I've been using Overrated for that. Some posts don't even merit the logged in 1, or anonymous 0.

"The scientists found the DNA code for a skin cancer called melanoma contained more than 30,000 errors almost entirely caused by too much sun exposure."
This is obviously such a ridiculous statement that I'm surprised it made it into the BBC article.
Show me the evidence that almost 100% of DNA errors in skin cells or skin cancer cells are caused by sun exposure...

I like ZenTrack: http://www.zentrack.net/ It's open source and works well. You can have users, make assignments, see how long a task has been open, customize fields, send automated emails when tasks are completed/changed. Great tool

Wouldn't it be nice if the FASTRA II, which is 3.75 times faster than the FASTRA I, was actually called the FASTRA 375. Then I wouldn't have to ask.

I'm not saying this detracts from what your going for, but Labeling Theory seems to create a self fulfilling prophecy in the whole thing. I've always considered if an interesting thing. You call them hard criminals, you treat them like hard criminals, they become hard criminals.

Game availability for Mac OS X isn't nearly as bad as it's made out to be. While the breadth of games for Windows is vastly greater, in terms of games that make me want to install Boot Camp, or build a gaming PC, the majority have Mac versions already, or in production (Blizzard, ID, EA, BioWare). Even indy games (like World of Goo, Braid, and pending, Torchlight), as well as "niche" games, like EVE and Warhammer Online.

Anyway, my point is simply that on the Mac, you give up being a hardcore gamer, but you don't give up games nearly so strongly as hardcore gamers tend to imply.

Additionally, there's Boot Camp and CrossOver (and even VMware which has surprisingly good DirectX support) which makes pretty much any game playable on the Mac itself (although not necessarily Mac OS X).

That's not to say the Mac gaming realm is nearly as broad and deep as on Windows, but your view is more than a bit askew.

I'd love to see a OneNote workalike for linux. It's one of the apps holding me to Vista.

This case was meaningless either way to the GPL, their was never a challenge in this case to the entirety of copyright law. Had the Judge declared this a act of fair use, then copyright law would still exist; the GPL would still stand. Pystar would continue re-selling copyrighted works. The copyright world would not have fallen to it's knees like you claim. Simply Apple would still have a direct competitor.

I don't know how the judges rationalize it but the spin from the lawyers is that "the Eastern District is 'a great venue,' because the judges there are experts on patent matters, and there is always a pool of experienced patent lawyers available to serve as local counsel". I guess it's just Eastern Texas good fortune to have this natural resource of patent lawyer pools. Another lawyer shares this insight into his clients motivations "they prefer to go to ... where the judges have the expertise" So the story goes that the ED of Texas gets so many patent cases because they're so experienced and they got this expertise from doing so many patent cases. Rinse, lather, repeat! Ain't circular logic fun?

I completely agree. I've had the unlimited plan for about 5 years, since my Original Rzr. I've since been using it with my iPaq and was just about to buy an HP netbook that I could drop my SIM into for data connections.

I've been an ATT customer for about 12 years, and if they drop the unlimited data I'll just switch to Verizon or Tmobile. I've been waiting patiently for a 'Droid phone I can use on ATT anyway, this would be the perfect time for me to just get one and switch carriers.

Just because of the magnitude of the role he held, the million dollars is easy to come up with. But also due to that magnitude, a million dollars is really not a big deal. When employers start holding people accountable financially like that, productivity freezes out of fear. I mean, what if when he purchased the machines, he bargained for a great deal and saved $200 on each one? Now he's even, but nobody's threatening to GIVE him that money. It's a bad path to head down - dollar for dollar liability at your job.

And besides, didn't thousands of children learn about Fourier transforms? That's got to be worth at least a few bucks per student.

I like SageTV except that I have an all-in-wonder HD and sageTV only sees it as an analog device. Ironically, I only want to capture digital.

I just haven't figured out yet how to "right-click" a file from the remote talking to the media center extender. The PC running WMC is headless and stuffed under the desk in the back bedroom.

I know I'm just whining; but I no longer enjoy the one-upsmanship of constantly trying to get around roadblocks purposely put in my way. If MythTV trivially supported a guide, and worked with an extender, I'd spend the month to figure out how to get it set up just so I wouldn't have to screw with it again. /frank

No problem.

I just record HD (mpg) streams using my HDHomeRun. They play perfectly on the BD390.

Doesn't help with your .nuv's, though. Sorry. :-(

I don't know how you can miss your own point.... We haven't terraformed to a perfect point in time, we have adapted our societies, supply chains and living habits to a very specific and very narrow range of climatic conditions. If you doubt that, watch Californians drive when it so much as drizzles. If precipitation gets any more frequent than it is, the disaster that is the first rain of the season will become near permanent, until people know how to drive in rain. Which is going to take a while, and a lot of dead people and insurance money.

That's the issue with GCC. I don't give a fart about how the weather will be in a million years, or even 10000. I worry that within my lifetime, the climate will change enough that trillions will have to be spent across the world to re-adapt societies, supply chains and living habits. I'd rather not have to spend that money - or even my share of it.