I know it's not possible with /. polls but in this case it definitely would've been useful.

Personally I want my input devices to be both comfortable/precis (aren't these two the same to a certain degree?) and aesthetically pleasing.

Every time someone makes that argument I think of stories like The Road Not Taken (summary: aliens show up, detect no FTL drives on earth, conclude we'll be an easy target, land, try to take over using matchlock weapons, get slaughtered, humanity realizes what a bunch of idiots we've been for not figuring out FTL travel on our own, galaxy is fucked....)

You should look for IPS monitors, not TN. TN are cheap but they are also not very good when it comes to color reproduction and viewing angle.

I'm hoping that the next Macbook Pro has something similar to the "retina" displays in terms of PPI. Even cooler would be if this was also true for the next iMac generation.

The one thing that's keeping me from getting a laptop as my next main computer is the native screen resolution, I want a 200+ PPI 15" monitor (if they also came out with a similar display for the 27" iMac I'd have to weigh other factors into it as well)...

From what I've heard from people who do game development the usual project cycle tends to be that you spend the first 20-30% of the project barely working at all, then it's normal work until the last 20% of the project where the overtime increases every day/week until you're pulling 80+ hour weeks and sleeping under your desk the last few weeks. Hell, I even had a project manager at a studio tell me this when he was trying to explain how awesome working for them was...

And that's how it's done here in Sweden. Your receipt shows just how much of what you are paying is taxes but the advertised price has to be including taxes (so as not to mislead customers).

The restaurant stupidity seems to have been a matter of our current government succumbing to blind ideological impulses combined with lobbyism from the restaurant owners of this great country. The moment I heard of the suggestion to lower taxes on restaurant meals my first thought was "lobbyists, and they'll go along with it without a second thought because it matches their ideology"...

Yeah, I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to "the alliance" randomly making changes without much thought, at least when the left (S+V+MP) do it there is public outrage, the alliance just get away with it.

In other countries this is solved by laws demanding that all prices advertised to individuals (as opposed to companies) or where the target customer is clearly an individual include sales tax. So prices including the sales tax are conveniently set to nice round numbers.

OS X doesn't have service packs. "Service Pack" is MS terminology.

I'd rather take population control and live to be a thousand years old. The trick here being, of course, to make sure that when you age you don't spend the first 50 of those years healthy and then spend 950 years old and weak.

I suspect most others would feel the same way. I'd gladly sign a contract stating that I would not procreate irresponsibly if it meant I could lead an extremely long and healthy life.