" Let a = 0.999... then we can multiply both sides by ten yielding 10a = 9.999"

No. 10 times 0.999 does NOT equal 9.999, it equals 9.990. Kind of a big deal, really.

Well you can still probably garner a lot of attention by just putting "I'm a latex guy" on your resume. :)

No, they just hate militant gays - you know, the kind that live in Forts.

Oh my, this is fantastically hilarious. Doofus traveling alone with GInormously valuable cargo - dude, hire a serious escort! Pirates blow up ship and get nothing - maybe, next time, just go for a crazy ransom amount and you'd at least get something. Lose-lose for everyone except for ccp. Seriously, a kestrel solo in Jita? That's not safe with just crap for loot. I sure don't miss Eve, but I do miss stories about Eve like this.

Read. The. Fine. Article? What, are you crazy, this is the 21st Century and NOBODY reads articles anymore - everything they need to know is supplied to them via a catchy headline and maybe a tweet from somebody "cool" - because anything that can't be conveyed in 140 characters or less simply isn't worth knowing. I mean if all these people typing "waaaaaa" had actually bothered to read the article they'd know these guys have moved on, invested in themselves, and are taking the risks themselves but making big bucks as a result. Good for them. Ooooh, gotta go, somebody just tweeted me that LiLo is getting released today - I sooooo have to know who's going to do her makeover.

Look, why should MS reverse their model and pay money to bug-finders when their current model has people paying THEM to find bugs?

Perhaps the OP needed greater emphasis . . . "build AND sell". There, that better? HP can build OS's (or at least buy those that do) but the SELL part, eh, not so much.

I would agree that having Apple and Amazon *competing* on prices would be a good thing for the consumer but unfortunately that is not the case. The license arrangement that Apple forced on content providers that wish to sell through Apple requires that they do not provide that same content at a lower price to anyone else. Immediate effect for me was receiving a notice from Amazon that my NYTimes sub was going to jump from $13.99/month to $19.99/month! Fortunately there's a grace period so I have until September to decide if I want to accept this near 50% rate hike or not. There can be no competition when content providers are strong-armed into accepting these types of deals - and all of this is bad for both the consumers AND the providers.

Wouldn't there be much more interest in HDMI to *component* conversion? Composite is the bottom rung of the options as far as quality goes.

OK, now I have a better understanding of why my vacuum cleaner does such a lousy job . . . and why F-22's keep landing on it.

Ahhh, Blackwater.

Honestly it doesn't do that much for me. I can appreciate that it's different - and probably better - than most of the cases we can choose from today but it isn't (IMO) *substantially* better. The good news though is that, at $700, when I go for a Mountain Mods on my next custom build it will seem like a *bargain* by comparison.

Agreed 100%.