Personally I don't care. I have to care at work - half of my job is ensuring license compliance with some extremely expensive engineering software.

I prefer to listen to air molecules vibrating. Sometimes they sound AWESOME!

I'm one of the people that 3D is absolutely painful for (take THAT grammar nazis!). I'm already prone to migraines and the 3D just makes it worse. When I went to see Avatar in 3D I preemptively popped 2 Excedrin and still ended up with a mild headache by the end.

Just give it to Angela on "Bones." She'll just happen to have recently finished writing some program that will figure it out in under an hour based on a grainy picture of the note.

Woah - I had no idea. I always thought the hindu gods were all different (like ancient Greek, Roman, or Egyptian gods). You have taught me something today good sir.

I'm a Mormon and that is the most awesome explanation for the theistic beliefs of different religions I've ever heard.

Although I think the Mormon view would be more like God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit each have their own accounts, but they all play alliance holy paladins on the same server in the same guild.

Dish Network DVR, HDTV, Wii, PS3, Wii controller charger, wireless access point, Mac Mini, 2 external hard drives.

This is just a "status quo" article. There are occasional spending upticks centered around events (like Y2K) but we typically get our marching orders from the C-level people and are expected to just get it done.

I work for a large university (32k students) and we've got roughly 30 people taking care of about 4,000 computers, 10 important web servers (there are a whole bunch more that no one cares about), Active Directory and Novell Netware (we're in the process of dumping Novell), Groupwise, Magic Service Desk, VMWare, network file storage, multiple POS systems, and a whole bunch of backend stuff that makes all of these systems talk to each other for authentication purposes. That 30 people includes all of our support personnel, network admins, AD admin, programmers, DBA guys, and our email admin. We're also moving from Netware to AD, and from Groupwise to Exchange. If you look at just our desktop support personnel we've got 13 full-time technicians to do desktop level support for 2,000 employees and 32,000 students. We're all looking at this as an opportunity to get good experience to put on the resume and then jump ship for decent money.

Part of that need for maintenance is a need to have good people to do that maintenance. We finally got the school to cough up funding for IT personnel training (we were paying for our own training/certifications), now we just want to get paid more than the high school dropouts working for facilities.

So how does it taste?

At the University I work for no one cares except HR. Most of the time I'm taking off for Christmas is sick time and my boss knows and doesn't care.

The school where I work has a layer 7 firewall implemented that just blocks all P2P traffic (BT, Kazaa, etc.). If a teacher has a legit/teaching use for it we can unblock it for their IP/computer lab. Yeah, it's annoying since I can't update WoW from work anymore, but it's mostly been a "set it and forget it" solution for us.

My office is on the tail end of a loop. Everyone else in the loop freezes to death and runs electric space heaters during the summer. I have a couple of file servers in my office and would kill to be the first in the loop. When I first started I called our central plant to get the A/C turned down but they had to do it for the whole loop so I ended up freezing 6 other people out of their offices. So I just get to bake instead.

How about the fact that there was never really any serious tension? The Star Wars prequels made telling the backstory mildly interesting (Jar Jar Binks not included) even though you knew what was ultimately going to happen. It's not like anyone thought Obi Wan Kenobi wouldn't survive his fight with Anakin at the end of Episode 3. Caprica had too much existing backstory to deal with. You knew that no matter what happened there would be a decades-long peace with the Cylons and then they would destroy the colonies. They never built up any tension and the show got boring.

I seem to recall Apple getting a lot of flack over the fact that Snow Leopard shipped with an out of date version of Flash. Now they're getting crap for not shipping Flash and encouraging people to download the latest version themselves.

Pick a complaint already.

I was actually talking to my wife about this last night. I'd print out the Wikipedia pages on some of the largest tech companies in existence today, then go back to 1982 and go nuts buying stock.