Make or buy them a mechanical marble computer. Wish I'd seen a digi comp when I was 10.

https://youtu.be/_tZdE-3nR3w

Write it in the newest language you can find and put it in the cloud. It will take 10 lines of code to make the next hot must-have startup. Then sell it before people realize your code looks pretty but performs 40x faster when properly written in ugly C.

I see a lot of optimism out there. Nobody wants to hear the truth based on current trends:

Ten years from now IT will spend 7 hours a day in bureaucratic meetings working on initiatives and teamwork building exercises and a half hour taking care of your actual problems. Dark days ahead, so it doesn't matter whether your stack is wireless, copper, or diamond.

Google says that Facebook has no profit.

Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.

If carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is such a good insulator, why don't they line my coffee mug with it? What do they use instead? Vacuum. Vacuum is the best insulator there is, and guess what surrounds the atmosphere? Vacuum, that's what. You won't see me worried about CO2 as much as the millions of BTUs put out by the power plant and the 500watt video card it powers so you use to play WoW. Damn the man.

Yeah it's disappointing. What good is a Chrome experiment without a slow-mo spud gun?

Oh wait scratch that - doesn't work. Server is overloaded and the Youtube version is done playing by the time the HTML 5 version has finished loading.

That's what they said about Anthony Weiner. Then Larry Flynt swept in and offered him a place in the field of adult entertainment. Sounds promising for Powell.

Mark Zuckerberg paid for a threepeat. I hear every time WebGL compiles a shader, Orkut emails a thousand SSNs to China.

Am I the only one that sees the resemblance to MDK? No complaints here. A revisit of that series has been a long time coming.

I agree. Instead of accepting the impermanence of things and wallowing in the crapulence of our sun burning out, what if it second guesses our puny human assumption that every star will burn out? What if it proves that stars can accumulate enough space debris fuel to be self-sustaining and in fact, the human assumption was wrong once again? What if it disproves or adds to modern physics? What if 42 isn't the answer after all?

F/A-18 Hornet! 1994
Mac OS 7.1
25 MHZ, 8MB RAM, 4 floppies.
50 watt PSU

Now that's what I call saving money.
http://www.graphsim.com/games-fa18-oif.html

You'll see that money when the engineers who win the contest lay down an Abe Lincoln in front of you at McDonalds.

Your employer will never see the money they spent on you while you were on slashdot either.

I gets free incoming. No cost to my voice mail until I check it. And if I check it from a land line, no cost at all. Not to plug or anything.