My diving instructor told me about it.

I don't know if it works, or not, but it's not a radical new idea.

Windows sales are not down because of weak PC sales, PC sales are down because nobody wants the new Windows.

The Arabs were busy unlocking scientific secrets and storing up knowledge during that time out of necessity -- it's not a forgiving land. It has limited resources, and if you aren't smart about managing it, you die. Generations of resource scarcity meant that their culture stressed history. The first written languages came from the same region. Moving from a barter economy to a cash economy also came from there.

Seems to me all that happened before Islam. Islam seems to have put the brakes on mid-east progress.

I cannot think of any. As such, it's hard for me to condemn Google for filing frivolous patents for self defense.

I feel certain that MS, Apple, and Oracle have been conspiring against Google with frivolous patent lawsuits.

Smart US students would have to be stupid to plan on a STEM career in today's environment.

If you want student to study STEM, provide stable employment for them.

If you want Americans to study engineering, provide secure jobs for them.

Dune was a good book, but made a crappy movie.

The same could be true of "Ender's Game"

If I boycott something, am I not just expressing *my* point of view?

If you want Americans to learn programming, provide jobs for them.

Most places that sell PCs only sell Win8. If you can get Win7 at all, you have to pay a premium for it.

Also, people figure "I might as well buy it now, since I am going to be forced to use it anyway."

People are *not* buying Win8 because they like it. If people had a choice, they would stay with win7, or XP.

Yeah, the occasional good flick, and much better stuff like HBO series "Game of Thrones" and the like. It's better than most movies, much better.

Nice try.

It is not just cell phones and texters, it's the jackass who runs his mouth though the entire movie.

That is what I do, and for just the reasons this article mentions.

Prices are too high, most movies are not very good, and then I have to listen to some asshole run his mouth through the entire thing.

I would rather wait a few months, and watch the movie on pay-per-view, or something.

Home theaters are good, and affordable. I can stop the movie when I like. I do not have to pay $15 for popcorn and soda.

I used to go to movies all the time, but not anymore.