Careful! Remove the gum and the sidewalks & roads will collape.

What about second hand radiation? Maybe they should only call in their own homes!

hmm, mod that Troll or Insightful...

I just had to order a ten pack of refurb floppies for a customer who maintains bank ATMs. None of my suppliers had new ones in stock and the USB floppies won't always work. Seems like a lot of small banks still use them.

In case you can't figure out why I called you an idiot, your implication that the existence of a rooted Linux box somehow means that the security playing field is level and all comes down to the admin is phenomenally stupid.

For example with a iphone or ipod the functionality can be included in the itunes software. Owner goes in program and selects block device. That device can no longer connect to the apple store. It's that simple if the device is returned or found the owner can select unblock device. Simple. Requires one database on apple's end, a couple hundred lines of code, and a check be made each time that device is connected. It is simple, foolproof, low maintance on Apple's part, and kills any incentive someone has to rob or kill you for that device.

Not if you consider the concentration of fat cats, robber barons and people in power with something to hide;
Register a corporation with the least responsibility; Maryland or Delaware.
Mobbed up? Chicago Illinois and perhaps Pennsylvania.
Campaign donation? Washington.
Credit Card barons and Banksters? New Hampshire.
Entrepreneurial crooks, drugs and ex Presidente's? Florida.
California, might just be so large that it has a mix of everything.

Not sure about Montana and Connecticut, might be just the independence and paranoia of Montana and maybe I missed some Banskters.

>> Just my own two cents. I wonder why ENRON got in trouble -- that recording of them ripping off old ladies and laughing about it, was probably illegal -- they have RIGHTS you know!

For a start, you can finally completely integrate HTML, SVG, video, audio, graphics, and any other supported XML language.
Which means this stuff is no separate box on your page anymore. These are great examples of what this allows: http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/demos/
Think about putting real HTML text in an SVG shape, and clip video with another SVG shape, transform it all with javascript, style even the video with CSS, play a sound when you click the video, and then draw some MathML over an image with a moving filter inside a third shape.

Of course, that you *can* do it, does not mean that you should. But it is nice to be able to not be limited in your expression, when you want do get to a specific legitimate goal.

I think this level of integration is how it always should have been, and the whole nsplugin integration is just plain wrong.
I wonder why it works this way. Why not give an in-memory canvas to the nsplugin, instead of a hardware surface, and then render the content of the canvas like any other animated image, when it is marked as modified.

Say, you play car racing game, since you know track, you can start streering a bit before you would if you had instant control.

Have you actually played Burnout Paradise?

We aren't even talking 18 months after they delivered their first car they showed a profit!

A profit that's almost certainly a purely paper one, representing a loss in real terms.
 

Ask any investor if they are happy or disappointed and I'll bet you couldn't wipe the grin off their faces.

If I were an investor, I'd have a very grim look on my face - and a burning desire to take a very close look at the books. But then I have an accountant in the family, and an understanding of some of the tricks they play to create a 'profit' where none exists. (And unlike you and like any intelligent investor, I'm seeking truth not spin and 'jam tomorrow'.)
 

How much geekier can you get than an electric car???

If an electric car is the peak of geekdom - how far the geeks have fallen.

Actually being an idiot means you are often frustrated by the world, while pretending to be one means you not only can enjoy messing with people, but when you get tired of them they are easy prey, since they assume you are an idiot.

I get what you're saying but by using the term non-issue you're not really being clear. It's a small issue that affects a subset of people doing something specific. However, that subset includes IT professionals.

To clarify, "non-issue" wasn't a term I came up with; I was parroting what the OP said. IMO, if the likely number of people who are affected ranges in the hundreds out of hundreds of thousands--or millions--of users, it's effectively a non-issue, particularly if it can be resolved by new chipset drivers.

I do agree that MS should be held to higher standards. However, Windows is a complicated piece of software and even Windows 7 is riddled with various design and architectural decisions that should have died off in the 90s. I think it's expected that there will be problems during a large-scale rollout and it's a good thing that this particular issue was caught when it was! Fortunately, it appears there are solutions already at hand.

that's what I did! I skipped vista like windows ME! I just recently installed 7 on my HTPC because of WMC and it works great! Just recently decided to give it a go on my old laptop (P4 2.4GHz, 512MB ram POS ATI GPU) and it actually runs good. It says my system rating is 1 based on the lowest score but my highest was 4.9 (hdd) and 2nd highest 3.1 (CPU) lol

XP, FBSD and SuSe ran great on it, so it's time to play with 7 on here.............

Damn whippersnapper. Cellophane tape! Bought a case back in the 60's. Still works...sort of...unless its humid, like now. Nevermind...