If it fails, then people will not use Mozilla browse.
Firefox has been copying chrome so much anyways, we can just switch to that without much of a hassle.

Well just because we don't have many of them them on record, it doesn't mean they are endangered or rare. There is a lot about marine biology that we do not know about.

The legacy Unix system, was expensive due to the fact that it required high end hardware. NT would run on your consumer PC as well. So Unix systems did work better because of the whole architecture not just the OS.

Nothing really too new. If you take the bus and the bus is full you are more efficient for the work being performed.
Most of the energy goes into moving the actual machine, only a small fraction goes into moving its content.

That is why the Train shipping companies advertise 1 gallon of fuel, for 500 miles per Ton of goods.
 

This means 100% Hip just cannot happen!
Me I have no interest in either having an Apple Watch (unless it goes down by $200) and I don't want a Tattoo.
But I never was Hip anyways, back in my day it was called cool.

If you are a big organization. You have a lot of projects to go on. So if your organization is smart, you will have small teams working on each project. If the organization is stupid, then it has a large team working on a single project to try to get it done quicker.

The problem is when the organization is stupid, and it has a big team working on a single project, they find that it becomes too expensive to progress so they don't see the value of the individual. if they get small teams They will see far more output and the value of these skilled individuals.

With the new ultrabooks laptops which flip into a tablet form factor. You would want a rich supply of apps that are designed for a touch interface. While keeping the laptop and desktop apps for more sit down type of work.

At the time Windows NT wasn't a consumer technology, Windows NT was a serious contender in the server space, for mission critical systems. At that time Linux was still considered a Hobby OS. Other alternatives were Unix variant, but during those stages they weren't really that much better. It was just when we heard that Windows NT crashed, we all laughed at it, because of allegiance towards Linux.

However today... Consumer technology today Windows, Android, iOS. Are really based on Professional Server Grade OS Kernels. They are just running on cheaper hardware.

The issue for this isn't blaming the iPad or iOS but the maker of that App for those documents. They screwed up, This would have happened if they had a Million Dollar professional system in their hands too.

Let the Zealots have their fun.
Lets really ignore the fundamental architecture between Android (Linux) and iOS (BSD) Are actually very close in design.

I get the feeling that the Professor is the one with the issues. Not the students.
From my experience, it sounds like it is his first time with undergrads.
I have found professors who are fresh out of the trenches often fail to comprehend, the following.
1. These students are taking more than just His class.
2. Chances are the class is required. Meaning most of the students don't have too much interest in the class.
3. The students are filled with other concerns then just that class. Finding a girl/boy friend, trying to keep on on what he should socially be.
4. Because he specialized in that topic for so long, there isn't any empathy on the fact that people just don't get it, the first time.

When students are in such a class, they will collaborate with each other so they can piece together all the stuff they learned, this is often done with homework assignments, this can be considered cheating. Being that these are student, who are paying for an education, if they feel like they are being bullied by the professor they will talk back, to defend themselves.

Why bother converting it at all?
Americans who have even a passing interests in real science knows about the metric system of measurement.
Are able to do at least rough conversions enough to get the idea of scale.
A Meter is about a Year.
A Kilometer is about 6/10 of a mile.
A Centimeter is about 1/2 inch

For understanding science stories this level of rough accuracy is good enough for them to get an understanding of scale.
Of course if you are using real science.
A. You wouldn't use Discovery News as a source.
B. You would think in terms of metric for all measurement.

I think it was suppose to be 200 meters.
As the earths crust is only 30 miles thick.

The brain in the jar being fed false/artificial stimulus has been around for much longer.
However we have no way of testing that you are just a brain in a jar, or an actual person. Because it comes down to what our senses tell us.

Any energy source comes with a trade off.
The problem is we don't have leadership that will accept this fact and say we must sacrifice this to get that.
Right now when ever there is an issue, our elected officials will just throw the baby out with the bath water.

That is the problem with Diet food anyways.
If you want to lose weight. Stop eating "Diet Food"
If you are going to indulge in something, you are better off in eating the non-Diet equivalent.
1. It will satisfy you more. You can have a piece of 300 calorie dessert and you will satisfied. Or you chow down on 4 or 5 100 calorie diet snacks.
2. Gives you energy. If you can get non-empty calories. You get more energy out of your day. So you can go out and get more active.
3. Too few calories, puts your body in starvation mode. This means it will slow your metabolism so when you do eat it will go to fat, because it won't known when you will eat again.

If you are going to have a Soda, I like real Cane sugar soda. It tastes better, and when you drink a potion you feel satisfied and you really don't want an other glass.

Diet Soda, sends your body mixed messages. So it thinks it has sugar but it doesn't so your body will try to process it. Leaving you feeling hungry.