We should note that Paul here has both a vested interest in dogging on the ipad and a long history of making hyperbolic statements about how the iPad can't or won't succeed. Also, the original graph clearly showed the growth rate changing, a flow variable, not the number of units, the stock. If the growth rate drops off and is replaced by growth in iPads, how in the world is that not a takeover? What manufacturer will net into a market where the rate of growth is much less than it was even 6 months ago.

Then don't import shit randomly from DMOZ? WP isn't a directory.

WP should just adopt html5 and give up on the FOSS posturing for once. We already relented on the issue of fair use media--limited use for copyrighted material. Patent protected material seems like a better place to compromise more widely because patents don't live forever. After ~14-21 years, the content path is free. If WP does plan to be around "forever", that isn't too long a time to wait.

Uhhh..... Not have playing the game tied to an online authentication? That might help. I think that's kinda the point.

Therac-25 is only the most prominent medical radiation incident from the past 20 years or so. The IEEE linked at the bottom explores problems with replacing hardware interlocks (mostly literal interlocks) with software interlocks, which fell prey to memory errors, bugs and human intervention. Tools like this require constant diligence and skepticism, which is nearly impossible to maintain when faced with incentives to update, promote and distribute new technology. I suspect this will devolve into some meta-discussion about regulation, but look closely at the allegations regarding cover-ups in the Therac-25 case and this article--market response presupposes that customers and investors are informed about errors in products. Where companies downplay or obfuscate errors of this magnitude, public choice fails. Regulatory bodies won't work perfectly, but I suspect that their intervention in the market would reduce these errors at some high but acceptable cost (in either monetary terms or terms of new technologies forgone due to the cost of compliance).

Thanks for the correction. You are correct about the orientation of the site vis Norway. Also, I wrote "protonks" (a pluralization of the old version of the proton rocket) because I'm so used to writing my nick, protonk. Was too hasty.

Protonks (AFAIK) are launched out of Baikonur Cosmodrome, thousands of miles southwest of Norway. I'm unsure how a launch in Kazakhstan would cause a light show in Norway, especially since the insertion into orbit proceeds east of the launch site.

Airline food, isn't it terrible? And the lines! Also some people are bad at driving. I mean...gratz on a well constructed criticism of powerpoint in the classroom, but you aren't really breaking new ground.

So we'll be seeing fewer reviews on slashdot, then?