Thats because we only have "summer" and "wet summer", it kind of makes the measurement somewhat vague.

..Ok fine, so it did hit 8 degrees this morning, but it's 18-20 during the day which would be considered a warm spring day for some parts of the US.

Wouldn't the abundance of a semi-scarce highly useful industrial product be a net gain for society? Malleable, resistant to corrosion, excellent conductivity, low melting point. Not obtaining more of a useful material in order to maintain scarcity seems counter-productive.

If the hardware struggles to just run the OS, I think "gaming machine" is the wrong way to describe it. In which case, running the few linux compatible games made available on steam (lots of multi-platorm low spec indie games,) would probably be the upper boundary anyway.

More realistically it was a low spec machine with a ton of bloatware from the OEM, had he done a clean install of the OS, it would have likely run fine.

I believe we should translate as we would read it out. One Times (size of earth) as 1x earth = same size as earth.

I'm afraid "Simulating applause through an electronic device" is patented, you owe me royalties.

What the fuck is WTF

I saw the title text and thought the census data was being provided through bittorrent. A few games including the popular World of Warcraft distribute their updates through the protocol, seeing it adopted in other areas to reduce the bandwidth costs seems like a good idea.

I have to swap out 3.5" floppy disks on the fly to launch my OS.

+1 Insightful

Wait.. You're a dinosaur? Shouldn't you be extinct?

*All Packages left Berlin Via Deutsch Post at the same time on 21.11.12 and were transported to the USA, where they were handed over to the care of USPS for final delivery

FTFA (which all the text is on a bloody image, I had to type that shit. You can thank me below.)

But is it about being environmentally friendly, or saving a few bucks on the power bill? Kids are all for saving the world and helping others, full of optimism! br?But as they grow older, perhaps the ultimate goes is that it's all about the money. Perhaps I'm just cynical?

This is a case of Poe's Law I believe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

Have flat panel screens become so thin that they lost a dimension? Can I paint a TV on my wall and plug it in?

"It most probably definitely should be OK... I think." - Actual answer I have given to clients.