Or you could just use RSS and not have to sign up for anything, and be watched and mined by the central Twitter overlord. Yes, RSS even works with Twitter, (and we are on slashdot).

I predict one day the UX/UI trend will be glossy, even glass-like; what with reflections, highlights, shadows, textures and all.

The hired help can claim to have been doing their job all along, but it was really hard, what with all that public opposition and all.

Who wants to fight for lobbyist's interests when the cause is clearly lost and 4 MILLION AMERICANS WROTE TO VOICE THEIR OPINION DIRECTLY TO THE FCC? But the hired can certainly say they tried hard to serve 'their interests' to those that might come calling in the future.

It is not as if the hired help actually believed they ever served the public's stated interests.

That text was handy, because Monday morning I submitted it to Slashdot as an article, but it didn't get past the firehose to the front page.

Here, let me back up your point with last week's news from the LA Times:

"Michael Hiltzik of The Los Angeles Times reports that Southern California Edison, the local electrical utility, has let go of 500 IT employees by outsourcing jobs to Tata and Infosys who are top users/abusers of the U.S. H1-B visa process; 400 So Cal employees were laid off and 100 'left voluntarily', many with decades of experience. As indicative of a trend this has now become, last year Minnesota-based agribusiness behemoth Cargill said it would outsource as many as 900 IT jobs to Tata.
 
These employees perform the crucial work of installing, maintaining and managing Edison's computer hardware and software for functions as varied as payroll and billing, dispatching and electrical load management across Edison's vast power generating and electric transmission network. The workers I interviewed are in their 50s or 60s and have spent decades serving as loyal Edison employees.
 
"They told us they could replace one of us with three, four, or five Indian personnel and still save money," one laid-off Edison worker told me, recounting a group meeting with supervisors last year. "They said, 'We can get four Indian guys for cheaper than the price of you.' You could hear a pin drop in the room."
 
They're not the sort of uniquely creative engineering aces that high-tech companies say they need H-1B visas to hire from abroad, or foreign students with master's degrees or doctorates from U.S. universities who also can be employed under the H-1B program. They're experienced systems analysts and technicians for whom these jobs have been stairways from the working class to five- or six-figure middle-class incomes. Many got their training at technical institutes or from Edison itself.
 
This worker and the half-dozen others I interviewed asked to remain anonymous because their severance packages forbid them to speak disparagingly about the company."

You may be right, I don't know. I just want to point out an open-source javacript is called superfish, and I'm pretty sure this library is something else entirely, and benign. http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birc...

Good point and I am otherwise inclined to agree with you except for one thing: kid's tastebuds and their general sense of taste is nothing like ours. By the time you are an adult, a good percentage of of the sense of taste you had when you were growing up is already lost. This is why infants do best on extremely bland blended peas and such. The GP makes a strong argument from experience.

Speaking for myself, my mother smoked until I was 7 years of age. When I was about 5, I distinctly remember pestering her to try smoking myself, and (surprise!) I don't smoke and never have. On the other hand I know a guy with kids who has always smoked a lot in his house while his kids were growing up the whole time, and he once tried my advice. His problem was the kids were already so used to household smoke and they were already a bit older, and they could actually deal with the smoke, sadly. And those kids are adults now and I know at least 1 (of 2) of them smoke.

FWIW, Mavericks runs reasonably well (with glitchy sound but I could care less) using VMware on my ASUS motherboards, but Yosemite really eats up resources and is unusable. I wouldn't think about doing this on VirtualBox though, not worth the effort or instability.

For the last 10 years, I've mainly only purchased ASUS motherboards, netbooks, monitors, and the occasional router. ASUS is truly massive and makes a lot of good stuff for a long time already. During the netbook era it looked like they were gonna hedge heavily on Linux, then Microsoft leaned on them heavily and they reversed course.

http://www.computerworld.com/a...

My ASUS EEE 10" netbook is fantastic with Ubuntu & Kodi, still, and I paid about $250 for it ages ago.