Once the celebrities start spouting the nonsense, it's too late.

The female 18-50 market segment won't let go of it for another five years.

Thanks Lancet! Thanks Hollywood!

Janitors don't produce any revenue for a company, but they are necessary for the people who do.

The same goes for IT staff. Unless your company is selling IT services, they don't produce any revenue for the company but are necessary for the people who do.

IT people understand a developer's job about as much as a janitor does.

Seriously - get overselves and STOP finding ways to make my job more difficult. MY job produces the revenue that pays YOUR salary.

. . . it would have been a giant mushroom on a mini-bike.

And nobody would have reported seeing anything unusual that day.

Seriously, how predictable and cliche can you be?

Wow. Just frickin' wow.

You must be making bank to stick around a hole like that.

If you're getting laid, you're much less likely to hate your fellow human beings and desire to blow them (and sometimes yourself) up.

I wonder how long it will be before someone posts a foaming-at-the-mouth diatribe against Dick Cheney. . ?

Oh.

And you think its going to get any better AFTER you're married?

Bwa ha ha ha!

Sorry - couldn't resist. Much joy and happiness to you both.

And it's pretty much guaranteed the anchovies will keep moochers way.

Alas, the OLD Helen Back pizza, the one with the salt-rimmed crust.

Now it sucks, but its still a great place to pick-up crazy off-duty strippers late at night.

Once upon a time when I watched my diet and exercised 6 days a week, it used to be around 55-60 bpm. But now, after my second divorce and a year of booze, cigarettes, and high-fat foods who knows where its at - maybe 70 bpm resting if I'm lucky.

But I sure as hell am a lot happier.

It's a natural synergy. When the cargo door falls off, there will be a .NET to catch you.

Well, given the fact that the most important feature of DirectX 11 isn't Direct3D, but in fact is DirectCompute, OpenCL would be a better suited equivalent.

And OpenCL integrates nicely with OpenGL, just like DirectCompute with Direct3D.

But beside a few simulation eye candy like water surface or debris during an explosion, it won't cause much difference in games (because otherwise the physics would influence too much on the game play).
That is, until monstrous power hogs like Crysis 3 and Windows 8 are out. Then the users will have to buy modern hardware en masse, and the install base of DX11 hardware will increase. Only then the developers will be free to safely harness DXCompute for complex physics simulations at game-play level.
Imagine a massive stock car race with Rigs-of-Rods -grade physics simulation of every single vehicle - much more realistic collision and more fun, but would require massive acceleration. If a game developer decides to go for DirectCompute as a possible acceleration solution, better check that most of the user have DX11 capable hardware ! (And be ready to say good-bye to PlayStation & Nintendo players)

This is why the Comcast deal to buy 51% of NBC Universal could run afoul not only from competing cable systems, small-dish satellite TV providers and other cable content providers, but also could get a LOT of scrutiny from Congress, FCC and FTC.

The fear is simple: Comcast could shut out other cable content providers on Comcast cable systems and/or pull NBC Universal-owned channels from competing cable systems and small-dish satellite providers (the current spat between DirecTV and Comcast-owned Versus channel will be NOTHING compared to what happens if Comcast were to threaten to pull CNBC off non-Comcast cable systems, DirecTV and Dish Network).