No, engineers talk in acronyms. Marketing droids use terms like "inflection point."

http://neros.lordbalto.com/ChapterTwelve.htm It really isn't rocket science.

God, I hope not.

The reality is always worse than the theory. Thanks for the quote. I may have to read that.

That's what they used to say about fungus/yeast. Unfortunately, it gives folks like me migrines and I would suspect this frankencrap will have its own health risks, but it will keep the doctors busy, so I'm sure they're cremin' in their jeans about it. Deliver me from this kind of "progress."

The Martian Defense Force strikes again.

Yeah, I used to watch those. The masks always seemed the most hokey part of the show. No mask is that realistic.

As the next young man jumps off the roof of one of Apple's factories in China.

So, what? I'm supposed to go live in a cave? When you have to "opt in" in order to get a service you need, that's coersion in my book.

So, I can found a company called Apple Sails that manufactures sailboats, but if I also build digital depth finding equipment, I can't call it Apple Trolls (q.v.)? I'm beginning to think you shouldn't be able to trademark any single word that appears in a standard dictionary. Generally, the trademark system would appear to be iLLOGICAL and iDIOTIC. Not to mention iNSANE.

This is hilarious. Having been watching J-Bloggers on YouTube for a while now, it's clear that broadband access in Japan runs about $12 a month (maybe a bit higher now because of the exchange rate) for EVERYBODY.

No, actually the reason people get moded down for casting aspersions on the Church is that many technophiles are still "drinking the kool-aid" vis-a-vis the dominant religion in the West, mainly because they have never taken a hard look at the historical facts of the matter that have been available to specialists in the field for a good century now.

Compared to the Shrub, he IS the Messiah. Compared to Billary, he hovers somewhere around sainthood. Compared to McCain, he's the Prince of Peace. Compared to the Waltons, he's Santa Claus. I could go on.