Tabs on the left side work very well for people who use tabs intensively and keep many pages open at the same time. The main advantages are:

• you can display many more tabs while keeping the titles visible
• you save precious vertical space and use horizontal space instead, which is often wasted (a side effect of monitors being wider than they are tall while pages are taller than they are wide, and also of the fact that most pages don't benefit from being given more width past a certain point - the extra space is left empty, or the lines of text are too long)
• you can organize tabs into a hierarchy by simply indenting them (when I use Firefox, I use the excellent Tree Style Tabs extension for this.)

You're a good dad.

I hope you showed her that "moving something to the other side" is actually shorthand for adding its opposite to both sides and simplifying.

All these people complaining about the notation need to switch on their brains. Obviously, the parentheses (which were probably a circle or oval field on paper, anyway) are not the problem. How do I know that? It's simple: the students filled them in! They understood perfectly that the blank space was supposed to be filled in with a number.

But just as in a grammar problem you have to choose the right word to put in the blank to make the sentence correct, in a mathematical problem you have to choose a number that results in a correct formula, and that's where they failed. They didn't understand that a formula with an equal sign (an equation) is correct if and only if the two sides have the same value. This is what TFA means by "the meaning of the equal sign".

For the benefit of any present or former American students who might be reading this: the error is at step 5, when he divides by (a-b) which is equal to 0.

Music, of course. Mind you, I'm not saying sex or music are bad things, but there is a huge disproportion between the importance and attention our culture gives them and their actual worth.

If you're having it, you know that it's really not that special after all. Honestly, sex is the second most overrated thing in our cultural landscape.

There were at least eight crashes. From TFS:

So, the eight others that traveled with Ted Stevens did crash. Since there are reports that he died, it seems likely that he crashed too, bringing the total up to nine.

Ok, then maybe you can do better. Tell me, what is Wave, and why should I care? (Or should have cared.)

But now I remember how much I hate both Geoge Lucas and getting blinded for life in a millisecond by assholes playing with lasers. Hopefully they will destroy each other!

I do. Well, not for laptops, since I use Macs, but for cell phones and the like, sure.

They're already standardized. SATA HDs, SODIMM RAM, etc.. If you want to upgrade your CPU or your GPU, just find something that's compatible with the bus/chipset your motherboard is using, desolder/rip out the old one, and solder the new one in. Replace the BIOS as needed. I don't want my laptop to be 1 cm thicker just because you need a slot or a socket to do upgrades.

I get the impression that after a bug has been sitting in Mozilla's Bugzilla for a few years, people begin thinking "there must be a reason if it hasn't been fixed in all this time", and you can basically give up on it.

I never use the back button. I hate having to wait for pages to load/render/whatever, so I got in the habit long ago of opening most links in new tabs so they load while I'm reading something else.

No, you're wrong. Look at this. If Mr. Smith has two children, at least one of whom is a boy, it is two times as likely for him to have a boy and a girl than it is for him to have a boy.

Your mistake is in believing that, by virtue of naming one of the boys Peter, the probabilities are magically equalized. They're not. The correct probabilties for your table are:

Peter, Boy = 1/6
Boy, Peter = 1/6
Peter, Girl = 1/3
Girl, Peter = 1/3

You are literally thinking like the girl in this joke.

But ok, I guess the only way to settle this is by experiment. Start sending in women, and I'll get back to you in nine months.