I just saw one of the new thinkpads and I thought it was actually a step in the right direction. Nice keyboard, nicer lines.

I think you can have a good build quality and not make it look like crap. Apple makes the best operating and best looking hardware in the same packages.. so why can't someone else?

That's a very simplistic conservative little world you live in, isn't it?

We're in a period of economic recovery and spending is needed (go look up tons of examples of how austerity fails) to get us out.

Republicans are responsible for almost all the debt and recession, so the rest of us have to balance everything to get us out.

Remember when we had a balanced budget? Yeah, then Bush got elected.

Maybe you're just a shitty employee then. Where I work that's not true.

Many of mitsubishi's TVs had horrible electronics. I knew about a year after I bought my modle 52525 that it wasn't going to last more than about 3. Sure enough, within 3 years it was broken and mitsubishi wasn't being proactive about fixing the bad control boards.

Why companies need to save a few bucks on capacitors on a $2000 television will never make sense to me.

Too bad you can't file abn anti-SLAPP lawsuit against the FBI. That seems to be what they're doing. The resources of the US against some dude in NZ.

And you may well be arrested for it.

likely he''ll do it from NZ.. chances are probably a little better there?

Huh? Not sure what you're talking about.

Let's get to the point where no one can make a phone anymore. That seems to be the only way we'll see the patent system get reformed.

There aren't any officially sanctioned original DVDs. The best you can get are the laserdiscs or LD rips of the standard definition version.

as well as combustion engine weight

let the employees take home a few if they have a use for them. Make people happy and it won't cost anything or at least not much depending on what you would otherwise do with them.

The killer feature for me, though.. is talk and data simultaneous on an iphone.. only at&t can do that so far.

Not sure about tmobile, but no lte makes that kinda stinky.

I don't understand how the crappy pc manufacturers still haven't learned that just because Apple can do it doesn't mean they can try and make a shitty copy and actually sell it.

They've keep trying.. tablets that flop, ultrabooks that flop, all-in-ones that flop..

Over and over they make shitty copies of apple products, price them the same, and then are bewildered when they don't sell.

Go to school, keep tinkering, and get internships.

That is how to set yourself up to be successful as a professional programmer.

Also, a good internship pays very well, gets you a good sense how to do things right, and can land you with a job offer (or two) before you graduate.