Bought these speakers when they came out in 1999, still in use, doesn't seem like I'll ever need a new set.

And another vote for Cowon - the X5 was built like a damn tank!

Indeed it was....

Up next: do you really need source control?

It reminds me of the one of the finest comments I ever read on here, from joss:

"If the kind of drag and drop stuff you are proposing was a better mechanism for creating complex programs than languages, then we wouldnt use languages to communicate with each other. Instead we would push a bunch of colored blocks around and drag string between them. I don't think we're going to start doing that anytime soon either."

Is transmission speed an issue with long distance electrical cables?

Damn, nothing worse than someone else beating you to the punchline... :p

I bet if you were to just address jQuery as something other than $, they wouldn't blink.

var myAppUI = jQuery:

myAppUI.("li").bind('click', function() {});

Oh good, this shit.

Now we've eliminated the majority of nuclear weapons, it's become irrelevant

Huh? Two countries both have enough nuclear warheads to comfortably annihilate all human life several times over. Six more have enough to put a significant dent in it.

It doesn't matter if you eliminate the "majority" if what remains is more than enough to get the job done.

(Not that I think that the clock thing is particularly useful)

It doesn't have to be nuclear annihilation - we're closer to "doomsday" is what they're saying.

Hard to say, I guess we'll find out what wording Slashdot chooses to use when a Westerner solves a Millennium Prize Problem?

Article says Watson, not AI.

You could increase polygon tessellation at an area of focus and remove detail from the peripheral. It would be very useful for triple 120Hz 4K 3D. ;)

Can we please stop treating the Roomba as a harbinger of the inevitable robot apocalypse?

It's just about the most trivial "robot" you can imagine, it's been around for over a decade, and in that time, there hasn't been a single new development in the "robotic home automation" market that it was supposed to usher in.

It's just a silly gimmick - it does a good enough job of vacuuming your Cheetos crumbs (though not nearly as well as getting off your ass for 5 minutes would), and that's about it.