... and few people born before 1990 want to play D&D either! (Perhaps 10% based on the numbers in the article).

If you think that pen-and-paper RPG's are dead, you're sorely out of touch. WoTC has literally lead a resurgence in popularity of D&D w/ their new products, and today's 20yos play as much as they ever did. Want evidence? Go to your local university and look up their gaming club. It'll be packed full of nerddom. Go to your local game store's RPG night and look at the crowd... you'll see 40yos and 10yos playing in the same game, having fun.

I know being an old curmudgeon is fun, but you're just plain wrong that there has been some sort of shift in people's imaginations.

For someone who claims to be skeptical and demanding of evidence before accepting something as true... why does that go away when you start making claims? You make a mockery of yourself when you claim that there was a accepted theory in the 70's about global freezing. There was no such thing.

There were some articles in Newsweek and similar magazines that made that sort of claim... but they didn't reference any conclusive peer reviewed work.

In short, you're more then happy to make claims without a shred of evidence. Instead of expecting us to show you the data and experiments, if you want to get to the bottom of it... you need to go read, learn, and understand what's already out there. Scientists have done the work; the onus is on you to understand it before you dismiss it.

anecdotes =/= science

Tryptophan inducing the Thanksgiving sleep is a nice myth--- but it's a common amino acid, and is actually in a higher concentration in chicken than turkey.

The sleep inducing factor in your favorite November holiday is actually the fact that you stuff yourself. Eat four pounds of chicken and gravy, and then we'll see if you stay awake. :)

You're making a very common error in understanding about what constitutes a scientific fact.

Evolution -is- a fact; evolution has been observed and tested and met the criteria of a fact, just as gravity is a fact. The number of scientific papers where evolution as fact has been observed number in the hundred thousand or millions.

This extraordinary body of evidence consists of numerous tests of evolution, and easily fulfills any common definition of fact.

Evolution is also a theory, in the scientific sense-- which means that it is a broadly applicable set of principles that help explain nature.

Much has been written regarding this; a little use of the 'ol google will provide much more to show you wrong.

No one said what you think they said.

This is, however, one more piece of evidence to support evolution and one more bit of knowledge that we can use to understand where we came from.

There is no scientifically tenable theory for human origins except for evolution from a common ancestor. It's been that was for about a hundred years. Get over it.

Fact's aren't facts when you're dealing with creationists. They actively avoid facts --- like evolution --- that disagree with their preconceived notions about how the world works.

What? The application we're talking about is X11, and the X11 protocol requires two-way communication. At the very least you have to be able to receive status reports back (success/failure), and there are all those event notifications (key press, mouse movement, etc.) to consider.

The contents of that book do not appear to be available online (and I'm not buying it just for this discussion), but from the source-code examples I assume you're referring to the fact that you can use just one pipe for all communication to the server, and separate pipes for communication to the clients. That works, but the server has no way of knowing which client sent a given message (aside from implementing some sort of ad-hoc message signing protocol itself), whereas sockets given each client a secure path to the server so that a misbehaving or malicious client can't send messages on some other client's behalf. Given that creating a socket takes about the same amount of effort as creating a FIFO, I don't see any reason to waste time mimicking sockets with FIFO pairs (even if half the pair is common to all clients).

"Oops". That's a fairly embarrassing omission for a book with Unix, network programming, and IPC all right there in the title.

See, that's only true in cars with ABS, and they don't all have it.

The only time pumping the brakes even repeatedly will harm you is when you're experiencing a runaway condition and your engine is at WOT, because it is probably not producing enough vacuum to operate them at their full potential. In most vehicles, though, the vacuum storage tank provides enough for a couple decent depressions... and in any case, you don't need that much travel. My vehicles both produce vacuum with a vacuum pump because they are turbocharged diesels, so they will produce more of it at full RPM... so I don't personally have to care about that, and can use my brakes as necessary. The Mercedes does not have any ABS, and the Ford only has it in the rear.

I have several big problems with my tax dollars going to federally unfunded-mandated, state-specified indoctrination stations. I remember clearly what it was like to go to school in my state, and consider it institutionalized child abuse.

Calculus tells us that as we increase the speed of the counterclockwise moving arm the number of times the clock is right will increase. Therefore if we increase the speed of the clock to infinite it will be correct infinite times per day and will therefore be perfectly accurate. Albeit dangerous to stand near this clock could double as a plane's tubojet propeller.