I can flick through websites using the scroll wheel with minimal effort. I don't feel like waving my hands to do common tasks.

And a good 2.5" 750GB drive is $85. Compare that to $200.

Yes, I understand now, that I understand nothing about mobile standards.

The next step is robots, then zombies, then vampires and we're back to superheroes again.

Isn't that how it already works? The employer has to offer a salary that is above average of what the standard is. Foreign workers on H1-B visas ARE more expensive. But maybe they are willing to work in a lower position than they normally should so all in all they cost less. BTW, I'm someone who missed this year's H1-B quota by a few days myself.

Should have read the article more carefully. Yes, that seems to be the cost of their Facebook ads.

$1million and $300k - that's a very small percentage of money out of the estimated $1billion each spend. And what is this digital consulting anyway? Is that what they are paying for facebook ads?

It seems like no one simply bothered doing it before him because everything is done much easier numerically. And you can do a lot more with numerical integration (account better for the environment) than this one specific case of the problem could ever handle.

or every bit of news about solar arrays is pretty much the same - better efficiency, lower cost. I'm getting tired of reading the same thing every week.

That's exactly what I'm thinking. I just can't believe how many people have been mislead into buying this stock. Well, at least it frees up the money of the investors so they can invest in some other companies.

I sometimes wonder what these people will do once the reverse is true.

Social benefits of oxygen outweigh the risks while for meth it's not true.

It would be interesting to see how many of us started out wanting to make a game/some graphics demo and then learning how to do it compared to some other motivation for learning programming. I started out that way myself.

My 17" doesn't have a numeric keypad, not even space for one. Maybe you meant 19"

Facebook going public has freed the money of those who have invested in it before it went public. Now these people will have to invest that money again and these imaginary dollars will probably go to high-tech startups again. And I don't believe Silicon Valley is about science, but rather about technologies that make our lives easier. Advanced science has always been and will be done at universities or very large companies.