I was at a friends house last weekend and he demonstrated his new Vaio laptop, which responded exactly like the apparatus in this video. Only it used the webcam, I guess. Like in the video, it doesn't work flawlessly, you easily gesture to fast for it.

Haha, no it won't but I mend that their total and epic failure to control the region, in line with so many others, was impossible to ignore. And still the US (and other NATO countries that get dragged along) just keep desperately starting wars. BTW I've BEEN to Cuba and it's a very, very poor and in many ways crippled, though beautiful country.

Interesting, I guess we agree then, it's the US that keeps pushing other countries (via NATO and otherwise) to send military on 'peace' missions. The last Dutch government fell over supporting the Afghanistan mission for even x more years. Because the Dutch and many others don't believe in forcing peace in such a way. The Russions tried it for years and warned us all at forehand. Before calling Europe a freerider, consider if it wanted to ride along in the first place! The US always just wants to 'protect' everybody so they can be in charge. They dragged Europe in the biggest financial crisis since the 1930's. They start wars every decade with bogus excuses, just so a few people can make a lot of money. Korea, Vietnam, Irak twice, etc. So yes, we agree: Withdraw the US army. Not just now but permanently.

"Ending the web's dependence on Flash is a lot like ending dependence on foreign energy" Yeah. And we all know how well that is working out.

This suggests that drunk / otherwise lame drivers get caught and punished. Unfortunately, this is not true. For example, my hitter got away with a penalty of a few hundred euros. Quite a contrast with the € 85.000+ damage he made. Not to mention wrecking my back.

She'll find enough distractions without her cell phone, like you pointed out already, and therefore will still run you over. I was run over by an old man. Perfect weather, within city limits. Didn't even break. Only got stopped by a big city bus he hit next. Claimed he didn't see me, standing still on the middle of the road on a bright yellow motorcycle, lights on So don't think this phone jammer will make much of a difference.

So what? Photoshop was not the first pixel manipulator, not by far even.

Oh well, I should know better than to take it personally. After all /. is more about how the comments can give a spin to the subject than that there is much debate about it.

In my defense: My native language is Dutch and I never really speak English, just read it on the 'net. I dare any native American without a specific education in languages to write the same text in Dutch without errors. (I wondered why nobody bothered to put this on slashdot but now I can think of something)

Flash will be just as common on phones as it is on desktops and laptops.

So it's not important for MS to get attention for their products? I guess they don't care that their Zune was a flop either then. Are you suggesting they created it for flopping? If there's one reson they are in the business market, it's because they failed in consumer markets.

This has happend before with bank data from Germans at a foreign bank that were stolen by an employe and then sold to the German authorities. There was a lot of discussion but in the end the German gouvermant DID use the data. Again, the same thing is about to happen in the Netherlands, with data from banks in other parts of Europe. The Dutch tax department offers offenders a 'inkeerregeling': If you turn in the illegal foreign savings, you get a much lower fine than if you take your chances and wait for them to find them. If they ever will because it's not sure if this evidence will hold in Dutch court. This inkeerregeling has turned out to be very successful so far

Now you can only hide it in the dock, then you could also roll it up to the bar anywhere on the screen. In OS9, if you'd click on another folder, the active folder would retract back to the bottom of the screen automatically (if I remember correctly). The label of the 'hidden' folder was a lot easier to hit then the icon in the dock, but then again, this has also to do with the fact that my screen resolution is quadrupled since.

I thought they ment the digital synthesizer from Yamaha..