Yeah, too bad it's linked to my Flickr account as well.

> anti-capitalism

What has capitalism brought you?

Ugg was the one that invented the boot.

Jetbrain IntelliJ IDEA. Once I learned the shortcuts, it's the best IDE I've ever worked with. Integrates nicely with all kinds of Java framework stuff, like Maven, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, etc. Highly recommended.
Does javascript, html, all kinds of other stuff. Refactoring is a breeze, most stuff works with shortcuts or intellisense like behaviour, where IntelliJ suggests adding methods, parameters, getters/setters, pulling up of members, stuff like that. Loads of plugins. Integrates very nicely with SVN.
Runs on OSX, Linux and Windows. It's a native Java app, but quick, with decent memory management and no crashes (running on OSX here). Personal license is nice too, install anywhere, and you're allowed to have one copy open at a time. This has helped me out when programming on-site at a client's office.

http://www.walrus.com/~raphael/html/usb_charge.html Still shitty, but not quite as bad as you make it sound. I really disliked the fact that my last Nokia (6300, otherwise a fine phone) had a standard mini-usb (good!) but wouldn't charge over it (bad!)

Anyway, Nokia h as been pretty good so far because they only have two standards, even if they aren't a standard outside of Nokia's phones. Every charger fitted every phone, up until recently. The newer small plugs have a different size but are still the same charger. I've always thought that makes perfect sense, both for the customer and for Nokia.

Anyway, glad to see Europe's pushing this standard. I do hear it's only for data phones though:

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/06/29/apple-to-adopt-micro-usb-connectors-for-iphone-charging-in-europe/

Exactly. Downside, I now have a dead key on my keyboard, and on my particular keyboard it's even larger than the regular shift key. That's pretty inexcusable for a laptop keyboard. The regular US English one doesn't have this little annoyance, but still.
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Name one computer part that has not been manufactured in, or has parts created in, China/India/Indonesia.

If you want to ride that moral high ground, get off the internet altogether, because you're supporting the Chinese eating babies by buying their capacitors.

Get a job like the rest of us? You can't just label yourself an artist and go around whining about loss of income if you don't want to go the extra mile. I'm terribly sorry for people's overly romantic view of stardom, but it just sucks, especially if you're not a star (yet).

By the way, pretty much any artist has a side job. In my experience, the more serious the job is, the less serious the artist is about being an artist and vice versa. There is only a very limited subset of artists that can make a living from their art.

Quite right. Don't you just love it how Microsoft's perfect vendor lock-in turns around and bites it on the ass?

Because honestly, dumping backwards compatibility sometimes really is the way to go. Compare Vista and Snow Leopard (unfair, SL isn't even out yet, but still) and check out what everyone is saying about these two OS-es. Vista is considered bloatware, no-one is saying that XP didn't run faster on their hardware. Snow Leopard will run faster because it will lose a lot of weight, with the universal binaries, smaller installed foot print, etc. This is all untested of course, and it won't run any quicker on PowerPC hardware (because it won't run at all...)

Enough rambling, the point is that MS has done such a great job of locking customers to their OS that they now can't move to another one, even from the same vendor.

No, over 48 joints.

What do they mean? 49? 50? 300?

At least it's more than 48! We know that much!

You had a good argument, but I stopped reading at "Alanis Morissette."

How is that even illegal or immoral? Your mom-in-law bought the software, what more could they possibly want?

One (1) example of how online piracy has killed a person.

None? Find a new argument, please.

YEAH! That only leaves the problem of not having a budget.

Can you write an example SQL statement that does the same as

SELECT * FROM customer ORDER BY last_name LIMIT 5, 10

This shows records 6-10 from the customers table.