Obligatory "he who smelt it dealt it" inserted for your listening pleasure.

Death to Jar Jar and whomever thought he and his slobbering bloated race was a good idea.

I just want dual Mattracks on a huge motorcycle/snow mobile.

What does Wal-Mart have to do with Target?

You're introducing top to bottom amateur crap done by people with different styles who have never had to do this for a living.

This is why I do not have my tax man paint the art that hangs in my house or my vet create building codes requrements.

People are good at certain things BECAUSE they have become good at certain things.

At Berkeley Systems, we once had a product hit a problem state and had the QA manager hand out our extra bugs to everyone in the company to test. This was obviously, massive stupidity.

To prevent FAIL from happening, I ended up printing out the entire bug list, stapled it to the wall, we grabbed red and green felt tipped pens, one of my coworkers took the start of the list and worked to the end while I took the end and walked to the back.

For 900 bugs.

Within two days, we had a visual representation of "how much of the product's bugs are left with an unknown state", "how many of the product's bugs are closed", "how many of the product's bugs are still open" and by watching the paper get filled in with more green lines over the day, you could see that the trend pointed to "we have a relatively stable release, though there are some bugs that we still need to address, but this is a near ship state for the product".

We didn't even finish the testing. We covered 2/3rds of the product's open bug list and there was a clear trend (assuming relatively uniform open/closed bug states through out the product history) that the product was OK.

Based on this, we were able to not cancel the product and express with confidence that it was in a near ship state and the team continued to find, fix and test bugs, we all kept our employment and the product shipped.

Nope. Since 10.6.8, the interface has become significantly more irritating to use.

I spend more time turning irritating animations off and restoring graphics to a useful state (damn damn desaturated buttons in Lion) that these new updates cost me more money than if I had just stayed with Snow Leopard.

Sadly, Apple dropped making fixes for Xcode with Snow Leopard and that leaves things in a shitty state, basically forcing me to upgrade, even though there is no other useful reason to do so besides Xcode.

This completely hits home with me.

Whenever a new version of the Mac OS comes out (that I pay money for), I spend time (that costs money) finding out how to turn shit OFF and set things back to what worked before. Useless startling animations, restoring removed functionality, it just pisses me off since it seems like change for change's sake, not to improve what already works.

I DO NOT WANT little things unexpectedly flying across my screen. I do want soft reminders that fade in and fade out. Watching part of my screen animate 'til it finishes decreases my momentum and it's for NO beneficial purpose. It's animation for animation's sake, not to help me get my job done faster. The interface is nice enough as it is. DO NOT animate the expansion of a hierarchical view. Just display it.

When too many things in the interface start moving as a result of my action, the interface becomes distracting rather than helpful.

Apple's pushing of the bouncing elastic scrollbars from iOS (a touch driven device) to a mouse and keyboard driven device - and NOT giving us a public switch to turn it off - tells me that something is really broken in Apple's design and product department.

Why the HELL, in Xcode are the side panels animated in an out? Why the HELL, does the disclosure triangle in your Xcode project files folders animate and slide down the drawing of all the files within that folder?

DON'T ENTERTAIN THE DEVELOPERS. And most of all, if you insist on doing this, GIVE US PUBLIC SWITCHES TO TURN THIS CRAP OFF. It's a damn shame that Apple devotes manpower and money into putting these counterproductive animations into the GUI when people could be fixing bugs.

Here:

http://patents.justia.com/inventor/HENRYYUNICK.html

U.S. Patent Number 5,645,368
A race track is disclosed having a tri-oval banked, racing surfacesurrounded by a barrier support material delineating a race barrier support surface at a

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An apparatus and a method for testing internal combustion engines aredisclosed. In the preferred arrangement the apparatus includes a test module supporting an electric

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An internal combustion engine oil change system including an oil filtersupplied with a check valve fill fitting. During an oil change, new oil is

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A method and apparatus for operating an electric ignition, internalcombustion engine that substantially improves the fuel efficiency by utilizing heat normally discharged to the

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A valve is interposed between spaced valve seats of a conduit having end portions communicating with the ends of an internal combustion engine valve

Of course, my friend just showed me his dropped iPhone with the cracked screen yesterday.

Also, I've owned 24,000 bucks worth of cameras and never broken one in 4 years.

Just bought a new D800, put it in a bag, walking into my house and the bag strap breaks one step from my stairs. It fell 1 foot and is off to the repair shop now, right after I spent three thousand bucks on it.

Yes, if you consider distance to be a factor. No, if you consider this two entangled systems to really be collapsed into one system but in >1 location.

I wonder if we will be able to have more than a pair of items entangled at one time?

Assuming we are only using binary systems, envision this:
Entangle several items, say 7, and add one more and then attach these to a reader the tabulates the results from the first 7 when the result of the fifth goes from 0 to 1. After tabulation, this can be passed on to another item for display or processing. The fifth bit is then set back to 0, which a transmitting system reads as a license to send 7 more bits of information.

Assuming we are only using 7 bits. This allows the transmission of low ASCII characters (vals 32 - 126) encoded in binary.

Assuming the two ends of the entangled devices are stable, fly one to Mars and send it an ASCII character.

Viola. You've got faster than light communication. This would enable faster than light communication over distances that we can transfer each "end" of these devices to.

Now, if the connection stays entangled after reading the value, that's the catch.

You're all welcome to be part of my patent. Well, since it's disclosed, I guess it can't be patented now.

Of course, please feel free to tell me just how much crack I'm smoking.

And FiOS and U-Verse added 275,000 users.

Maybe he forgot to bathe.

How will this tell us what makes up the Republican congressman genome?

And how we can cure it?

No. No.

then this means on a 120 volt system, we're talking 3,210 watts to run the thing. That's about 3 kilowatts.