You're correct. The old business model the recording industry used for decades is already dead; it's just still twitching. It'll be gone by the wayside in another 10 years. Talentless so called "artists" who rely on Autotune and studio wizardry will not survive. Instead the ones with real ability will, and their main revenue will be from live performances.

The WPS was elegant and very well designed & was light years ahead of anything else. I still miss it. It'll never happen, but I wish the old code could be open sourced and developed for again. Like I said, it'll never happen though.

That means that... our whole solar system... could be, like, one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being! This is too much! http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-n_RQb4tJmhY2n/animal_house_1978_smoking_pot_with_professor_part_2/

Show me the businesses on Vista then

I know of no business-- not even a single one-- hankering & chomping at the bit to move to W8. Indeed, most of them are satisfied with XP and will have to be dragged kicking and screaming away from it come May 2014. The smart ones have already moved to W7, and they're perfectly happy with it. People point to Vista and Millenium Edition as being failures, but I don't think M$ has ever laid such a turd as W8/8.1.

Last year I bought a used 90GB Kingston V200 used off Craigslist. I am running my Linux installation right now off of it. At first I treated it with kid gloves and tweaked everything I knew how to tweak to reduce writes, including turned off swapping entirely-- with 16GB RAM I never touched the swapfile anyway-- reduced the swappiness system variable, etc. When I went from Mint 13 to 15 I only turned off the swapfile and it's still running like a champ, but a part of me still just doesn't trust the little darling. I decided to get a larger one to run my W7 installation on and bought an Intel 520-series 180GB one. It too has been rock solid reliable. I trust Intel more than Kingston and probably will take W7 off it and put on Linux the next time I upgrade my OS. Anyway, the gist of what I'm saying is, they've both done very well for me. I have no personal experience with OCZ but everything I've read says stay away. Samsung makes the drives that go in Macbooks, though I don't know if the 840 you can buy at retail is the exact same one as in the Apples. For anyone thinking of taking the SSD plunge, I say go ahead. I highly recommend Intel, but then I really don't boot to Windows that often these days so the the 520 gets *much* less use than my little Kingston. It's been a workhorse.

Even a screen that's roughly 4x4 cm covering a square roughly the width of a man's wrist is too small to really be useful. This has been tried before with the Palm OS. Another thing is, large watches are ugly, and people won't buy them for that reason either. Sure, geeks would lap them up in droves of a few thousand units. After that, crickets...

The effect of Hip Hop on a white or red person is just as bad as its effect on a black one, yes. Hip Hop is not a positive or beneficial thing. Now next you'll point to all the things whites have come up with that aren't positive or beneficial. The difference with thug/Hip Hop culture is that it's so pervasive. There's no comparable thing within the white community to compare with it.

Bingo. Nothing about being black means you must commit crime. The thug culture is the problem. And to get back to the original topic, a list of places to avoid would be just as useful to a black person who didn't want to be raped, robbed, and murdered as it would to a white.

Don't piss us off

Really? Some statements are just too stupid to be taken seriously

The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one...

I just rewatched it again for about the fifth time. It blows me away. It'll blow you away too.