If google provides the documentation plus explanatory code samples in 1.25 seconds while MSDN is still deciding which useless, bloated, theoretical horse apples to try to pawn off as useful info, then no, the internet doesn't make us lazy.

^V: Joe Banister IRS Agent Oh yeah. I came across a thread on a forum about income taxes being "voluntary" and someone suggested googling that. It returns a bunch of youtube tutorials on how to be prosecuted by the IRS, I mean, avoid paying income tax. Interesting views, but I don't recommend doing it...

rahul_sindhu wrote:

I am wondering how programmers around the world relax after hours of hard work. energy drink? coffee? nap? ......????

Drill approximately 0.30" diameter holes in paper at a distance of 100 yards.

Why do spammers still send email trying to convince you to enlarge body parts? Because some tiny percentage still fall for it and thus earn the seller and the web site some money. We either never see the pop-up or eventually find sites that are better behaved. Yahoo lost me to Google for a home page years ago when they started those f-ing floating ads wandering around the screen.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080619/ap_on_fe_st/odd_coffee_bean_heist[^] And where were YOU the night of May 28th? :-D 1000 lbs of green Kona beans. Somebody is going to have the coffee jitters for a long time.

concur Ringworld rocks! Living on the Ringworld is like a little slice of Dyson.

I would not presume to measure my coffee appreciation against yours, since I don't know you! I do know that I truely appreciate a fine cup of coffee, but for day to day purposes I grind good to very good whole beans and use a run of the mill drip machine. There *IS* no machine (of which I am aware) on the market which properly leaches the beans. For special occasions I use the old fashioned method; cooked in an enamel pot with an egg. See recipe further down in the thread if you like. Adapted from my great grandmother's recipe. Re-reading my post, I suppose it could be taken the wrong way, but I followed the link on the machine and saw $600 and thought WOW. Just call it sticker shock - no offense intended.

Nice coffee maker, but my enamel pot cost $1 at a yard sale.

Ingredients: 20 cups cold water 16 tablespoons regular grind coffee (more or less to taste) 1 egg (shell and all) Procedure: 1. Measure water in to a pot and bring to a boil. Use an enamel pot for best result. 2. Measure ground coffee into mixing bowl, add raw egg and mix well, then add to the boiling water 3. Reduce heat and stir well with long wooden spoon 4. Simmer 2 minutes, then boil hard for one minute 5. Let the coffee rest for one minute, then pour 1/4 cup cold water into the coffee to settle the grounds 6. Strain into a serving pot and serve.

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And of course, my personal favourite: PETA People Eating Tasty Animals

Jim Crafton wrote:

Also Mr Torvalds might try programming in Linux - if he thinks OS X is bad to program for, writing anything other than C based command line crap is an exercise in frustration on linux.

Well, there is the off chance that Linus Torvalds may have done some programming on the Linux platform at one time or another. If you were just making a funny, that was pretty good! ;)