Nice try. You missed the part about where evolution arises from species naturally competing amongst each other as well.

Suckass.

When are people going to grow up and admit MS has released several top-of-the-line products recently? IE is getting much nicer, especially with 9, and Windows 7 blows away any other OS available, except for certain *nix distributions for specific reasons. Likewise, if you would actually give the .NET framework and its associated languages a try you may find yourself impressed with the capabilities.

I guess I just feel like people should upgrade and quit whining like we're still in the early 00's. Technology advances, and with it comes a need for stronger hardware and new programming frameworks.

I'm a ghost-writer, I do research and write white papers, so Google Instant equaled faster research which equaled more research per time period, which equaled more money. This is only going to be another pay raise for me - w00t Chrome 8!

PS: Don't write illegal things into a form on a modern website? Anyone halfway decent with computers should know websites can always log that sort of information.

All I can say is that apparently you do not watch MSNBC. I have two televisions, one for MSNBC, one for Fox, and anyone with the ability to rationally observe/draw conclusions can tell you that while they are both biased, one is biased to a much, MUCH, higher degree. You can tell that many of the MSNBC personalities make a conscious effort to remain logically unbiased, whereas the Fox personalities seem to make a conscious effort to remain obviously biased.

I love how George is the only comeback any Rethuglican can come up with whenever special interests are brought up. Onewealthy man directly funding and supporting the Democrats is their only retort.

He didn't mean it in an anti-gay/sexual way. A common saying, "take the stick out of your ass," meaning "lighten up" and realize that humor is inherently meant to be fun and not taken offensively, even when its your party being made fun of. They both slam both parties, just in witty/satirical ways, which may go over the heads of /.'ers who really should 'take the stick out of their ass.'

When my girlfriend and I hooked up in my senior year of high school, her parents flipped out because she had (sent+received) over 30,000 text messages per month. And even then we had no problem hanging out and living our lives, she was just an extreme textaholic. I haven't done the math to prove my numbers, because I know for a fact it's true. Someone else can do the math if they want.

That comes nowhere close to addressing his concern about unwritten quotas...

The reason they drop the speed limits is because there is an increased risk of accident/injury in that particular area. If you really have a problem with it, shoot me the street name so I can check out the Google Maps images of the area. I guarantee the speed limit variation is perfectly justified. Also, there is no such thing as quotas for speeding tickets.

Emphasis added. What's that supposed to mean?

I believe the technical jargon makes it sound much more complicated than it is. Understanding what the scientists did requires knowing about 'random walks' and their significance. Think of a typical processor working on a problem that involves random walk sequences. Now imagine if that was replaced by getting 2 photons to calculate the 'random walk' part of the problem -- speed is massively increased, and quantum superpositions are now hopefully being utilized. The problem, in many cases, may have just become exponentially easier and faster.

Just another "small step" out of thousands we are blessed with being able to witness. Patience is a virtue.

[Citation Needed]. So you're saying there's absolutely nothing illegal about downloading copyrighted media such as television broadcasts, movies, and music from p2p? As long as I don't enable seeding and make the files available for download FROM me, it's perfectly legal? If you're being serious, you have changed my life, because I will leave right now and purchase a laptop to use as a media center for the living room.

Exactly. People expect to be able to use all the innovative products on the same shitty hardware they were using even just 5 years ago. Less than two thousand dollars later I bought a computer this year that will never lag, and won't crash even if I try. Every single feature on nearly every innovative website/service works flawlessly for me, simply because I chose to upgrade hardware to keep up with the corresponding software upgrades. Get a computer with a good graphics card, i7/equivalent, and 6GB of RAM. Not expensive at all, and you will run Vista without any problems, ever, let alone a stable Windows 7 distro.

I just don't like when people refuse to upgrade and then cry because new tech is "resource intensive" - *Hint: get more resources.