Not to mention data storage and transmission. That's the thing that's currently causing headaches: petabyte /scratch systems that don't go down when you look at them sideways and then similar systems to hold all that crap you just dumped on /scratch!

Maybe you should dedicate some of your precious time to properly utilizing the language(s) you use.

It's your primary interface when dealing with other humans, and like it or not, you WILL be judged by your ability to use it. You will do well to invest in it, regardless of your distaste for the rules.

Nope! Only true purity tested candidates should be allowed to run as GOP and everyone else should be labelled soocialist looser pardy. Would make it easier for the 5% true Americans to know how teh vote.

If McCain had run on a platform of A-La-Carte cable, posted hospital prices and cheap free range waygu beef he'd be president now.

Why do you think MS kept the rights to DOS after they rewrote it for IBM? In fact they made sure that they would be able to license it to other manufacturers as well. Clever move back in day one set MS on a track no one else predicted. Seemed to work out for them at the time.

Re: redshirt sports reference.

I did not know that. While I'm moderately adept at playing sports I've never figured out the appeal of watching other people play a game. But then again, I like watching multiple versions of old plays, where I already know the storyline and outcome. I must be mad.

Heh. I'm picturing the western world reduced down to pre-industrial levels due to patent fights and then aliens show up and the best we have to throw at them is a seed drill.

Bill Gates father is a prominent property rights attorney who's advised Bill on structuring MS business practices since day 1.

She fit in a suitcase? Was she of high caliber?

What color is the sky where you live?

Arggggh! Agfa Tabloid Scanner. Coffee, brew faster!

My 33 MHz Quadra 650 is still running. I keep it around as it runs an Agfa tabloid printer. And some cool Bungie games.

Git awf mah lon!

Yup, Parrots ROCK! Now, get car manufacturers to install such a system.

Or we all turn into Deadpool!