All good points. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into.

Credit is very nice, but at the end of the day it is getting the job done that matters. If you are good at what you do then that will usually be recognised. You will be a valued team member. If for some reason though a company fails to appreciate your efforts and you feel hard done by, then it is time to move elsewhere. They will suffer the consequences in due course, but that is their problem.

Unfortunately it's not just cheap, trashy, poorly thought-out phones that have non-standard connectors. Even the iPhone and iPad have a non-standard port. Using the headphone socket is a very pragmatic solution which allows one to cover a very broad range of devices.

If you need to stack the sheets 3000 times in order to approach the thickness of meat, you only have to fold them 12 times.

How do you make phone calls then without looking stupid?

I really wish Slashdot had a Like button :)

My laptop can go for weeks without rebooting. It wakes up within a second. Isn't this decade marvellous? :)

I'm afraid it was almost certainly deliberate - that's why so many people are flocking to full-frame sensor DSLRs for affordable video. It's a very popular look.

Tom Lord, developer of rival Arch must be spitting blood at the success of Git.

I followed Arch's development back in 2004 and quickly lost interest. The last crazy thing I remember was Tom trying to build a home-brew LISP derivative *into* his version control system. It was going to revolutionise everything. He even wrote a long manifesto-cum-design document in three parts. At that point I gave up and moved to Subversion. I just wanted a modern version control system that worked.

Um, why has this been modded "Funny"? Some people have a really strange sense of humour around here...

The timing of recent events was in my view largely down to News Intl's BSkyB takeover bid. It was due to be greenlit the very week the Milly Dowler phone hacking revelation broke. Coincidence? I think not.

You are thinking of Betacam, which is the high-end off-shoot of Betamax. Nowadays though HDCAM and HDCAM SR tapes will have taken over for HD footage.

That's a bit of a leap, don't you think? You'll still have all your cable channels.

I can install Firefox on my MacBook Pro just fine... It sounds like a lot of Slashdotters haven't even used a Mac.

The smaller sensor, the greater the depth of field and therefore the easier it is to get sharp images. I would imagine your point and shoot has a pretty small sensor. A professional DSLR on the other hand has a much larger chip.