It's annoying when it's someone sitting next to or in front of you; otherwise, it's not noticeable. Oh, and clicky sounds when typing are a big distraction.

http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/ (Some NSFW language.)

I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try - but there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention - you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the slaughtering pens of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, has the stomach to do.

Isn't this zombie-mania past its prime yet? It was funny for a while, but now it's just overplayed.

It's powered by the owner's ego.

We're that much closer to mastering alchemy, because someday we'll be able to produce anti-antimony, i.e. mon(e)y.

Can't it just Google them?

Well-played, sir.

I would have expected Bill Gates to have a much, much lower Slashdot number.

The Confederates did something like this in the early days of the US Civil War--they painted logs to look like cannons, and they often succeeded in fooling Union surveillance. Why "Quaker" guns? Because the Quakers were (and are) avowed pacifists (except for the one who was elected President of the US). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker_Gun

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Don't they realize that's just a prototype for the long-rumored iStash?

That's because he owns the copyrights to Buddy Holly's catalog, and February 2008 marks the 50th anniversary of the day Holly's plane went down in an Iowa field. My understanding is that the Holly catalog is a significant source of Sir Paul's 800 million.

You are correct that my information was a bit off, but I suspect the idea wasn't... My apologies if I "sound very authoritative" when I am not.

It seems iexplore.exe does indeed provide the process, along with (at least) the crash handling, adding the text " - Microsoft Internet Explorer" after the web page title, and apparently varies some of the preferences (displayed toolbars at least). It does not seem to affect the rendering of the page, as either iexplore.exe or explorer.exe can do that.

My thought was that the rendering engine may be crashing, without causing the complete application to crash, and without appearing to have crashed. I will stand by that idea. It seems quite plausible to me that every request to render a page might kill any previous thread readering for the window, and start a new one, and this could quite successfully hide rendering engine failures. Other techniques could also mask rendering engine failures.

I guess I really have no idea how one would authoritatively detect if the IE rendering engine has failed. Does anyone?