Far be it for me to defend the current government, but to be fair they're not attacking science. They're simply getting out of the science business and eschewing it for the purpose of policy formation. They're not persecuting scientists or preventing science from being done outside of government circles.

It can even make boy bands sound like their voices have changed.

> If it hates it so much why did it evolve us to do it?

Because it was not very intelligently designed.

The problem with Linspire was there was no "there" there. Their office was a wiring closet in San Diego.

Canonical hired no Linspire employees. Zero. None. Nada. Not that the six of them didn't need work after they were sold to Xandros, which itself then disappeared in a puff of debtload and sold themselves to the devil.

Some people are just not cut out for academia, nor is academic persuit a prerequisite for a career as a technician.

An undergraduate degree in a mathematics or science discipline is not job training. It is learning something interesting for the joy of the persuit of knowledge, plain and simple. It is also a valuable way to learn self-discipline and useful information, but not the only way. If you are not earning your undergraduate degree as an end in itself, you may very well be wasting your time and money.

You can also change as you age. You can find joy in learning at any age.

Srsly guise, if you're asking this question, you're in the wrong field.

Canonical is dedicated to fixing problems in Unity to the point of having a dedicated team doing just that. Turns out, though, that making Unity work like a clone of Microsoft's Windows XP is just not in the cards, no matter how much Gnome2 used to try. Sorry.

When the first netbook shipped, it ran Xandros (a GNU/Linux distro) instead of Microsoft Windows, partially because the Windows OS was too demanding of the hardware a partially because the license fees wiped out then entire profit margin for the manufacturer. Sales were briesk at first, but then Microsoft dropped the license fees (sellings Windows at a loss to muscle in to an emerging market) and demanded that the manufacturers up the specs to that of a small notebook so their XP product would run. People immediately abandoned their Linux netbooks because, according to the feedback we received at Xandros, "it didn't run Photoshop."

I suspect when folks find out Windows RT doesn't run the copy of Photoshop or Office they's brought home from wor, borrowed from a friend, or downloaded, they're going to raise a stink and abandon it for a "real" computer. If it has a screen and a keyboard and says Microsoft on a sticker on the front it had better run that free copy of expensive software otherwise it's just not going to work. If it doesn't have a keyboard, why don't iPad or Android apps work on it?

Micrisoft has never, ever been a technology leader. They're been a very, very successful marketing and channel sales leader. They have always succeeded by taking technology developed by others that has proven successful, tweaking it to call it their own, and levaraging their sales skills to dominate the reseller channel. Part of it was luck: their competition had a tendency to implode.

Watch for this strategy to continue with the newer tech, unless Microsoft themselves implode.

It does not matter what books you choose.

Sit down in a comfy environment or curl up in bed all together as a family, and read aloud. A chapter or two a night (always leave them wanting more). At first they will probably not listen. Keep at it: by the end of the book they'll probably be able to tell you exactly what happened even if they don't appear to be paying attention.

Repeat with a different book.

Choose books you like. Use different voices for different characters. Don't read aloud too fast. Make the magic happen.

Next thing you know, they're rereading the same books, then moving on to similar books.

Or, they just don't like you books and start gobbling up regency-era comedies of manners. That's OK too.

First, you need to light the spark by taking the words from the page and putting the voices into ther heads.

... or at least Linux developers and their filthy depraved habits. As if they could find females, dead or alive.

Most moder proofers are 600 or 700 dpi. Most modern presses are 1200 dpi or more.

A printer is someone with ink stains on their sleeve and who wears a funny paper hat.