I can tell you that in my field, Chinese is used at least 4x more often than Spanish. Next after Chinese (which is after English) would be Russian, followed likely by German. Whether Spanish is spoken in my field as much as Arabic is debatable.

In other words, the value of a language comes down to who you want to use it to communicate with.

Links that speak: The global language network and its association with global fame. And it's not even paywalled, you can download it from anywhere. You're welcome.

The kinds of MTBF I've been seeing with Seagate lately have caused me to select any drive other than theirs for any data storage needs.

I could never stand the interface of the original iPod. Apparently though, I was the only person ever to live who did not like that silly interface (or so I have been told many many times). While touchscreens aren't really much of an improvement in phones, IMHO, they made a huge improvement for music players.

Nobody but nobody can snatch failure from the jaws of victory like they can. They won the election in 2000 yet rolled over and played dead and gave the white house up to the village idiot instead. They won the election in 2004 but didn't care enough to actually see it through so they left the same idiot in for another 4 years of destruction. Considering the overwhelming apathy that would go with a nomination of Hillary Clinton I wouldn't see them fight hard to ensure her placement.

I doubt you could possibly be more blatant in demonstrating how your love for your party trumps all concern you have for everything that used to make our country great.

Tell me, would you tolerate any of these from Joe Biden?

• Threatening to usurp power that was never assigned to the VP to break a supreme court tie?
• Holding secret meetings with industry leaders to use to dictate legislation?
• Telling someone on the senate floor "go fuck yourself"?

And that is hardly even scratching the surface of how Cheney was blatantly using the constitution as toilet paper and showing pride of doing it. I wouldn't tolerate it from Biden, nor would you. However when it comes to a republican you celebrate it while I continue to condemn it.

Here I always thought of him as the antithesis of YOLO. He's had around 5 heart attacks (that he'll admit to) and several surgeries. I just hope that nobody in my family is his same blood type or we might be called upon to be the source of his next donor heart (and hence have to promptly leave the country forever). Really, he should have died some time ago but with the medical staff that he keeps around he is more indestructible than Keith Richards.

The real irony though is that the same publicly funded research that he has tried to destroy funding for is what keeps him alive.

Indeed his name is spelled D-I-C-K though some will say the correct pronunciation is D-A-R-T-H.

I learned the hard way that both 14.04 and 14.10 brought in a couple of really awful wifi drivers. Cards that work beautifully (both intel and non-intel wifi chips [including some realtek chips amongst others]) in 13.10 and earlier are sporadic at best in the driver firmwares that ship by default in these releases.

The rest of the stuff that people bitch about so incessantly in newer versions of ubuntu are just pissing matches by comparison.

... is that all of this, going back to 9/11, then back to the bombing of the USS Cole, then back to Oklahoma City, then back to Vietnam, then back to WWII, and WWI before that, back to the war of 1812 and before that even, is Obama's fault. He should have prevented all of this.

There are several traditional universities that are offering evening and/or online MBAs. If you want to stay on the management side of IT this might be a more useful track than a certification.

I understand that, but what is a subpoena worth in a court in another country? Generally nothing, really. Sure if you fail to show up for a civil trial in another court they could find against you because you didn't show up but they still won't be able to get far with that unless you have assets in that country that they can seize.

I can understand companies wanting to avoid dealing with it in the US court if they can, but I don't see the point of being so paranoid about it in other countries.

I don't see any reason to be afraid of being sued by Russian criminals. A few jobs ago I once had a webpage up (which attracted very little attention) that somewhat similarly exposed a particular registrar as being overwhelmingly spammer-friendly. My employer got nervous and pulled down said web page on my behalf (it was being hosted on their server at the time - yeah, I should have had it elsewhere) because they were afraid of being sued.

Frankly I don't see any reasone why it would even be a bad thing to be sued by these goons. They usually are doing their "business" in countries that don't have any kind of extradition (yeah, I know that usually doesn't matter in civil suits) agreements with the US or any other way to force me to show up for their lawsuit or be bound by its findings.

After all, once you account for all the drugs (and other stupid things) that he has done he is well over 2,000 years old. He doesn't remember anything before WWII but you can explain that through his drug use as well.