If you drink enough MS koolaid, putting metro in Windows 8 sort of made sense, in a "everyone will love it and buy our phones!" way. But putting it on a server OS was just mind-numbingly stupid, I just can't see how anyone thought it was a good idea. I cringe every time I have to log in to our 2012 servers.

there are no reserves of pure hydrogen. It has to be 'cracked' from molecules, typically hydrocarbons (nat. gas and oil!) or water, and getting it from water takes a lot of electricity...hello Mr. Coal! And once you create it, it has to be shipped. So it's no cleaner than running batteries, and has some serious downside.

"I've always been concerned about people who can't see the negative side of all the "green", modern technologies today."

And I've found such people exist primarily in the imaginations of the people who complain about them.(I'll concede there may be some exceptions, see Einstein and the limits of human stupidity) Look, anyone with grey cells knows that windmills don't magically spring up from the ground, they have to be manufactured, and manufacturing creates pollution, especially in countries that find it inconvenient to regulate it. The question isn't "are windmills perfect?", it's "Do windmills have a smaller carbon/environmental footprint than using coal to create the same amount of power?" The consensus seems to be yes, they do.

As for the Prius, its environmental impact has been debated to death and yes, it is greener than your pickup.

Finally, "green" and "modern technologies" aren't equivalent. I'm pretty sure the president of Exxon Mobil owns a cell phone, and just as sure he couldn't give two farts about being green. The fact that tech creates pollution is not a blanket indictment of green tech. I do agree that replacing your phone every two years is wasteful, it would be nice if phone carriers provided an incentive to keep your old phone instead of the 2-year churn. They may be getting there, when my two years with AT&T was up I got a new contract that gave me a break for using my old phone.

You will be shocked to learn that it's not always accurate, or impartial. You might also notice that the same is often true of the media who delivers our news. We now return you to your April Foolery, hope that wasn't a buzz kill.

Seriously, it's amazing how much the actor was able to communicate without speaking while wearing a ton of makeup. His smug satisfaction after C3PO says "Let the wookie win" in ANH is just brilliant. Anthony Daniels gets all the love, but Peter Mayhew's performance is in the same league, in my opinion.

I have a G400. Been pretty happy with it.

It went to a box that used to be hooked up to a satellite dish, which had been removed.

Kitsap County gets 49 inches a year, and averages 153 sunny days. So it's fair to say most of the time the weather is crappy, and from what I understand that tends to kill wireless performance.

not abortions, being covered as mandated by the ACA. And before the ACA passed, the insurance Hobby Lobby offered to their employees covered contraception, and it didn't seem to bother anybody's religious convictions. Strange, that.

Seems like this would be a great case for getting that law stricken or amended. Most of those laws are justified so as to provide a level playing field for corporate ISPs, but since they're not interested in serving him the law shouldn't be enforced in this case. Maybe the EFF would be interested?

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.