female obviously

Yes, and people say that it does great in Mexico, however, Nokia - Symbian drops more than WP8 goes up, so Nokia is loosing mindshare, even if WP8 does great.

Japan can produce 9 tonnes of weapon grade plutonium a year (approx some 2000 bombs), or enough to nuke all of China. They have sattellite launching capabilities, so need not make new rockets. Thinking Japan cannot bomb China given a 4 month lead is wrong. All China can do is attempt a surprise attack. Japan has several spy satellites though ...

All this just to say that the Japanese politicians have not been utter fools believing in love and world peace,

To earn that informative tag, you really should give some links for that. I've seen cheap chinese makerbot replicator rip offs, but those don't give confidence. Personally I'm happy of my replicator. I keep using replicatorg for printing though, that new makerbot software has nice features, but doesn't give me the quality prints I want.

Problem with 2 and 3 is that you need to walk there and wait. To move a print job from a printer to another one would often also have the same problem.

The wage cost is quite high here, and people are busy, busy, busy. Walking and waiting is not high on the list of things to do.

What nice view you have of us. We print on our own printer because:

1) the big printer is busy again printing some courses and you need it now

2) it's confidential

3) the big printer is too far or needs a special code against your department

Moreover, if you don't give them their printer or cartridge, it's not as if they don't have the budget to buy it on own costs. If your Dean cuts costs, just tell everyone the personal printer is on own expenses, many unis work like that. Uni's are not like companies because although cash flow comes from external parts, many profs have their own cash flows via grants, and because many unis are run by the profs. Could be different for you off course.

About personal stuff, I see a lot of it on the big copier/printer too, it's not like people around here are ashamed to do that. The copier has better print quality apparently.

Interesting point. But from a sample of one, one cannot do science. As the planet formation models from before the exoplanet discoveries show, one cannot do viable science based on a sample of one.

Here is how it will work: we will be able to detect spectra of planets within the next 50 years. Based on that, live will be found on many, few, or none. Based on that the models will be adapted, and all nerds on /. in 2060 will fail to understand how we in 2013 did not see how it all really worked, as it's so obvious.

But statistically it fits the expected trend. They do agree on that. A storm like Sandy could occur 100 years ago. Nevertheless, researcher agree that stroms in the future will keep on getting stronger on average (increased ocean temp, ...) in that area. In how far they were right will be clear in 50 to 100 years or so. I assume you want to wait and see? It's up to the rulers to plan and prepare.

You seem to have quite some experience with this ...

Why the windows logo on it? Is that some sort of requirement to get OS discounts? Would be nicer with Dell logo there, and no dell logo at the left top....

For those use cases, digikam plugins are much easier. Batch handling of the most common things needed too. And if you need some edit, just press F4

That is called globalization, and studies indicate we do them a favour with it (shipping jobs and wealth to poorer countries). It is bad what happened there, but it are their own rulers who make the laws in those countries.

If you want to complain about the West living off the poor nations, it's not work outsourcing you need to complain about, but stealing of natural resources.

?? Everything will move to GTK 3, obviously. It's a library to draw components. It will be supported everywhere. I'm running GTK 3 apps now on KDE, and they looks much, much, much more lovely than the GTK 2 apps. Get your facts right.

Well, this is what they used to do, and see, they are still the poorer countries. So does that really work that well. Furthermore, is it not hypocrite politicians have no problem devaluating with 10%, making your savings money, pension, ... also 10% less valued, while they are not able to cut wages with 10%? I'm not a German, but to all those complaining, I think they should assume the German propositions are good ones and truthfull. And they should not fight against them, but work with them. They are right when they want countries to solve the real problems, instead of trying to win another year or two with a small measure here and there.

I don't agree here. You assume our current economics remains the norm, but a future of abundance is also possible, with machines doing labour. Groups can easily form with specific motives. Certainly should telescopes show life on a planet in the stellar neighbourhood. Question like "how does it look like" would pop up and keep on nagging.

I'm doing many things now with no economic argument because I'm in the liberty to do so for the time being. So, assuming cost actually would be VAST in 1000 years (how could we know?), that would be a requirement: not caring for the cost, as the economics is irrelevant to your goal and own bottom line. As long as it increases your happiness, money can be considered well spent.

We know the Earth will be destroyed, many don't care so far in the future, but a small percentage does, already today.