timeshifter

Nope, I just strongly dislike tangential and unfounded insults.

> "Using Windows was a mistake" is a truism.

No. No, it is not.

> Failure is regularly equated with having made mistakes.

And what mistake did Windows make here? Keep the baseless insults inside your head, please.

Apple is doomed because they're not focusing on desktop computers? Um..... what?

Alternately: Apple is ignoring desktop computers because the market is mobile and laptops, and really it's just corporations and enthusiasts that will go out of their way for a desktop... ya know, the kinds of people that aren't going to buy a Mac anyway. So why should Apple focus on a market that they're making obselete?

Why do you choose to throw out an insult at Windows? Is there anything about this story that points to Windows being at fault? How about you think before you flame next time, okay?

So they force all their users to go through a process that has 1) never been seen before for a mouse, and 2) absolutely asinine in concept anyway? It's a MOUSE. If you want feedback, ask for it. Don't force the user to jump through hoops to utilize the product you just sold them.

Would you rather have a ball made out of trash that falls apart when you kick it, a "proper" ball that gets torn to shreds, or this "not regulation" ball that can withstand any abuse you throw at it?

This seems like a no-brainer to me. These kids don't need a regulation ball, and they deserve better than trash.

The Spitfire is sexy. The work that went in to producing it? Not so much. That's the issue: the people who are being attracted by the "sexy" tag are people who actually don't want to do any of that work.

The first link under the "Back to Colour Cycling – Using Web Standards" heading points to an edit page inside the administration area...

Can we please stop using "sexy" to describe tech work? It isn't sexy, it requires a LOT of knowledge and a LOT of critical thinking. That it gets called "sexy" and is "the thing that teens and twenty-somethings flock to" just shows the culture we have here. "Oh that's cool, I wanna try it!" 90% of the people who ever start in "tech entrepreneurship" are going to fail, because they have absolutely no idea what they're doing, other than following the trendy train. Drives me nuts.

You say that as though Turions and the Core series were bad. I'm currently running a Phenom 2 x6 3.3GHz.. and guess what? For the majority of tasks, it is no better than my previous Core 2 Quad 2.5GHz. And the Turion processor is no slouch; I know this from experience.

Can these chips power a supercomputer? No. Do 99% of people need them to? Not at all.

Gotta love it. They keep trying to shove shit down our throats that we don't want, and get surprised when somebody fights back. Maybe there wouldn't be a need to have hardware that can skip ads if those ads weren't so incredibly obnoxious.

Why funny? Android is finally getting some hardware design love, and as a happy Droid 2 owner, I think it's about time.

You do know that this has been standard functionality on all the US carriers for years anyway, right? There is absolutely nothing useful about this service. One quick Google search can get you the specific domain to email to for any carrier. They all follow the same format, [number]@carrier.com. This service is about 5 years behind the times. I've been emailing to SMS since before the iPhone.