A bit of self-promotion here, but for me it was the chance to release a Slashdot friendly music album, full of songs about science. As it celebrates the achievements of scientists and I have an astronaut as the band logo, I titled it Giant Leaps and released it on the Leap Day. The only thing missing when I had come up with the name was getting some artwork concept and done in time to make the release date, but a friend drew a great picture as a gig flyer which just seemed to fit ;-)

Across time it has done...

I hope they haven't taken away the option to have the playlist in a separate window. I do performances of nerdy songs about science where I have backing video and music being played on VLC player. The video goes through the projector and the playlist is on my Windows laptop screen. It would be an annoyance if that modus operandi had been taken away for me.

...though I can totally understand how making Transformers 3 in 3D caused a giant pain in Michael Bays ass.....

Something wrong with the Java code for this though Character.getNumericValue() is documented as returning -1 for this character, when quite clearly it should be a number 2.

I was very impressed when I saw this news item - German factory built especially for an older workforce. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16260315

>It is interesting to see who will gobble up RIM. Personally I was hoping Apple would do it under its previous CEO. A collaboration called RIM Jobs would have been fantastic!

You could pay the fee and get the ad free version, which I did as well. Certainly in the age of dial-up it kicked IE4 and Netscapes bottom. When I was working in the Caribbean at the time it was great as it fitted onto a single floppy disk and you could just press G to stop images from downloading while surfing which made it great for accessing content. It was a browser and a mail client, was fast, had tabbed browsing and mice gestures and just nice to use.

Prognosis not good. The technology is just moving in the wrong direction. It's now commonplace to get PCs without cupholders.

Apple is tough to beat because most of its mistakes are software-based

Apple is tough to beat because most of its mistakes are user based.

Katya is my wife. I don't think I'm allowed to upgrade to Lisa.

He also had a significant role in the Star Trek reboot as well - I thought Spock prime would feature in the next movies as an elder advisor character, though that tramples on Sareks turf.

So when is Cowboys vs Predators coming out?

A few years ago there was a comedy in the UK set in a newsroom where the storyline featured up to the minute news items. After a brainstorming session where they wanted something to reflect a minor news item they called it 'Drop The Dead Donkey' - the relevance to this thread is that the initial favourite title was 'Dead Belgians Don't Count'

Perhaps something to do with the lightpeak/Thunderbolt cable? From what I have read that connector is aimed at being capable of driving displays as well as other peripherals - it may be HDMI guys trying to flex their muscles right from the start on this one.