... can some one explain it to me with a car analogy?

this whole thread reminds me of that louis ck skit where he explains why parents are horrible to their kids, but a stranger who isn't a parent sees them and says "what a horrible parent! When I have a child, I will treat it with respect (etc)".
It starts well ... but after a while the doctor is just like, "just, shut up and eat your french fries ..."
Reality is, a patient who wants antibiotics and doesn't get them will go to great lengths to get them. I won't even start about more extreme cases of media attention and political activism. The problem isn't with individual doctors, but public education on antibiotics (admittedly this has gotten much better over the years).

"friend" of "mine" ?

Apologies; in Greek grammar the same effect is called a diphthong. Nice to know of the difference in English grammar though :)

I like how all of them in the video when asked "do you think you can do better than seasoned C++ professionals in writing a textbook" answer yes without hesitation.

That's not to say I frown upon their enthusiasm, but there is something to be said about the humility of recognising someone's expertise and efforts put into a project, rather than assuming than you can do it better without training or special knowledge, just because you think you're smart and stuff.

I've seen this symptom particularly among professionals like scientists or doctors: just because they're good at what they do (and well-respected for it), they automatically assume that they can make amazing teachers without a day's worth of educational training. Result? Usually they suck at transmitting their ideas and they take it out on the students

Nice project though, I pledged, for what it's worth. The open (and reviewable) nature of the book alone promises that it has good potential :)

a) Chronos is actually correct (to the extent that the most accepted transliteration for the greek letter chi is 'ch' rather than 'kh') and means 'time'.
b) If anything, it's actually the Khronos group which should be cowering in shame, since they are misspelling the name Kronos.
c) Latin doesn't even have a 'ch' diphthong, except when transliterating Greek words (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch_%28digraph%29#Latin)
d) The latinization of Kronos would have been Cronus, not Chronos.
e) Strictly speaking, Kronos is a Titan, not a Greek God (except in the looser definition of Titans as deities in general)

Fail.

Apparently the EU disagrees with your statement

It was a hundred times better than all this iPhoney-mentality crap (yes, I'm including Windows and Android in this mentality) we get shoved down our throats as the only marketable OS now. kthx.

i.e. this: http://slashdot.org/submission/2192453/humble-bundle-introduces-partial-drm

Shameless plug: http://slashdot.org/submission/2183539/humble-bundle-not-so-trusting-of-people-anymore

Just because Steam will now run officially on linux doesn't mean all the titles existing for windows will magically be available for linux. It only means that developers who had already ported to linux may market it as such. Same thing happened with desura for linux. And you can see how limited the Mac selection on steam is as compared to windows (I'd expect linux to be even less).

The only positive side to this is that, hopefully, companies will have a bit more of an incentive from NOW on to port to linux.

On the other hand, companies that already WERE porting to linux anyway, and in a nice non-DRM manner, will probably opt to do it via steam now instead.

I feel your response is unnecessarily hostile, zealotous, and an "I got you back" clause, when I wasn't particularly attacking anyone, despite your knee-jerk perception. Which ironically is what I was alluding would happen to the author unless she made that closing statement. Therefore, I am working on the assumption you're a vegetarian here, so forgive me for what I'll write below

While I don't mind someone coming to me and saying they're a vegetarian (after all, everyone has their reasons), what I *do* not like is when people adopt the whole militant quasireligious (and wrongful) stance that a) Vegeterianism is healthy, let alone healthi-er, and b) that it is somehow upper-class and noble, and that it should be associated with a certain lifestyle, like incessant jogging and yoga and bowel enemas and the such.

As a doctor I have been exposed to tons of evidence that pure vegetarianism is not healthy at all (evidence, may I add, that I was surprised to find out about, given the media blurb, and that I did not go out of my way particularly to get; I was simply exposed to it by virtue of working in a hospital). Yes, in general a vegetarian on the whole tends to be slightly more involved in their health, so they're healthier by comparison to the general McDonalds eating population, but that only reflects their obsession with a healthy (or at least what they perceive to be healthy) lifestyle. However, any comparison with a healthy non-vegetarian person watching what they eat (including healthy doses of greens and vegetables), and doing ACTUAL research on what is and what isn't good for you, will show that being vegetarian in itself is much less healthy. You have a much less chance of getting necessary protein on board, at least not without exceeding daily calories in fat and carbs, and most of them are likely to come from phytoestrogen-rich protein sources which increases your risk for all sorts of baddies big-time. Throw megalocytic anaemias, erratic insulin profiles, frequent faints and acidaemia into the mix, and you start getting an idea of what I'm talking about.

Even worse, being a vegetarian in our modern trendy society, is seen as a fashion item. A way to look thin and skinny. Especially for girls. So they go and eat nothing but salad, and then go for a jog in the morning (which is the worse thing they can do, especially if they're not getting protein on board - instant muscle-wasting). And, ironically, they seem to prefer this immunocompromised, syncope-prone, weakened body, and its unhealthy, muscle-wasted, skinny-fat, i-can-see-your-skull appearance, because they've worked so hard for it. You can almost tell a vegetarian from the fact their perception of beauty itself seems altered; but obviously it's beyond criticism and anything you do to comment on their body and health provokes an angry reaction (does this remind you of any clinical conditions?)

Moreover, the whole vegetarian culture is just that. A culture. People 'think' it's good because they 'think' it's good. You read the tiniest bit of scientific info and suddenly you realise all the media blurb is made-up and politicised. Then again, you need to dig in deep to find the evidence, because the internet is flooded in junk info about it instead, and unless you spend hours trying to find anything that doesn't say "Vegetarians are awesome and meat eaters are killers", don't expect to find any real info on the effects of vegetarianism.

So, the problem I have isn't with vegetarians. It's with this notion in vegetarian culture that somehow it's holier than anything and needs to be militantly defended against rednecks or somehow amoral people who don't know better. Please.

I like how the researcher feels the need to close off with a "don't antagonise vegetarian groups" political-correctness statement, lest she risks being eaten alive (pun intended).