Somehow you failed to tell us whether you are planning to use this:
1) like a mobile device, with access only to cloud services
2) like a thin client, where you VPN into your "real desktop" sitting safe at home or work
(If "both", pick #2).

>> Home users will receive updates as they come out

Are you sure that option isn't already on? It seems that a couple of my older Windows boxes already spend most of their cycles on downloading, processing (scanning) and installing countless updates.

>> Do you keep a bunch of one-gallon jugs next to your desk?

At the homeless-packed library near my office you'd fit right in.

Every week I seem to see a slight variation on:
"Is learning %s worth it?"
"What is value of learning %s vs. %s?"
"Would you learn %s to switch jobs?"

I'm beginning to think this Dice account is just an autopost with a random list of possible values.

Here's the source:
https://github.com/hephaest0s/...

What's next - a tutorial on how to press the power button?

>> "I had never seen a nerve like that," said Wayne Vogl

I'm guessing he doesn't spend much time with Japanese tentacle...

>> anomalous thrust/acceleration

Must have been a Trekkie that posted this. There would be no ST:TNG without a Federation shit-tonne of anomalies to investigate.

>> Ribbon was most likely introduced simply to distinguish the look and feel from free Office apps, particularly Open/LibreOffice. That's right, I think it's more marketing gimmick than UI innovation

Not exactly, but you're close. To use the ribbon, you have to freely license it from Microsoft...and promise that you won't use it in an Office clone. So...it's an IP shield as much as it's a UI paradigm.

I'd just be happy with an announcement that the online Office 365 apps would finally get the features they need to quit making them toys (and forcing everyone to download docs to local Office apps anyway).

Second to that would be an option in Office 365 to default to "yes, when I opened the document, put me in f***ing editing mode by default." Hell, call it the "Google Docs" mode if you want.

>> Astronomy students need a hook to be intersted in science?

General education, basketweaving and social science majors hoping to dink through a 100-level science elective on their way to an $20K annual salary need a hook to be interested in science.

There - fixed that for you!

>> Are you calling Luke Skywalker a nerd?

No, Mark Hamill is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

>> They hate us.

That's a lot of rage for a mid-Monday. You may want to move to Colorado and get a hobby...or just get a SlashDot account like the rest of us, you f***ing n00b.

>> why do we need a walled garden?

This is for India (note the primary video is in Hindi) and other places used to paying for crappy Internet. In these cases, a less-crappy Internet from Facebook is deemed (cue Martha Stewart) a good thing. However, if (or when if you're Google) someone figures out how to give Indians full-blown Internet for free, then Facebook's partial Internet thing dies and two years later no one will remember it anymore.

mod parent up
all it says = true

The Bard's Tale - a pretty widely played RPG in the 1980's - had "hobbits." But I also doubt EA paid anything for its use of "Mongo" (Blazing Saddles) or any of the the ripped-off tunes in the software: everyone was just a lot less uptight then.