...it would be a stupid waste of billions of dollars. Humans can't do anything from Mars orbit a machine (specially a 2030s machine) can't do much better. Actually, I'm not a big believer on Mars missions at all. I think the Moon is a better near-term target, and asteroid mining a much better long-term approach. We don't need more gravity wells.

Right alongside heavier-than-air flight.

While I know the comment was meant to be sarcastic, it sort of backfired, because the reason for Apple's success is that they do all of those, *on aggregate*, to a greater extent than any other company.

I think someone is using a seriously non-standard definition of the word "trend". People have been running Linux on Mac hardware since before the Intel switch. This is neither new, nor on the increase.

"...mine is only 186" Well, if anybody was heretofore unclear as to the definition of "humblebrag"...

Having used both, I can't wait for Max to die in a fire...

Sorry to nitpick, but Alias|Wavefront combined Alias PowerAnimator and Wavefront Dynamation into Maya. Wavefront was a company, not a product.

Harsh, but fair.

You know what's even more messed up? To throw someone in a vat of acid for reporting a problem. Like the arrest, that did not happen either, but since facts don't matter it would have made a better headline, right?

That's why you don't own a billion-dollar company.

Don't anthropomorphise the Sun, he hates it.

The competition accept the SCHAFT.

"People around the world are walking away from proprietary computing in droves"

Either Slashdot has somehow bridged two parallel Earths here, or we're operating under completely different definitions of the word "droves".

"We don't, do we ? But I have been to people's office / home in winter / summertime and boy, they sure feel like greenhouse / igloo."

Obviously everybody needs to submit their temperature preferences to Taco Cowboy for approval before setting their thermostats.

Then again, they had already been fighting the Japanese in Manchuria before the war started officially...