M$? Really? Whatever, party like it's 1998 bro.

And then the most competent CEOs ignore your company's job offer and go somewhere that does offer a golden parachute, knowing that despite their skill shit can and will happen that is out of their control but nevertheless wanting to get paid in such a contingency.

People are going to act in their self-interest, which is why companies *do* offer crazy sounding deals.

You may want to get an upgrade on your understanding. It was a Democratic Congress under a Democratic president who killed funding. :-)

Well that's kind of a silly standard. Most technology is ultimately based on at least one of two things: the opposable thumb (needed for dextrously manipulating one's environment, exceptions such as an elephant's nose notwithstanding) and fire (and its natural descendent electricity).

By your standard, a person in a coma or an infant are not to be granted rights.

Uh oh CmdrTaco you posted this in Entertainment instead of Idle. How embarrassing for you.

M$? Oh, I get it, it's because Microsoft likes money. That's really clever, did you come up with that yourself?
BTW I also like money so please refer to me as rgu£ar_gonz£z

Just want to verify that everyone who is full-on convinced about the negative effects of climate change is a vegetarian. At this point it's essentially indisputable that eating meat -- particularly beef, but all meat due to second order effects aside from methane (increased fuel usage for the additional grain required to grow animals, etc) -- is a significant factor in greenhouse gas production. If every American became vegetarian, the reduction of greenhouse gasses would be greater than swapping out every SUV for an electric car. So, those of you pilloring consumers, government, or industry -- you've already made the switch, right? Cause you wouldn't want to be hypocritical.

I'm a huge fan (in general) of Amazon. Spent more money there than I care to think on. That's irrelevant. The /. story was either a verbatim PR release or written by a PR stooge to be as banal and self-aggrandizing as possible. It wasn't intended to spur discussion but to advertise a product. The submission was obviously not along the lines of "Hey guys, here's a new DNS host, what do you think will be the advantages and disadvantages compared to OpenDNS et al?" That's fine, great, if you want to advertise your product by passing it off as a news article, when there is a clear difference between the two, be prepared to be mocked for doing so.

Cool, thanks for the PR release wiredmikey

Anything that would allow a user to run a non-Apple-approved program, anything at all, even a DOS emulator, is against the rules.
Nice tautology there: "Anything that will let you do something not allowed is not allowed". How does one argue against that kind of thinking?

The Simon-Ehrlich wager is required reading for anyone making or reading about such claims.

Can I get a summary of the summary please

Lifespan is one area that immediately springs to mind. Granted, they're making advances in OLED lifespan but it's still well below SED's "indefinite" (i.e., comparable to lcd or crt) life.

I'd guess the number of consumers who would pay a 500%+ markup for a television with, arguably, marginally better iq than a plasma is vanishingly small.

All promises aren't equal. If I promise to drink at least 3 glasses of water a day, to exercise for at least 30 minutes every day, and also promise to not embezzle from my employer, keeping the first two but not the third may give me a respectable "promise keeping" percentage, but I would guess my employer would be much happier if I kept only the third and not the first two.