I mean, they are rather bland looking, have poor 3G coverage, and limited memory.

To each his own, I suppose, but Java better keep it's damn mitts off MY G1.

What do you suppose would happen if the Book publishing industry went to Congress and demanded that all used bookstores pay a percentage of all book sales back to the book publishers?

How far would the Electronics and Jewelry industry get if they demanded that pawn shops do the same to them?

Used video games are not infinite goods. A book, a video game, a stereo system, and a diamond ring are, as far as the law is concerned, indistinguishable from one another. When you buy one, it is yours. It no longer belongs to the person who sold it to you. You can do what you wish with it (aside from violating copyright). You can break it, burn it, or give it away.

I am astounded at the gall of these prima donas.

I don't care much for Ruby myself. I'm a Python guy, but I don't give a frack what language people use.

"Least used scripting language"? Right, because nobody develops on Rails (like it or hate it).

Ever check the stats on Developers who use Macs (vs. the general populace)? Didn't think so.

And finally: that which makes MacRuby very very fast can also make Ruby on *nix very very fast.

The problem with Ruby is not the language. It is the VM. Improve the VM, and more people will look at other uses where Ruby is a great fit but for its speed.

Actually, I do have a problem with the case design of the old-style Aluminum Macbook Pros. The cases are weak. They dent or bend WAY too easily. I have stripped more than one of them down just to pound out the dents and bend the case back into shape.

And, of course, I can't read. Sorry. My bad.

Take it from someone who has actually replaced LCD panels in a MacBook Pro. This is NOT a relatively trivial hack.

And you cannot just "get the backlight off the LCD". The back portion of the panel proper is a reflective surface. Take that off, and your panel goes dark, except for two of the edges where the CCFL tubes or LED arrays are located.

On the MacBook Pro what this guy is doing would be nearly impossible. There is just no room between the panel and the shell. There's a bit more room in the regular MacBook.

Yeah, I was just going to say. That "anomaly" is around 126 miles, corner-to-corner, and the "streets" are something like 1.5 miles wide.

I'm not sure what to call it, and suspect that it is actually just a processing glitch, but in any case, it's not exactly "city" material.

caprica(web-ecommerce); kobol(fileserver); adama(admin); gaeta(database); starbuck(prototyping)

Scary as hell. This sort of thing is not impossible on Linux/OSX/BSD, but's it's a hell of a lot more difficult to pull off (unless you run as root all the time).

This is a scary thought that might be relevant. Wired recently published an interview with a repentant spyware author who mentioned that they had figured out how to run the virus as a series of discrete threads which are not running as part of any parent process, something that Windows evidently allows. He also stated that they considered using a completely threadless model, by installing the code as an interrupt handler. Just tie it to an interrupt that regularly fires, and their code runs in an utterly transparent manner - something Windows also allows. The guy claimed that they didn't actually do the interrupt trick. But the frightening think was that it is even possible. I have no doubt that someone will do it eventually.

Close. Brainless troubleshooting-tree-following monkeys. You know, like when you call tech support on an "everything's covered" service plan, and tell them "My computer was struck by lightening and the motherboard is quite literally fried", and they ask, "Is the green light lit up on your monitor?"

Yeah, forgot to capitalize the noun.

I would tell Twitter to shut up, even when I agree with him.

Now, do I agree with him, or don't I? Can't tell? Then you shut up too.

Shut up, Twitter.

And if this country had been run on libertarian principles for the last 100 years, you might have a point.

When the government demands that lenders make more loans to the least qualified people, when the government enforces a debt-based monetary policy, how exactly is that libertarian?

Gotta love post-modernists...