This is ultimately an Advertiser business.

And what is it, exactly, that you think draws advertisers to the news outlet in the first place?

I get it - it's April 1st. Can we move on to real articles now? FYI, here is a head's up on some other tech-related April Fools Jokes we will see on the /. front page.

Seconded. Hear, hear!

Attempts to clone artists for personal, "analog" performances have largely been unsuccessful. The members of Led Zeppelin participated in cloning tests in 1975, but backed out after finding the process yielded 4 replicates of Barry Manilow instead of themselves. Needless to say, the focus groups were unimpressed.

Arrested Development is actually a great example. Despite great fanfare and awards galore, Fox didn't want to give its creator (Mitch Hurwitz) the money he felt he deserved for both his own salary and the show's budget. He left and the production team didn't feel they could pick the show back up without him (article here).

Yeah, true, but you also have to consider what kind of batch the manufacturer can concurrently process. These are also supposedly small objects, so perhaps many of them could fit into one batch and spread the cost out until they are feasible from an energy-expenditure/cost perspective. Who knows...I'm not holding my breath.

Fannie Mae most certainly does have backups. Having a backup and the time to recover said backup, though, are two very different things.

I'd highly recommend the Rational Suite from IBM. Their ClearQuest product is great. I use it every day in my company. It has...

- Severity tracking: categorize or re-categorize your bug according to severity
- Source control integration: link your bug directly to one or more source files with a direct link to ClearCase (the sister Rational application...highly recommended)
- Authentication plugins: standalone database (DB2 UDB) or LDAP/AD
- Authorization: fine grained, with approvers list and list of team assignees
- Project based: each bug goes to a project, which is can be managed separately by what I've mentioned above
- Reporting: crystal reports, SQL, internal query language, Perl

We maintain dashboards of the projects maintain in our ClearQuest system, so we essentially just run a report to get the stuff out of CQ and quickly have access to a 10,000 ft overview of the status of a project.

(has anyone made a joke about how Balmer likes to throw chairs lately?)

I don't see a lot of Windows and OSX users going around attacking Linux users.

Hold on, let me go get my chair.

LTSP website

Certified clients and other hardware/support

Was a fecal analogy really needed, when a simple car one would suffice?

Using the Popularity Contest package, these two projects collect and post weekly anonymous reports about the software used on each system on which they're installed.

In Ubuntu's case, the collected information is also used for software ratings in Add/Remove Software.

Cool to know that's where they are pulling their package ratings info. This has been tremendously useful in my family - I just tell the wife "I dunno, install the one with the most stars and see how it works for you." I'll have to install the Popularity Contest package so I can add to their data, even though I don't subscribe to idea of having a "contest" at all.

Here's why, from his initial article:

Our power usage is unusually high for a typical, four person nuclear family. A big part of that is because I have a PC lab and network in the basement. Both my wife and I work out of the house much of the time, with her time almost 100% in the home office. Plus, we have two teenage girls and a pretty beefy HDTV and home audio setup in the family room.

From arstechnica:

To further reduce the barrier to participation, Nokia plans to accept code from contributors without requiring copyright assignment.

If they do what this article suggests they will, this is a big step towards better code and community involvement. Go Qt, go!