Hate beta? soylentnews.org is the solution.

Kind of like how a "better way" for books led to a cottage industry in the creation of positive book reviews...

Books, mind you, have the distinct advantage of not having a large knife in the glove box.

Urgh. Frankly I prefer hypotheses and the scientific method.

Heck, filling the building with smoke might even *improve* the quality of the air for the workers in those facilities!

http://www.imsmart.com/en

The reviews are not flattering.

You ignore the Bush paradox: if you elevate your idiots above their ken, they become more dangerous idiots.

You're living in the past, dude.

Have you not been introduced to streaming video for your porn needs?

It reminds me of the comments that understand my frustration with unusable things, but personally find that Windows 8 is an incredibly usable operating system and I just don't understand how usable it truly is.

No dichotomy; when the police do it like this:

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/vic-police-order-motorist-roadblock-claim-20120515-1yo55.html

Just be thankful that the Moderate Safe Search was switched on - the bit where he and Google's Larry Page went to Erection Cove together was clearly inappropriate...

Hubris much?

You do realise that a large percentage of open source projects are started with the intention of filling a need that is currently not satisified by other software? (Novel concept, I know!). And therefore, there is an imperative to "dogfood" as soon as possible.

Granted, those open source projects weren't led by an asshole dictator with a commercial imperative. And hey, I've been unfortunate enough to try Unity. Given that precedent for "usability", dog-fooding in this case may well be a painful process

It isn't a scheme at all - until it collapses. Then, and only then, can we know what type of scheme it was. Until that day, it could be a ponzi scheme. It could be all kind of things!

The structure you describe (pump-and-dump) beautifully encapsulates the behavior of the feeder funds who delivered Madoff a large portion of his billions. But we don't remember that as a pump-and-dump now.

And: bitcoin was created by a well known and reputable entity (cough), with security methodologies ensuring value that are thoroughly understood by it's investors (cough) and are traded on open, transparent exchanges (cough). Why, the chances of that being a ponzi scheme would be like that of a stock certificate sold by the chairman of the Nasdaq himself being fraudulent!

Just suprised no-one has thought of this solution before. Acedemics, pfft!

Sold one million to one customer alone in North America, that should be.

Given that no-one is admitting to that purchase, is it beyond the realm of belief that they brought those themselves?

Because the mark of the beast is now available not just on your right hand, but also on your forehead!

And so, it becomes clearer why the Google Chrome logo has the "666" hidden in it - so you can have not only the name of the beast on your chosen device... but also.. the number of his name!

Kind of a shame really, cause I was totally sure that Steve Jobs was the Anti-Christ. Eric Schmidt is a bit of a let down.