That depends. There are various reasons why someone can be out of work. Lack of skill or a poor fit for the job are definitely in the mix. Yet companies definitely go out of business, companies definitely downsize (where getting axed may have more to do with the businesses priorities than your skills), and a change in management at any level may mean job loss for professional or unprofessional reasons. Then there are people who simply want to change careers, because of job satisfaction or advancement rather than because of their ability to perform the job. The latter is definitely the hardest to contend with since you probably don't have the contacts that recognize your abilities or because the people in one part of the industry may not see your skills as transferrable to their part of the industry.

Certain financial institutions, educational institutions, and governmental institutions keep data on domestic soil simply to ensure that it is covered by Canadian privacy laws. That is true even if it is a foreign company.

That said, I have to wonder how much protection that data would have if the data was stored in Canada but accessed from a foreign nation. Say if the U.S. subsidiary receives a warrant for data stored by the Canadian subsidiary, and the U.S. subsidiary accesses the data in Canada from the U.S..

If we are going to be honest about things, we should also look at why: neither vendor is enthusiastic about providing complete documentation on the products.

We should also be clear about some of the consequences. Better open source drivers provide a better long term solution under Linux. Yes, this is because Linux developers are somewhat hostile to closed source drivers. On the other hand, it is something that you should consider if you are using Linux.

At the end of the day, the choice depends upon what you're doing. What doesn't matter is a rule that considers a handful of measures. Some will prefer AMD under Linux based upon their priorities, others will prefer nVidia. It is also completely fair to prefer AMD for work computer and nVidia for your games computer; or AMD for your Linux boxes and nVidia for your Windows boxes.

Seriously folks, what's with all of the hate? If a person can perform their duties, there is no reason to dismiss them regardless of whether obesity is a disability or not. That is a discriminatory practice. A person's condition is also no reason to speculate upon its cause without evidence. We have a name for that too, it's called prejudice. (There is the "bad habits" comment, but that actually provides very little information. Is it due to a lack of exercise? Is it due to overeating? Is it even a medical diagnosis?)

That said, I am a bit concerned about the "sit on the floor and play with them" comment made by Kaltoft. Childcare does involve a degree a physical endurance, since you have to be on your feet and moving all day. Heck, even playing with children involves some running around.

Try looking up albedo, then performing some calculations to figure out how changes in the albedo changes changes the local temperature. Finally use that change in temperature to figure out how much ice will melt. While your results won't be as good as those produced by experienced research scientists, the basics are well within the grasp of someone with a high school education. Indeed, it is a common exercise for first year students in the physical sciences.

Once you've done that, you'll be better equipped to assess whether or not this is a climate lie.

I suspect that the gamepad has two issues. The first is that it is a more traditional gaming setup. Yes, it has the gimmick of the screen and it does have motion sensors. On the other hand, it is very much a sit-down and play type controller. So while it does offer new forms of interaction for a home game console, it doesn't offer anything beyond a handheld game console. For the casual gamer who doesn't care about analog sticks, d-pads, and buttons, it doesn't offer anything beyond a smartphone or tablet either. (Indeed, it offers a great deal less. It is less portable, more cumbersome, and harder to buy games for.)

So you have something that may appeal to more traditional players, but it is in a low-end console (compared to the current generation). On top of that, the controller is driving up the price of that console quite significantly. Instead of having a low end console at half the price of its competitors, you have a low end console at 3/4ths the price of its competitors. Is it any wonder why it is a hard sell?

Clearly you've never dealt with cities that used the design philosophy of suburban collector routes in their downtown core. In these cities, it is quite possible to get from A to B yet have no route going from B to A at certain times of day. A far more common scenario is that you walk for 2 minutes to catch the bus to work, yet for 15 minutes after disembarking the bus on the trip back home. On short trips (i.e. less than 1 hour by bus) it is frequently faster to bike because the planners have no idea where people are coming from or going to, so they map meandering routes.

As I mentioned earlier, this assumes that you stick to the core of the city -- ideally with an origin and destination in downtown proper. The population density in the core is also quite reasonable for mass transit, so there really is little excuse for this sort of design.

When I was a kid, you simply replaced the hair to make a male figure female. It worked fine for figures with fairly generic clothes (as a scientist would have).

I don't recall sets being a big thing either. Then again, that may be because my family always treated LEGO as a creative building toy rather than models.

As long as it is clear who is making these claims against net neutrality, there is nothing terribly wrong with it.

There are, of course, issues. There are issues with politicians and governmental bodies refusing to listen to certain groups because of conflict of interest or inherent bodies (e.g. funding or other industry ties). There are issues with the industry having an inequitable amount of funding to pursue lobbying. (In essence, they are using revenues generated by consumers to lobby against the interests of consumers.)

