Thank you. This happened to me. I had my cell phone sitting out on the table in plain view the entire time and then in my pocket. It suddenly stopped receiving and making calls, otherwise all of the other functionality of the phone worked fine. I could even try to make calls it would just never connect to the tower. I took it in to get it replaced and low and behold that little sticker had turned color and it was my fault for getting it wet. It hadn't even so much as touched the condensation from a glass and it worked fine except for the transmit/receive. This was a long time ago so I can't recall if it possibly even was receiving calls and text. And anonymous coward below, I live in Dallas, TX. Not exactly a humid environment.

Agreed.

Scientific method, loosely, formulate a hypothesis. Test hypothesis.

Hypothesis 1, "it seems that techies (and especially developers) mostly hate Ribbon."

Test 1, Slashdot poll that will be answered by mostly techies will give a rough indication if this hypothesis is correct or not.

Hypothesis 2, "casual users mostly love it."

Test 2, Post a poll on a site where mostly casual users go for techie type information. That sounds like almost and oxymoron to me and I don't know of that site. So I don't know of how to test hypothesis 2. But that doesn't preclude us from testing hypothesis 1 to at least a small degree.

Never let the lack of achieving 100% enlightenment deter you from seeking knowledge and understanding. :)

I hate it. Slashdot quiz anyone? It certainly won't constitute a broad based scientific study, but it'd be better than nothing.

So much for email.

Do what they do with other waste sites. Cover it up with dirt and turn it into a park. Charge admission and use the money to clean up the environment. Or put it in your pocket, whatever. We humans always seem to overestimate our significance to the universe. Even our planet. Destroy the planet? Really? Pretty sure we don't have the technology to destroy the planet. Make it uninhabitable for higher organisms, maybe, for a few hundred maybe even a couple thousand years. The planet'll get over it and life will continue without us. I wonder if Dinosaurs were ever this arrogant?

Don't just ask people who are in a relationship what works.

Ask people who have ended relationships why it didn't.

You can learn as much from failure, if not more, as from success.

I believe the saying is, "If you're not failing. You're not trying." Or, if you've ever been to an MLM meeting. The only reason people fail is because they quit.

I'm out of a serious relationship, and looking back I agree with the above.

I had made the mistake of literally using the ball-n-chain excuse to get out of something I myself didn't want to do. My girl was standing there when I said it. She didn't appreciate it at all. NEVER make her an excuse.

On the other side. She stopped telling me things that she knew would make me mad because she didn't want to upset me. TRANSLATION - She didn't care about me enough to deal with me being upset with her.

Relationships fail. It happens. The reason above is why we're not still friends.

THANK GOD for you abnormals! That makes WAAAAY more sense now! But yeah, Freud wouldn't have a clue what to make of you. Well, actually, he'd assume that you have some severely repressed sexual desires.

Sure. But I've also noticed the annoying trend of having to pose for over a half dozen shots to get it "Just Right". I somewhat miss the old days of take the picture and capture the moment as opposed to keep taking the picture until we capture the moment we want.

Damn! THANK YOU! C.I.P. I forgot my friend used my camera two weeks ago and I've forgotten to email her the pictures.

It will suck when everything's on the Cloud because I won't be able to claim my server's been down all day while I'm out playing golf.

Perfect timing! I was just about to launch my newest product line. Chimney sized fabric softener sheets!

So you know your WOEID? I could have sworn the article was talking about using a unique identifier to identify places that had nothing to do with their names because the name could potentially change.

And pretty sure long/lat is a little more precise than zip code, pretty universally easy to look up for any location and more amenable to wildcard searches and approximation.

"Yahoo! has been working for a while to promote a unified system for referring to places, through their Where On Earth IDs. Using a WOEID."

Isn't this also known as latitude and longitude? Or is that too 20th Century?