Old joke. MS named their Access DB engine a Jet Engine because it both sucks and blows at the same time.

Whoosh! Thank you for playing....

So what is the pl. of "ox"? "Oxes"? I think not.

They will be cloudified using super secret double Rot13 encryption.

box, pl. boxen

I guess I am not as good at typing with one hand as you are.

Deregulate!

Who cares? The person wants a degree in Physics, not tech hardware. For all the really heavy lifting I offloaded the big jobs, after testing and prototyping on the laptop, onto a Linux cluster.

I forgot to mention Eclipse, Java, and Fortran for my thesis and currently on my new system.

I wrote a thesis on my Mac Book Pro. It ran R, postgresql, MS Office, Parallels, etc. with no problem. It was also lightweight and reliable. The only software that crashed on it was MS Office. I just bought a new Mac book Pro and I am running R, VMWare, Office, VPN clients, remote desktop clients. etc. It is easy to use which means I spend more time working on my problem domain and less time working as my own IT support. Which is important, you do not want to worry about your computer, just about your problem domain. Every hour waster trying to chase down 'mystery crashes' is an hour of life wasted.

I recently went overseas. There was a fair amount of English speakers but most people in the country could no afford an education and so never learned it.

I'd clear them for that mission any day

Who may still owe 50k in restitution?

Huge oceans confirmed on the surface of Earth, larger than any others know in the solar system. One commentator stated, "While interesting it just isn't practical to explore or colonize these oceans. We would be better off spending trillions of USD to cross 628,300,000 km to explore and colonize a far off moon. In fact we would be better off spending that money instead developing hyper drive in vain hope we are not alone in this universe."

Earth First! We'll rape the other planets later...