Comcast charges a rental fee for their router, it's right on the bill. Qwest, er Century Link, did the same thing

Honestly, Freeman portaling around to take on the Combine isn't innovative enough for HL3? So hire some decent writers, figure out how to make portals work in Halflife, and go to town. As long as they don't totally cock it up it'll make millions and the fanboyz will settle down for a few more years. Everybody wins!

Any predictions for how many days it takes for this to get hacked and we have Talky Tina epidemic?

when it comes to giving feedback. I get help tickets from our Tier 1 support people, who are supposedly trained, that don't include usernames or what OS/App is causing the problem. Our customers mostly have masters degrees or PhDs, but getting any useful information from them is next to impossible.

Your solution has to work on Windows and iPads, but you'd rather not use a web-based product? I guess it's possible an app that does what you want with robust Windows and iOS clients exists, but I wouldn't count on the "robust" part if I were a betting man. That's coming from someone who runs Outlook an a Mac, so I'm admittedly jaded when it comes to claims of cross-platform compatibility.

I've used Redmine in the past. Web-based, open source, pretty easy to use. Some of my colleagues hate it, so YMMV, but worth a look.

"Will Apple phase out these ports in favour of a single, widely-accepted, but novel standard?"

Help me out, what the hell does that mean? If a standard is widely-accepted, how can it be novel?

I don't see Obama claiming 545,000 open IT jobs anywhere but the CW article. Where did Computerworld come up with that? They attribute it to "the White House" and "the Obama administration", but don't name names.

Every time I fire it up I cringe, it just looks terrible to me. It's mostly how it displays tabs and the url on the same level, just throws me off

...that don't exist on Chrome. I like Chrome, but there are some things Firefox does better, and I'm glad Chrome has some competition to keep it honest. IE is still a hopeless mess, and I suppose Safari is multiplatform these days, but I don't see it getting much traction on Windows. thank god for Firefox.

South Park was so right.

I wish they'd stop trying to force the "phone experience" on to my damn desktop...not to mention my frickin servers.

As of last summer, Apple had about 40 percent of the smartphone market. 40% of the market is not a niche, unless you define it as "Anything I personally don't buy".

I'm not saying Thelma & Louise is good, just that it's tough to make a sequel to a movie that ends with the protagonists flying off a cliff in a '65 T-Bird.

'Fess up, you cheered at that part, didn't you?

Sorry, had to be said. And I do have a bad feeling about this. I mean, if ever a movie cried out to not be sequalized, it's Blade Runner. And Casablanca. And Bonnie and Clyde. And Thelma and Louise....

And they kill thousands of innocent non-combatants every year, and have been banned by most civilized nations--not including the US of A, sadly. So if your point is that land mines demonstrate what a horrible idea autonomous killer robots is, I agree.