I agree with the original poster. You do a lot of documents and Open/Libreoffiice are horrible alternatives. I'd rather write things in Markdown or Laytex than use that shit. Word is actually pretty good for what it is.

I'm blind you insensative clod!

It takes a long time to get stuff published. They had to take their results, form a paper, get people to analysis it and then it goes under peer review. For us to have all this information a little over a year out is actually quite good. Also, we know it's gone under review. It could still have bad information in it, but it's less likely.

Exactly. People think being a democrat or republican still means something. There is only one party. The Demolicans and the Repubcrats

IBM dropped OS/2 support. No more patches or security updates. The OS/2 machines were very stable, but were also a dead end sadly.

If the Win95/OS2Warp war had gone differently, we might not have Steam for PC and Mac, but instead Win/Mac/OS7/Linux

Extended support might be cheaper than Win7 and make M$ more money (althought they will have more technical debt)

I came here looking for the OS/2 comment. I rmember when those were in ATMs and when IBM cut support for it.

Well I doubt it's near the quality of an engineered, titanium prosthetic. But it's a start, and if the plans are open source, other designers could improve them, on their own time, for free, out of the kindness of their hearts.

Over time, we could even see ABS plastic prosthetics with the same level of engineering as the $100k versions, and maybe by then we'll even see cheaper 3D metal printers and home built CNC machines. It could change everything.

Of course, it'd be nice if we could stop seeing poor people in poor countries not losing limbs due to bombs, landmines, military strikes and predator drones.

Spying under Bush. Retroactive immunity with Obama plus he did nothing to stop the programs.

There is just one party in the US: Repubcrats / Demolicans

It's funny when I meet people who think voting still matters.

Really? There is a lot of evidence that shows our GMOs are not good. Monsanto and Dupont based GMOs lack a lot of testing. It doesn't appear to be affecting our health now, but the long term effects could be bad. Plus, the PATENTS! It's not about science, it's about freedom of seed! Banning GMOs is an important first step to getting rid of life-patent laws. Seeds should be part of the public trust. If they become public again, I'd have no problem with GMOs that were open to people looking at them and doing real research on them; as well as people saving their seeds instead of being forced to buy terminal seed.

This idea that GMO stopped world starvation is a myth. Good cultivation can stop food shortages without the need of this GMO and with GMO, we have less diversity and more monoculture.

anti-GMO is not a conservative/republican issue. It's a global health and a progressive issue.

We should never be loyal to our race, our states or even our families. But we are. If you discovered your son or daughter was a killer, most family members would do what they could to protect that person out of a sense of loyalty. That's why people stay with companies who then make them redundant after 8 loyal years of service to cut costs.

People should only be loyal to one thing: The Human Race.

And by that, Snowden's loyalty is solid.

Fun fact: Kiwi student loans never gain interest and have no late fees. There's almost no point in paying them back...except if you want to leave the country. If you move to Australia, the US or any other country to work, you have to start paying off those loans and they gain interest.

There are only 4 million people here. The entire population of Melbourne (or Sydney) is this entire country.

Buckazoids...for those of us Space Quest fans out there.

Latinum is encased in the gold. The gold is actually pretty worthless in the Star Trek Universe. It's just a container.

I like Gentoo's OpenRC. Much better than SystemD.