Everything I look at on System76's site mentions a display with a "super glossy surface". Fail.

At least Apple lets you have the option of matte on some of their machines.

(Plus I'm in the UK. System 76 ships from the US only, and doesn't cover taxes and import duties. So I have no idea what one of their machines would cost me until the moment it arrives — and if I decide the total's too much, I'd bet I can't ask the courier to return it and get a full refund of everything I've paid including shipping. I'd have to be either rich or desperate to not buy a Windows/Mac OS laptop to take that gamble.)

Growl source

Disclaimer: I don't have hg installed here at work so I can't verify that it really is version 1.3.

At least with power tools they eventually run out of fingers.

Motorhead porn?

*reaches for mind-bleach to remove unwanted mental image involving Lemmy*

Sounds like ideal training for the working world to me...

Not that I'm bitter, you understand.

Punchcards.

Lots and lots of punchcards.

Just don't drop the box.

On the other hand, if someone punches you and you fall and bang your head on the ground, but end up with nothing but scratches and bruises, it's assault.

If you have a weak skull and die from the injury, they will be charged with manslaughter. (UK law, your jurisdiction may vary.)

The basic principle is that the one that committed the assault, without bothering to find out if their victim had a condition that would make the outcome especially serious, bears full responsibility for the consequences. If things came out worse than they intended, that's their problem.

So, since there's precedent for this with physical assault, why not with emotional assault as well?

Sharing cupcakes destroys the baking industry, don't you know.

They've obviously been listening to the MPAA.

In an luxury car, the heating/cooling system is controlled by setting a desired temperature; the car then does the right thing.

On a cold winter day, when most drivers of these cars start their vehicle, they immediately turn up the temperature control to its highest setting in the belief that this will cause the interior of the car to more quickly warm up.

Their actions accomplish nothing, and if they had even a basic understanding that the motor must warm up before the heating system will be able to blow warm air, they might use the system in a rational manner.

Or they just want to set the controls before moving off and have the hot air to come out as soon as it's available, rather than having to keep checking the temperature gauge and then adjust the heater controls while driving.

Of course, in a well-designed car, turning the heating to max with a cold engine would cause a heating element to warm the air until the engine heat was sufficient for the element to be automatically switched off.

Yes, App Store downloads (which is what Lion is) can be paused and resumed, and will auto-resume if the connection goes down then comes back. Trust me, with my quality phone line, I've already researched this :)

Not sure what will happen if it suddenly finds some wireless provider's login page appearing when it expects to find the App Store server, but hopefully Apple thought of that...

And I'll be able to edit my Perl 6 code in TextMate 2!

Well, they already did for arcade boards...

We've already got multiplayer games that become useless after the servers are turned off: I'm sure some companies, like Capcom and EA, are just itching to do the same for single player...

If their hardware is still working, why should they have to upgrade it just to use some shiny piece of shit software in which they have zero interest?

They shouldn't. As long as they accept that we shouldn't have to downgrade our websites just to support some ancient piece of shit in which we have zero interest.