The problem is it's just too expensive. All of our road signs are in imperial. All of our building codes are in imperial. All of our tools are imperial. Many standard building materials like pipes are measured in imperial and then converted to metric for the rest of world anyway (if you've ever wondered why they sell weird sizes like 31.8mm, it's because it's 1 1/4 inches).

Space probes run on a couple of lightbulbs worth of power for flight control, communications, instruments and sometimes heat source combined. For example, Curiosity, the newest Mars rover runs on 125 watts of usable power.

What if the security questions you're answering are for your email account? Gmail and others have options for 2 factor auth, where a text is sent to your phone, but it's usually entirely optional.

I thought this explanation was developed several years ago? Is it just a new analysis confirming the results?

Those mountains of data are more like molehill's by today's standards.

Well, it was free up until today, and now you can pay $50 per year per person for it. It's only marketed to businesses, but they don't check to make sure you're a business when you sign up, anyone can use it.

I guess most of the tempfile stuff I've worked with has been in Python and Ruby, where the std lib has functions to create tempfiles, and you don't have to worry much about file paths or name collisions or having to set the correct file permissions. Presumably there are similar third party libs for languages lacking these features in the std lib.

I haven't done much windows development, are the semantics of C:\temp different from /tmp? Why is writing to it a bad idea?

There are just as many horribly buggy, slow, and insecure Javascript/HTML sites. I've done some Flex work, and AS3 is a very solid platform. Mozilla's original Javascript JIT was an offshoot of the AS3 JIT, and I'm sure some AS3 features had a lot of influence on web standards such as WebWorkers. Now if the browsers could only agree on a standard for an efficient binary serialization format with object references like AMF....

The project is targeting HTML5 capable browsers, this will not work in IE8, or whatever crusty browser you're still using in the hinter land.

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3.5" platter drivers are not exactly a hot growth area. The big HDD manufacturers had state of the art, super efficient assembly lines, but they are probably unwilling to spend the money required to get back to 100%, since investing the same amount of money in SSD assembly would likely have a much bigger payoff. If I was an HDD company I would spend just enough to get HDD assembly back to 80%, while investing the rest in growth areas like SSD.

The unemployment rate for those majors would like to disagree with you: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_162-57324669/25-college-majors-with-lowest-unemployment-rates/ It's different with the S (especially if you're going into academics), but if you can't find a decent paying TEM job, then you either need to move to a different area, or you're not very good. The unemployment rate for Computer Scientists, Mathematicians, and Engineers of all fields is below 5% nation wide, and significantly lower than that in most major metro areas.

Liberal arts have already been thrown under the bus at most schools. A 700 person humanities or communications class costs far less to teach than the students are paying in tuition, which helps offset STEM classes that cost far more than what students are paying. Why do you think schools have gen-ed requirements? They are there to subsidizes higher level classes that would be too expensive to teach on their own.

I used to work at a University and I would say it has more to do with the Administration's boner for new multimillion dollar construction projects. Does your campus really need a $50 million dollar rec center or a $150 million student union?