If you want it, it's yours. Go find it! I left all my filez on That Server!

And so, nerds from all over the world, chasing their dreams, head for the internet! So begins the great age of copyright infringement!

It's not just an "every other version" thing. Versions of windows that introduce huge changes generally come with a side serving of massive incompatibility and instability. Versions of windows that make subtle refinements and UI changes generally have good compatibility and stability. Win 8 is introducing a huge change to the way Windows works, so we can assume that it will generally suck. Windows 9 will look a lot like win8 but will be refined and work well.

I wish. Tried playing the "Myst" series lately? A virtual machine running Win95 is pretty much the only way.

My home PC, my desk at work, the 2 lab computers that I use regularly, and 1-2 other random lab computers in a typical day. Add 1 more if my phone counts.

The fact that they exist does not imply that they have sufficient business. If you're the type of person who opens a brick & mortar business based on a product that is clearly nothing more than a passing fad, are you really doing the market research beforehand to guarantee that your market is large enough? Probably not.

The computer is nothing more than a tool that lets me play games, use the internet, and get work done. Any effort spent on the computer itself is wasted effort. I'll run linux when you can point me at a distro that is the same or less effort as a windows 7 install, will support all of my hardware with similar confidence as windows 7, and will run whatever games I feel like playing.

And I'm not paying $2500 for a $1200 computer so apple can fuck off.

So to communicate instantaneously over any distance I just need to use photons with wavelength greater than or equal to the communication distance? Cool.

Actually, I meant this to be a snarky response but, given that high wavelength = low energy I could see a situation where this is true but for any significant distance the photon energy is so small that they can't actually be detected on the far end. Cool!

Can't wait to jailbreak it and start developing apps! Just think of the possibilities ....

*Automatically slow to the speed limit when coming up on a speed trap
*image processing app to detect police cruisers using the back-up camera
*ParallelParkMe
*IPhone Remote Control (for easy ghost riding)

u mad, bro?

No, definitely not. Are enough retards going to go to buy tickets to make this ridiculously profitable? Yes, definitely.

When truth comes in contact with politics they annihilate each other in a truth / anti-truth reaction. The truth / anti-truth reaction releases a few photon of s-radiation, (the s stands for stupid) which has the effect of making anyone exposed feel an uncontrollable desire to watch American Idol and drink Bud Lite.

For kids who "have trouble remembering where they're supposed to be" I would recommend a giant 6x3 foot poster with the word "SCHOOL" written on it in giant block letters. It's probably cheaper than a GPS tracker, too!

I'm pretty sure the "humanities" GP is talking about do not include practical art skills like yours. Nobody would claim that being able to produce art is worthless; hell, I'd even support possibly forcing engineers/programmers to develop some kind of art skill(drawing / painting / music / something) as a part of their education.

I think GP is talking about "humanities" in the sense of the typical read-an-article-then-discuss-it-in-class, what-is-the-author-saying-here, write-a-50-page-research-paper-on-a-topic-of-your-choosing style course, and I'd agree those are somewhat worthless :)

I'd say the one step that makes renting on Apple TV more trouble than pirating is the "have an Apple TV" step. It's a weird almost-computer, almost-DVD-player, and I think for most people it falls squarely into the category of "I'm not buying it because I don't know what it's supposed to do".

Is this some web developer thing? I've never heard of any of them. If there was a "none of the above" option I bet it would have 80%+ of the votes.