On News sites with good comment systems, the comments add the real value.

Examples:
- reddit: Comments are dull, because everyone wants to be funny
- Slashdot: Comments are often better than the article, some are just funny, others insightful and interesting.
- Heise: Best* comment system, good threaded discussions, which add value even to the often very good articles.

* look at the news forums. Some other Forums, like telepolisblogs, techreview, mac&i, ... are migrated to new forums, which are worse. If they really migrate all forums, their comments will decline, too.

No, because you change the UA and it works. So why should it be a problem for them?

I guess the reason is, there are good screen records for linux, which can make lossless copies.

there was recently a posting, that skype will disable old versions (at least on linux). I guess osx will get the same problem.

The problem is, they are banning old but working skype versions from their network. When you think of the beginning, where skype was p2p ...

just send a mail. if it fails, discard the pending registration or whatever, possibly via "not confirmed" timeout some days later.

Isn't this something, which was introduced years ago?

Think of all the wasted data, greenpeace will hate you!

Seriously. If its such a small percentage, which needs huge amount of data, they can provide it to them. There are a lot of people with unlimited data, who check their mail once a day. So the money is okay on average. Thats the whole idea of flatrates.

You can change the MAC, so you cannot see the real one in your ethernet frames. But a software can read the real MAC from your NIC without any problem.

When there are new phones, people start noticing, that the old ones got slow with the more ressource hungry apps and there is finally as fast one. And the developers start optimizing for bigger phones / not caring about low res ones.

correlation does not mean causation.

I do not think so. My first programming steps were with VBA [VB in Office] (own editor) and Batch-Files (notepad), then i tried really short qbasic (own editor) and continued with borland pascal (own editor). I used Java (NetBeans, JBuilder), I programmed perl [for CGI] with notepad ...
When i really got started with linux, i used vim for many things, like perl, shellscripts, but python as well. I edit C++ and java in vim if its small or single file changes.
At the moment i program with C++ at work and configured eclipse, because i wanted more completion.

Some kind of correlation might be, that you use an IDE for complex languages and/or when there many functions you do not know by heart, and you can use pure texteditors for languages, which are intuitive.

I would never want to go back to an editor without highlighting, though. But vim is no basic editor, but an advanced one, you should only know, that an advanced editor is still no IDE.

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yeah, i went to turbo vision and TWindow stuff for 16 bit win3.1 gui ... tried delphi but never used it very much. Did some stuff with visual C++ and MFC ... today i do mostly python for my hobby project.

And so i started, a bit with batch-scripts, qbasic, VBA, until a friendly neighbor gave me 11 floppies with borland pascal and 10 kg of books. Then the real fun started with sound() and unit graph :).

> They tend to just watch.
[citation needed]

This is just not true. On "Nerd conventions", there is more intervention than on most other events, because nerds do not like people being asshats. Sometimes they are even to strict to people, who do not contribute enough. They may look down on you, if you do not contribute to oss community, but make closed source programs. Now imagine someone being a real asshole, like molesting some woman at the convention, (s)he will have no friends there instantly. Nerd culture is a culture, which strongly enforces an positive attitude.

Make it short: You cannot blame someone, because you changed your mind anytime later.