What about all the other little boys and girls that never got sued this Christmas?

EVE Online
Second Life
Diablo
Hellgate: London

Furthermore, I feel somewhat constrained to point out that they're suing over the "scalable virtual world" patent. World of Warcraft is anything but scalable! There are so many shards - more than 1,500 in North America alone by last count - that it's not as much scalable as it is "add another server Bob, they're lagging again and we need to put the newcomers on another shard!"

Of course, two sufficiently incompetent lawyers could conceivably argue their way into inventing the Internet from this starting topic, but you get my point.

I have given MS Visual Studio a good college try on many different occasions. I can say with deadly been-there-tried-that conviction that Visual Studio is the most stable, featureless text editor out there.

Perhaps I didn't find the hidden "Microsoft has already raped me, there's no point in making me suffer any further" checkbox in the preferences pane, but it didn't do half of what Eclipse or Netbeans C++ can do. I also found its basic code editing facilities lacking.

It's better than DGJPP and makefiles, but I can't really imagine anything more that it can do better.

I am excited about their surface technology. I believe it'll be buggy and totally unusable, but it'll cause other people to take notice and make things that do it better. I can't wait for the simple, intuitive computer interfaces we see in movies like Quantum of Solace. I've always thought that Apple would be the one to deliver that, but hell, I don't give a damn who does it so long as it happens!

I know Outlook 2003 was a load of crapware, I haven't tried it since.

I think Google Apps (GMail, Calendar) more or less invaded Outlook's primary sphere of use for home users.

My Mac's uptime is 10 days right now. Longest I've ever noticed is 28 days. When you can sleep it and forget it, you really use that feature.

While it's a great idea,* USB drives aren't allowed to connect to secure assets. You can loose your clearance by just bringing a USB drive into a secure room.

*Great idea thinking as a white hat trying to break in to better defend, of course.

And, seriously, how many times have ya'll watched "Empire Strikes Back"? :)

Once every three and a half years, whether I need it or not.

That would explain the history of Britain.

I'd rather see Suse and Ubuntu duking it out with Fedora and Gentoo rather than 2-minute long Viagra commercials.

On an IMAP server? Gee, perfect case for the use of ReiserFS, though it might murder sendmail and then remove all the crontab scripts from its car ;-)

Any C++ tag beyond 21* characters is truncated. At that point better documentation would serve you better than a more "descriptive" tag.

* IIRC, YMMV based on compiler.

So, basically a rowboat with a competent Boy Scout in it will get farther than an oil tanker piloted by Barak Obama?

Gee, who would'a thunk that management can make or break a project...