10 billion specialty business applications beg to differ. Mission critical visual basic will keep Microsoft relevant for years to come.

back in the early 80's I worked at U-Haul and we had hitches that strapped on to car bumpers, the trailer lights were handled by attaching wires to the car's rear lights.

Today's cars are better in many ways but they don't have bumpers you can pull a trailer with.

The econobox type cars I use for commuting now can't pull trailers at all.

you don't need a dog but you do need dog crap.

In Canada mortgage interest isn't tax deductible so there is more incentive to pay down the principle. It isn't buying homes from cash on hand but it is a little different from the American environment.

If I was an American I might still have a mortgage because it would have made relatively more sense to invest money other ways than it would to pay down my mortgage.

As a Canadian paying down my mortgage had a relatively low ROI but it was risk free and I wasn't giving up any tax exemptions. Canada doesn't allow people to walk away from mortgages and only lose the house either, so that part of the risk equation is different.

the growth culture contains things required for the transcription that aren't encoded in the organisms dna? that would be less scary and interesting.

They are creating alien life, with the potential for organisms based on alternatives to the standard set of amino acids. I have no idea what all the implications of that will be.

I heard the different sounds, bar and far, quite clearly and distinctly.

Wolfe is my favorite writer and Peace is my favorite book.

gladiator combat would help make up for cutting into hockey night in canada

who has time to RTFA, complain and make excuses?
not me so I picked my favorite two.

will they have a real reboot for when I inevitably need it

having the same bolixed kernel coming back after a necessary reboot seems like it would be an pleasant experience

you call a post nonsense and then agree with it ;)

i've been reading cringly for a long, long time, although this post is uninteresting to me I have often found his writing to be interesting and insightful.

to hide things in a machine searchable file.

I think your fraking right.