel's, or one of a couple (mostly take-out) pizza places.

If you are doing dinner and a movie, you pretty much have to do the dinner first, or nothing will be open after the movie lets out.

Bring your company and your employees to Las Vegas. Housing is cheap, traffic is light, there's no state income tax, and you'll never want for food, drink, or nightlife no matter what time it is.

Depends on how well T3 does the cataloging and website, and how much they charge for copies.

If it turns out the works are more easily accessible and searchable than at present, and the charges are reasonable (think ), then it's a good thing.

If the catalog website is poorly designed (see the existing DoD website), or if T3 decides to charge, well, DoD prices for things, then not so good.

They could have spent the same amount of effort improving the Blender user interface, i.e. making it usable.

Pro applications don't use vinyl.

If you were a cheap bastard stage-play producer you wouldn't use vinyl. You'd hire pros to make a multichannel, high-sample-rate digital recording of the pit orchestra using very expensive mics, and you'd hire pros to design the playback PA. If the PA was also in the pit no one would bitch about the lack of directional sound, even from close up.

Of course this would depend on how cheap of a bastard you are.

No recording of an orchestra is going to sound like sitting in the same room with an orchestra playing. Period. End of discussion.

Depends on the quality of the recording and of the playback equipment. You can get pretty close.

The cost savings realized by eliminating live musicians is generally due to using one recording of said live musicians and playing it back multiple times (for example in many stage plays). There's not much extra savings to be realized by using, say, MIDI controlled synths for the original recording.

When you're dimwitted
Feeling dumb
When circuits in your brain
Make your mind go numb

I'm in your head
When dendrites are dead
And neurons can't be found
Here's a bridge over damaged cortex
Now your mind is sound
Here's a bridge over damaged cortex
Now your mind is sound

When your motor nerves
Trip you on your feet
When your amygdala fails
And can't comfort you

I'll cure your rats
Who can't get fat
When pellets are all around
Here's a bridge over damaged cortex
Now your mind is sound
Here's a bridge over damaged cortex
Now your mind is sound

No, no, no. Not $5280. He said "half a kilometre" which is $1640.

Even if you live in the backwaters of India (redundant) you are expected to read and memorize TV Tropes before posting to Slashdot.

The truest words ever spoken on the subject were penned by Nicholas Petreley, the IT industry columnist, who opined that:

1) There should not be a "registry" or an :"install" program.

2) Everything needed to run $App should reside in C:\$App.

This of course would enable $App to be copied freely from machine to machine, which is probably why there is a Windows Registry.