Maybe you need that to maintain your lifestyle, that does not make anything less not broadband.

Why change the definition? 4 is more than enough to use the Internet and every single one of its major features. I do not even understand why it would currently be 4? As far as I am concerned, this broad post dial-up technology we use is all broadband, regardless of if you have a 1MB connection or a 1GB connection.

Which requires far more than running a few experiments. They not only need to do good science and get that result, but convince a consensus of people that they were wrong or that common sense is wrong, and that the nearly inconceivable is in fact true. It has been done before, but it took far more than one scientist and far more than one study and it took decades of derision or attacks by the scientists who did not believe the crazy theories of the dissenters.

It is a hell of a lot easier to have theories and conduct experiments that fall within the commonly accepted wisdom of the academic community (as you will need far far less proof to get people to believe you) than it is to convince them of something new. This idea that the rogue scientist who comes up with the unbelievable will be instantly and richly rewarded and acknowledged is just not backed by any history I know of. Nor of common sense. As more evidence or belief is added to an idea, disproving it become harder, as you need more counter evidence, and something that prevents everyone from ignoring you out of turn.

I just read somewhere that the DNA evidence so far points to some unnamed woman, who is thought to have masqueraded as a midwife.

So I am guessing these 60,000 working are hoping to get enough to retire on, as I imagine they will find finding a job pretty hard after this?
At $324.5 million, that only comes out to $5.4K per person. Which is obviously way too low.

Perl handles everything strangely. Their classes are so strange, and there is not a language out there that has a worse way of passing variables to methods. And by far the best unique feature, in any programming language, is its handling of regular expressions. After using Perl Regular Expressions, searching and conditionals feel like such a chore in any other language.

But if it is so big, instead of tiny insectoid parasites, a pack of rats might just burrow into its hide and make a nest, instead of fleas it might have ferrets like creatures crawling over it and biting it to drink its blood. And I do not even want to think about what it might have instead of the standard tapeworms. It would be interesting to research what type of ecosystems build up around such giant creatures.

If he got such a large number of people to hate him, in all likelihood he was an arrogant ass. Looking back, in high school I was a complete arrogant ass-hole, who could not stop myself from rubbing my superior intellect in everyone face. I am continually surprised how everyone treated me so well. But I think people need weakness to exploit, to bully.

Video game journalist never had that sort of integrity, nor is it really even applicable. Everyone who knows anything about video game/indie journalist knows that it is extremely chummy with the devs and they like it that way. It is not a secret, and in my mind it is not even a violation of their journalistic integrity. "Real" journalists write about facts, game journalists write about their opinions. There magazines and blogs are basically just a series of editorials, not news articles. Now I am know almost nothing about journalistic ethics, but to me it seems that the sort of job that game journalists do, it is less of or completely not an issue to have personal relationships with the people you are writing about. And regardless of the ideal, it is currently industry wide, and completely accepted. And if you want to launch a game dev career it absolutely would be invaluable to go to PAX and buy a beer from some guy from RPS. And if you wanted to sleep your way to fame, I am sure you could. Have you seen pictures of these people, they are the farthest things from professionals.

It is not because other calculators might be more powerful. Primarily, it is because TI has paid or schmoozed the right people. Officially, the word is that they cannot verify that any other calculators do not include internet or phone network access, and maybe a handful of other features. But at the same time, I have never taken a test that allowed you to bring anything you wanted; Tests are too much about memorizing the material for it to be feasible to allow text books. And when they do, it is only because the test is designed that unless you are an absolute expert and memorised everything, you will not have time to finish.

And I am sure competitors exist, but schools only allow the TI's. It is the same for old standard calculators, the university/college will only approve the use of that one TI calculator. In my university, you have one allowed calculator, and you still had to pay to get a sticker to let the exam procs know that "yes, this calculator is allowed"

You have obviously never used a computer, nor understand how they work. Billions of complex things happen every second with hundreds of programs interacting and random errors popping up and propagating. The idea that you could solve a random wrong bit in 8 gigs, or even just some weird bug in the source code of windows is beyond absurd. Rebooting permanently SOLVES at least 80% of all problems.

Well based on how you define it, you can get pretty much any statistic. Most people who code some amount for their job, who do not have a comp sci degree is probably far over 50%.

Ya, Totally waste the rest of your day talking to the police so you can have the police give the sales person a talking to.

It is not as simple as theory vs practice. Yes, Comp Sci is very theory heavy and far too much so for the workplace. But companies are often not just looking for code writing monkeys. Being able to code is not nearly enough to actually write a useful program or even just a tiny part of it. You need a lot of math and advanced logic, and at least some of that theory they teach in comp sci.

Otherwise it is like trying to solve calculus problems without any formal calculus knowledge; You might be able to hack your way through it, but that is about it.