It's just because the professors are vague about it. There's really nothing so difficult about "This particle collides with that one, causing the two to spin in opposite directions." If you measure one, you know the other one is spinning in the other direction. But I guess you can't write a $50 million research grant around THAT. I still suspect that some of the other mysticism around it is caused by artifacts of the measurement or modeling process, but I suppose that's where it might be handy to be a second year student...

Their computer works not by quantum entanglement but by magic.

Take RogueWave. Before the VCs took over, the coffee there was so good you really didn't mind the urine so much. After the VCs took over, the coffee there was so bad, the urine improved the flavor.

Maybe we should go have a talk to the FDA about "Radioactive materials Americans eat each year."

Your taxes go to pay for things we ALL need. Like roads, and firemen and teachers. When someone cheats on their taxes, they're cheating ALL of us!

Ahh ha ha! Why do you guys make me read this shit? They know we're just going to tax the crap out of them to pay for hooker and cocaine parties for Washington lobbyists! Why LIE to them? !#%!WA

Yup. The lawyers will get $30 million, and the users will get a $10 gift certificate to Hot Topic. Which they also don't have in Canada! Damn you, Bell Mobility!

Too bad the scientific method is no match for the stick-your-fingers-in-your-ears-and-yell-la-la-la-la-la method.

It can probably check your birthday on your facebook page. That information is probably also encoded on the magstripe or 3D bar-code on your driver's license.

I'll get right on that...

AWW! I accidentally COPIED it! God damn it! Hang on...

AWW! Now there are FOUR copies! And one of them's on xtube! Oh well, at least all the waving penises in the ads will distract you from the content of the video. What kind of idiot tries to DELETE things from the INTERNET anyway? Every time you try, THIS is what happens!

Those shiny geegaws might do well on the consumer side but there's always going to be some bank or some company that's going to need a batch processor running mainframe assembly running somewhere. There's plenty of room to work in things you don't think suck. I'm seeing more opportunities to do development work on Linux platforms lately, not fewer.

You have to solve your problems, though. If you think all GUI libraries currently suck, you could just write your own. You don't have to be satisfied with existing software, if you can just make your own.

I've been burned so many times by AMD's hardware in the past that I won't even consider buying anything of theirs anymore, no matter how awesome it is. They could make a hand job robot with perfect Linux drivers, don't care, wouldn't buy it.

AMD could get back on my list by NOT SUCKING for, oh, about a decade, but I don't see it happening. Say what you will about Nvidia, I've never had to spend two days fixing a system after upgrading THEIR drivers.

For once Microsoft actually gave users something they'd actually want. I'm actually starting to avoid youtube because of how obnoxious it's becoming. If youtube were my killer app, Microsoft's implementation would completely eliminate all the suck that's been introduced to youtube over the past year, and then-some! That'd be enough for me to buy their device. I'll give them props when they deserve it (They occasionally do.)

Since Google's inevitably going to shoot them down, I'm going to have to start looking for someplace else to upload my videos from now on. Maybe xtube. They're not pornographic, but at least there all you have to deal with is a browser full of waving penises while you watch your video. It's like a forest of penises, gently waving in the breeze...

Could you use it to drive clicks for ads on a web page? Is there any URL it'd be interesting for Microsoft to be clicking on a lot? livegoatporn.com maybe?

Yeah, but you're selecting for bystanders who can dodge bullets! That's what he's on about! Give everyone a gun! (300M guns in the USA we're pretty much already there!) If you survive you must be pretty reasonably good at dodging bullets! By the fourth or fifth generation we'll have kids who can dodge bullets like Neo! Then to win any war we just drop one guy with 2 handguns and a black duster onto the battlefield and he just stalks through the place picking off bad guys and calmly dodging anything they shoot at him!

Seems like defamation and extortion to me, but I'm not a lawyer. If they keep this up, they won't be either.