Fascism is as fascism does.

That's what happens when you write to the browser rather than writing to the standards. We've never had that problem because we write to the standards then tweak to IE.

As Paul Simon famously asserted, "A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest."

I "time shifted" the audio portion of the Ed Sullivan show the night the Beatles first appeared by setting up my reel-to-reel with a microphone in front of the TV set speaker. Why do that? Well, being (a child of) a good Southern Baptist, I was at church at the time.

Just a quibble (that's what /.'s for, right?). JVC didn't copy Sony. The companies worked together to create working conceptual models and VHS was the first version. Beta was the second, hence the name.

Some people do. E.g. the daughter of the guy that flew his plane into the IRS building in Austin.

Why not just use the existing coax to pull cat5 into place?

We can only hope.

Aren't these the same bunch of yokels that think them younguns be havin' too much edjycashun and want to make K-12 into K-11? Big thinkers.

That's why it's best to stick with meaningless acronyms and abbreviations. A bit of hnc and ctg would've fixed that right up. ;)
 

You've just (re)invented the system modal dialog!

Hell, we've got publicly funded banks and stock brokers here in the US and they don't think twice about charging ME for asking them to do something for me. CSIRO is far more legit than that.

I suspect it's using the heat generated by all that "OpenGL composting" to recharge the battery.

My roaches laugh at your puny lions, tigers and bears.