Amazon.co.uk sold both downloads as loss leaders. The 40p limit applies to the wholesale price, not the retail price.

  - I pay Amazon 29p
  - Amazon pays Sony 40p (or more?)
  - It counts towards the chart
  - Amazon hopes my retail experience was good, and I'll come back for more music downloads in future. This time at a profitable price.

Everybody's happy.

It really doesn't matter whether you make your site follow the lowest common denominator or, as you suggest, maintain multiple versions for different browsers. What it comes down to is spending time on creating new features or spending time catering to the bugs of IE6.

Yes, not supporting IE6 may cost you some part of your visitors, but how many visitors are you losing because of lack of development and modern features? That's not as easily measured and obviously depending on the type of site we're discussing, but in many cases I bet it's a lot more than 5-10%.

If the manager's first job is to facilitate the work of her programmers, then, yes, she should stay if it makes a contribution.

I don't know if it's popular in the US but it is in the UK and Australia. It's a series of super-easy PIC controllers that are very cheap and programed in a version of BASIC though a serial port, no special programmer circuitry required. They have A to D inputs and servo control outputs. They are great for school projects and Silicon Chip magazine always has lots of project articles for them. See http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/picaxe/

depends. right now were're surface mining lithium salts from exposed salt flats. theres no telling how many rich veins of lithium salts are hiding in valleys or near aquifers. i'm sure someone is working on that, but until someone runs analysis on where those veins might be i doubt anyone could tell you. more than likely battery technology will move beyond lithium long before (100 years?) we run out of lithium "ore" you can just shovel off the ground and into the back of a truck (Seriously, do a google image search for "lithium ore" - they literally shovel it right off the ground into piles, and later into pickup trucks)

Patches? What patches? In order to release the patch you would actually have to have the developers to write it and since EA shut down Pandemic studios and fired its 200 employees shortly before they released the game... well you can draw the conclusions on whether there will be any patches any time soon.

On an anecdote: A friend of mine told me that in South Africa, you see groups of monkeys roaming the streets like gangs. They come to the house, steal the food, and destroy everything.

But he saw them on the street, and a poor dog got into their way. They literally ripped the dog into pieces!
Bear in mind that they have a pull strength up to 1700 pounds!
So you can imagine the mess and gore of it. With blood and bowels all over the place.

No messin’ around with those little bastards! ^^

(Think about it: If we still were cavemen, then we'd be able to overpower even them. Sad that humans got so weak. :/)

Well he's at +5 already, but he has it spot on.
When I talk to other programmers who can't see the value (or are lazy) in providing comments, I try to make it clear to them the comments are the RATIONALE for the piece of code. We know we can see a loop that iterates over a list, but why did Fred (who left before I started) write this module in the first place? He could have mentioned in a short blurb at the top that it updates a person's Mojo and that it's only used by the AustinPowers module, thus saving me time doing a global search on the thing. And given that I don't have any RATIONALE for Mojo.dll existing I sure as beans won't have any reference in AustinPowers saying the Mojo was moved into the YeahBaby common library because of some reason or other.
RATIONALE. The WHY of the code, as so neatly put by the op.

I would add to the parent's statement that bigger and more sophisticated printers yield more mechanical goodies that older printers, scanners and especially old office photocopiers have more mechanical 'guts' in them. As newer electronics became smarter the manufacturers could dispense with some of the moving parts (and why wouldn't they). A nice secondary use for the glass from an old photocopier is that being optically flat, they make a perfect surface plate for model engineering use, thus saving over $100 on a machined steel or granite one.

Part of me agrees with this offhand statement. As someone who used to write C++ COM objects for banking risk management, I can honestly say COM is short for COMplex and COMplicated rather than Component Object Model. Table of vectors for function calls? Simple idea, terrible implementation. I spent more time doing the stupid COM plumbing then actually writing code that benefited the customer. And Don Box waxing lyrical about how wonderful and cool COM was in his book(s) just made me want to smack him in the face with a half-rotten tomato. At least one of the good things about .NET is that is works very well with legacy MS code, COM objects included.