Its hard to keep your folder organized. I used to be really big on keeping my folders organized, but in my own personal experience the hierarchical thing doesn't always work nicely in my data. There are overlaps, or adding new files changes my conception about what the hierarchy should be. That is why the the advent of spotlight, windows search that actually works, and the various linux indexing services have been a godsend. I can keep things semi-organized and the indexers still let me find stuff if I'm not quite sure where I would have put it in my organization at some later point.

No one is using Android because its a free OS though. Completely different demographic. I'm sure some people support it for that reason, but certainly not enough to drive Droid's sales numbers as high as they are.

I think an interesting question is how much of the increased volume available in a spherical ship would be useable. There is a propensity for use to build things that are roughly rectangular. Presumably, economies of scale could make it difficult to mass produce a fighter with large amounts of internal components curved to fit flush along the outer hull, particularly when reusing existing designs.

Don't they have to prepare it for themselves in order to use it?

Then maybe they should ask for additionally funding to bring in 1 or 2 full time people to respond to FOI requests if they are getting so many. Data archival is important, as is freedom of information. If they can't do both, then maybe they need to get more funding so that they can.

Georgia is home to the second largest seaport on the east/gulf coast. That sounds like a foolish thing to give up.

Again, you make my point that you suggest that you have to be a "scientist" to contribute to the body of human knowledge. I didn't say any old guy should be able to challenge what scientists say. To put it in terms you will grasp, I said any old guy capable of rationally analyzing the presented evidence should be able to challenge what the scientists say. To dismiss everyone who isn't a climate scientist offhand does a gross disservice to science as a process.

I can totally understand why people don't believe 0.99... = 1. The numbers are superficially different and most people naïvely assume that visible similarity is the criterion for equality. That's okay, because in almost all practical settings a layperson will come across this definition works, even though it is not the truth. I didn't come across the proper definition of arbitrarily small epsilon until I reached higher math courses in college.

If you pride yourself on being intellectual you should be capable of drawing reasonable conclusions from information presented to you. For a scientist to say STFU you don't have a degree in my field is childish and enforces the notion that a PhD is somehow required to contribute meaningfully to the body of human knowledge. This is not true at all.

I'm sorry, you have no idea what you are talking about. Sudo is not an implicit privilege gain. You have to manually request elevation. The reason it looks implicit is because all of the applications that ever need elevated privileges come with launchers that do the work for you. Sudo can also be configured to function the same as su (OpenSUSE) ships it that way I believe. The same is true of the new policykit. Similarly, Vista is not an implicit elevation either. The continue prompt only occurs for administrator accounts because they are flagged with a token on login that mark them as administrators. They are required to manually take action. Furthermore, this function can be disable in group policy in order to force a password entry in the same way that non-admin users have to authenticate to perform system changes. The only reason it occurs automatically is through application manifests and heuristics. Both of these cases are explicit elevations at the behest of the application author that the user can approve or cancel.

Yeah, that is lame. The first time I fired it up gmail disconnected me saying I had used my bandwidth quota for the day or some foolishness like that.

Mac gets this right too. I particularly how when I drag something onto an app on the Dock, I get an exposé view with all of the documents for that application. I used to think the drag/drop was unwieldy when I primarily used Windows and Linux. Then when I switched to Mac, I've come to realize that metaphor isn't flawed, only the implementation.

Oh, how deliciously amusing this is. It looks like the Linux guys are now in the same boat as the GNU guys were in that they want a share of the recognition someone using parts of their system has achieved.
*Chuckle*

There are plans to use Silverlight for the 2010 winter olympics as well. It seems to be a trend.

So Netflix, the Olympics and the US Presidential Inauguration aren't high profile enough for you? Just because you have a seething inner hatred towards MS doesn't mean no one uses their technology.