yeah, because being smart makes it easy to not get depressed from being marginalized for just being too different to be socially lovable or even acceptable by your peers.
after all it's adolescents especially, who are very reasonable, empathetical beings, which are rarely biased towards trends and who never practice prejudice based on those.
ah, but I think I see your point: If they were smart, they could easily *pretend* to be a better social fit. They could easily just deny who they really are, follow the masses. That suure must make them happy eventually, doesn't it?

You're an idiot!

how about not getting compromised at all? works for me...

...turns out the other person has a very similar email address... something like my address being jkirk@gmail.com and his jtkirk@gmail.com and I'm not sure if people just don't memorize the t in his email address b/c in everyday-life they'd call him "Jim" or "James" or "Mr. Kirk" but not "James Tiberius" or even know about his second name or if it's because he has typos on is business cards or whatever... in fact this /. story just made me write another email to him suggesting he might want to tell people his email address is j.t.kirk@gmail.com

oh and: I was lucky finding out his real email address because I could convince one of his relatives that he got the address wrong and that he should ask Jim to clarify that, which made Jim contact me eventually...

Vulcan is supposed to be in the 40-Eridani-System, which is about 16LY away from us and it's a trinary system. But scientists think that it may host a habitable planet :)

So not all is lost ^^

If MS eventually ditches DirectX completely and with Steam coming to Linux, in a few years Linux could improve on desktop market share substantially. I mean: Gaming is THE major reason so many people still use windows. I sure wouldn't use windows if it wasn't the os that runs all of my games.

it does... it even does run at 1080p...

I'd like to throw Arch Linux in the mix because I haven't seen it mentioned yet... Arch brings in the best mix between easy to use, being vanilla, great performance and being modular and customizable...
- rolling release
- simple, fast, yet powerfull enough package manager
- building packages from source with one command, then installing them with one command
- very modular: you only get what you want and what are absolute dependencies for what you want
- pretty vanilla configuration files, file system layout and such
- you have to learn some to get up to speed with it though... that is: standard shell usage, standard configuration files and... hm.. that's it

I second this. I started learning Linux with Gentoo back in 2005 or something and if you manage to get yourself a running desktop in Gentoo with all the stuff you need it's very likely that you can accommodate to just any distro out there in no time!

only if you get root access though (:

ever heard of module blacklisting?

ME wasn't that bad... most of the time it actually were deprecated drivers that made it crash... what was bad though was the unnecessary locking away of true DOS mode in the default boot menu

has been some time since "back in the day"... fakeraid has worked flawlessly for me for... dunno... more than half a decade at least...

Fair enough... thank you for pointing out I jumped to a conclusion from my experience! (no sarcasm)... And excuse me for attacking you like that... It surely didn't help my point but still this point holds up...

But still: Sadly most managers (let alone HR people!) tend to link age to ability... the other thing they look at when trying to judge the ability of a would-be-employee are certificates and the like (even though everybody knows that all of the most common and asked certifications can either be acquired relatively easily or outright bought for some amount of money)... more often than not this is enough to not be considered to be interviewed...

and so practically "junior" and "senior" are defined by age and certifications... if your CV doesn't look "senior" you'll hardly get a chance to prove that you are...

yeah, right... because a junior can't be any good and a senior can't be any bad... what's wrong with you?

seriously... most seniors I know are mostly busy covering up their ass i.e. making sure they can blame failure on someone else... at least those who went higher up in the hierarchy... but that's the nature of the beast... the higher you get, the more responsibility you have, which you have to spread out on your underlings... if anything goes wrong people will blame you, because you're the head so you better want to have someone else to blame or it's YOUR head that's gonna go because no one wants a failure to manage costly workforce.

now THAT sounds mature (read "senior") *rolling eyes*

juniors on the other hand have more to gain and less to loose... THEY will try to get a better alternative, innovate, make progress... to get their selves promoted... so they suggest it to their senior... he'll either scrape their idea or he'll let them pass but on an isolated testing environment but only on top of what he's doing already.... and when the new implementation is finally ready the junior has to hope the senior will give him the credit due instead of taking it for himself...

tl;dl

i really hate how people thing years-in-job-time has anything to do with how got someone's doing his job... sure... there's correlation... but correlation != causality... frankly most people don't get that

his logic is flawed... I also read through the first two parts, here are my findings:

1. the term "plasma" doesn't say anything about temperature... it just means "at least partly ionized gas" and nothing more... also you even put it into your schematics: part of the plasma is distributed throughout the whole ship anyway... that's the main power grid... so placing the warp core somewhere in the center of the ship makes sense actually...
2. if you were to put a warp core into each nacelle, you'd have to bring anti-matter to it... now transporting THAT over distances should be far more dangerous than transporting even the hottest plasma
3. AFAIK beaming anti-matter wasn't possible
4. every "problem" described with mass, inertia and the physical stress that comes with changing the vector of such ignores the fact that there's been inertia dampening and structural integrity fields

duh...