Yeah I thought the product pictures on their site were pretty bizarre myself.

For that precise frequency of microwaves, yes. Change the frequency, not by much, and there's no effect.

...maybe they're different people? :-/

I've worked in aviation, and several of my family work in health care- and I've always been shocked that the rule of thumb seems to be "the more critical your job is, the longer we can work you."

The rule where I was working that they could not work you more than 16h a day, 35 days straight while flying. That's all; and then they had to, by law, give you a week off. Oh, and the getting in and out of camp was on your* time, not the company's, so that week was reduced by 24-48h each way*. So more like 3 days off, then back to it...

Wow, I've never* seen a Union work the way you say- every single instance is a "closed shop", where any non-union worker will result in every Union Man walking out...

It would be more fair to say Mosaic was "also ported" to the Amiga- your post read to me as "Mosaic was first developed for the Amiga".

You and I are in complete disagreement; I find the self checkouts are far, far slower (apart from the relative line waits). The irritating pause between each item is 2-3x longer than the cashier's, you keep getting lectured on "ITEM IN BIN" if you didn't move something the extra inch, and then they keep trying to give me cash back or other things which I just don't care about.

I remember once in Home Depot, I was buying an extension cord, and since they had decided that there should be NO human cashiers at that time, and I spent a few minutes looking for the damn barcode. I finally found a service rep, asked how I was supposed to scan the thing, so he proceeds to rip the packaging open to show me the barcode INSIDE the packaging... how the hell was I supposed to know it was there?

God how I loathe those things. If they just used them as additional* lanes, I wouldn't mind, but in every case, there's suddenly significantly fewer human cashiers.

Really? I hated* The Pacific- apparently the Pacific campaign was primarily a few brief firefights, lots of R&R, psych stays, and sitting about in a camp.

I knew it was in trouble when the series started with all the home life stuff; Band of Brothers was about a group who were thrown together in jump school, and formed a camaraderie due to the trials they went through- and how astonishing those trials were.

The Pacific's message seemed to be "war is upsetting and some people had issues with it". /shrug. Maybe I just missed the point, but everyone I know who has seen both considered BoB astonishing, and Pacific was tedium to sit through.

In reading this I was wondering who could pull this off, and Clancy Brown hadn't even popped up on my radar, but I agree, he could do it quite well. Good call.

So you can run an 11 year old OS on an 11 year old computer?

Though I understand your point; sometimes the 'cutoffs' that Apple are quite arbitrary and irritating. I say this as the owner of a 1st gen Mac Pro, that while wonderfully functional in almost every way, cannot have an official video card upgrade, due to no firmware patch.

I slogged through Quicksilver (and I'm a big fan of his other, earlier works), and after it I couldn't touch another thing he wrote. It would spend 100 pages describing interesting events and people, then suddenly change gears into a completely different situation, where it would spend 100 pages getting interesting, then change gears and spend 100 pages...

The only consistent thing was a completely unsympathetic woman who would sell anyone and anything out for... something? The whole thing seemed like 8 unrelated first chapters of novels set in a vaguely similar time, all of which didn't know anything about the other chapters. I actually own all three books in the Baroque Cycle, and Anathem, but I just cannot bring myself to consider the effort* and work* of reading them. That is sad, in my opinion.

I think the opposite- most programs I watch have 20-26 episodes, and for Daily Show and Colbert, I can BUY them for $10/mo (20 episodes). But a $1 rental*? That's somewhere between double to 10x what I'd be willing to play.

I was hoping for iTunes Pro, that would allow us hierarchies, tagging, etc. But I agree- iTunes desperately needs a fork into a lite and an heavy-duty version.

Oh, god, I would hate* your design of an iPad- bezel-less with integrated grabbing/standing bits? That would make me sad.

Not saying that all your ideas are bad; a reasonable mid-tower Mac with a replaceable video card in particular is a "WTF why does this not exist?" question...

Discovery's support of those shows in no way change the fact that he is, in fact, pretty demonstrably completely psycho.