You are describing glacial retreat caused by global warming, which is not the same thing. As temperatures rise, the ice melts and retreats higher in elevation where it is colder. Also as a result of the warming effect, plants are able to take up residence in land formerly occupied by the ice sheet. In areas with permafrost, some of it will melt, leading to sinking and fractures in infrastructure. Climate change can happen very quickly, as we are seeing.

An example of glacial rebound would be a fishing village in medieval times now being far from the coast, even though sea levels have risen since. Or of a sound being locked by rising land and turned into a lake. Rebound typically is not measurable within the frame of a single lifespan, more like hundreds to thousands of years. We are still experiencing effects from the melting of the last ice age.

There is a major difference though: the Internet's population has increased by connecting the rest of humanity to it, not only by the children of the early Internet.

A better model would be communes, where people join on the basis of religion, philosphy or purpose. In many cases the children born in these communes stay and continue the exmple set forth by their parents.

Apple seems to be losing much of the gains they made during the initial trial. Not even at appeal yet and already getting patents invalidaded.

Hopefully this is part of a trend, where these ridiculous patents get thrown out, or even better, never granted in the first place.

You must have missed the last sentence of the article:

"The team are now looking for industry partners to commercialise this ground-breaking new technology."

So they are thinking about finishing the product, and making it accessible outside the research field. I can see a company like IBM showing interest in this.

Not sure if you're trolling, but Turkey absolutely is a secular state.

I seriously doubt Turkey will be made into a bad guy. They're a NATO member and the only muslim majority country in the region with a healthy economy and political stability. They are also a needed conter-weight to Iran and are crucial in resolving the civil war in Syria. Never mind that Erdogan was democratically elected.

Coke still has sugar and not HFCS in some other countries.

France's income tax is indeed usually lower than in the US, but that's not the whole picture.

You also have to look at sales tax (VAT), which is much higher in France at 19.6% vs around 7-8% in most US states.

Then there is the taxe d'habitation, which simply doesn't exist in the U.S. for renters.

All in all, you wind up paying more in France. The value, however, is much better in France, given all the various services and aid which are provided.

So we can expect an imminent Apple lawsuit then?

I'm not a big gamer, but the ones I do play, mainly 0Ad, Oil Rush, & Civ5 all work fine on my Q6600 (no overclock).

But mainly I enjoy having a bunch of applications open all at the same time without any problems: Netbeans, postgreSql admin & server, Gimp, LibreOffice, Firefox with a bunch of tabs, etc... and being able to play a quick game of 0ad without closing out of anything. Not bad for a 6 year old proc & mobo.

I've added memory, and updated the video card twice, it's an AMD 5350 now, but the most measurable upgrade was actually the SSD drive. Running Enlightenement DE also helps, at least when compared to Gnome3 or Unity, maybe only a little better or the same as Gnome2.

English is a mix of languages, essentially of Germanic origin (mainly Anglo-Saxon) and of Latin origin (mainly French). Germanic is the core of the language, the grammar is derived from it, as is the "basic" vocabulary. French and in some cases Latin directly were added later on, and most of the "extended" vocabulary derives from it, or in some cases, from Greek.

The pronunciation of the "G" is therefore largely dictated by the etymology of the word. You'll see that in the most common words: girl, get, together, gift, etc. the "G" is always hard. However, for words borrowed from French, Latin and Greek (often technical, scientific, legal, etc), the "G" follows the French pronunciation: in front of the vowels "e", "i", and "y" it is soft, otherwise it is hard:

giant (French "géant")
gentle (French "gentil")
gymnasium (Latin)
engine (French "engin")
vagina (Latin)
gyroscope (French from Greek words)
-ogy and -gist (French / Latin): biology, biologist, archeology, archaeologist, etc
-gyn- (meaning "woman", from Greek): misogyny, androgyny, gynoid, etc

Exceptions:
gynecologist, gibbon ...and a favorite topic of debate: giga-, where the logical (heh there's another one from French) pronunciation is "jiga", however the hard version is heard more often.

Back to GIF: both ways of pronouncing it are correct, and indeed I have heard both styles. Although anecdotally, the soft version is used more often by people over 35-40.