The magazines the wife reads are 90% ads. She sometimes has to flip 5-10 pages of nothing but ads to continue reading.

I can't believe anyone actually uses that to try and guilt people into not blocking ads.

Yet it is the "red" states that get more from the feds than they pay in and the "blue" states that do not, which means that those "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" states are welfare states.

The whole blue/red state thing is a stupid divisive tool.

Outside of 4-5 counties, Washington is deep red, although with a strong libertarian bend. Remove Whatcom county at the Canadian Border down to Thurston Country at the south of Puget Sound and Washington is no different and just as backwards as Idaho.

You mean the hundreds of large companies that employ people to work on the Linux kernel because Linux is such an important part of their business?

That Linux?

What does a kernel have to do with the success on the desktop? If you want to talk about a complete OS, the kernel is but one piece and I challenge you to find a mainstream Linux distro that is more difficult to install than Windows.

I just built a new machine a few month back that I dual boot. I had OpenSUSE installed, fully configured including drivers, dev tools(even third party tools like RubyMine) and updated inside 45 minutes.

After 45 minutes, Windows 7 wasn't even 10% done with updates, much less have useful drivers and apps on it.

None of that has anything to do with the subject at hand: the Linux kernel is an example of a successful project where its devs are scattered to the wind, and unlike a company that lets its programmers work at home, Linux devs are employed by many competing interests, that Linus successfully wrangles them to keep the kernel functional and coherent is a testament to his abilities as a project manager.

Claiming that the Linux kernel isn't one of the biggest successes is to ignore the reality that it runs everywhere, from the smallest machines to the most powerful supercomputing clusters and is a success on two planets.

Even if the average skill level of the workforce tripled, there would still be standouts.

Was the OP claiming to be a billionaire?

Its called keeping busy. If a person feels that they have a purpose in life after retirement, they tend to live longer, all other things being equal.

I know a university that has an entire class B block and they claim that they need them because they pass them out to anyone connecting to wifi on campus. In reality they could get by with maybe 20 addresses, at most.

Yup, connect your laptop on campus and you have an internet routable address.

There is lots of address waste.

Blaming SSRI's is just as lazy and ignorant as blaming guns.

Just because you didn't need them, that doesn't mean everyone with depression could get by. It is dangerous and stupid to take your case and apply it to all.

Some people don't have any side-effects taking an anti-depressant and someone else might feel like they got hit by a wrecking ball. I have known people taking the same medication react completely differently. I know without a doubt that one of my friends would have been long dead without antidepressants and she is functional and productive because of them and the side effects she gets are very minor.

SSRI's do kind of suck though. SNRI's and NaSSa's are usually better when SSRI's either don't work or cause bad side-effects.

Not really. $320 is a lot of food money for the family living on $30,000.

It may be the same percentage, but after a certain amount, it doesn't affect your lifestyle(or business) in any real sense.

You think that if Bill Gates lost 1/2 billion overnight, his life would change at all?

I guarantee that the family will feel the loss of $320 far more than Gates or Apple losing $500,000,000.

The fine is a joke. The US needs to start adding in punitive damages to corporate bad behaviour. Off the cuff numbers: If the price fixing gave Apple $1 billion in profit, the fine should be $4 billion.

Even with the fines, it is more profitable to behave badly than it is to be honest. Apple would do it all over again, except try a little harder to get away with it.

Yeah, that is funny.

The fact that a pesky little thing called freedom of association escaped him. It was made all the more sad that he failed to understand that being a dirty commie, is not in itself illegal.

Things started to really devolve after McCarthy's witch, I mean red hunts.

Damn slashdot ate my ruby code in my first post. Between the l and r is supposed to be the "spaceship" operator.

The comparator is a bad thing and something that is no longer needed.

That is excess boilerplate which you seem to not understand.

A mutator that does nothing than store the value passed into it is exactly like exposing public variables. There is no difference at all.

Being able to hide the name of a variable is hardly of any value.

String tmp = myStrings.get(0);

The compiler will issue a warning because Java is as stupid as C++

You keep proving over and over that Java programmers are no better than the PHP clowns, you're just a bunch of API monkeys.

for and while loops are syntactic sugar for GOTO's.

What do you think they compile down to?

smh