A check is a paper bank-to-bank transfer instrument. You write an order for a bank-to-bank transfer on a piece of paper, you give the order to someone, and she takes that order to her bank and executes the transfer.

You are correct that I misremembered the behavior of LibreOffice Calc. But both Gnumeric and Excel failed to treat an exported CSV as having been "saved". Gnumeric's alert after I exported CSV and closed a worksheet was as follows:

Save changes to workbook 'test.csv' before closing?

If you close without saving, changes will be discarded.

Excel's was as follows when I exported:

test.csv may contain features that are not compatible with CSV (Comma delimited). Do you want to keep the workbook in this format?

*To keep this format, which leaves out any incompatible features, click Yes.
*To preserve the features, click No. Then save a copy in the latest Excel format.
*To see what might be lost, click Help.

Followed by this when I closed:

Do you want to save the changes you made to 'test.csv'?

LibreOffice Calc's was as follows when I exported:

This document may contain formatting or content that cannot be saved in the currently selected file format "Text CSV".

Use the default ODF file format to be sure that the document is saved correctly.
[X] Ask when not saving in ODF format

I assume these programs are referring to changes to column widths, formulas, and other things not typically represented in CSV.

Any of the morons who reported "What happened to my layers?" through support channels.

The same morons who pass around PSD files made in Photoshop. At least XCF has a reference implementation distributed under a free software license. Has Adobe released a spec or free library for manipulating PSD files? Which interoperable multilayer raster format were you recommending?

If the names of the "Export" items on the File menu were changed to "Flatten and Save", would that satisfy you?

Then you must have edited your keyboard shortcuts. My copy of GIMP 2.8.10 has keyboard shortcuts for export:

Export (Ctrl+E)
Export As... (Ctrl+Shift+E)
Create Template...

Provided they're already running a Windows Server. Let me rephrase: How many Windows PCs would a small business normally be expected to have in operation before purchasing a Windows Server at all?

That's 15 minutes on a bicycle there and 15 minutes back. Some people in my home town cycle farther just to donate their blood plasma. How much do an entry-level bicycle and a helmet cost?

If you're already working, and the library and other government offices are closed for the evening or for the weekend when you're off work, good luck using the Internet terminal in the library or other government office to find a better job. Same with public transit that stops running for the evening or for the weekend.

And watch the single-issue pro-life base in the United States of America vote the murderers out of office.

That's fine if you happen to live somewhere that offers at least some minimal level of bus service on Sundays and holidays. My city does not (source: fwcitilink.com).

This wouldn't be advertised as "Internet access". It would be advertised as a tool to find a job or a better job.

Just the headlines from the Report and Retort, not the article bodies, to provide some minimal level of awareness of current events.

The point of zram is to take the memory latency hit while continuing to run at far better than HDD speed. I was guessing that an FPGA would reduce the memory latency hit compared to gzipping each swapped-out page in software.

Does your TV with a tuner also have a device that delays playback of a live program by a few minutes? A buffer for live TV would let you join late, pause the stream while you take a bathroom break, and gradually catch up to live by fast-forwarding through unwanted segments such as waiting for the pitch in Major League Baseball. Or does TiVo still own that idea?

My sister would disagree with your assessment, and she's been a diabetic since she was 4 years old(31 years of shots now). If my great aunt was still alive, she'd be jumping for it too since she'd been a diabetic for ~70 odd years. There are plenty of methods to avoid hypoglycemia from working out, this in itself is a huge step in the current pump a needle in you every 2/4/6/8 hours that exists now.

The biggest problem is with kids and getting them to do monitoring, tests, etc., since many of them don't understand not doing something like that will kill you. It's a concept that a 4 year old can't get, no matter how simple you explain it to them.

For this, I'm told you can blame the lazy-ass programmers at Sun, which provided no way for a Java app to check OS versions other than with a string like that.

Our business currently does not. How many Windows PCs would a small business normally be expected to have in operation before purchasing a Windows Server on which to run WSUS?

In Europe, how do individuals pay other individuals through the post, as Captain Hook pointed out? And how do churches collect donations? Or is everybody expected to already be paying for a subscription to cellular Internet access in order to make or receive electronic payment?

Have you never seen anything about the twin paradox? Even at the most superficial level introduction of relativity, you get that time slows down when something is moving relative to the observer.

This is ridiculous. Even "at the most superficial level introduction of relativity "you should know that if a person departs earth moving at "nearly C" and comes back, far less time will have past for them than someone who stayed on Earth the whole time.

From the perspective of the people on the ship, the journey is no longer a distance of 4.3 light years. If the spaceship is going 90% of c relative to Earth, then in the spaceship's frame it will take them 2.08 years to make that trip, and also in their frame they will observe it takes light 1.87 years to go from Earth to Alpha-Centari.

First off, apart from trying to add confusion, why did you change the velocity from the one I gave? Secondly, from a trip travel time perspective, it doesn't matter whether you view it as time dilation or length contraction. The trip at 0.999c takes 70 days from the perspective of the crew. That's the beginning and end of it right there. From their perspective, it's as if they got there moving far faster than the speed of light, as if there were no limits on how fast they could keep accelerating. With an infinite supply of energy, they could travel the 4,3 light years in what they perceive to be 7 days, 7 hours, 7 minutes, or 7 seconds (let's ignore G-forces here, or how to have such vast quantities of energy at their disposal). The crew of a spacecraft experiences no "upper limit" to how fast the universe will allow them to traverse a distance.

What are you talking about? I just did "echo 1,2 > test.csv" then opened test.csv in OpenOffice Calc, then saved it as test2.csv from the save dialog. No complaints. Then I clicked to close it. No complaints about unsaved changes. Did you actually try that out before you commented? I don't have any of the other programs you mention on this computer, so I'll pick another - let's try OpenOffice Writer. Made a text file, opened it, saved it as a .txt file, it asked me for the encoding, I confirmed it, I clicked closed, and it closed without trying to force me to save as an .odt.

I'm sorry, but GIMP's change is totally broken behavior. The most common workflow for GIMP (as you can see from all of the rage on the forums when these changes occurred) is not long complex workflows, but simple changes to jpegs or pngs. Open, change it, save it, close it. What sort of moron do you take people for to think that you have to "protect" them from choosing a format of file that doesn't save layers, and instead try to make them always save whatever they do in a format that no other programs support? As if a dialog warning them that it doesn't save layers and asking them if they want to flatten it, like Gimp used to do, isn't enough? What on earth is the point of *banning* people from typing in a file with the suffix that they want to use in the save menu, and instead making them choose an entirely different menu? Actually two different menus, depending on context, only one of which has a keyboard shortcut. It's just ridiculous. We're not preschoolers, we don't need the hand-holding.