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So, if you want to sell to large orgs, you need to pay a license fee to some NGO. Sounds like a racket. Personally, I don't believe the current "green" computers are that green. If you think stuff gets recycled after you toss it, you might be in for a surprise. The only practical green computing move I've seen is one where instead of a 500W desktop I can do with a 60W laptop.

Has anyone tried to pry the battery from the case with a spatula? It might be quicker than unscrewing one and might not rupture it. Although it will break some wiring.

Now, why would I want ICS on my current or next Android phone?

Does that mean that if a man walks into a gun shop and asks for a rifle, so that he can go shoot his neighbour and then makes good on his promise, the gun shop won't have problems? What you are saying may be true when the transaction is anonymous, but when it comes to big crimes, it gets a little more iffy when you knowingly aid the perpetrator in his/her plan.
I didnt RTFA or talk to the sales clerk, but if he had reason to believe she was going to commit a crime, he better be worried about helping out. It doesn't matter if the girl told him what she was going to do, or implied it, or remarked offhand to someone else. To see my point, just try an offhand remark to a friend about a bomb in your suitcase at an airport. If security staff overhear it, you will be in a world of trouble and this isn't just in the USA.

Yea.. N900 battery not fall out. USB port fall out. Shitty quality. Not buying Nokia any more.

The primates argument is a strong one against social conditioning. My wife and I both believe that women are genetically less apt to like certain types of work than men. Her IQ approaches a mensa measured 200 and she used to be far better at maths than I ever was, but she couldn't care less for maths or computers. She places the reason for it in that she's more interested in things she can directly apply to her life and to people she interacts with. Evidence of the superficiality of her not liking computers is that as soon as computers became a social tool, she began taking an interest in them more. She has always pushed for a better smartphone, and now she's doing a .com startup. She just isn't doing it for technical reasons, but for the interaction that she can get.

I'm the opposite: I enjoy making airplane models, or thinking up abstract things I think it helps me to understand the world, but she's right to say that I don't work at the level, where the result of my work has a direct and immediate effect on life. This post, for example is a veritable waste of my practical time.

Our conclusion is that women tend to fields that somehow include a large amount of social interaction and pragmatism, while men are perfectly fine doing things in which they can be alone and where the practicality is more removed (although not necessarily absent). More than that: women can relax in highly social work, while men are more able to relax in loner work. The ability to relax and enjoy doing something is the biggest indicator of how we are wired, as opposed to conditioned, to behave.

IT is a lot about working alone. Even though you work in teams in IT, the large majority of guys who go into IT do not like to interact with others (the typical developer drives me nuts, when I try to get him to understand how what he's doing is practical). When I build IT teams, I find that I need both social types and loner types, with an emphasis on universality of each. The team ends up consisting of someone who speaks business and is responsible for communication and a team of folks who prefer to work semi-alone and develop based on the documented requirements. It just so happens, that it's easier to find girls to fit the business analyst role than the lone developer role. The girl analysts do like IT projects, but they like them for different reasons than the guys. The girl's ability to think logically, work hard for their money and like the IT systems we produce tends to be similar to guys, but with different emphasis.

I think the resulting small amount of women in IT is simply because IT requires less social interaction than project management or sales. I find that women are no less driven, intelligent, and capable than men. They just gravitate to more social types of work, which IT often isn't.

I'm assuming the noise is more due to the mic cutting out than actual sound that the rocket made. Are there mics that can capture the roar, so it can be played back in DTS? :)

I'm not sure his over the air power transmittion would eliminate TV or radio. It was supposed to be thorugh capacitance vibrations. Transmitting information via an electromagnetically vibrating atmosphere might hit the same hurdles as ethernet over power lines. Off the top of my head I don't see any reason other than business that his towers of power wouldn't work along side of radio communication. But then again, I almost failed electromagnetics.

Agreed. Consider FB somewhat like waiving your miranda rights. It really doesn't matter how careful you are about what you say, because you really have not control about how it will be used. If push comes to shove, anything you say can and will (not might and may) be used against you. You can never really escape this, so this post is also subject to a potential thought policing. Nevertheless, relinquishing control of your communication is something best avoided, so you can have a hope in controlling how it is used if you do get into trouble.

Life is like a box of dildos, you never know which one they'll use on you.

For me, my children, my grandchildren, my great grandchildren, and their great grandchildrent, and many many more... yes.

Yes. I didn't last too long on the arcades. A Mortal Combat match against a buddy never really lasted 15 minutes. I can't remember if you could just take your time and not have it time out, but that wasn't the goal exactly. I remember the games being short enough, that the depletion of quarters were more of a buzzkill than the game was a buzz. If you got good enough to spend 15 mins at a game, you probably spent a good deal of money to be good enough to do that.

Anyway, looks like I got modded -1 disagree up there.

Dude, I live in a slavic country now, but I've lived in Canada as a kid, and I really haven't noticed games to be too expensive in slavic country. You want to see expensive gaming? Remember the 80s? It cost a full quarter to play for one minute at the local arcade. And NES games cost $80. This is all in 1987 dollars. Those were expensive games.

Just to give you some perspective, when I was a teenager, it took me half a year of bagging groceries at a local supermarket to collect up $1500 to buy myself a windsurfing rig.. a beat up used one. Now that's an expensive hobby, and you're complaining that games are expensive? You must be joking! Get a life and stop pirating, because nobody's forcing you to do it.

They don't actually fly through the windshield. They take it with them. It's messy.

Well, numbers are abstract. I'm not sure how a number line representation, which can take real shape would be an intuitive extension of an artificial concept. It isn't. Actually, it's the other way around, I would think. The number lines help us understand numbers and it's numbers that aren't intuitive.