This is Slashdot after all.

Another thing that Google might do would be to throw out the BigTable source (maybe a generation or two behind) to poison the commercial big database market.

Wouldn't Larry like that?

How 20th century.

I should have known better than to come in here. Flamewar from hell. Whatever.

Personally, I don't give a small rat's ass if any Apple product ever supports Adobe Flash. Linux can stop supporting Adobe Flash as well. Then, Adobe could stay right where it belongs - on Microsoft computers. I mean, we HAVE alternative to Adobe on Linux. And, it really shouldn't be hard to port any of them to Mac - it's a Unix-like, after all. Let Adobe chase after the Microsoft market, and create security holes in Windows, where they belong.

Yes, I'll load an occasional site that relies on Adobe, and the content won't run. No big deal. I'll miss that content, and the site will miss my repeat visits. Fair trade.

The Linux world is growing. Yeah, there's a long way to go to say that Linux even competes with Microsoft for market share - but so what? The Linux world is still growing, and people will complain the site developers that they can't see the content. Eventually, developers will develop with the alternatives to Adobe in mind.

The world is a beautiful place when you don't rely on proprietary shit.

This reminds me of the Brady Bunch episode where Peter decides that he has no personality and starts talking like Humphrey Bogart.

Oxygen resonates at 60GHz, so range will be crap. Like all unlicensed bands, 60GHz is unlicensed because it is a crappy band. All the good bands are strictly reserved for the exclusive use of the highest (or most crooked) bidder.

Given what the tech industry has been able to make out of unlicensed use of the 2.4 GHz band (undesirable for commercial use due to water absorbing it and microwave ovens using it) imagine what it could do if it got part of a more desirable band currently used mostly to provide poor quality and overpriced cell service?

i tried to consider what 9.6 billion light years was like in terms of distance

Not that hard to conceptualize - it's about 10% of Everything (if the current numbers for the Observable Universe are to be believed).

To be fair, the problem with social security is that it was enacted when most people died before retirement age (retirement being 65; most died at 63) and we now live much longer. The solution is to push the retirement age for social security higher (it should be tied to estimated life expectancy statistics) and encourage (from a tax perspective) people to save more during their lives, while being comfortable as a nation/world with slower growth due to lower levels of consumption. But we know that ain't gonna happen, and it's going to end up as a clusterfuck of epic proportions. There is going to be a huge retired population who is going to want to lean on younger generations to provide for them, and those younger folks (myself included) are not going to want to slave away for the older generations. Begun, the generation wars have.

Wow! If ever someone lived up to their handle...

Again, in my neck of the universe we don't actually vote for teachers or school principals... maybe it's different where you come from...

If there is any dictatorship involved here, it's on the part of those school administrators who re-interpreted guidelines for what schools are allowed to provide as laws about what a student is allowed to possess and what might be appropriate punishment for such an infraction...

Nice use of the word "capriciously" in a sentence, though... I think it makes you seem very intelligent... ignoring the logic of your argument, of course...

The Fox News of tech sites.

You know, I don't want my kid being taught that candy is a reward. Because that way leads to "food makes me feel better when life sucks" and 300 lb kids.

I'd much, much rather my kid think of candy or pastries as dessert, the course that follows the main entré if one is still interested in food at that point. Not a special reward you get if you are good and worth loving.

> Slashdot has comments, friend/foe, and journal (blog) space.
> What's to prevent you from getting fired for using Slashdot?

much less obvious when comes the time to link it to my identity. Not that it is impossible although ;-)

I never told my Slashdot ID to anybody I know, I don't friend/foe anybody and I have no journal. Additionally, I try to be careful about what I post.

When can I pass the interview ? ;-)

Except they're not. Check Apple's financial statements (required to be open, as they are a publicly traded company). They make dick on the iTunes Store, just barely over what it costs to run.

. . . would a post discussing good hygiene neglect to mention deodorant.

Gotta get the basics down before moving on to the more advanced material. Talk about deodorant before getting the showering thing down, and inevitably some will decide the deodorant is a substitute for the showering, which is just bad all around.

Immersion cooling makes sense from a lot of perspectives. However, there is one enormous problem. That is that chips aren't rated to work when immersed. You will have to get the companies who make the chips to specify that the packages the chips are in will are designed and safe to use in liquid. And they're going to charge you a lot of money for that. Frankly, it'll make the device non-cost effective.

You can just omit this step, and throw something together with air-rated chips and hope it works anyway. But you don't really want to depend on such a system for mission critical services.