Call me when a woman goes into space...

Oh, wait...

The title takes women's rights back several decades.
Oh, yeah, its a big post, uncommon for the likes of the womenfolk ehh? Oh, that's not all, it is also *techy* eehh? Right, because we know how it goes with women and technology - har har!. What? Linux is involved? I' d never...! Wow, Congrats slashdot.

And this post would not be complete without some lame predictions of future /. articles - shall we?
-Fellulah Davidovic, first woman to load a file onto emacs!
-Regina Filange, first woman to live in her mom's basement well into her thirties!

Uh, oh, I am really worried about myself. Not only can I think of many ways I could construct explosive or incendiary devices, I can think of OVER 100 WAYS TO KILL someone! And there are quite a few people I don't really like! Many of them are sitting in the parliament (note: I am Greek) so they have connections to the police!
I am surely a prime suspect for potential terrorism, murder, political assassination and I don't know what else!
Oh, shit! I just realized I know where the VAGINA is! Potential for RAPE right there!!!
Where do I hide guys???

First of all, dude, forget about your mom for a second. If the bride-to-be figures out your wedding choices are to please your mom, there will be problems!
Secondly, invitations that you open and they play music were cool 25 years ago. QR codes would be a lot of fun for your 1 buddy that would "get it" (of course the QR code would have to actually be something). And, well, I will just go ahead and stop you with the lcd's.
The only cool invitation hardware wise that I have seen is the embedded manual paper record player.
If you are good with photoshop perhaps you want to design your wedding invitation (but print it professionally of course) and really make it special. You can also make a website, and a reservation system. For example, I had included a personal code with each invitation, that when entered in the wedding website it logged on the individual and allowed him/her to just select the number of people and accept. No, you cannot have just a QR code there, people won't be able to use it.
Finally, be careful of the mom thing.

You talk about Elop like he is a good thing, when he is either a complete idiot or a Microsoft shill (I estimate the latter).
He was correct that Symbian was a difficult environment to develop to (my company gave it up for that reason), however Nokia had explicitly asked Symbian developers to hold on and they would provide a unified dev environment for all their platforms based on QT, so things were getting better. So, with one announcement he breaks the promise and alienates the thousands of Symbian developers. Developers are the only thing more important than consumers, by alienating them he most likely guaranteed Nokia will fail. He is probably confident that Windows developers will jump to Windows OS so he doesn't really need the traditional Nokia developers. He is probably wrong.
Then, his only problem with MeeGo (that he admitted - not being a Microsoft OS is more likely the true reason) is that at most Nokia would have one MeeGo device this year. Hey! Do you know which other company does not release more than one new device per year? Perhaps the one you are trying to go after? How do THEY do it? And of course, let's not mention that it was a lie - they had TWO devices to release, the N9 which was released in very small markets (Kazakhstan, Denmark etc lest someone might notice how good it is) and the N950 which was not sold but given to a few select MeeGo developers (you can't even find it on ebay at any price).
And have you seen the N9? Probably not since it was not sold in any major markets, but it is truly an awesome device mainly due to its OS. My company currently mainly works on iOS so I have all the Apple devices at home, but when my wife saw the N9 it was the only time she was impressed by a device. (Her words after trying out "hey, compared to your iphone this looks like it came from 2050!"). So while the N900 was the perfect geek tool, the N9 is the only device I have tried that is easier, more fun to use and much much more powerful than the iOS devices (sorry Android...).
So, yeah, while Symbian had to go, the developers should not have been scared away. They should have been first moved to MeeGo, which was the original plan with the QT platform being the common denominator, and all resources gone to MeeGo which (sadly, because it is stillborn) is the best current mobile OS, although the limited resources behind it kind of show up as some instability...
If you think I talked to much about Nokia, you should see how much I could say about RIM. However, current litigation prevents me from doing so, so commenting on RIM's outgoing "NIH" leaders or their successor will have to be deferred to a later time...

Doesn't anyone find it really odd to see the parent post modded at +5 when...
A) He didn't even do a cursory GOOGLE search to see they do indeed have call centers
B) He didn't do a cursory GOOGLE search to see they are in the website making business
C) It wasn't just a random scam call with all those mounts of damning evidence including logs with IPs, recordings etc (it was an interesting read!).

I mean, I get the whole Microsoft is evil thing, but it does not mean the others are not and mods should at least use some common sense when the poster does not.

Oh, and "Out of character"??? WTH does that mean? Anthropomorphizing a company and extrapolating their character traits from their "Do no evil" marketing slogan? Are you trying to embody the definition of a "fanboi" or does it come out natural?

It is a good thing Google admitted it later (https://plus.google.com/115264064268941645500/posts), people might still be in doubt...

It is a pretty valid question. I know one person who has a good scanner that does not offer drivers that work with post-XP Windows, so she keeps it. Also, I know many people who have low end laptops (and of course netbooks) that don't have the disk space, graphics, memory that would make a newer OS work adequately. And then, I am seriously struggling to watch my HD-DVDs (yes, I got a few dozen in clearance - they are great!) on Windows 7, so I am considering putting the hd-dvd/BD drive on an XP box at the next sign of playback trouble.

It has slowed down air travel and made it inconvenient. It is severely hurting the world economy.
A socialist jobs program would just have people digging holes in the desert and would not cause any more harm other than the cost of the program itself.

If you actually RTFA the increase is $153 million and the entire budget for the TSA is $7.85 billion.
Of course it still is a huge amount, considering that the TSA is simply a security theater and ALL that money goes to waste. Plus, that money is close to half of the entire NASA budget... Yeah, way to go for ROI!
And all that does not make it right for the summary to be so off, but this is slashdot!

At least in Greece, not only Apple advertises a 1-year warranty, but if your device fails within the 2-year time-frame and you go to the authorized dealer and cite the EU regulation they will simply respond "apple provides a 1 year warranty, nothing we can do". They won't easily budge so from then on good luck with the consumer protection groups which have no real power or the legal system which is costly and takes time and effort.
So it is not just advertising, at least in some EU countries, apple is actually not providing the EU-required extra year.

My boss bought a unibody Mac Mini a year ago. About 6 months later its USB port started frying keyboards. It took out a few (some expensive) keyboards before he could figure out what was going on. So, he took it to the apple store and they told him to come back in 2 weeks when they would have the parts. About 2-3 weeks later the parts had arrived so he went to the store and they suddenly decided that his warranty was void. The reason? When they opened it, it had too much dust (no cats, no smoking house) so the warranty was void and it was in the system so no Apple store would fix it. But fear not! Here is a $100 off coupon for a brand new Mac Mini!
I could not get my boss to fight it ("it is Apple, so it must be as they say") - if it was me I would probably have shoved an ipod down the "genius" throat that would dare to tell me he was voiding my warranty for a reason that is not even listed on the warranty terms! And how could it be listed? Apart from the fact that you need SERIOUS dust and moisture to damage electronics, it is the manufacturer the one who controls whether there will be dust in the machine in the first place, when designing the air intake! The desktops I build are dust-free because I add a filter in front of the air intake fan. I guess the Mac Mini does not have a filter because a little dust can get a gullible apple user to part with his warranty!