The Amiga had awesome multitasking, esp. for its time. I had an Amiga 2000 upgraded with a 68030 25mhz cpu card (along with a FPU!!!) and I ran a 2 line BBS with two USRobotics Carrier HST 14.4 modems. My BBS had 99% usage (as in had someone connected uploading/downloading) and I was still able to print out my homework report in Scribble (haha yes, Scribble) and run The Curse of Monkey Island all at the same time. It was.......brilliant! Of course, I had to spend money on those upgrades (including a ridiculous flicker-fixer card for VGA monitor use) but it made my machine a monster. Compared to the 486-33 I had running Win 3.1 it was heaven.

It's sad to think what a great computer it was and how it just got passed over and left to die at the hands of such a poorly ran company. HAM graphics (for .. pr0n or other things) and MOD music made my adlib PC sound ilke a joke and the tsenglabs ET4000 video card with VGA looked like a joke next to 4096 colors! woohoo!

I think I need to go take a cold shower now. I think my iphone has more processing power than my Amiga did. haaha.

They need to attach a cool sounding 3 letter acronym. FBI, CIA, CID (not USA), etc... sounds cool. The latest acronyms the white house have been coming up with just suck.

It's simple: matte screens look like crap on the showroom floor (ie., Best Buy) when compared next to a shiny glossy screen notebooks. The shiny screens that look just like their HDTV are what consumers are lusting for. Sure the professionals want matte screens but the mass public fills a larger percent of the ledger.

I believe it's time for all the news outlets to get creative and hire a bunch of 3D animators like this Taiwanese news outlet did: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HUBVuaCIPo&feature=player_embedded Leave the news researching to outlets like AP and focus on editorials and hilarious reenactments. There's a reason why The Daily Show and the Colbert Show have such ridiculously high ratings. Sure sure, we all want our news, but it's time to realize the industry needs to do more than move from printing on paper to printing online. It might take years if not decades for them to get it right; the music industry is still trying to figure it out.

This whole series was a nighttime adapted version of daytime soap dramas with "edgier" theme and bigger budget cinematography. The writers obviously had no idea where to take the script anymore and had to extend the whole series beyond it's intended life. Seriously, compare LOST to any of those ridiculous "days of our lives" or "as the world turns" dramas that have lasted for eons with outlandish plot twists and you'll find the writers must be moonlighting for LOST. It's sad, the whole series could have ended in 3 seasons but Hollywood wanted to milk as much out of this cow as they could before people found out milk doesn't do the body good.

Anyone who complains about foreign companies not "helping Uganda" or Africa in general by denying sales transactions with them has obviously never seriously ran an online business. I ran a moderate ecommerce site (google PR6 at the time) and during the 5 years I had it I received about 10 fake or bad orders from Africa daily. Of course, they were all from Nigeria and wanted ridiculous shipping requests (mail to lagarda bus stop (or something like that)) and for exorbitant amounts (40 DVD players) with insane shipping charges (international UPS expedited!). You can't blame a merchant for not wanting to take the risks of dealing with Africa. One bad experience can cost you quite a bit and credit card companies will never side with the merchant. If you want to blame somebody, blame the credit card companies who place most of the blame on merchants for any fraud that occurs.

" In light of that, Kerr asks, is the Supreme Court's ruling still sound?"

It's still sound as long as (my) marijuana is still illegal!

I will find it ridiculous if officers just drive around with thermal imaging devices trying to find marijuana growers and bust them. You are in essence invading privacy trying to get an idea of what's inside someone's house. What if x-ray vision devices come to market? Will cops be able to take a peek without a warrant? I'll laugh the day cops try to bust a house that's growing a bunch of non-illegal ferns.

And your clickable mechanical mouse will also be hindered useless by your monstrous lunch/heart attack. At least the multitouch surface is a quick wetnap away from functioning again

Two wongs can make it white!

Because with a 2 year vocational degree, your basing your worth based only on your vocational skills. The unquantifiable benefits (your results may vary) of college include but are not limited to: a) collaboration with others b) social engagement c) research d) conflict resolution, etc. Sure you get these skills in high school and you can get them anywhere else. However, the fact that you got into a 4 year college (and I'm talking about any top 50 ranked colleges, pick your list) provides a somewhat coarse but useful aptitude assessment as to your abilities.

I associate the difference between having your work done in the US or outsourcing it to India. Sure, they have coders there and some are really damn good. But somehow things just don't turn out the same/as well as something programmed by the people I hire here (and pay an arm and a leg for). They can do the grunt work great but wow have you seen some of the interfaces or design logic they produce?

Seeing as Queer eye for the straight guy has disappeared, we have nothing to be afraid of. I personally think the "feminizing" of guys, aka metrosexualism (sic), is purely a result of the demand for more hygenic and "beautiful" men by women. What girl doesn't love the way gay guys look? Sure, women like the masculine looking guy too but usually that includes waxed chest hair, symmetrically shaved stubble, etc.

Quoting David Chappelle, ""If men could have sex with a woman in a cardboard box, we wouldn't buy a house...."

Anyway, back to topic: we should be ok as long as more women drink/eat hormone laden milk and beef. Do a google on the topic, or go here for a sample (poor one, albeit): http://www.foodservicewarehouse.com/education/health-safety/growth-hormones.aspx

We'll have super feminine women and sorta effeminate men. We'll be back at square one!

If they just went super geek, like the stores they have here in Taiwan and in Japan, and sold only tech components (capacitors, resistors, pcb kits) and tools (other than soldering guns) they should do fairly well...these stores here are TINY yet they pack the inventory in. Sure, any normal "average joe" BestBuy customer wouldn't know what the hell anything inside is ,for but I'm sure there are enough geeks around the whole country to sustain the business. I can find almost all the stuff needed to prototype stuff for my own electronic hobbies and I can't find the fine precision tools anywhere else. I can't even think of anywhere to find T-6 screwdrivers in America except for online stores or specialty cellphone stores.

Heck, even sell cool educational toys like model kits that let you build a tiny solar windmill, programmable arm, whatever. I see all these cool model kits/toys here in Asia that I wish I had as a kid. I just bought my nephew a reconfigurable solar model kit that is 6-in-1: Build a solar windmill, a solar powered car, a solar powered walking bug, solar powered spinner, solar-powered boat/hoevercraft, solar-powered hopping robot (well, it "tries" to walk).

Bought a kit to build a very simple radio and transmitter for another nephew. And I bought for a third nephew (yes, I have lots of nephews) a solar kit that lets him use an empty water bottle as the "chasis" so he can learn the effects of solar-power and also of weight/design/creativity. Yes, there are some DIY educational kits available in the US but they all seem so boring and not inviting to lots of young kids.

Can I get a refund on my MacBook purchase?? It can run windows instead of osx, but it's bundled with it. Is it free? Why doesn't anyone care ? I guess that's one method of winning- stay under the radar instead of being public enemy number 1.