... Motorola ... ARM

I'm liking the stellaris launchpad right now. You get a whole bunch of toys for your $15... The tools (eclipse) pretty much suck, though.

Yeah, but you can't run bash scripts on an arduino...

It's logical if you have a limited understanding of the world. Not everyone who drinks is 'out of their mind' (whatever that means). Please continue to separate yourself from the rest of us in this way, were not interested in having to deal with your narrow-mindedness.

to be fair to PBS, Cosmos was "first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1980 and was the most widely watched series in the history of American public television until The Civil War (1990)."

I don't know what everyone's getting so upset about. Content is becoming more and more available online, on more and more devices.

How you get that content can be done in one of three ways:

1) in the browser

2) in one of a growing array of proprietary apps with patchy platform support.

3) illegally

Take your pick.

a poor straw-man argument.

Card is alive now, and part of his profits (your purchases) go toward furthering bigotry.

Everything else should be secondary.

it's the only way to bring democracy back to Washington.

Every dollar spent on other causes is a waste.

modern NiCad don't exhibit the memory effect. there are other effects such as depression and aging, but not memory.

Except the missiles in turkey were only there to keep the Turks happy, otherwise they probably would already have been removed and re-cycled. Their defense role had long been replaced by subs.

you first. let me know how it works out for you.

i was arguing (sarcastically) for the artists' side, against those that think that, for some reason, people don't deserve to get paid for their work.

fantastic, you're welcome to your utopia. i'm just glad that, for now, you're not the one deciding how much i get paid.

if you can come up with a plan for me to live my current lifestyle without having to work for a living, then i'm all for it.

until then, back to the basement, fool.

Your gaps argument is not helped by the inane conspiracy theory rambling. Forget to take your meds today?

Are you saying that the html5 video tag is technically superior to either flash or silverlight's video support. 'Cos, you know, it's not. Even. Close.

Yes! Screw paying the artist. They're already starving a little less income can't hurt.

Christ. Some people's sense of economics doesn't extend beyond their parents' basement.