Steve Jobs didn't do any of those things either, but look at the news coverage he gets.

(although technically he did make billion dollar films)

USB driver updates?

Plus it saves a tonne in life support costs for astronauts.

He got a promotion. He learned what not to do, you can't buy that kind of experience.

ALAN: It's called Tron. It's a security program itself, actually. Monitors all the contacts between our system and other systems... If it finds anything going on that's not scheduled, it shuts it down. I sent you a memo on it.

DILLINGER: Mmm. Part of the Master Control Program?

ALAN: No, it'll run independently. It can watchdog the MCP as well.

DILLINGER: Ah. Sounds good. Well, we should have you running again in a couple of days, I hope...

Alan rises, goes to the door. As soon as he leaves:

The Master Control Program comes back to life, on the screen and through the speakers.

MCP: Ed, I am so very disappointed in you.

The prison system gets almost as much as NASA.

And in other news, all accidents are caused by code 1 - Unknown Accident.

4 hours on a Friday is considered a "long day" for the teaching profession.

Plus Dr. Pepper is older than coke.

It's true, for example, a picture that has a large expanse of sky with a subtle gradiation .. if you start messing with the curves (adjusting brightness, contrast, etc), you will start seeing banding in the sky pretty quickly, but if you're working in 16 bit mode, you won't have this problem. This is also the reason we work with camera RAW files instead of JPEG's, there's just a lot more data in the files. (I'm a part time/semi-pro photographer, so I spend a lot of time in Photoshop). Actually since we're on the topic, this is one reason I don't use GIMP, I find that the algorithms in Photoshop are much better and keep your image in tact better when doing adjustments.

You could water mark like that, but I suspect that if anyone re-saves the image as JPG (due to resizing or whatever), the JPG compression will probably throw away that data.

Yep, we felt it too (Mississauga, just west of Toronto). I thought it was a stress related dizzy spell for a second!

This, my friends, is why we don't buy used iPhones.

I've taken my guitar in.

You're saying with a straight face you want to fork the gimp?

It's not just about dynamic range, it's also about manipulating the image without degrading it due to rounding errors.