I think there is a layer there at which point it's useful, and one at which it's not. It's fine to anthropomorphize a program when explaining to an end user why it's broken, e.g. "The program doesn't know to check for the start date of a new lease when the old one expires, it just thinks it should activate it regardless." (Actual problem we're having to fix right now.) But of course the developer shouldn't think that the program is confused; it's doing exactly what we asked of it in a nightly stored procedure, and not bothering to check start dates because it wasn't programmed to do that in the first place!

A banana a day is usually enough to keep someone's potassium about right.

Basically, if you can pick it or kill it, it's good to eat. If you can't pick it or kill it, but you can perform the labor necessary to process it into something that is edible, perform the labor OR an equivalent exercise, and then eat it.

We should all be required to run a mile and then waiting an hour before eating a steak, if we really want to simulate paleo. And then spend a day grinding grains into flour for a single loaf of bread, using a hand held mortor and pestle.

I concur regarding mismatched expectations for skill sets and salaries. I saw a local position that I'd be a perfect match for - I'd be their purple unicorn - but they were offering $20,000 less than what I'm currently making. I could probably negotiate a $5-10K salary increase based on being such a perfect match, but $20K isn't going to happen no matter how awesome I am. So I'm not even bothering to apply.

That's the case for a lot of us, I think. We just don't want to deal with opening night crowds, and we know that if we wait two months we'll be able to rent it at Red Box for a dollar.

Zero inbox also ensures that you don't miss anything (usually.) I don't file anything until I've also checked off its matching task, if there was one.

I RTFA. These pools have ALWAYS been colorful. That's partially why Yellowstone was made into a national park, after all. It's the composition of colors that has changed in the last century, due to a slightly lower temperature and thus a slightly different bacterial makeup. The summary sort of implies that it was pollution that made each pool colorful to begin with, which isn't the case. Instead of "Researchers say that the different colors of the hot springs in Yellowstone National Park are caused by human contamination" it would be more accurate to say: "Researchers have done a simulation that shows how human activity may have altered the colors in several hot springs at Yellowstone."

Well, and everyone pirating Japanese animation and Korean TV dramas. But even those have streaming available in the US via Crunchyroll now.

Why can't the places that claim to want to make money work out a deal with whatever local regional governments to sell their content for consumers? Country blocks are the stupidest thing ever.

Yup, the aforementioned regional licensing bullshit. That's a problem the MPAA/RIAA and whoever needs to sort out with the streaming services if they want to end piracy for good.

I think another reason TPB isn't as necessary as it used to be is because the convenience gap it filled has slowly been replaced by paid services, in many instances. Getting an entire season of a TV show used to involve hunting down disks or even VHS tapes, a lot of waiting, a lot of headache, and the cost - when a pirated torrent of the same thing could be had in a few hours. Even renting a movie involved going outside. What if you didn't want to leave the house - or couldn't?

With the rise of on-demand services like Netflix/Hulu/all their friends, and the availability of most content for a reasonable cost, the laziness factor for torrenting is not as prevalent. For $2 and basically no effort I can buy a streaming movie off Amazon and watch it on my PS3. If I wanted to pirate it now, I'd save $2 but it would not necessarily be any easier or faster.

Same also applies for music. I pirated a lot of MP3s a long time ago because the songs were not readily available on CD or anywhere else (usually because of regional licensing bullshit.) These days, I can pay a dollar to whichever music service of my choice that carries the song, and have the MP3 without having to buy the whole album.

There will be other services along the lines of TPB, but they're more likely to stock 3D makerbot blueprints than they are cheaply available mainstream media in the future.

My beef with the iPads is that since they lack a physical keyboard, kids aren't going to learn to type on them. At least with cheap laptops like Chromebooks, there's a crappy physical keyboard and not just a touch interface.

Over here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/...

An example of what they've done would be the recent Monuments project. They built a back end, complete with a Google maps API interface, to tell you exactly where they needed photos of which historic monuments, in relation to a given ZIP code. Based on that, I learned there was 200 year old farm house about a half a mile from my office, and I spent a productive lunch break driving over there and photographing it. Their website handled the upload, licensing, and then distributed the new photo to the Commons as well as the Monuments project. There were no errors during this entire process which means the entire thing was rigorously tested and properly coded. It was a painless user experience, if a bit dry because of the spartan aesthetics of Wikimedia, but my "generated content" was incorporated seamlessly into their project in about five minutes. That's good website engineering.

My nephew has one. It does everything he needs it to do for school, which is all one should expect out of a machine offered to kids through school.