Comment: Anansi Boys... (Score 1) 35
...somebody should get moving on an adaptation of Anansi Boys, too. But definitely American Gods, first.
Comment: Re:u can rite any way u want (Score 1) 431
Is this irony or coincidence? I was never taught the difference.
Alanis Morrissette can explain it to you.
Comment: Typewriters? (Score 1) 198
What, they've never heard of carbon paper in Russia?
Comment: Re:Do electric cars actually produce CO2? (Score 1) 330
If you really needed the shale oil and you didn't have fossil fuels to do the extraction you could run the extraction process using a nuclear plant.
If you've got a nuke plant, why not just make electricity?
Comment: Oh great... (Score 5, Insightful) 224
So now every software developer will have another calendar to have to convert back and forth between...
Comment: Re:Severe drought, but irrigated fairways (Score 1) 169
Aren't golf courses irrigated with grey water these days?
Comment: Re:I knew it (Score 1) 169
I don't think persimmon makes sparks when hitting a rock.
Comment: Re:I call BS. (Score 1) 169
You don't use titanium clubs on greens. And if you're hitting your putts hard enough to make sparks, you're definitely doing it wrong.
Comment: One less reason to visit Brazil... (Score 1) 97
...not that it was really at the top of my list anyway. But seriously? They expect you to buy a new phone just to visit/travel there? That's going to be a serious problem for a lot of people. It's almost as though they want you stay out.
Comment: Re:The submission looks like a Microsoft advertise (Score 1) 208
I might have been living under a rock, but I have no idea whatsoever what OneNote is and it is entirely unclear from the submission. Would it be too hard to mention this?
It's a note-taking/sharing/information-capture app along the lines of Evernote, if that helps.
Comment: Re:Cellular is the business model (Score 1) 424
Fiber too, sure. And eventually LTE or whatever comes after LTE. Or maybe the government (OH NOES SOCIALILISM) lays the fiber, and charges access fees on a truly net-neutral basis to content providers. But the point is that you can't deregulate a market that has government-granted monopolies in it, you have to do away with the monopolies, one way or another.
Comment: Not all bugs are code bugs... (Score 1) 716
Are we also going to expect analysts and/or managers to rewrite crappy reqs and specs on their own time?
Comment: Re:*sigh* (Score 1) 417
They should've made it easier to "upgrade". AFAIK there is no way to actually upgrade - you have to back up, clean-install the OS, and reinstall everything. Who has the time?
Comment: Re:Freakin' Riders. (Score 1) 767
Well, your better audio and guitar amps STILL use tubes.
Some of them do. Lots of top-notch audio equipment is all solid-state.
Comment: Re:Freakin' Riders. (Score 1) 767
Only if they're all tube-based. If they have a transistorized front end, or power supply, then they'll be just as dead.