Oh, come on. Don't you know anything about capitalism? If there's sufficient demand for oil, then the market will provide for more dinosaurs to be turned into oil on the supply side. Didn't you ever take an economics course?

I thought we were talking about "a moderately successful tablet device", not "a near-total failure".

I would buy this simply because these guys screwed Michael Arrington over. The guy's a bully, and had it coming.

Conservative MPs, and especially cabinet ministers, don't dare sneeze without getting approval from the PMO. If a tory MP started a private project, it's a sure bet that it's because the PM approved.

...please don't let all these fancy tech buzzwords stop Minecraft from working.

Let me know when you can buy an IOS or Android device as capable as a Vita or 3DS for the same prices, with no monthly contract.

That's a terrible analogy. There's nothing remotely similar between religious wackos trying to recruit other religious wackos, and religious wackos trying to recruit independent thinkers.

Xubuntu can be as fast as Debian+XFCE, so long as one selects the classic XFCE environment at login. There are driver advantages to running an Ubuntu variant over stock Debian.

The manufacturing of umbrellas takes energy.

It was worth it because perfectly functional electronic hardware didn't end up contaminating a landfill. The obsession with having the newest gadget and junking old ones only because they're not new is disgusting, and you are disgusting for encouraging the practice.

The article could have been more thorough regarding technical details, but anything that helps people learn about the possibility of upgrading older hardware is worth posting.

I was thinking of qualified accountants and marketers who later finish an MBA program. It's not a useless degree, so long as it's paired with useful skills (i.e. not a BA who switched from a BSc, BE or BBA program because they couldn't hack it) and the bearer of that degree doesn't become an incompetent bullshit-spewing PHB. (It's acronym-soup day!)

I agree with your second point. I was thinking in terms of the car industry in the linked article. A company's top position should be filled by someone who's specialized in that company's field.

MBAs are useful, but not in leadership roles. Give the top jobs to engineers who understand what their company is building, and have competent accountants and marketers working as advisers to the engineers. (And no, I'm not an engineer looking out for number one. I'm actually an accounting student.)

5) Intel breaks their graphics driver in recent kernel versions making Xorg crash instantly on startup on an otherwise perfectly functional desktop PC, which makes anything newer than OpenSUSE 11.3, Fedora 13, Ubuntu 10.04, Slackware 13.1 and derivatives thereof totally unusable.

I had similar problems with Spideroak. I wanted to like it, since it seemed a good way to backup and sync files across multiple machines at a reasonable price, but the client software is a huge resource hog on both Windows and Linux.

It's a surprise because mac users are usually happy when someone else decides what's best for them.