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You discuss how WoW either hold back life progress or doesn't. Have you (or anyone you know) encountered a case where WoW has helped someone?

I get the same sinking feeling every time I check for an OS update on my Samsung Fascinate and it's not there. No update means: - ZERO GPS functionality (Verizon reps acknowledge t…

The author needs to get past the fantasy that the US government is the big bad guy in a room full of innocent school children. Russia, while weakened over the past few years, is a …

People who appear to be coddled through their education may just have taken the easy way out and cheated: http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125329/

Another Heinlein quote (from Starship Troopers): "Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that. Nothing More."

Who says its source code that was stolen? "Intellectual Property" covers a very wide range. It's easy for Oracle to stand up, roll out the long list of their patents, call "They're…

I agree fully that everyone knows how email works, and I'm not debating the point that email-capable devices outnumber javascript-web-capable devices. I'm questioning the point tha…

Considering that 37signals products are web-based, they also work natively on a pretty large percentage of available hardware and software platforms (at least the ones you're likel…

Reminds me of adhoc wifi gaming with Nintendo DS Lites in 2005.

There's an interesting TED Talk about sleep cycles, and the impact of sleep on waking alertness. http://www.ted.com/talks/jessa_gamble_how_to_sleep.html

I hardly think it's worse than antennagate. The iPhone's antenna issues caused so much of a stir because they impact the basic usage of the device. Is iPhoto such a core piece of M…

Has anyone had experience comparing MongoDB and HiveDB from apache? I briefly considered both of them over a year ago before realizing that they weren't quite yet prime time for my…

Maybe the SEC should counter by saying that they will take his money to make their entire operation faster -- his case will be processed faster, along with everyone elses!

If you're forced to use a platform that requires manual memory management, I'm all for this approach -- either explicitly, or implicitly on a fixed-size stack. Or, use a platform t…

History has shown that intel is very good at getting out of potential death spirals...

A good approach I've used before is: - no Friday deployments - deployments run primarily by a single person should be done early in their work day - avoid Monday deployments ... pe…

Note the coincident announcement about the Mac App Store... I bet the software you can get there will run snappily enough.

I don't think the credit card is meant to reduce spam. It's meant to let them seamlessly charge you for overage.