How strange, an a nice reversal for a change :D

This film has been out on general release for 8 days already!

I'm the guy that's never smoked, never will, and I find the very idea disgusting. However I'm all for it to be legalised (at home, in public -- like on the street or in parks, it should be banned along with tobacco)

I have problems sleeping too. It's called an 11 month old who's teething.

It can't call the kettle black.

Not a problem, I assume you've mapped caps lock to something useful. I have it as escape personally

keycode 66 = Escape NoSymbol Escape
!lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
clear lock

It's better when you work internationally. Our standard desktop admin password contains an @ sign. Which in most counties is shift-', but in the u.s. it's shift-2. It's not obvious which keyboard layout is in place (you also have to type user@domain, rather than domain\user, as \ doesn't exist as any key on the physical keyboard-mapping we have)

Password theory tells me that
  Pa55word!

Is an awesome password. 9 characters, capital, lower case, numbers and symbols.

It also tells me that
thisismyverylongandeasytorememberpassword

is rubbish, (or to be exact, "really good, if you put in a random symbol numbers and capitalise some letters")

Your link states
The philosophy of a design should be to minimize the amount of time a user has to learn the interface and try to be as similar as possible to other interfaces the user has used previously to avoid getting mixed up from time to time.

OK, don't do anything new, copy other interfaces. Great

It then goes on to say:

Almost all websites are like this.

So what it's saying in the second statement is that the standard - new items first - is ubiquitous. The first statement it states this is good. I fail to see the problem.

Malware? What decade are you from?

Send an email with a link to tw1tter.com, they enter their password, you capture it. Job done. All that's needed is a browser.

Did you tell them to get off your lawn?

I whistle and get a bowl of bolognaise.

Tipped over my head.

Just like the problem of people waking around firing infrared through the window at your tv and changing the channel?

Really, we have hand held devices that can talk to another on the other side of a planet *without any infrastructure, not even an orbiting ship*?

Will Smith

I write code, and do system administration. Obviously I prefer my trusty thinkpad with linux on it, however when I get a phone call with a problem, I love the fact I can ssh in from my phone and restart apache or similar. I've gone as far as using vim to create perl. Once I even ran a debugger.

Obviously a PC is better than a laptop, a laptop is better than a tablet, and a tablet is better than a phone, however the chance of me having access to those devices is inversely proportional to how comfortable it is to use.

What's better, going home from the pub to log on to a 3-screened workstation with all the input you could possibly want, or quickly fixing a problem while your mate gets the next round in?

I picked up an old thinkpad from the IBM era last week. It certainly feels more solid than the T410s I carry, and that feels more solid that the new T430.

It's a race to the bottom, and for those of us who upfront cost is less important lose out. I'd be happy to spend $3000 on a laptop, they're just not made any more.