And for the Mac users with a desktop, most of those will use Apple's Magic Mouse, the top of which is basically a trackpad.
You can still scroll the old-fashioned way by doing mouse stuff in the scrollbar, but it's not what most people typically seem to using anymore.

Same here.

After being thoroughly conditioned to be used to think of scrolling as something you do by dragging the thumb of a scrollbar for many years, I decided to give this a chance nevertheless, knowing the brain can be pretty quick in 'rewiring' itself to changes like this. It's even possible to get used to seeing the world upside down within a few days: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/12/improbable-research-seeing-upside-down - or maybe right side up, as the image on the retina is normally inverted.

I now think of scrolling like: finger drags content up or down. Simple. No inbetween stuff like screens, mouses, trackpads, scrollbars - just my finger moving around content.

I agree it's an awesome but highly speculative idea.

There's no need for the piece of rock having to fly around for thousands, millions, maybe even billions of years before landing on Earth, though. Since we're talking about probabilities in the order of once in the lifetime of the universe, we may just as well assume that this particular rock happened to be flying in a 'lucky' trajectory.
In this case, a few years or decades should be enough.

Not so sure about there being no environmental issues...

True. However, humans make mistakes too, and their error rate won't decrease below a certain level. You could keep improving robots until they're near perfect.
I've been a blood donor for many years, and have donated blood over 100 times. I have pretty 'easy' veins, and yet one time the needle was not inserted correctly, and went through the vein. From what I've seen happening to other donors during those donations, I can assure you that even under these near ideal conditions (experienced medical personal doing this all day, no emergencies, relaxed volunteer donors, etcetera) the success rate is 99% at best.

I received this email on both accounts (work and private) that I have access to, so I guess they did indeed send it to developers with a paid membership.
At the time, I was wondering if I wasn't being too paranoid to pay using a virtual prepaid credit card for my own account, but now I'm glad I did...

With such a sensible comment in general, I must assume that you are mixing up version numbers regarding Word for the Mac. I've used several versions, including 1.0 (unusable), 3.x (pretty good), 5.1 (even better) and then version 6.
This version was, if I remember correctly, a full rewrite, brining the code more in line with the Windows version. It was was a bug-infested nightmare. It is one of the few times I deliberately and voluntarily downgraded an application. They did get their act together, eventually - but version 6 was not a promising start.

Talking about morons with mod points - I just wanted to moderate your posting but mis-clicked, moderating it as 'redundant'.... Oops.
Only thing I can now do is make a post in this discussion too, eliminating my own moderation.

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I want a flying segway for my sister-in-law.

Russian humour, which overlaps a lot with Brazilian humour, was a glory to me when I learned Russian. This joke is my favourite, I've updated it a little but not too much.

Hey Sergei! Long time no see! Is that a wedding ring?
Yes my old friend, it is a wedding ring.
I never thought that you of all people get married.
Well, I got tired of eating at McDonalds.
And now..?
And now I like eating at McDonalds.


By the bye, I learned Russian to read Tolstoi in the original and I discovered that the transalation is better.

Just imagine one of these beauties with Cyanogen! I want one of those for sure!

There is no such thing as a 'fair share'. This is all about making (political) choices.

By choosing to spend money on nukes that could have been spent elsewhere, Indian politicians do prioritize. The Indian defence spending may be relatively low, but one may still have the point of view that a part of it should have been spent differently. Assuming there is a 'fair share' for defence is assuming that whatever the outcome of a political debate is, is inherently the right outcome.

As for the title, they simply copypasted it, so whatever there's wrong with it, should primarily be blamed on the writer of the article.

On behalf of all those Yuri's out there: his name is Uri Geller.