Oops LOL good one. You know what I mean :)

This might be great for a music workstation. If the Thunderbird port can support low latency audio interfaces like the Focusrite Clarett series you could have a really nice compact set up that would be workable for performance or studio use.

I really like Tom Brennan's Vista TN3270. http://www.tombrennansoftware.... The scripting language is simple yet powerful, and the fonts are really easy to read.

If you allow your users to write sensitive data to a thumb drive you are setting yourself up for a data leak when they walk out the door with the thumb drive in their pocket.

For me the reason to get on sooner is there is more chance of scoring overhead storage for my carry on near my seat, or even at all.

Maybe they should stop publishing works about Martin Heidegger while they're at, I understand he was a Nazi sympathizer which seems like a pretty terrible thing to be. http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/... http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/... http://mitpress.mit.edu/search...

You're right, that totally escaped my mind. Aliens seem so ubiquitous in Sci Fi. Asimov's alien free universe always struck me as rather odd. Quaint even, but you're right it certainly isn't the only such universe.

As much as I loved the books, I can't help but wonder if people will be put off by the idea of a universe where the only sentient beings are humans, from earth.

Let's see what they can come up with. This is about music but so is going to a live concert. You can't pirate a live concert in the sense of completely recreating the live concert experience. Of course you can record the audio tracks, or video record it, but obvious you can't "go to the concert." What I am trying to say is sure, create something new, some cool multimedia thing or whatever. If people want to buy it they will, if not, so what.

Easy. Now that they've given us a chance to "participate" by commenting, that bothersome necessity is taken care of, and the FCC will now ignore the comments and proceed to do whatever they are told to do by their rich friends.

The new Chromecast device looks awesome! Unfortunately my old generation HDTV only has Component Inputs. I wonder if I can plug a Chromecast into some kind of HDMI->Componet converter? Will Chromecast require a secure HDMI connection?

Why not ISPF?

The problem isn't COBOL is is bad management. I think that really says it all. You have to manage a project and that means you have to have support at a high enough level that the impacted departments get their marching orders in agreement with the master plan. Otherwise you are doomed if you have to fit the solution to the middle management tier's "requirements" because their "requirements" are that everything stays the same so their jobs and departments are unaffected by the new solution. That's not going to happen in a ground up re-implementation.

You totally get it. It takes strong leadership to tell the business units that they must conform their procedures to the new system and it will be installed as is. That is the way to succeed. Then once it's in you can start opening it up.