Tell that to the person who modded the OP as "Informative."

You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: 'now, you are free to go where you want, do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please.' You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, saying, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe you have been completely fair... This is the next and more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity—not just legal equity but human ability—not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result.

-- Lyndon B. Johnson

Well, that's basically a tautology. It's like saying "research shows most people think water feels wet." True statement, but so what?

Considering the Windows-centric nature of .NET, it's hardly surprising that Visual Studio has far more VB and C# programmers than any other IDE.

And yes, I know about MonoDevelop.

Light years ahead?

Between Eclipse and VS, I'd pretty much call it a tie. They're both good.

This.

Someone once said that IQ tests only measure how good you are at doing IQ tests. I would put it another way: they only measure a certain kind of intelligence -- the kind that is good at solving logical puzzles. Not necessarily the kind that excels at sports, arts, empathy, ethics, etc. As the OP says, they might be a proxy for ranking within groups, but not between them.

Good point. Thanks.

It does if you want to employ SI-unit conventions correctly.

In fact, the convention is to use kelvin (lower-case k) for the name of the unit, and K (upper case) for the abbreviation.

Clarification: I grew up in a country where High School started at grade 9 (not 10) and that was the grade in which this book was taught. The book did have somewhat mature content, but it was teachable at the upper-grade-school level (e.g., grade 8.)

And arguably are the better for it. (I remember the book fondly.)

Just about everything you read in High School is "forced" on you. I still appreciate the teachers who taught me, who knew full-well the majority of their students would out-earn them.

New grads aren't at the "peak" of their earning potential. That happens a few decades later.

I think what you meant to say is that it's a problem to encourage new grads to maintain their focus on charity.

Wait, what?

Ghandi was never elected to any public office. He didn't "run" any country.

Yes, he changed the world -- as an activist, not a politician.

Actually it's voilà, with a grave accent over the a.

That might help to regulate a heartbeat, but it would take energy away from the heart that could be used to pump blood. If the heart is weak in the first place, then I'm not sure you'd want to to tax it further by making it power its own pacemaker. Better to power the pacemaker by some other bio-electrical source, such as the electricity-generating artificial organ described in TFA.

Then again, if we can just print someone a new "super-heart" then sure, put a dynamo in it and make it power whatever you want. Run your cell-phone, wearable Christmas lights, a human-mobile WiFi access-point, whatever. But how would this compare with other ways to create electricity inside the body, such as the new electricity-generating organ proposed in TFA?

Internet rule 34. 'Nuff said.

Lost in this whole discussion is whether the Tea Party deserves tax-exempt status in the first place.

The law says groups granted such status must engage in activities exclusively for the public good.

The IRS guidelines softened that to primarily for the public good.

Arguably, many Tea-Party groups fail both criteria. And probably so do a number of political organizations over the spectrum from left to right.