What metric should we use to say we've "learned a language"? At what point can you put in on your resume? Do you have to take a college course? Publish an application? Read a book?

Sometimes, the more you learn, the more you understand you are not an expert.

Nerd card status: Revoked.

Let's just hope it is more like the work he did on Star Trek, and not the slow and contrived "Revolution".

Luke et. al. must make their way through post-collapse empire cities ruled by gangs to free the rebel slaves!!!

256K of memory should be enough for anyone!!

There's cutscenes?

I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

In this day and age of "Soulja Boy Tell 'Em", "Lady Gaga" and "50 Cent" (as Google wrote in the link above), is there any difference between "Mark Twain" and "Authordude88"?!?! Is one less valid of a pseudonym?

How does one establish a name they are "Commonly referred to" other than by using it to establish a persona? Isn't that an activity they might do on a social networking website?!?

What self-respecting slashdotter is buying a Core Solo processor?

What about the man whose erection returns from buying the spammed product? Whether from placebo effect or actual drug, if he is able to conceive a child then aren't man-years regained for society? Just a few cases of this makes the spam man-hour positive!!!

1) Invert said dish 2) Place on head 3) Insert hands into opposing arms' sleeve 4) Stick out front teeth

MS-DOS and the microcomputer port of BASIC!?

I would counter that format requirements will continue to go up as available tech improves, but the truth is that I ***still*** have not bothered with Blu-Ray at all, and even lossy 1/4 HD rips of Doctor Who look pretty good on my high-def projection system, let alone my tiny iPhone screen. As we already have with audio, we're rapidly reaching a point where most consumers simply aren't going to care about fidelity improvements enough to invest in near-future new technologies.

The screen already looks good to me in 720p or 1080i or even 640p (sometimes less). Spending thousands of dollars on something more impressive isn't going to make my 41-year old eyes see it any better.

Which would be simply awful if anybody was forcing you to pay for cable.

It's kind of irrelevant, actually.

You can buy an iPhone for $199 with a 2-year contract that locks you into AT&T anyway, or you can spend something like $600 on a PHONE just so you can jailbreak it and use it with a carrier that won't support visual voicemail and might lose you support from the app store, just so you can run a handful of "unapproved" apps which most people don't care about.

Guess which option nearly everybody is going to take?