Damn, that sucks. I never checked the site before I posted, so I wonder if I did that...

WELcome... to Zombo Com!

You can do Anything at Zombo Com,

The only limit...is yourself.

No, I'm well aware of how agribusiness works, and how commissioned salesmen actually do a lot of work to sell as much product as possible. Much of my extended family is in farming, either as farmers, or as those who sell products or services to farmers.

Farmers want the best yields possible. They assume that the products advertised to them are acceptable, and they use those products widely if they seem to solve the ill that the farmer was fighting against. As such, it's very likely that Bayer and Shell have managed to sell this product to loads and loads of farmers.

Because if there's one activity in my life that I cannot do without knowing the time and date while doing it, it's showering!

I actually fall more into his camp than yours, and have been using Slashdot in some capacity or another for more than fifteen years.

Learn all that you want about computers and other electronics-based technology. That knowledge will go obsolete very quickly, and those that come after you won't value that you knew it. It's profitable as a job, but for long-term gratification being able to admire one's body of work it's sorely lacking.

Thanks to Bayer and Shell, good luck finding untainted samples...

I'm still not entirely clear what the Apple Watch is supposed to do for me, especially when it's still reliant on a cell phone to function.

A friend put a digital speedometer into a car whose units could be changed. It supported Microfurlongs per picofortnight...

Does that take up a space about the size of Rhode Island?

Or for you Brits, about the size of Wales?

Requiring a restart is a Windows trait. I was hoping that my Linux installations would be better than that.

I don't see how the summary's, 'don't fix what isn't broken,' statement applies in this case.

Unless Comcast acquired NBC/Universal's property, but not the company itself (like a bankruptcy asset purchase) then I don't see them getting out of the NBC obligations. When a company purchases another company outright it keeps those obligations. One of the big banks that absorbed one of the big mortgage lenders still had to deal with billions of dollars in fines from that mortgage lender if I'm remembering correctly, and if the bankers couldn't get out of it, a few media moguls sure as hell aren't going to.

That part kind of got me too, shouldn't all deals subject to regulatory approval be structured where they could walk away? Wouldn't anything else be outright flaunting in the face of regulation?

That's computing's secret, it's all derived from commodity parts now, which is why even the big computers are somewhat affordable. Most of the commercial/industrial processor lines are dead.

...of Microsoft-free Fridays?