What exactly was the nature of your complaint? "I want a free OS upgrade and you're not giving it to me?" _

an Ipod or Ipod touch would distort at about 75%

I call B.S.

I plug my iPod Touch into a Bose Wave (another device hated by audiophiles) and it sounds crystal clear at 100% output. In fact, I think it's foolish to output at anything less than 100% when you're listening through speakers, because then you are forcing that system's amplifier to work harder, which does introduce distortion.

I read the Wikipedia page on this market and couldn't make heads or tails of it. Could you give a simple example for a newbie? Thanks.

Two six-digit accounts talking about the good ol' days of Slashdot. Precious!

This whole scenario assumes the ball is still in the outfield, so no one can attempt to tag you out.

Are you kidding me? That moon landing was an all-time milestone in human history, comparable to Columbus discovering America. Would you mock a video of that also?

Yes, and the power outages are caused by overhead (rather than underground) power lines that are severed when one of our many large, beautiful trees fall on them. However, I think that if you compare this area to others with similar climate/foliage, we still fall short. The large state roads around here were not plowed for DAYS following the Snowpocalypse this past winter. (And then when they were finally plowed, the plowing was done poorly and left many roads with huge ruts and sudden narrowings.) I've lived in this area for most of my life (since the 1960s), and it's worse now than it ever was before.

Another Montgomery County resident here, and I second this view. We've had an insane number of power outages, water main breaks, crippling snowstorms with unplowed roads, etc. in the last few years.

I love where I live, though. Who needs electricity?

Exactly. Nothing more needs to be said.

You're comparing Facebook to thermonuclear war? Give me a break.

Slashdotters have been complaining about Slashdot for as long as I can remember (since '98).

From TFA: "Wall-mounted cameras report on the glider's position and the control system looks up a trajectory that will take it to the perch."

How exactly is that going to work with an actual power line? Not a lot of wall-mounted cameras up there.

I was a 16 year old geek when Tron came out. It bored me to tears and I forgot about it as soon as I walked out of the theater. The new Tron Legacy trailer looks every bit as dumb. What am I missing here?

Yes. The Readability add-on is the best Firefox add-on I've come across in the last few years. So much easier on the eyes.

In the 1970s and early 80s, before the internet, before personal computers, nothing linked geeks together more than Martin Gardner's monthly column in Scientific American. I amazed myself with his binary card deck, and collected matchboxes to make a tic-tac-toe learning computer.

His work will live on. I'm sitting next to a shelf full of his books as I type this.