I would imagine the robot would make burgers cheaper, and the lines would move faster, meaning more burgers for your average lazy american!

When you consider the overhead they're saving - the contractor takes care of interviewing, hiring, benefits, etc. this is the direction a lot of employers are going. It saves them a lot of time and liability, assuming the contractor is competent. This guy you describe may have started out at Best Buy but he turned out to be useful so I guess the contractor did their job.

I would say if Watson's programmers are fairly confident he can get more than 50% of the questions correct, all they have to do is program him to buzz in on every question. Could make for a boring Jeopardy game.

If you read the full article, Watson was regularly crushing human competition. They've been testing it. They also mention Watson takes a "room full of servers" to run, so I doubt you're actually playing against it on the NYT site. Finally, that game was quite a bit different than jeopardy in that there are no timers and you get to answer every question or pass before Watson has a chance to buzz in. It should be interesting to see how Watson does in February.

Frankly I don't even know why you're going to college if you think it's an injustice that they're making you attend your classes.

So, I guess the better question is why are you taking a lecture course from them when you already know the material, and aren't interested in listening to them talk about it? Aren't you wasting both their and your time signing up for that course?

You could always freeze yourself until the DRM is gone. Just make sure some asshole doesn't forget to unfreeze you and send you 500 years into the future.

Not sure what the trial has to do with it

Because according to the judge they are responsible for the actions of others who used their website to trade copyrighted files.

I live in Buffalo, but the fact that these caps are coming to Rochester bothered me enough to email Time Warner saying that if they ever bring this to my area, I'll immediately switch providers. Too close for comfort!

Followed the links to ,a href=http://www.akdemocrats.org/doogan/032709_2_doogan_in_juneau.htm target=_new>Doogan's actual post and I think it's ridiculous not only that he felt compelled to reveal this blogger's identity, but the manner in which he chose to do it. (Extra! Extra! Come on.) I emailed him letting him know I don't think this is right and I urge everyone who agrees to do the same. Maybe he'll send us a mass response!

You also have to ignore google for a while so they feel it necessary to lure you back with free songs.

In my experience, when you're too old to keep up with current technology, they make you the boss.

This was a 3 hour movie! You're telling me by making it kid friendly, it's going to do even better? Kids don't have that kind of attention span, I don't have that kind of attention span. If you're going to make a 3 hour movie you may as well make it adult to keep my interest.

I agree that they're being ridiculously greedy, but I just wanted to point out it's not like Google went to them and asked to purchase licenses for the music. They just went ahead and used the music, even though they knew they didn't have licenses for it, and then when they got 100 million plays and PRS came to them and said, "Hey you have to pay for that," Google said, "No thanks," and now PRS has to take legal action to get the music off Youtube.

Would you like some flowers?