Oracle has a HUGE economic interest in making sure MySQL sucks bad enough that customers buy Oracle databases instead.

$1600 seems an awful lot to pay for being a fanboy. Actual developers should be having their company pick up the expenses. Who pays the expenses of fanboys?

Aren't they going to stream all the sessions live on the web to anyone with an Apple Dev ID? I'm not sure what that $1600 buys you. There are probably some hardware and software handouts, but aren't those available by other means as well?

Chewbacca doesn't say stupid things in a phony Jamaican accent.

Agreed, there is a small set of symptoms for which chiropractic treatment is actually useful. For example, my father had a pinched nerve in his shoulder that it really seemed to help with. The problem is that some chiropractors make wild claims for all sorts of benefits for "spinal alignment" for which there is no valid scientific proof. If all chiropractors would just stick with the symptoms that it makes sense for (and I'm sure many do) we'd have a lot more respect for them.

The "wobbly as hell" is a control system problem. Engines don't react in real time, so you've got to be proactive to balance the lift and keep it level. Seems to me this would be a much easier problem with only 4 rotors.

Electric?!? What's the range, a couple hundred feet before the battery goes dead? There are rotax engines that barely have the power-to-weight ratio necessary to make this work, but even then you don't have enough payload capacity to carry any decent amount of fuel. So it's only good for short flights for small people. But then jet packs are only good for a 60-second flight. Need a lot more range to make them useful and safe.

Agreed. I'd be a lot more impressed if they trusted it enough to carry a real payload and didn't just fly it by remote control. I believe we now have engine technology with a power-to-weight ratio that would make a quad rotor capable of lifting a human possible, but the power is pretty close to the edge and the control systems are difficult to make safe. So it is theoretically possible to make one, but since it would cost about $100 million to develop and the liability issues would prevent you from ever getting any return on investment, nobody is going to do it.

Yahoo is still in business???

Think maybe Eric Schmidt is compensating for something?

Your hate doesn't matter as long as you keep giving them your money. Here's an idea: stop giving them your money!!!

This doesn't make sense to me. If they make a small change, the small change should be patentable -- but that should in no way effect the extent of the patent on the original formulation. In other words, patenting the small change shouldn't stop anybody from copying the original drug. And if the "small change" actually makes a real difference in effectiveness, isn't that an argument that it _should_ be patentable?

Best thing you can do is simply stuff something in her mouth to shut her up. If you don't have any items of suitable size necessary, just use a portion of your anatomy...

I prefer to simply rot13 twice... much more secure than a single rot26!

Then why aren't I in jail yet?