First of all, you can tell a LOT from this particular data point.

That aside, what are you insinuating? That a group widely and routinely chastised as espousing a "liberal" and/or "leftist" agenda by conservatives, opposed the now-cancelled US Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program, and is opposed to nuclear weapons in general, is executing a propaganda campaign to make North Korea look more primitive than it really is when it comes to its rocket programs?

Are you serious?

After a veritable comedy of errors, North Korea finally has a successful launch, can't even get or keep the satellite launched from it into a stable orbit, and now an anti-nuclear advocacy group is really a secret US propaganda campaign to inappropriately embarrass the North Koreans, who are really more advanced in rocketry than all of their misadventures would indicate? The same North Koreans who just announced they have uncovered a unicorn lair?

Really? I mean...really?

Please â" I would love to hear how this is "propaganda", and how the DPRK is really a capable member of the space and nuclear clubs. To what possible end? Even IF it were true, why/how would that be a good thing?

Or is this one of those topsy-turvy bizarro-world lines of reasoning where anything and everything that is in ANY way opposed to anything related to any US or Western interest is automatically true and pure, but anything that originates from the US or West, in any way, shape, or form is always "propaganda"?

I think he has a point. Unless Hollywood can sort out the issue with how to perform cuts without forcing the eyes to refocus all the time, it will be disorienting and to some people even sickening. If 3D gets even more realistic, it'll be a bigger problem.

Maybe it is less important to fix the problems with the 3D itself and more important to focus on transitions which are softer on the eyes and brain. Just watch films from before smooth transitions. You can see how much better films became when a simple smooth transition method came along.

messages are pretty easy to ignore. I feel guilty ignoring invites. This will just make it so that spammers will send these messages using invites instead.

I agree that standard coding techniques are a good thing. I prefer however to focus it towards and existing file or module. If a file was written in a given style, follow that style. It makes the file readable.

Generally I have found that working with a pile of libraries written by third parties, there's no way you can be sure that you'll have a full product with a single given coding style. So, you're already used to calling outside of your own module using alternative coding styles. But when you mix the coding styles heavily in a given file and worse, in a given function, it becomes unreadable.

Things can easily get carried away of course. If you look at gstreamer, the variance between modules regarding coding style is a nightmare. Product is great and I always enjoyed working on it, but there's so little consistency in the system due to being overly complex that some people will do the bare minimum to get their code working with it and then just code an entirely different way after that. It would have worked better of course if people would make an attempt to move their integration code into a separate file and make the transition between files instead of strictly between modules.

I'm hoping at some point that tools like swing will also allow making borders between like languages to have a method of enforcing coding style at the edges of modules.

"...Trisquel GNU/Linux operating system, a free software replacement for Windows 8"

Ok, driver support (yes, still an issue), motion sensor support, touch support, documentation, etc... I use Linux all the time... from my Windows machine. I admit, Linux has come a long way, but when companies like Dell are still using 6-8 months to get a single computer out of the door (which was already in production), it just means we're still not there. Even when they managed to ship, it still wasn't 100%.

Biggest problem with Linux these days is still that there's too many damn options. For example, there's gobs and gobs of graphing calculator programs for Linux, nearly all of them still need to be finished and most of them don't have any developers anymore.

Why does it always have to be one or the other?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/opinion/hamass-illegitimacy.html

At one point, I decided to watch some videos of Dawkins and found him to be obscene and utterly rude. While I am personally an atheist, I truly disagree with people suggesting that this man is representative of me. It's reached a point where religious people use him as an example of the raving lunatics atheists are. So far as I can tell, while he's also an atheist, he takes atheism to a degree of being a religion. Between him and organized non-religion groups, I'm thoroughly disappointed.

The point is atheists shouldn't ever be organizing as being atheists. It should not be a defining characteristic. A person who is an atheist should be something else. Maybe an artist, a musician, a scientist, an engineer, a good will worker. In short, an atheist should have a great deal of time to spend on things that are just more important and more meaningful than religion. Instead, these groups (including the Dawkins lackies) spend all their time being atheists and they even get into the "I'm better than the people who define themselves as believing in nonsense since I'm a person who defines myself as opposing believing in nonsense." It's like the morons who stand outside of meat plants protesting slaughtering cows while wearing a leather jacket to stay warm.

People... please just be more.

If Romney gets in, cash strapped states can siphon off the health care budget and then ask for more. Best thing about leaving it up to the states to manage their own budgets is that they generally have so much extra cash laying around that they shouldn't have a problem with it.

Kinda lame that Obama thinks it's a better idea to have central control over it. How the hell are states going to properly misappropriate funds if we don't give it to them in the first place? I know I sure as hell don't want to pay taxes to carry the burden of the poor... like Mississippi.

I was going to write something similar, but you did a far better job than I would have :)

Gotta say, Windows 8 Tablets are just anything but a "Me Too" tablet. The fact is, if you wanted to call it a me too tablet, Apple would have to put the full OS X on iPad and let you run everything on it before it was a me-too.

