Doesn't matter the pleassure and pain numbing effects are not 100% intertwined. A number of modern Anesthetics are allready treated in a fasion that reduces pleassure and thus makes them less addictive. They are however still usefull in medicine.

Tbh the only problem with this vaccine I see is that if it deadens the pleassure of Heroin addicts what pleassure remains. Heroin reduces the sensetivity of any other pleasure and with that taken away wouldn't users remain 'unpleasurable'

Maybe the stimuli repressed by heroin will come back after a while but otherwise I fear that this will result in a lot more suicides. (then again long term Heroin usage is essentially that)

I am a silverlight developer as well but I fail to see what the screw over here is. What Microsoft showed is that you can create 'apps' for the new immerse shell through HTML. The fact that they haven't shown that it can be done through native Silverlight apps doesn't mean that they won't support it. (in fact reflection of DLL's on the leaked builds shows clearly that you can, Microsoft just hasn't confirmed how exactly)

Besides Wp7 is powered by SL so the likely 'bombshell' they aren't sharing here is WP7 apps run directly on WP8 machines (what ever that's worth).

Essentially what Microsoft has stupidly done here is to show of some feature without showing all. Apple can get away with this they can't and by now they should have at least learned that. Dumb but not the major crisis some developers make of it

ATM Fees? How interesting, is this a common US thing and does it exist in other countries? In the Netherlands ATM usage both at your own bank and others is fee free. It's your money after all

Well phrased, en essence this exact behavior is what allows 'evil' in all it's forms to penetrate society. It also shows the danger of the asymmetry in relationship between person en corporation: the symmetry of resources. If Sony loses a suit like this that is annoying and might cost the company some money but it doesn't take away something from a person. You the consumer at best end up with having a pittance paid back to you and at worst having to pay proceeding costs. You have to be mad to engage in something like that. For large issues, especially in multi party governed systems, political parties exist to offset this. In this case though the group is to small and the matter to technical for them to be interested. Thus everything remains as is and the world got a little worse because of it
First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.

What you say is true Geoffrey but I believe there is something more fundamental. It matters because she is an elected government official in the country that hosts Slashdot, the country that has a huge influence on IT en Technology in general and the world. In this country a democratically elected official was murdered!. (or attempted murder at least) That is a direct assault on the fundamental principal of democracy and the matters. Your information adds to this point explaining why it was especially relevant that this person was targeted and that the impact might be bigger for us nerd but it would have been relevant regardless who was targeted, just more painful now. It is this very fact that the original poster seems to deny (no one important, move along here). In democracy all elected are important. Once we loose this we might as well just vote once

No More Heroes, hands down for style and insanety. You have to enjoy it's humor though, otherwise the game

I agree with you that in some\many cases a fileshare or an instance of media wiki might indeed be as efficient as SharePoint. But stating that SharePoint is Microsofts answer to MediaWiki is not a fair comparison either.

The basic 'free' version of SharePoint; WSS offers a collaboration environment aimed at dynamic, limited access groups like teams or projects.
It's widget approach and semi freedom it offers potentiall makes for a good collaboration environment regardless of the alternatives.
If correctly implemented on a corporate level it's metadata model can even make it a verry potent tool for actual information retrieval but this is a verry difficult thign to achieve (blame politics not the tool)
Ofcourse it has to be said that it's occasionally haphazzerd UI and reliance on IE limit its usefullness in mixed environements.

However more important here is the fact that SharePoint as MOSS is being positioned much more widely than this.
With MOSS SharePoitn becomes a CMS, a BI platform and much more.
Now I'm not saying it's best of breed cause it isn't but you have to admire the flexibility.
And if you want to fight MOSS in your enterprise you do wise to propose counters for the whole oss range or the product will simply outflank you

As for the development hoops.
Well I guesse that is mostly a matter of taste.
Yes the API is just plain weird at times and its dependancy on COM+ makes it an easy target for memory leaks.
But it's custom code deployment model is pretty good so in my experience itÂs slightly cheaper to maintain than comparible OSS or even proprietary
counterparts

Cheers
QQ2