Yes, exactly. Nor did we have have the same technology available for the detectors, storage for capturing the petabytes of raw data, or the computing power necessary for both filtering and then later analyzing that data.

An entry-level programmer still needs to know enough about the language to get in the door: how to construct a class, class visibility, exceptions, a bit of the STL. But to me it is far more important that they know data structures, algorithms and their complexity, parallelism, OO-programming principles, functional programming principles, and show a passion for their profession. I don't expect an entry-level developer to know much about software life-cycle management, source control, unit testing, package management, C++ meta-programming, or anything of that nature. I expect them to maintain other people's code and learn from what has already been written, and from that learn all the things about software engineering that most universities completely ignore.

How do you think we managed to make Australia habitable?

Penal colony... "You've been sentenced to death. How'd you like to an opportunity to live a little longer?"

The holy grail of the Slashdot moderation system is the "+5 Troll" mod.

Computer simulations would indicate that I can fly an X-wing fighter better than most Jedi, am an awesome mech warrior driver, and can land a spaceship on the moon with more finesse than Neil Armstrong.

These are scientists. It's all theoretical until the civil engineers get their hands on the stuff.

This is what will eventually form the basis of the speech and image processing cores in a positronic brain. Shortly after these were developed humans became extinct -- along with their cars.

Ceres is dust-covered planetoid whose core is made entirely of cocaine.

Please call it what it is: theft from the public domain. It is theft of public property, plain an simple. They are stealing from Canadian citizens that which is rightfully theirs. A reasonable solution might be to treat copyright in a manner similar to a natural resource. Have the owners pay for the extended exclusive copyrights. That's a win/win solution. Hey, you could even put all of the copyrights that are expiring up for public auction, like we do for access to RF spectrum in the U.S. Have a minimum bid for everything. If no one bids the minimum value, it falls into the public domain.

No. I've seen/held/used the 1+1. Cyanogen is not the pure Android Nexus experience I am after. And 5.5" is still too big.

I didn't realize that they discontinued the Nexus 5. I would buy another in a heartbeat. I don't see any other phone on the market that I would rather have. Nexus? Check. Hi-res screen? Check. Not a phablet? Check. The Nexus 6 is just a bit too big for me. Hopefully they are just making room for the new versions. The Nexus 5 & Nexus 10 rank as two of my best tech purchases this decade.

1. What new behavior does this theory predict?

2. How can this theory be falsified?