SlashCloud.... This site used to be interesting but since it only seems interested in promoting it's new mostly worthless articles written for people who don't have much of a technical background and that don't really answer any questions but sure do toss a lot of buzzwords around. I think I'm off to somewhere else.

SlashBI and SlashCloud? No thanks.

Our old low-bit graphics games used to do something or have some goal...

Generally speaking, I agree with you. On the other hand, I know some people (my wife) who can't navigate anywhere and are constantly turned around. The reality is some people have a good sense of direction and can memorize a map with ease, and some people can't.

I'd rather have my wife using a GPS then call me frustrated while trying to describe where she is while actually having no idea and just becoming more and more angry.

Everybody complains about region restrictions. I don't like region restrictions but the reality is different regions have different laws and some movies aren't allowed there. I think region restrictions are primarily about making sure legal behinds are covered.

On my part this is just wild speculation but, since Windows 8 metro apps look similar to wp apps, and windows 8 metro apps can be written with Javascript/HTML/CSS, I'm expecting at some point that MS is going to announce if you write an app for windows 8 metro, it can also be compiled for windows phone at which point a lot of web developers that don't care to learn Java or objective C are going to jump on board.

Just my guess though...

I could be wrong (I wasn't ever a huge fan of studying physics) but from my basic engineering physics class, wouldn't a Faraday cage block this?

It's funny, one of the first things you learn in a statistics class is that statistics are very dependent on how they're collected, determined, and described. You can make statistics to mean a lot of different things. I'm not judging the content of your link (I didn't read it), but saying that there is a statistic so it must describe the truth without any other information is just dumb.

That's not always true. Where I work the tech staff actually don't care much for agile because we develop a data product, not as much software (we sell sets of data). However, the management decided that agile was great and so guess who got trained how to do agile?

If you guessed the managers, that's right. Now all the managers are pushing scrums and agile. The rest of us are trying to figure out how to even apply that to database design

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Oil_Stadium

It's a giant ugly-ass box right in the middle of downtown Indianapolis surrounded by a lot of one way streets with no great parking.

Seconded, by an Indianapolis resident that doesn't work downtown.... Oh, and while your at it, take Lucas Oil Stadium too. I'm tired of helping pay for it with extra taxes.

If you've ever walked around Indy in the winter, you know some weird stuff is up with the manholes anyways. There are always huge piles of steam pouring out random locations around downtown.

Hey, here's the "Things have gotten more expensive" crap. I guess it depends on your idea of crap. I'm going back to college to finish getting my degree at a local public university. I had one class that required 3 books and cost about $250. One band-spanking-new "lab" book, and 2 used textbooks. There is some serious bullshit going on with books, and it HAS gotten worse.

When I was at Purdue in '99, used books cost between $60 - $90 depending and new books were maybe $110. Now the used books cost $110 and are only in use 1 year so you can't even sell the stupid things back. It's a racket.

Maybe if GPS manufacturers hadn't disregarded the DOD requirements on GPS, the technology wouldn't mess with your GPS http://m.lightsquared.com/press-room/press-releases/gps-industrys-failure-to-comply-with-department-of-defense/

Imagine I bought a timeshare for 2 weeks a year and noticed that nobody was using the week after mine and I started planning 3 weeks stays. A few years down the road, somebody else shows up and wants to stay during that third week. What right would I have to be pissed?

Personally, I'm more concerned to find out that it's apparently really easy to knock out military GPS.... It seems like somebody would want to fix that rather than complain about spectrum usage. Just my 2 cents.