Indeed. If people want quality they can pick up a couple of studio monitors. KRK are my personal choice right now.

And for those complaining about innovation: G+ isn't innovative??

No, it isn't. It's Facebook with circles, and the same underlying privacy issues.

Up here in Canada, Rogers and other providers offer Data Sharing plans and allow you to add a device to your plan for $10 a month and get a data-only SIM card for them. I'm sure the same thing is available down in the US.

And even if that doesn't work for you many modern smartphones can act as WiFi Hotspots, though this does considerably reduce the battery life of the phone.

Definitely! Drag and drop saving was fantastic. I brought it up over at the Haiku (BeOS Clone) forums suggestion box and there was some interesting discussion about it: http://www.haiku-os.org/community/forum/very_overlooked_yet_powerful_usability_feature_drag_and_drop_file_saving

I also miss BBC Basic, great for children who want to start programming. With Windows there's nothing like that built in, asides from maybe Powershell but I've not tried it extensively.

I read about this in a New Scientist Magazine a looong time ago. They blasted silicon with a laser to produce small cones on the surface, which sounds exactly like the "3-D nanocone-based solar cell platform" described here.

Like someone else said, when it hits the market, then I'm interested about hearing about this.

I use this on a daily basis for PHP projects. Haven't found anything that comes close to saving me time and guessing what I'm trying to do correctly as I'm typing. It's very smart when you mix HTML, CSS, PHP and Javascript as well.

Greedy record companies can't have it both ways.
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First programming language I ever learned was BBC Basic on an Acorn Archimedes computer. A fantastic language which was easy to pick up and start working with.

I feel very, very fortunate that I caught the tail end of the time where easy programming environments were bundled with computers, since learning those concepts at an early age is what has allowed me to learn the other languages I do now.

Surely it must be harder for this generation to really start programming, at least on the desktop, without such accessible environments?

Everyone is rushing to get on the platform you were running on twenty years ago!

Time for you to make a dramatic comeback and show how an ARM powered Operating System is done properly.

There are plenty of PS1 games that are still very fun to play now. Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Tomb Raider are just some examples.