Still, look on the bright side

If the building thing doesn't work out for the chap, he could go into the rich, heady world of patent trolling, where you sue first and ask questions later.

This is vaguely irritating

Whenever someone talks about this OS, I feel a nagging urge to drink some fizzy red liquid with a billion additives and artificial colours in. =/

Can somebody call the Mysterons please?

Got a little job for them. Hell, they brought back Captain Black, they should be cool with bringing back the creator of their universe.

"We respect that your photos are your photos..."

...but we're still going to use them and receive money for doing so anyway.

Fortunate for Mr Mckinnon that he wasn't extradited.

I understand there are currently ample supplies of both floury baps and cocker spaniels in America.

A thought

If this is really about saving on the costs of textbooks, why wouldn't the considerably cheaper Nook, Kindle or Kodo be an option?

The things is, while technology for schools has advanced, the books themselves have not. Even in medical circles we have ponderous great tomes that students and professionals have to read through. Every once in a while a text book may stuff a cheap CD in the back with some low quality .avi files but it's a poor solution as you're still havibng to divide your attention between screen and page.

Perhaps rather than looking for new ways to display old content, we should be looking for truly interactive text books. Something openable on either a tablet or PC, with pages of text with embedded videos and an exam section at the end with immediate scoring.

HTML would be a good way to do such a thing as it has most of the right tools. The trick would be persuading people to put down Microsoft Word and thinking about how they can demonstrate, rather than talk.

So?

I sometimes go months in between drillings. =/

Being serious for a moment, I really hope the project doesn't have to be scrapped. If they can prove the existance of life down there (and hopefully take some photos of afforementioned subterranean world!), it might convince folks at NASA to send the next rover probe to Titan. That'd be freaking amazing.

The only sensible thing to do

...is to abandon the whole thing and start over from scratch, with the project costing twice as much this time around.

An enjoyable game

But Earthworm Jim proved, as countless games before and after, that escort missions are the distilled essence of ball busting frustration. X_x

Better idea

Fund a Kickstarter to get Max Headroom put on DVD.

Errors in the article

"Whitman reminded everyone that HP is one of the largest companies in the world and also, on a cash flow basis, one of the most profitable – throwing --- away more cash than Coca Cola, FedEx, McDonalds, and others. "We are on a very ----- shaky financial foundation," she said."

You're welcome

o7

Fear not, sweet commentards, for our Playmonaut's mission has not ended in failure. Suitably equipped for the task, he now explores the mysteries of the ocean deeps, his survival suit and plastic resolve allowing him to brave pressures and depths that mere humans cannot withstand. He gazes out across an inky void of abyssal mountains and chasms, seeing creatures unknown to science.

Godspeed, brave aquanaut.

He is so misinformed

Having an iPhone is not a sign of having wealthy parents. Maybe he traded a perfectly honest and respectable kidney for one.

It's a good step in the right direction

It reminds me of the mechs from the Armored Core games. Only the bipedal ones could truly walk, the four legged ones moved in a similar fashion to these.