It can't be historic until they actually land... never mind take off.

School boards spend hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars on 'Smart Boards'. Why? Someone told me it was so they can make learning more fun, make a game of it. WTF? I can't stop thinking that these things are freakin waste of money. Money that could be spent more usefully like in paying teachers better in the U.S. (they're overpaid in Canada). Or on better facilities. Or school lunches for underprivileged kids. etc. etc. etc.

English and French are official languages in Canada. Quebec only recognizes French. Quebec is a province, not a country. Not a nation.

Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds http://www.theguardian.com/boo...

Exactly... it all depends on the audience. Early on the audience was a bunch of uber geeks who enjoyed playing with low level code and devices. Now the Linux audience are people who have everyday jobs to do and want an operating system and bundle of programs to help them do that. They don't care about building tools, just using them. And it gives them an option from MS and Apple products. Server or Desktop.

English is a German language (Anglo Saxon from the Germanic tribes that went to England some time after the Romans). It has been infused with French because of the Norman invasion, and maybe the proximity. English:German - cold:kalte, dog (hound) :hund, free as in beer:bier. etc. What's up:Was ist Ios?

The Quebec Language Police will maintain the purity of the French race in Quebec. Especially at salad bars.

Instead of spending this level of effort on each recruit, why not hire someone who is bright in North America and train them. Have you ever stopped to consider that employees will be once again loyal to the company if the company demonstrates that they are loyal to them? People have very little loyalty any more precisely because the MBAs turned employees into 'human resources' to satisfy shareholders in the late 80s.

So you are saying you only hire people from India because they have all the skills you want on their resume? And you say this will save you money? If not, where do you get these people with specific skills? Out of thin air?

Then they wouldn't be able to sell iCloud as much. Same reason they don't let you easily transfer files back and forth to your PC via USB: so they can sell you something else that does. Same reason Finder sucks shit so bad, so you need to buy a file manager that works. And Apple at the very least gets a cut of everything sold from their store. Not only are Apple products overpriced, they nickle and dime you to death on everything else. The OS on its own is alright. It's all the other shit etc. that I just talked about that keeps me from buying one. PCs work fine for me. As does my Linux laptop.

Even if all he did was buy other companies (which initially wasn't the case... he wrote a lot of code in the early years), he had to be shrewd enough more often than not, to find the ones that would benefit Microsoft and be both technically and commercially viable. Just buying other companies wouldn't have cut it. A lot of companies trying this have failed because the people running them weren't smart enough to make good picks. He had to be smart enough to pick the right companies more than the stinkers. Just by this record alone, his choices should be noted and paid attention to.

So had did text rather than email provide any real benefit? They are both text, except that email is tracable, ie records are kept if needed. And if you wanted information in short form, voice is much more information dense than short texts. Less chance for miscommunication.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
-- Albert Einstein

Full disclosure: I found this at this web site.

We don't need any more shit in the car to distract us from what we are supposed to be doing, and that is driving.

I don't agree with respect to this first episode anyway. Maybe over time they'll all get there. My biggest beef though is with 'Scottie'. I've heard the Scottie here is James Doohan's son. Regardless, his 'Scottish accent' is just horrible. Doohan's wasn't exactly a real Scottish accent, but it was consistent and at least believable in the context of the show. But on this reboot, this Scottie's accent is the one thing that forced me to stop watching.