I'm not drumk but I love incandescent bulbs too. I've tried many CFLs and none of them give warm light, none of them give full brightness immediately at power-on, none of them are mercury free, none of them handle cold temps well. We waste electricity in so many other ways, targeting incandescent lighting is a trivial battle. Anything that's "instant on" or uses a transformer ("wall wart") is a vampire sucking off energy and wasting it. Cell phone chargers or any kind of charger, cordless house phones, computers, video game consoles, TVs, VCRs, DVD/BR players, stereos, laptop chargers, monitors, printers, microwaves... these are only a sample of the vampires in your house.

You're looking at me funny, as if I'm... off..... topic... yeah.

... you have to work behind the grill because you're not allowed to speak to customers.

My personal opinion is that overclocking does not buy you much, other than bragging rights. Sure you can get a few more FPS, or a few hundred extra MHz out of your CPU. But does that translate into anything usable? A false edge for gaming; false because there are so many other factors that can nullify that edge such as your connection parameters. Perhaps I'm too pragmatic, but then I don't watch Jersey Shore or Kardassians or fauxlebrity shows either.

It's inevitable that some kid is going to be harmed by something at some point in time. Parents need to start taking responsibility of watching their kids. At that young age, critters don't have common sense. Parents are stupid to think otherwise and should be teaching them right, wrong, safe, danger, good, bad. he write-up says it all: the mother's first reaction was "it won't harm him". What else is she letting the kid eat because "it won't harm him"? Apparently we have a parent with no common sense either, one that is not ready to be raising children. Jeez.

It's sad to see material things and freedoms being banned or regulated by the Nanny-nuts, and it's sad to not see the right people slapping parents with a sensibility stick when they take up a crusade because of something stupid that they could have prevented. Instead, we all end up being inconvenienced or punished by their failures.

I don't know what kind of people Jill hangs around, but I for one don't not see people swallowing pennies every day.

You killed Napster, your reputation, and St. Anger's drum parts. The first two in the same tantrum. :)
(can't sue me, I used a smiley to cast doubt on whether this post was in jest or serious comment on how you screwed up)

I'd +1 you if I could-- this is a very important point. I'm on my 4th generation of Android-powered phones, currently a Droid 3. All have had their "moments" at some time or another and have needed to have the battery pulled for a cold boot.

Bad title for this article. It should be "Motorola develops a thinner Android phone". The RAZR brand name is irrelevant today. I had a RAZR and it was nothing out of the ordinary. So I immediately thought: wow, Moty is throwing out a new budget phone, a rehack of a RAZR..

What I'm still not impressed with: this is still a tall/wide Android. Somebody needs to come out with a more compact one- that is also thin. That would impress me. Having a wide-tall bulky paddle-sized Android phone on my belt that gets caught on seatbelts is no longer 'cool'. It's dorky as shit, and so are all of the lame "ladies" pocket-book sized cases for these things.

I bought Eudora and loved it too... then Qualcomm changed. They started adding incremental features, considered them to be significant "upgrades" and began charging something like 50% of the purchase price for these minor revs.... which they also started rolling out rather regularly. That was my incentive to go to Thunderbird. I couldn't justify paying for features I had no interest in.
This is the same thing Forte started doing with Agent. Adding minor features on a more regular basis and wanting money for them. In the case of Agent, they started to focus more on improving Email features which appeared to really be to be more of a directional shift of the product, and IMHO should have been busted out to be a separate product or an unlockable, Because all the while, the Usenet part of Agent didn't improve significantly.

... Mac's hardware is under Draconian control and can't fail because there is no room for innovation. Unlike PCs, which have more modern hardware, gets hardware upgrades sooner, and offers the user options, not McDonalds menu choices.

So go back to Blackberry, iPhone which are McDonalds phones of single-digit model options, whereas you can get dozens of models of Smartphones that run Android.

The bleeding edge still has performance and apps that runs circles around the decrepit Blackberry. And don't even mention Siri -- an admittedly great software "killer app" designed to keep renewed interest in the aging iPhone hardware.

Faster, smaller code, way less bugs than Java. Granted no objects and the like. But it disappoints the hell out of me when I use Java, I don't get the speed or interface consistency that Sun touted so highly, and I get huge stack traces that are mostly useless. And in the end, programmers today have little clue what is actually happening under the covers- not just under Java's covers, but in the assembly code that makes the slow magic happen. And I won't event mention .NET...

Greater than 500 emails constitutes SPAM in my book. If you're not a spammer and need to send more than 500... you should be using something professional, not a cloud-based thing which by design is supposed to be light-weight and portable.

The numbering should start with 1025.

You tore me away from Oprah's final show for this? Not for long...

Back in April I had two people catch the same malware within a week of each other. Very similar to this, +h+s all of the files in the profile user directory so they've got nothing to click on, rewired the registry to trap the launch of executables- to call the malware with the executable name as a parameter, presumably so they could "shell" out to whatever you clicked on. Convenient way to re-infect a system. Popups for "Hard drive failing" blah-blah-bitemyass. After fixing the first one, I did the usual: uploaded the exe to Virustotal for verification then sent the sample file off to "two well known free AV vendors:". A week later, the second malware victim pops up. Tested the exe against both free AV packages. Neither complained about the executable. Uploaded it to Virustotal which immediately said this file was scanned over a week ago. Malwarebytes, Superantispyware, Spyware Doctor, Spybot- nobody got it. Then I took the executable to work where Symantec SAV Corporate with up-to-date defs happily scanned right past the malware file without a blink.

What? Oh yeah, the point. Tell your complainer that even up-to-date software can be as clueless as Sarah Palin. There's no guarantee that something out today will be detected tomorrow.

It's a computer. It can do anything. Make it do whatever I want. Use that HTML stuff if you have to." -- anonymous manager

Another 'expert' user who thinks he/she knows more than IT. And that may be very true - there are some smart people out there. But that box won't be going on the corporate/prod network if its unpatched, unmonitored, unmanaged, or improperly privileged. Users don't give a shit about policies if whatever they want or are doing is convenient for them. And it's shit attitudes like yours that puts IT on the defensive (try working with them for once. they might even host the sw on a server properly). And see life from their shoes. Uninformed users wouldn't believe the policies, especially FDA, that IT departments have to operate within. Have a 12 CFR server lose 10 seconds of data and see who's tit gets in the ringer. Users can't fathom why they're stuck with specific versions of software or operating systems. Patching? What's that? Or why they can't have free internet access, or stream audio all day. Trojans? Bandwidth? I only want to watch Youtube all day. Or have a brand X computer instead of brand Y. It's a computer just like all of those other ones, except some stuff inside- so why can't you support it? Any why can't we bring in software, or MP3 file, or a copy of that movie that my kid downloaded? Licensing? Liability? What are you-the DMV? Or why one of the 'n' IT guys doesn't respond- it's not like the n*100 computers or n*5 server they're supporting are down all the time. Yeah bud, you are one of the arrogant idiots you're talking about.

EA doesn't have a clue to what people want. They only make assumptions or (publicity) statements that are financially advantageous. They only want people to think "multi-player" in order to make more subscription sales, or sales of DRM laden crap that requires on-line connections. I for one think that multi-player games suck ass. If EA wants my money, they need to produce DRM-free single player games. (Oh, ones that don't suck ass as well).