Whether or not Intel would deliberately do something like that (which would be very foolish), individual developers have a general sense of camaraderie. They're not typically going to deliberately screw over people they view as being in friendly competition.

It has a process per tab. Firefox has a thread per tab. There's a big difference

Uh, yeah, not illegal. Unless they're making these things full-auto, there's nothing illegal about what they're doing in most states.

Most console gamers don't care. They're just kids spending their parent's money.

I'd gladly pay for Cox's top tier (50Mb), rather than their mid tier (18Mb), if only they would raise the upload speed. The difference between their top tier and their lower tier upload speed is only 1Mb.

Like Starcraft 2?

Trespassing makes sense, hate crime doesn't. There's nothing illegal about being racist, prejudiced, etc, no matter how much you or I may disagree with it.

I've already got all but two of them, but it's still a great price and a nice gesture on THQ's part. It really is a pretty genius move on their part, as most people aren't going to buy those older games for the full price on steam, and it gives them some good publicity.

Hours, assuming it's done intelligently. Something along the lines of: #> for i in {1..3}; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=32M; done Without specifying a larger bs it'll take much longer.

I'm friends with my boss on Facebook (work for a large tech company). If anything, his posts are facebook are more controversial than mine.

Frankly, mounting an ISO in that manner is basic knowledge that any sysadmin knows. If you aren't a sysadmin or something of that nature (ignoring the fact that Linux DOES have features that allow ISO's to be one-click mounted graphically), why are you using a server OS? Try creating a gui for something like rsync. The reason it's such a great program is the amount of options you have; good luck trying to create a simple gui that allows them all to be used easily.

I had a math teacher that did this. He had a netbook running Fedora and would use it to record audio and the overhead screen during classes. Since most of what he wrote up there were proofs, it helped a great deal. Last I heard, he and some other people (he's more of a CS guy than anything), were working on some software to stream the classes while in progress, as well as allow interaction from students not physically present.

I definitely concur with SLR. Using a point-and-shoot and moving up to an SLR is a difference of night and day. Shooting with an SLR and then trying to take a decent picture with a point-and-shoot is... frustrating, to say the least. SLRs are a lot more accessible than they used to be.

For me it wasn't age. I simply started making more money than I did before and my time became more valuable. Buying games in store, having to install each one by disk and manually patch everything wasn't any better for me than pirating all of them and stashing them on a spare hard drive somewhere. I stopped pirating games because steam was more convenient and cheaper (time vs money). I've even re-bought some of the games I own on dvd media on steam so I wouldn't have to worry about keeping track of the disks or manually patching after an OS reinstallation.

I hear plenty of arguments from friends as to how "college is completely unnecessary". Yeah, have fun working at McDonalds for the next 60 years. Better to have problems finding a job than to have no skills at all.