It's a very common resolution on decent notebooks (around 12 inches or so) today, you insensitive clod.

lol, mod parent up please.

I think, therefore I am. Beyond that it all quickly becomes a blur of assumptions and prejudices.

undefined 0/0 division.

you assert this boldly, but it's really an ongoing debate. I didn't want to start this argument though, so let me apologize for using the word "waste" and say that I would rather have written "extend". My meaning was to say that when I take a few steps back and look at it all, it seems kind of weird. With most other crimes there are quite straightforward justifications for what we have the justice system occupied with doing, but with copyright it becomes a bit of an ant hive. Just a feeling, I'm not saying I have the answers.

so I guess the phrase "worthless piece of plastic" added something to the sentence, but way to demonstrate how to attack pieces out of context. Thanks for playing.

Setting aside the possible sleaziness of this particular guy; seen from another perspective it's pretty fantastic how much resources and time we waste on seeking out and punishing people for reorganizing a tiny bunch of molecules on worthless pieces of plastic.

A: "the extent to which one takes advantage of the educational offerings of an institution"
("may be more important, in the long run, than")
B: "how prominently and proudly that institution's name is being displayed on the back windows of cars in the nation's wealthiest enclaves"

I would suggest that there is a correlation between the two. Furthermore everything isn't about expected future income - when you have a major choice before you it is probably better to think about what kind of person you will become, memories you will acquire, experiences; what social connections you will make, etc. That said, perhaps B isn't representing the best measure to go by but I would certainly recommend people to look at rankings when they make this choice. Preferably as domain specific as possible - an institution that is good with one subject may not be so good with another.

What To Do About Mobile Devices That Lie
"Have you ever tried simply turning off the TV, sitting down with your mobile devices, and hitting them?"

I thought you paid to be listed first... what's impartial about it to begin with?

Pick a task first and then learn the relevant languages? There are so many languages around these days but in just a few different categories they are very similar. I'd say it's better to learn a little of everything and a lot of the underlying mechanisms. I've found Perl and Python extremely useful for example, but learning them was a matter of spending a few days accomplishing what I wanted accomplished. Of course there is infinite modules left to learn, so I'm not sure what "learning" should mean here.

Again in my limited experience, the windows world is mostly a matter of learning to understand windows. After you understand what kind of things are available to you on the OS level, does it really matter that much if it's Visual Basic, Visual C++ or Visual whatever?

Then on another side of course one needs to know things like object oriented development, but is that a matter of just "learning" something or isn't it rather a question of years of experience? Between two different sets of "years of experience" I suppose it makes a bit difference whether it's been in Java, C++ or some Visual Crap. But "years of experience" is unfortunately not something you can sit down and learn.

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Ah, I think they need to add a few steps:

1. stupid people shouldn't have money
2. poor people are stupid
3. poor people shouldn't have any money
4. we need to take more money from the poor

"Stupid people shouldn't have money anyway", to paraphrase Mr. Burns I think.

I suppose they add some things, but surely the process must roughly obey conservation of mass.. How much skin would I loose for a transfusion bag of blood? The thought gave me the chills. (yes yes, I know, between my life and my skin I would of course choose my life).

Musings: I use really crappy passwords in places where I really don't care - that is on sites that I think shouldn't bother me with passwords in the first place. My contact info, email etc., is publicly available in various places so I don't care about protecting that at all - it's a lost cause.

My normal passwords are based on mnemonics and won't be broken by dictionary searches, but I don't use many special characters. I also use the same passwords for many different sites. So far I haven't had any incidents at all but if something would happen, I think I have made sure my life won't be ruined. The credit cards have moderate limits and I don't write about my ball gag fetish.

I have one strong password I use for really important systems, but I end up using it so rarely it sometimes slips out of my mind.

I don't think it is reasonable to expect people to use different strong passwords on every site, not even "important" sites such as social networking. Even if I did, every once in a while I would certainly forget which password goes where and thus give away the wrong one, at which the nefarious site will have won anyway.