The regular Surface tablet might be me-tooish. It's just a lame ass tablet. The Surface Pro... which will be more expensive is going to be a whole different beast. The Surface will run the same old apps as iPad. In my house, we have four iPads. One for each of us. I use my iPad for reading books because of the high resolution display, everything else I do with my Slate. Everything is just harder and takes longer on an iPad. Even watching videos is just not a positive experience on the iPad. The App Store and Music store has REALLY sucked since iOS 6 too. These days, when I want to buy a new film, song or app on the Apple store, I break out my slate, use iTunes and buy it there and download it to the iPad.

I have used iPhone 4 for the past few years (got it the week it came out) and now that it's pretty much end of life and it's time for a new phone, I'm looking elsewhere than Apple since I can't see paying for a CPU upgrade which is basically all the iPhone 5 is. And since I'll have to buy all new accessories for my phone anyway (thanks to the dock connector ordeal, I'm probably going to look at the Samsung Ativ S.

Microsoft Surface Pro on the other hand (I really just don't even consider Surface worth buying) will be a huge upgrade for my Samsung Series 7 Slate and it will be accessorizable. I don't usually get that excited about new tech coming out, but if the Surface Pro at least has a full HD screen, I'll replace my tablet and one of my laptops (probably my MacBook Air) as well as my iPad 3 with this one device.

I think people really need to stop comparing iPad to Windows 8. It's like comparing a bicycle to a race car. There are some similarities between the two technologies, but iPad is for FaceBook, eBooks and Angry Birds type games. Windows 8 systems are for getting things done. A machine you can actually accomplish things on should definitely cost more than a machine you read books on and play goofy games on.

How are you replacing the trees that had to be removed?

The California Science Center Foundation is investing approximately $2 million to replace 400 trees removed along the route with over 1,000 trees. These replacement trees are between 10 and 14 feet in height -- about the same size as most of the trees they will be removing. A minimum of two years of free maintenance will also be provided. Within five years the community along route will have an even greener and more beautiful tree canopy.

The "you" to which I was referring in my post is the royal or general "you", for what it's worth, not you personally.

I'm also not saying that the only overwhelming deterrent is our nuclear deterrent, but it's part of our deterrent capability.

Things which are simply not covered by test ban treaties are not "getting around" test bans. When you say "getting around", you make it seem as if it is somehow a shameful, underhanded, dirty trick to "get around" a treaty. Is using supercomputers to simulate nuclear detonations also "getting around" test bans? If not, why not? If so -- are you serious? Because that's why the DOE National Laboratories have some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world -- and which can be, and are, used for all other manner of science.

US stockpile stewardship activities do not run counter to the letter, spirit, nor intent of any treaty relevant to nuclear weapons.

I'm also not making a defense of MAD, but can you explain why we should not maintain the integrity of the weapons we do have, while China is arming with nuclear weapons when we are disarming? It's fine to wax philosophic about how there are more than enough nuclear weapons on Earth to destroy it, but the idea isn't to destroy it -- it's to have enough weapons distributed on enough platforms in enough places so that it's clear that even a surprise first strike cannot hope to disable our strategic forces. The best deterrent is one that never needs to be used.

NIF has three missions:

- National security (stockpile stewardship
- Basic fusion science
- Understanding the origins of the basic building blocks of the universe

That's it.

I hate to break it you you, but much of what we do in basic science research is dual-use. It can be used for military applications, or purely scientific applications. Doing stockpile stewardship without nuclear tests is not "getting around" nuclear test ban treaties. It's maintaining the integrity of our increasingly smaller nuclear stockpile as a credible deterrent.

This overwhelming deterrent capability is part of the reason why the world has seen no major global conflict for seven decades, and has had the longest period of peace without global conflict for over five centuries. Tens of millions of people died in WWI and WWII.

We maintain a credible deterrent so it's clear that no one can ever strike us first without the certainty of themselves also being destroyed -- and if our principles and ideals and those of our allies are something you care about, then that should be important to you.

The world is changing, and some might say that the general "cyber" and information threats will more important than nuclear. China certainly seems to think so. Then again, China is also building out its nuclear weapons capabilities and stockpiles as the rest of the world, including the US, disarms. No worries, right? Delivery systems that can rain down nuclear warheads on targets anywhere in the world is just for "peaceful regional defense", right?

A world where the US doesn't maintain an overwhelming deterrent to forces which espouse principles and ideals counter to those of freedom and liberal democracy is not a pretty place.

(Note to people who think that the US is what's wrong with the world: you are sorely in need of historical perspective -- or, any perspective. The US is not perfect, but the US and West has done far more for the benefit of human life and humanity, on the whole, than any other nation, especially those with Communist, Socialist, or totalitarian systems of government. Wake up.)

I am 37 years old... spent 31 years programming as a hobby or for a living. I got tired of coding for a living and became a Cisco instructor. In 6 months I've gotten 3 CCNPs, 5 CCNA, a CCENT, multiple specialist certs, juniper certs etc... I'll take my CCIE R&S lab exam in January.

I've studied 3-11 hours a day minimum every single day since I quit my job in February. I've also been a father of two young kids full time and taught classes most of the time.

Back when I was 18 I could stay awake and alert for nearly 48 hour at a time... now I make use of Red Bull, chain smoke and drink coffee by the liter. But I'll be damned if anyone will tell me I can't keep up with the 22 year olds or learn as quickly as them.

So... what the hell are you whining about... you recognized the problem... get off your ass and fix it.