This isn't about Commander Keen and you know it.

Google is simply betting on Duke, as smart people always do.

better re-check that model bro.

What if I need a real computer that I can use while walking around and holding it in one hand?

"Real computer" here means "I can copy the binary off my desktop computer and it will run".

correlation

correlation

If you are referring to an actual intervention study, I'd love to see it. For 99% of people eating a standard American diet, lowering salt intake will inevitably involve cutting out a bunch of processed, pre-packaged crap from their diet. Most likely if there was a reduction in blood pressure it was because of the sugar or trans fat that was inadvertently cut out along with the salt.

I just did a quick search and couldn't find any numbers. I wonder how many people annually are blinded by lasik, vs how many people are blinded by accidentally stabbing themselves in the eye with their glasses. It could very well be that lasik is less risky than wearing glasses.

They usually get me laptops for work, and I've never had one last more than a year or so, usually with frequent heat related video card crashes for the last few months. Current one is an ASUS G73 series. It's generally pretty good but frequently has video corruption/bad rendering issues in certain CAD programs. I suspect that laptops in general just aren't up to doing much more than websurfing/email/MSWord.
 
BTW never had an apple computer and I never plan to.

Having an offline backup isn't 20/20 hindsight, it's the absolute basics of the basics.

It's more like saying that a guy who dies in a car accident because he was street racing while drunk, high, and not wearing a seatbelt got what he deserved.

Ugh, my 24 ESR is going away in just one more release? I thought I solved this firefox update problem for myself by going to ESR but I guess it was just a (very) short term bandaid...

Almost anything else can be made acceptable through some combination of good design, but if I ever hear even the tiniest peep from an ad your site gets adblocked until the end of time.

What exactly is it about this tech that makes it "good enough" for citizen gun owners, but not suitable for police use? I can't think of any possible reasoning that doesn't boil down to essentially "civilians shouldn't have guns anyway".

I'd need these two conditions:

1. bulletproof (lol) evidence demonstrating that the gun cannot be disabled by a 3rd party by any method that would not also work on a "dumb" gun

2. statistics indicating that the gun is at least as reliable as the most reliable "dumb" gun that exists.

#1 is a logical impossibility, and, as a software developer myself, #2 is somehow even less likely than "impossible".

The DRM on video discs has no relation whatsoever on the difficulty of pirating. Here's how you pirate a movie, DVD or Blu-Ray:

1. search TPB
2. download torrent

No DRM involved at all. If anything the higher quality itself makes Blu-ray movies harder to pirate just because the download needs to be bigger.

If you finance 100% of your tuition at a private school it will come out to something like $120000-$160000. The median US wage in 2011 was $26,965.

Does "the diets recommended by the FDA and ADA (diabetes association) are about as close as you can get to a diet specifically designed to cause heart disease and diabetes, and the people responsible know this, but the recommendations aren't changed because the agencies get too much lobbying money from the grain and sugar industries" count as a conspiracy theory?