I can foresee a day when the desktop computer isn't necessary, and in it's place is instead a dock for your smartphone. Plug in the smartphone into the dock and then use a standard keyboard, mouse, monitor, and speakers. I could type a paper that way for sure.

(Morbo yelling) Preservatives do not work that way! Goodnight

Opt out is BS, you should have to opt in... I wasn't interested in being a part of this but b/c I don't care about it, I'm apart of it. You should only be included if you care enough to take some sort of action.

It's a nice idea to think that conservatives and liberals are flip sides of the coin, and we need both. Yadda yadda. But it just doesn't work out that way. Liberals are on the wrong side of history. Consider Russia for instance. There are conservatives there, and there are liberals there. Do they really need those liberals sending them in the wrong direction again? What good does it do them? From our modern perspective we can see just how wrong-headed they are. But left and right over there is the same thing as left and right over here, just centered around a different origin. There's no reason to believe our liberals are any better than theirs, and in the future we'll look back and see just how wrong-headed they are today. The people calling for the removal of personal responsibility today are no different from the commies.

Now of course conservatives aren't perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. But at least conservatives believe in the constitution, instead of glorifying the same old mistakes. At least conservatives look to a future where everyone is better off, instead of liberals who simply try to manipulate the power structure so that is favorable to them alone.

Disclaimer: I don't believe what I wrote, but it's using the same 'my side is always right' mentality that you used.

It's probably just a gene that when mutated is embryonic lethal. (bad joke)

"Technology is never good or evil. It's how it's used... like the death ray." -Farnsworth

I'd note how nice BFG was. Their customer service was great in my experience. They did not require a receipt. Lifetime meant life of the company. They were clearly trying to honor older lifetime warranties, because they had a deal where you could give them your old AGP card and for a low sum of money, they would give you a much newer model PCIx card.

That's true. I saw it in this documentary

I'd guess it's not cheap to start an airline, and with lots of existing competition, I'd guess that makes it more difficult, although by no means impossible. Free market you say? Since the government has (and probably will again) just bail out the existing airlines, even though they have failing business models, that removes the possibility that the established carriers can go under, which prevents the opening up of demand ($) that a new company could try to fill. Less available revenue combined with greater competition decreases the likelihood that a new carrier enters the market. Oh, and lets not forget the TSA makes air travel horrifically painful no matter what airline you fly, thus (IMO) causing even an awesome airline to still have a awful overall travel experience.

And then the face of the kid who gets somebody else's calculator where the equals button doesn't work. And maybe the face of the kid who is tech savy and figures out he got the cheaters hacked calculator, as he may ethically ponder - cheat myself and get a better grade, or turn in one cheater who without their cheating instrument will probably be toward the bottom, but if they are turned in they may be removed from the curve all together.

Wow for $100 million dollars you think they could design a freaking menu interface. The beta was absolutely terrible, not intuitive at all and you end up with like 3 chat windows for talking with one person. I hope it was 100% remade before launch with some of that 100 million. The gameplay is ok, it feels like Starcraft but with better graphics. So if you are feeling nostalgic, you can drop $60 or just buy an old used copy for probably $5. I'll probably still buy it just to play occasionally online with friends though...

Indeed. Some studies suggest that what is called Emotional intelligence (or sometimes 'EQ') is a better predictor of success in life.

I can't wait for a mobile browser (running in android) that uses addons... specifically adblock.

money != productivity"

Yeah. It looks and reads like a science fair project...