Matthew Daly

"I think it depends what you do. If you're working in a factory on the production like that offers little mental stimulation, but if you get to engage the brain cells then that's different. My grandfather got bored after he retired and went back to work as a director of a car dealership. And look at Stephen Hawking - he's at an age where most people have retired but he's taking up a new position. A lot of scientists and people like that who are passionate about what they do wouldn't enjoy retirement." - Matthew Daly

"I think it depends what you do. If you're working in a factory on the production like that offers little mental stimulation, but if you get to engage the brain cells then that's different. My grandfather got bored after he retired and went back to work as a director of a car dealership. And look at Stephen Hawking - he's at an age where most people have retired but he's taking up a new position. A lot of scientists and people like that who are passionate about what they do wouldn't enjoy retirement." - Matthew Daly

"Considering how protective the French are of their language, I'm a little surprised they weren't ordered to rename themselves Pomme when trading in France." - Matthew Daly

"But of course he went on to found Be. Wonder if BeOS was unusually popular in France as a result." - Matthew Daly

"But of course he went on to found Be. Wonder if BeOS was unusually popular in France as a result." - Matthew Daly

"Why would you not have technical people doing this stuff? If you want someone to image a hard drive for forensics purpose, you don't get the office spazz to do it, you get someone who knows what they're doing." - Matthew Daly

"I was thinking the same. I heard about CAINE the other day on Distrowatch so I grabbed a copy of that, and it seems pretty good. I also like nUbuntu and Weaknet." - Matthew Daly

"Sounds a good idea to me. I was on the train home from work a few years ago and the conductor had to cope with this deeply unpleasant chav who he'd caught hiding in the toilet in an attempt to dodge paying for his ticket (this seems to be a common method of avoiding getting a fine) screaming abuse at him. The conductor was a nice enough guy and he really didn't deserve that kind of treatment." - Matthew Daly

"As someone who tinkered with BASIC during childhood, it certainly makes sense to me." - Matthew Daly

"I think the idea is that the ground floor is floor zero. Also, I think basements are much more common in the US than they are here (I've never ever lived in a house with a basement), so I guess that would considered to be the ground floor, like CalcProgrammer1 said." - Matthew Daly

"I would have done that when I was a kid but my bedroom was always on the first floor (second if you're in the US) so it wasn't practical." - Matthew Daly

"No reason why not. The GPL doesn't preclude selling software for money, and Microsoft could easily take a base distro such as Debian, and add value to it by adding Linux ports of Windows applications (say, IE or MS Works) and sell it as Microsoft Linux. If they were to contribute code to Wine it would grow in leaps and bounds (after all, no-one will know Microsoft's software like they do) and they could use that as a temporary measure to ensure backware-compatibility with existing Windows applications, while developers make the changeover to producing native Linux apps. And there's already an implementation of .NET in the shape of Mono. There's still plenty of scope for them to make money in a hybrid open/closed source environment, as Apple have demonstrated. By leveraging the work of the free software community they could produce a better product while potentially reduce development costs since they wouldn't have to maintain all the code themselves. At the same time their..." - Matthew Daly

"Not really - medieval cathedrals often took a similar length of time to be built." - Matthew Daly

"It makes sense in a way. If you get told you've got six months to live, then there's no point saving for the future or stressing about your job or anything like that. You might as well go and do all the things you've always wanted to do while you still can, and I can see how that would be liberating. If I was told I had six months to live I'd quit my job and go and have a good time for however long I could." - Matthew Daly

"So do we. We're still using Windows XP for the foreseeable future, and while in theory they could upgrade to IE8, in practice they won't. They've unveiled a new intranet in the last few months but it's still optimised for IE6, and most of their websites are still designed primarily for IE6 (it's an insurance company and I guess their thinking is that most visitors will be middle-aged or elderly people who don't know much about computers)." - Matthew Daly