But as long as it is clear where the message is coming from, such as the composition of a group's membership and where it obtains its funding, they have as much right to present their perspective as anyone else. It is really up to the recipient of these letters to assess the validity of the claims based upon the evidence and their independence. (For instance, I would consider any survey presented by an industry group to be heavily biased since the wording of such surveys or their target demographic can distort the results.)

For revealing the three special agents involved in the case, you too shall face a secret trial.

You may be correct in some respects, but not in others.

I will admit to having a bias here. I am a male who works in childcare, and seem to enjoy it far more than many my colleagues (including the women). My experience suggests that neither men nor women have an advantage here in terms of ability to care for or our desire to care for children. There are differences in how we approach our responsibilities, but it is unclear whether it due to biological or social factors. Obviously those observations are non-scientific in nature, and I'll admit that it could influence me to "cherry-pick" studies.

On the other hand, there are problems with your assertions. The first is that the "feminist" claim has no basis whatsoever, beyond particular people's points of view. The second is that a properly conducted study does constitute scientific proof, though clearly the reproducibility of results is desirable and contradictory results can invalidate the study. The third is that there are studies about the role of men in childcare and education. I am aware that such studies are outside the scope of parenting, but they do research the role that men perform in child development outside of the traditional context.

Exactly how is disproving stereotypes feminist shit?

At the end of the day, some men are good fathers just as some women are good mothers. There is nothing special about that, even though societal prejudices seems to believe that is the case.

Now if you choose to live up to the male stereotype, that's up to you. If you choose not to have children, that's fine. Personally, I don't care if you live up to the stereotype and have children (as long as no harm is coming to your children).

But also realize that some men do have a paternal instinct. In those cases, the prejudices against men (or same sex couples) represents a direct harm to them and it has the potential to harm their children.

So live your life how you want, but please ditch those stereotypes so that others can live their life how they see fit.

(Oh, and what is it with this "stay-at-home-dad" nonsense? Many children are being raised in families where both parents work these days. In the 80's we called it latchkey kids. These days we call it two-income families. Not only is it a common situation, it ain't exactly new.)

Lemire is right, spreadsheets are terrible for complex models that need to be modified. He is right for precisely the reasons he outlined.

That doesn't mean that spreadsheets are useless. If you have a standard form where you're only modifying values, rather than functions, spreadsheets are great. There is a low barrier to entry and they are good for communicating results. But as soon as you need to audit or modify functions, you are jumping all over the place and it is easy to make mistakes. Yes, there are ways to consolidate your code (at least in spreadsheets that support scripting), but you are going to take so much time learning how to use the advanced features of you spreadsheet that may as well learn a dedicated programming language in those cases.

And the reality is that it's pretty easy to learn how to use programming languages these days. Not as easy as using a spreadsheet, to be sure, but even the standard Python distribution can handle most of the vulgarities of loading data into memory and storing it properly (i.e. you don't have to worry about parsing or data structures too much). By adding the appropriate modules you can do some decent visualization of data. In some cases the visualization will be better than spreadsheets, and in others spreadsheets will have the lead. And that's just Python, which I chose as an example because I'm familiar with it. The reality is that there are much more appropriate domain specific languages out there.

On the other hand, Wikipedia is a lot more credible than most of the books and magazines containing "medical" advice. Not all books, to be certain, because there are many that are vetted by professionals for accuracy and completeness. Yet it seems as though the vast majority of books that are meant to be accessible to non-professionals are doing little more than push a POV. Because those books cannot be edited by third parties, as the Wikipedia can, there are few avenues to criticize inaccurate information. Those few avenues that do exist are also limited to readers who are willing to do additional research to vet the reliability of their sources.

When everything is said and done, trust a good doctor. If you're seeking independent medical advice, ensure that you're spending the time to learn enough about medicine so that you aren't being mislead by disproven or inadequately researched alternative medicine. Oh, and spend time researching the sources as well.

But when everything's said and done, I'm not surprised that the "Wikipedia's accuracy is "above 0%." It's not as good as professional resources, but it's nowhere near as bad as some of the stuff pushed by publishing houses.

At the end of the day, it will be users who decide between Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari, and the multitude of other options out there. These users will make their decision based upon a variety of factors. For some it will be access to DRMed content. For others it will be a completely open source product. Of course there are other reasons too.

I'm guessing that the Mozilla foundation tried to figure out what their user base wanted, and came up with the answer that content would keep more users than excluding the DRM module would. Maybe they are right. Maybe they are wrong. Only time will tell.