mod parent down as troll!

2400 bps?? When I lived in my parents basement (circa 1984) I was surfing at 300 bps on my Vic Modem

I didn't see them sleep together. I saw them kiss, twice. You inferred the rest.

In my experience it is MUCH faster - since it is not crashing all the time, bugging you with security alerts etc - and actually lets you get your work done. CPU speed is almost irrelevant these days.

And oil! I'm not big on the butter, but something about that nice salty, oily taste you can only get in the movie theatres. It's that peanut oil that is bad for you - and tastes so good!

So does religion

How do we make money? Volume!

So I don't need a graphics card you insensitive clod! (at least other than the built-in one)

The best piece of code I ever wrote was on a cross country flight. It was an integral piece of the project I was working on, and in a span of about 2 hours I had greater productivity than in most of the rest of the year put together. Of course, that was a long time ago before coach seats got so small that sitting comfortably let alone working became out of the question.

As a fellow old timer who typed quite a few .NOT. and .EQ. back in the day - I don't see what the big deal is either. If you don't like that font, use another one.

That's the only explanation.

Are you forgetting the name of the first space shuttle? There was a write-in campaign for that one too. The winner? "Enterprise". At least NASA back then had the sense to name the test vehicle Enterprise, not the first one to actually fly in space.

It happened to the Seattle P-I for real this year - over 100 years of ink, forced to stop the presses and go to web only.

Only a small fraction of the developers in the US understand English, let alone the world.

never mind the manufacturing capability to build those old Apollo rockets, which no longer exists - steel mills all gone, no forges that large anymore.