Or you were just really late in falling for an April Fools' joke.

Well, I'm not sure that I believe that you actually use OpenOffice to edit code, but here's my standard example of something I can do much faster in vim than people can in other editors:

Imagine you have the following line of code:

$welcome_message = "Welcome to my site!"; // message displayed at the top of the main page

How would you go about changing the welcome message?

Most people I know would use a combination of Home, End, Backspace, Shift, and the arrow keys to select or delete the string, and then type in a new welcome message. Some would reach over to grab the mouse and select the string, then type over it. In vim, I just need to get my cursor between the quote marks (and there are many ways to do this, personally I'd probably use a quick find and then a couple pushes of w or e). Once anywhere inside the quotes, I just type ci" (a 3-part command, change inside ") and it erases everything inside the quotes and puts me into insert mode. I can easily do this faster than your hand can even get to your mouse.

Yes, vim is hard to learn, and it's frustrating for quite a while. But once you start actually understanding the "language" of its commands and how they fit together, you'll wonder how you ever used anything else.

A NYSE Spokesman disagrees with this: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-bad-procter-gamble-trades-at-nyse-spokesman-2010-05-06

Judging from The Fonts.com Web Fonts page, they're using some sort of javascript to try to protect their fonts. If I toggle javascript on and off for fonts.com, the look of that page changes as a bunch of fonts turn on/off. Their "three easy steps" on the right also includes "Add a short script to your site".

Where exactly do you get one of these "perm emails" that aren't tied to any sort of service that might go down or disappear in the future?

XBMC has plugins available as well that let you play stuff from Youtube/Hulu/etc without leaving the interface, I'd suggest those, it's easier than loading up Firefox.

I didn't really like using the wireless keyboard, so I use an Xbox 360 controller to control mine, it works very well. I'm still running Windows 7 on my Revo, so I just use Xpadder to bind the controller's buttons/sticks to keys, that lets you set it up to work pretty much however you want. I'm sure a similar thing is easily possible through Linux as well.

Yeah, could be a factor. I've ripped all the DVDs that I own so that they're all available to browse and play without disc-swapping anyway, but I also have a PS3 hooked to the same TV, so I just play a DVD through that if necessary. An external drive could be an option as well.

I use an Acer AspireRevo 3610 nettop running XBMC as my media PC. Has direct HDMI output, it's totally silent, and some of the newer nightly builds of XBMC support GPU video decoding. XBMC has plugins for watching youtube, Hulu, etc through it easily as well.

Not really sure what else to say, highly recommended, it makes a great media PC. You should be able to find the 2GB RAM model for somewhere in the $300 range.

Only samzenpus does that. I guess the quality of the stories he posts is so low anyway that they figure adding a photo can't really make things any worse.

I don't know which theaters you guys are going to, to think that they're dying. Every theater I've been to on a Friday or Saturday evening recently has been absolutely jammed, you can hardly walk through the lobby.

Reminds me of that old Yogi Berra quote: "Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded."

Do you speak Japanese so fluently that you can pick out a poor actor or a good one? Can you tell when someone is "overacting"? Things like that take an extremely high level of proficiency in a language. I think this is often why people prefer the Japanese voices, because they don't know the language, so can't tell when someone's doing a poor job of it.

Only the first two pictures are relevant to the Waveface Light, which is the netbook that opens into a tablet. The next two are for the Waveface Ultra, some sort of flexible phone.

But yes, it should be "by removing the keyboard", not "by removing the PC". What does that even mean?

Yeah, slashdot would wreck facebook and myspace, look at how much of their traffic we make up! http://siteanalytics.compete.com/facebook.com+myspace.com+slashdot.org/

We're almost off the axis, boys, keep it up!

I like being able to hold (and turn the pages of) what would otherwise be an 800-page hardcover book in one hand while standing on the train, then slip it in my jacket pocket when I reach my stop.

If you do all your reading at home where you don't need to carry your books around, there's not really much reason to have one.

The problem is that people believe it's real medicine, and so they think it'll actually work. And when it doesn't, they don't necessarily go look for the stuff that actually will: Homeopathy Kills a Child