I doubt you live in this one.

Yea, I wish that were the case. I've been looking for a Galaxy Tab 4 10 inch to replace my aging 9 inch android tablet the price on those things has been going up for the past few months.

Smaller tablet prices may be coming down, but that's because they're just the wrong size for anything. Too big for your pocket, but too little screen real estate for anything I can't do with my phone.

I use Office 2007 on Windows and Office for OSX on the Mac (Maverick). I write technical documents, using plenty of advanced formatting features, for publication using Word, and they render exactly the same in the office and Mac version. That's using the .docx format. So that seems to work well, anyway.

As far as Linux, there is no MS Office version, and Libre and related systems have formatting issues in both directions.

Who is this "society" that "gives" rights to people? Hmm? How is that handled? What rights can "society" take away? What if "society" is threatened by some individual because of what he does? What about what he says? Maybe he his spreading dangerous ideas. Maybe because of that he should be eliminated.

I think you are smart enough to see where this leads. "Society" needs to be protected - from dangerous ideas spread by some individual. So "society" implements a change to the "contract" (that nobody signed) and now "dangerous" speech is a death sentence.

The enlightened self interest angle is that I don't want corporations treating H-1Bs like crap, because it enables the companies to get them for cheap, which depresses salaries in my career path. I want companies to have to treat H-1B visa holders well because 1) it's the right thing to do, and 2) so that I'm not competing against guys who'll work for 2/3 my salary for fear of being deported.

Because most of our immigrants are Mexican and Hondoran Christians, not Middle Eastern Muslims, and most of those are not documented, so employers can just pay them under the table for cheap instead of cow-towing to privilege-seeking employees.

Or 90%, or 80% or 70% or ... well, this year, it's actually hardly effective at all.

You know what the most reliable outcome of the annual distribution of flu vaccines actually is? Pharmaceutical company profits. For companies with total blanket immunity from law suits or prosecution for ANY ill effects from those vaccines.

"Society" is not a thing, it does not have rights. Individual people have rights, including the right to associate (or not) with other people. When you create some arbitrary definition of a collective and give it rights over individuals, you are on the road to tyranny. You split people into collectives, create nationalism, start wars over it, etc.

Actually, it's only for criminal trials. Civil trials are decided on the basis of "the preponderance of evidence."

Precisely what I was thinking about your woefully inaccurate claim.

Correct, which is why I choose to believe the facts instead of naive misintrepetations off the Internet.

LOL that's precious. Meanwhile, the H-1B employees I know - my personal friends, people I hang out with and trust - describe a legal hellscape that's pretty much exactly indentured servitude. One of them managed to escape a bad situation by hooking up with a major corporation who could expedite the process to have the transfer done within a couple of months. That's two months of walking on eggshells so that they didn't get fired and deported. Another wasn't quite as lucky and had to ship out to the European branch of their new employer so that they can come back to America in a year or so, presuming everything is in order by then.

You're on crack if you think an H-1B isn't a recipe for suckishness. Regardless of what it hypothetically sounds like on paper, the situations I witnessed firsthand were terrible for the workers involved.

Yes, it was primarily for high bandwidth communications; SCSI, Fiber, etc.

DataAq was secondary, but the cards I have have a 50pS jitter spec, and it holds across four cards in one box; try buying that for less than $20k today.

The best cards I see these days won't hold that jitter spec; only systems.

With a "good" (lol) mobo, I was able to run my VLB board at 50MHz, with certain combinations of cards and memory.

I ran a 486-DX4-100 for a couple of years with that mobo, a SCSI card, an Orchid Fahrenheit video card, with a 2x multiplier and a 50MHz fsb.

I still have this somewhere, lol.

It got replaced with a TX430 mobo, lol.