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Why was there no development on IE for several years? If you were on every release of IE, you must have noticed this... you're workload would have been really small ;)

Now India will feel the pain as jobs are outsourced to Asia and Eastern Europe where rates are cheaper! Pretty soon, people in Zimbabwe will be coding :)

Then there are probably few survivors at Microsoft. Ozzie has his work cut out. You can brag about Lotus Notes all you want, but that was developed from scratch when you can make the proper design decisions. But with Windows being bloated and out of control, you just can't clean it up and make it more simple... can you? It seems like there putting to much faith in Ozzie... like a silver bullet. Gonna be tough to undo years and years of neglect.

Why would anyone pay $10 for a movie that will be available only digitally? I can go to Walmart and get an actual DVD for $5-$15. I think Jobs and the MPAA are nuts.

But let's hope these are the ones without hellfire missiles attached to them ;)

Put that shit in a sig. I turn them off for a reason.

I believe this was the result of propostion 71 that was passed in California last year. It allocated $3 billion over a period of ten years to fund stem cell research! Way to go California :)

After 4 years in the Marines I was ready to get out to the "real" world... a world free of BS and well paying cool jobs. Well I got my degree in Comp Sci and was ready to face the world. Upon getting a job with a large corporation, I was amazed at the amount of BS there. It made the military look like an efficient & well-oiled machine. After 5.5 years now in the corporate world I ahve come to one conclusion... you alone can't make a damn difference. Either you will like it or you won't. I have finally realized that being my own boss is the way to go and thus I am pursuing that vigorously.

As for you my friend, take a walk through the corporate jungle and see if its your kinda thing. You can always do your own thing!

Took Dell this long to see that Linux us a wise choice for servers. They finally realized that AMD actually makes good CPUs too. Pretty soon, I hope to see Dell boxes running Linux on AMD in pace of Windows for the average user!

Since the users were required to actually execute something on the usb stick, couldn't this have been done years ago on floppies? Clever, kinda... but not new is my guess.

Copyright laws are just like unions now. In the beginning, they both had their use, but as timee have changed, copyright laws, like unions have not adapted to suit current conditions. In the end, they cause more bad than good. Hello GM!

You're so right! It'll prepare the children for hi-tech jobs that don't exist in their country! Gimme a break. And I never said we have it worse, I was just pointing out that computers don't educate people... good books and good teachers do. That's been proven tima and tima again by seeing the decline in US math and science scores. As for illegals coming here... it certainly isn't to get cheap computer equiment. It's because we have an economy and jobs and we're next door. $100 laptops aren't going to create and economy and jobs. Maybe if we send tons of laptops to Mexico, they will stop coming here. You're a real gem!

Indeed! While I admire the drive behind this project... I really think it's quite useless when they lack basic drugs, water, food, stable governments, etc. Computers aren't the solution... look at the US... everyone has computers and we still lag behind countries that barely have electricity.

I'm tired of all this crap with respects to music. It's just music... why is it so complicated to just sell people music and compensate artists? All the DRM business, angry countries, law suits, etc. It rediculous damnit! Stop the madness.

Ah that's better.

I got a beautiful x286 laptop with a couple megs ram and a 10MB drive that weighs that much :) Anyone interested?

This happens all the time unfortunately. People's stupidity can circumvent and electronic security measures. But I'd rather have my identity stolen than my legs blown off by an IED.

Here come the "I'm Batman" jokes :)

I won't pay for anything until I get Launchcast in my car. Having the ability to access tons of stations and rate songs is where its at. If I don't like a song... *poof* I'll never hear it again! It's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Also, I can have a mix of music from rock to classical on one station. Satellite and HD radio can't do that.

You can pass all the laws and restrictions you desire, but kids will find a way to purchase/play violent games. You can try cleaning up the games by passing laws, but if there is a demand, someone will fill it. It comes down to parents knowing what their kids are doing and educating them appropriately. My friends and I grew up in a time when Rambo and Arny were all the rage... violence was commonplace in the entertainment industry. We all grew up to be rather well adjusted... and thats because we were raised properly. Laws won't help... education will.