I really enjoyed them. They were quite funny and was disappointed when they stopped producing them so quickly.

Iron Man was great? I saw it and I thought it was awful. Nothing Happened! And this coming from a guy who like movies in which nothing happens, but in Iron Man, nothing ACTUALLY happened. No characters were developed, no villain, no obstacle to overcome, no climax.

Well I know that I don't ever see memory leak problems, and haven't since 2.5 or earlier. I regularly keep 3-10 tabs open for weeks at a time, and it rarely get to over 250MB memory usage. Though, I don't use NoScript, because it's worthless, I run at least 4 other add-ons.

We really need Unfunny and Incorrect moderations.

Hey, I *like* Vista, and the little I've used of 7 (roommate installed a beta build a few months ago) it looks great and I'd have no issues running it. Plus 7 fixes most of the issues that people had with vista at launch (uses same drivers as vista, alters and calms down the UAC), so I'm exited for it.

The memory leak bug is gone, and has been gone for a long time now.

Actually I have mine turned off because it bothers me. I automatically check the lower right corner when I mouse over a url on any other site, and the plain text otherwise gets in the way when I'm trying to read a post.

No, self-interest works just fine, especially in this scenario. The banks took instant profit over long-term profit, and then DESTROYED EVERYTHING. If they had taken long-term profit, which would have made them more money, things would still be just fine. It's in their best interest to encourage growth of the economy in order to make more money; if the economy is stable, they will continue to make money, essentially, forever, if they're patient.

I didn't say unconditional, did I? I don't care what conditions there are to it, they need to the money to keep the economy from dropping out completely.

Ok, I know you're being facetious, but the Big 3 automakers really need it. I live in mid-Michigan, and I know to what extent the automakers' influence on the economy here is. If they go down, they're taking a large part of the state with them. Even if they don't go down, they've already cut large numbers of employees and cut production. This mostly due to the republicans in congress and Bush's lack of support and willingness to help pull them out. The extent of damages due to their delay has yet to be seen, but it affects literally millions of people.

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That's probably one reason that MS charges for it. It's so transparent people don't know to ask to not have it.

Not all consoles. The gamecube wasn't sold at a loss (at least not until near the end of it's life), and, AFAIK, neither is the Wii, as it uses a lot of the same hardware.

None of those have significant marketshare. With toshiba shipping laptops with OpenSolaris, it helps bring open source/alternative os to consumer consciousness.

I still don't understand what everyone's big beef with Java is. It is the language chosen to use to teach students programming at the University I attend, and obviously it has it's limitations, as does every other programming language, but I find no big problem with it. It is useful for things it's designed for.

Why is it that so many people have such big issues with Java? It was the language taught at my University, and I, for one, like Java. It scales really well, from doing simple, small, learning programs, to larger, more complex projects. It has simple syntax and is well structured. Maybe it helps that we weren't taught about the Java API libraries, save I/O, until the middle of the second course, so most students, myself included, didn't learn to rely on them.

The reason you have only one broadband provider, one power company, et c. is because of the regulation in those industries. Deregulation is always a good thing for competition - it allows for startups to change the rules and provide choice to consumers.