I'd be paranoid too; if anything goes wrong, they'll have turned the Rosetta into a stone.

So, you're saying that "Deep Face" is a euphemism?

There is no mention in the article of their testing methods; I'll wager that they mainly used caucasian faces. If you're asian, I'd bet that your chances of staying anonymous are much higher.

Most users who want to use Windows software on a Mac will use some virtual solution like Parallels; then they can run Windows and MacOSX software at the same time, without waiting 5 minutes for a reboot.

Really, I think someone deep inside Apple did it as a prank. It is great fun to hang out at Starbucks, and watch the reaction of all the other MacBook users when they suddenly realize that you are running Windows.... on a MacBook.... heads have been known to explode.

There are enough drivers built in to a standard Windows distribution to allow most common hardware to just run, no special vendor drivers needed.

If you're going to spend the time, why not configure your own virtual environment, where you can run both simultaneously?

Finally, a valid use for the Windows key: to switch your machine in and out of Windows!

The original Magna Carta is 799 years old; even after all that time, the concepts in it are far from universal even today.

A DDOS just means that your website is *very* popular at the moment. So those under attack should be extremely happy, right?

United Air Lines: 700 planes, $100K each, that's $70 million. Their total profit last year was $400 million; so you're asking them to fork over 18% of their total profit, for *zero* additional revenue, and virtually zero benefit.

I'd rather them spend $100k per plane on safety improvements to help prevent planes from crashing in the first place.

How true. Most people don't realize that I am a demi-god with an IQ of 324; only I can add those unique facts to my Wikipedia page.

The aircraft manufacturer is Boeing. The fact that it went boing is news. What's beoing?

Yes. But why hand out slides? Why have slides at all? You've already learned more than the slides contain; what will slides add?

If you like notes, you were taking notes during the talk - which are more useful than slides would be.

Most corporations have entire departments of employees, who they pay just to install programs. And yes, the work is quite dull - but it is best to not annoy or insult your IT people like that.

You mean like Google Maps??

The regular Keurig machine makes filtered coffee; it is not an espresso machine. It makes coffee under pressure - more pressure than a drip machine, obviously, but much less than a proper espresso machine.

Yeah, I used to be a coffee snob too. The convenience of having a fresh, hot cup of coffee within a minute of stumbling downstairs every morning is worth a lot; not having to clean the grounds out of a french press is worth a lot too. Tastes vary, but with 50 or more varieties, there's usually something worth drinking. And, hey, convenience is what sells today; otherwise people would wait to get home to make their phone calls.

If I'm stuck using a Windows box, first thing I install is MKS Toolkit. That gives me a decent shell, vi, and grep - which will find anything in any file. No need for special search tools.

(And yes, I know about Cygwin; MKS is vastly superior to Cygwin, since everything just works in a standard DOS shell, it doesn't require it's own special environment).