"Tramiel was *so* aggressive with the price and driving competitors out of the market- that C= weren't actually making that much money on them"

In the late 80s I read that Atari never made a cent on their home computer division. It was subsidized by the 2600.

Never happen. He's an atheist.

(Yes, I know about Peter Stark)

Also, some people CAN'T be vaccinated (e.g. genetic disease, allergy, too young), and depend on the protection of 'the herd'.

As pointed out by PZ Myers http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/12/another_reason_to_avoid_visiti.php
The comments in their javascript are kind of funny.In particular, // CREATIONIST GROUPIES

Wouldn't the movie be kind of flickery, since we'd be getting half the frame rate? Unless 3D movies these days play at double frame rate, which seems unlikely.

What he said. I work remotely for a large University, and it works very well for us. No hassles. Multi-user. Easy to use. App/desktop sharing. Remote control. Not free, but pretty affordable. Did I mention easy to use?

"A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time cretain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. Who, then, will invest the funds to renovate and nourish its future life, when on one owns it? How does the consumer benefit from that scenario? The answer is, there is no benefit."

-- Jack Valenti

As found in 'Digital Copyright' by Jessica Litman

I dunno, but my mother is still using the K1000 she bought in '79.

I'd love to try Netflix ... ... but back in 2001, when those X10 cameras started flooding us with popup ads, I swore I'd never support a company that took over my browser. I usually browse with Noscript- but when I don't, I invariably get a popunder for Netflix.

Just because you can get around the popup blocking that every user has turned on doesn't mean you should.

She appears to have the web skills to edit her own wikipedia entry.

(That or her new baby is a savant)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029598-38.html

Get your priorities straight people!

We may use cell phone traffic to monitor auto traffic!

Clearly we need another post about it!

So in case you missed it the last four times...

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/14 3247&tid=158&tid=215&tid=193
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/07 45248&tid=126&tid=215&tid=158
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/ 01/159241&tid=193
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/16/076217 &tid=215&tid=126