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Yahoo is in incredibly sad shape. Pundits on CNBC speculate that Yahoo will try to negotiate a better deal -- because that's really the best that they can do. Sadly, I agree.

Awesome. That's the real tool.

Some years ago I decided to only eat grass-fed beef. First, feedlot conditions are ridiculous. This is beyond chickens pooing on each other and billions of gallons of pig manure; these things are a blight upon the earth. Second, cattle simply aren't designed to eat all that grain. Their...

When I squeeze Vista, the DVD breaks.

Here's one that's definitely a businessy model, and it has a three-year warranty: http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=BR1200&tab=models Frankly, they can't really control whether a particular model goes into a home or a large office. Obviously, they can spin...

Can I remove the Vista and just be left with Windows?

Things that make you go, "hmmmm...." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html?_r=2 (probably requires a log-in... you guys know how bugmenot works)

Why does the consumery model have a three year warranty and the higher-end businessy model have a two year? http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=BR1500LCD http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=BT1500 Any theories on this?

One can better appreciate such brain-dead decisions by realising that by using birth control *and* having pre-marital sex, one is committing two sins, rather than just one. Why anger god twice when you could do it just once.... repeatedly.

So here's my theory on this: If you're against a legal procedure on some moral ground, then having done it should be punishment enough for the person. You really want to go after the person performing the procedure with jail time or some such. If you support choice, then there's nothing...

They have packages, but you just don't buy them. For example, if you buy toothpaste, when you're done with the tube, it's up to the manufacturer to take care of it. While in theory, you could return the used tube; in reality, nearly all manufacturers have paid into a system which picks-up the...

Not quite... but still something interesting from the biology files: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080116142805.htm

At best, the DJIA is a lagging indicator on the economy.

I'll probably have to get an optical converter to keep using my Cambridge Soundworks digital speakers.

Thinkpads are definitively high-functionality over looks. Any colour you want... as long as it's black.

You see the problem is... Sprint sucks. These are the guys who merged with a company with an entirely incompatible network and spun off their profitable local exchange business.

We need something like they have in Germany: You buy the contents and not the package.

Isn't that something we need government to do? We need more government!

The personal attack aside, that's just a bunch of baloney. You're avoiding the question at the core of this debate. In fact, you're actively attempting to avoid the question. I dismiss, out of hand, any furthur attempted arguments on this subject from you. "The way that you think" is...

I guess that makes you foolish?

It seems to me that China is hurting itself by sinking along with us. In the long term, our economy is a mess. That makes China's economy, in the long term, a mess. They need to distance themselves from our sinking currency.

You guys are actually admitting to watching a soap opera about furry creatures?

HP: Our hardware is crappy. The users who buy it are obviously stupid. Have the programmers in India make it impossible to install any way except through our installer.

Some folks here are reading them. Maybe you could just pay for a reasonable synopsis?

Just another reason to read US News instead....

Harvard, perhaps... some school where you pay for your degree.

Why do the Windows installations need to think that they're on the "C" drive?

Would Mac users buy Apple hardware if the MacOS freely ran on other hardware? I know a number of folks who would pony-up $200 to put the MacOS on their existing PCs.

At least a couple years ago, they did. Maybe they're trying to fit into those Maxtor shoes....

It's only got one mouse button!

A lot of smaller studios still use DAT; it's perfectly acceptable for a lot of purposes.

Be like me. Give up on editing.

It's not the bad. Big Bird had been six for almost forty years.

Did he just use "porn" and "academic" in the same sentence?

This is why you don't plagiarize! http://www.newsweek.com/id/94543/page/1

There you go...

As long as there are people involved, government will never be perfect. If you don't like what we have here, you are free to go to a nation with a better system. Let me know which one, if you do.

The fact of the matter is, even if you don't subscribe to wealth redistribution as a job of the government, doing so is for the common good. Especially now, an educated workforce is advantageous. Corporations don't want to hire dummies. Without a system of public education, we'd be importing...

No, and you are quite foolish to assume that. The fact of the matter is, if you can't articulate exactly what the government is *supposed* to do, then there's really no way to determine what it is *not supposed* to do. That's not an answer; it's a cop-out (to both of you).

I continue to be amazed by the amount of porn that Merc has. If he has 15TB, then there's six times that out there. We need a special tax on production.

The founding fathers were thinking ahead. They don't allow us to *actually* vote for the president. We only vote for the people who really do that.

Count me in for the 2.5" bandwagon. I want all of my drives to be small, cool, and quiet. If I hadn't already had a 3.5 250GB drive, I probably would have gotten 200GB 2.5 instead. Size will come along, but I don't need any more right now. And we all know that most people don't even need...

It sounds like Seagate is trying to ruin their reliability image... I got three 750GB drives for my NAS. One failed within a week.

My problem with the Macintosh is that there are a lot of form-over-function design decisions. Case in point: The Macbook. I recently had the opportunity to spend a few weeks with one. First of all, it gets hot -- right on the bottom, where your lap is supposed to be. Had a friend who...

Keep in mind that Photoshop is still a 32-bit app, and can only directly address 3GB of memory in Windows. I would presume that more memory would simply keep your system from bogging down... but I've never tried to manipulate an image more than a few gigs in size -- well within Photoshop's...

Why do you need an HTML version? I've been laying out my resume in InDesign for some years and distilling to PDF. Looks darn pretty, too.

So, what is the job of the government?

Wow. So all memory in Windows is virtual. You can't even stop disk paging; Windows will page directly from DLLs. The fact of the matter is, if you don't use your page file, then all it does is use some space on your disk. If you do need it and it's not there... problems. The amount of...

First, let's stop calling it "FairTax." There's nothing inherently fair about taxation; some people will always pay less when they should pay more, and vice versa -- with nothing said about gain from the spending of the proceeds. The problem that I see with a sales tax is that it is...

This article seems to say that if you get caught after SP1... it'll just be annoying: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/12/05/vista-sp1-to-kill-and-disable-grace-timer-and-oem-bios-activation-cracksexploits/