I know science is hard, but let's go over it like you're five.

Global warming is largely considered to be caused by something called greenhouse gases. The most prominent one is CO2, which is generated by burning fossil fuels among other things. Earth is by and large heated by the sun's rays going through the atmosphere and hitting the Earth, heating the air and ground. A part of those rays, however, gets bounced off the surface or re-emitted. Those rays can then leave the atmosphere, not heating up the Earth. Greenhouse gases act as a sort of shield around the atmosphere, reflecting those rays back again towards the Earth over and over.

Aerosols act as an additional barrier beyond the greenhouse gases which have the opposite effect: they bounce the sun's ray off the atmosphere before they can even get in, thus reducing the total amount of heat getting in the atmosphere in the first place and thus reducing the impact of greenhouse gases.

TL;DR Human CO2 increases greenhouse effect, but that still requires heat to get in in the first place.

It's ironic that people are excited and proud of this, but turn around and become mad at the very notion of assisted suicide. In the best case you're going to survive for a bit on Mars.

The claim is done in the context that the show hadn't started yet. Just like how a random member of the public wouldn't be expected to be allowed in, I don't think it's spurious to claim that a competitor also has no reason to be able to come over to your booth and start messing with your stuff. Once the show's started, all of that changes, of course.

Yes, because every other characteristic in that $10k is the exact same as Tesla's $35k. No way in hell they may also add other things, just like how the Model S is basically wheels and a frame, right?

This sounds more like you're attempting to teach problem solving and fundamental mathematics (logic being part of that) using programming robots as an easy to understand and enjoyable application of the theory. It's been said many times that the curriculum of most countries in the world could use courses on problem solving and critical thinking.

But that doesn't even answer it because 20% growth per year is still massive growth. Keep hold of it for a few years and you can sell it for twice as much as it was worth.

Destructors? This isn't C++.

Medical oversight also ensures, as much as possible, that there are no treatments remaining that may be able to recover sufficient quality of life to avert the need for suicide. If the go-to response to suicidal tendencies was to go see a doctor for support, we may see a sharp decline in mental health-related suicides.

How someone can twist the ability for a suffering human to request, of their own volition and under extensive medical supervision, assisted suicide, and turn it into a slippery slope fallacy of death camps and selective culling of the population is beyond me. There is just no connection outside of your ever so slightly deranged brain there.

Restrained or executed is a bit much. Forced labor at a SWAT building as janitor for 10 years though? That might work. He's not violent, he's stupid. Let him bask in his stupidity.

If both Opera and Chrome fail to work in such a fashion, I'd double-check my OS install. Those aren't pieces of software that generally misbehave like that.

Anecdote incoming: I have moderate dyspraxia, particularly in the legs but still somewhat in the upper torso/arms. This means I'm incredibly bad at sports, I have a complete lack of reflexes, and I generally am awkward at moving around. I learned piano and violin at a young age and wasn't too bad at them. I'm now working on a computer every day and need fairly good typing skills and muscle memory, which goes against what dyspraxia does.

I consider video games to be one of the major reasons I was able to actually develop those motor skills in the first place. I've been playing them since I was 3, and it's how I've learned to type, speak/write English, how I honed my reflexes, and it's a large part of why my hands aren't completely useless at complex motor tasks (they're also incidentally how I ended up doing what I do for a living). TV shows are able to give you a basic understanding of a language, and I definitely used them to learn as a kid, but video games, and most importantly playing video games socially, have been a massive catalyst and accelerator. I wouldn't be able to write like this or speak without a thick accent if it weren't for the many nights playing with friends from all around the world.

I disagree. They saw that their technology was outdated and, instead of dragging it for years as a giant ball and chain, they started from scratch, for the better. WinForms was basically the Swing of the .NET world, but with a much better visual designer. All the UI was built into the code as objects and the auto-designer would often make a mess of it, while building it manually was a complete nightmare.

WPF, in contrast, completely rebuilds the software stack in favor of a more cleanly separated MVC-ish approach, with the M and C being built in a regular .NET language while the view is entirely constructed in language-agnostic XAML (basically XML). This is very similar to how Android works, except Microsoft is typically more verbose than Android.

While it does mean UI developers had to relearn everything, modern WPF applications can look far nicer, are much easier to work with and are more flexible than their WinForms counterparts. It's the same reason I applauded Microsoft's controversial decision to rebuild DirectX from scratch with version 10, but looking at how messy OpenGL development still is I can't help but find it was the right call after all.

How many stores used to sell ham radios, nascent computers, electronics components and more? Contrast with how many stores sell iPods and Android phones.

Perhaps "don't have anything to offer anymore" is the wrong phrasing. Rather, they don't have anything distinctive, yet are generally more expensive or come with more restrictive policies than Walmart, Best Buy or Amazon, while not offering better sales service.

If that's their goal, I wouldn't be surprised to see them buy Xamarin. It'd give them a serious foothold into the Android and iOS development space using their own technology and language as a basis. It would also go a long way towards cementing their claims to be taking Mono more seriously, since Xamarin sponsors Mono.