HPs problems aren't due to high level leadership issues, the platforms it's promoting or how it's getting to the market. The problem with HP is that they produce utter crap, and have support that makes me want to scratch my eyes out. That is, once you dig through a few pages and manage to finally figure out how to contact their support. In my most recent interaction they were absolutely useless in helping me and got my name wrong.

I'm typing this on an HP computer that is absolutely LOADED with bloatware. I cant figure out how to get rid of this junk that keeps popping up, requesting to update, requesting to this that and the other. Next to it is an HP printer that literally came out of the box and has refused to admit that I put ink cartridges in it. I've tried everything to get this printer working and HP support has been absolutely useless so far.

Let HP suffer a horrible death, and let the free market learn that producing shoddy products and/or pushing computers out with proprietary crapware is bad business.

If I'm reading correctly, the patent mentioned was filed in '96 and issued in '98. Warcraft 2 came out in '95. Good game?

I partially agree with this. Some auto parts should be standardized, but going to far will kill competition which in effect might kill research that could lead to cleaner/more efficient engines.

I seriously had a bag full of chargers here. Probably 15 chargers, only two of them were the same. Did any of them fit my friends phone when she lost her charger? Nope.

I wish I had mod points.

I gave up on Windows. I recently got a Mac so I could try my hand at developing for the iPhone and I love this thing. It's just right. I left Vista for XP after a slew of problems, but comparing either to OSX is like rotting fish to cologne. Sure, both are smelly, but....

You missed the point entirely.

The idea is that the text on a letter doesn't disappear if you put in the drawer, envelope or whatever without telling it to not disappear. That is why it's unintuitive.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flash_mob

There was a study done that showed that 90% of inmates may have ADD/ADHD. A couple studies have turned up different data, but they seem to remain consistent in the fact that a large number of inmates have ADD.

I never heard of lively till just now! It looks like it was pretty cool =[.

As far as I'm aware Pastafarians have a fairly peaceful religious history, unlike many others. I really don't see any of them being encouraged or inclined to blowing up a plane.

That actually demonstrates bias really well, in both cases.

Hey, pay as you go works extremely well for drug dealers.