Why didn't you use MongoDB? MongoDB is web scale.

A few months ago I decided to do a complete replay of the entire Mass Effect trilogy with my 6900 series card, and I am seeing the occasional lag that didn't used to be there. I also revisited Skyrim when Dawnguard came out, and I'm seeing it there too. This machine didn't used to do this, and since I can't find anything else running that could cause the CPU to spike, I have been working on the assumption that some driver update (perhaps as far back as six months ago) has been to blame.

It's nice to see that others have been seeing this as well, and I hope something is done about it. The Radeon cards are awesome hardware, but AMD/ATI drivers have never been very good.

I'll be in my bunk.

I'll be in my bunk.

I used to do something like this, but I kept running into problems with sites having arcane rules. Some that I visit do not allow special characters at all, others limit what you can use, I have one very important site that limits me to 8 characters, and another (from the same company!) that requires 14 character passwords. Dealing with all the variety is a real pain.

The first result in Google for camradery is http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comradery. The first definition is camaraderie, so it looks like we have two valid spellings of the same word.

It's also currently in the top 1% of lookups on the site, so the slashdot effect is still alive and well.

Have a group over and watch Mars Attacks followed by Independence Day. They are practically the same movie with the same plot and many of the same tropes. And they were both released in 1996.

It's fun to talk over Independence Day and saying thinks like "and this is where Pierce Brosnan says..."

Look at it from the photons point of view. To it, it looked like you were standing still.

Ah yes, form B, the Notification of Romantic Entanglement. Just remember to stamp it five times.

It's hard to tell tone from something written, but it sounds like you might think that this is a bad thing. It is not. Sociopathy is little more than a failure to feel empathy, and is not a bad thing unless it causes someone to harm others. Sociopathy does have a correlation with criminal activity, and yes it may have a correlation with power, but it is also strongly correlated with antisocial behavior such as avoiding social situations, which I bet half the regular readers here have to some degree. It is what you do that makes you a bad person who should be locked up for others protection.

It's the perfect size for a e-reader. I have a Nexus 7 and the screen is about the size of a paperback, the screen resolution and display angles make it every bit as good as a paperback for reading, and it even weighs less than some of the larger paperbacks that I own, making it easy to hold. And with the wireless connection, it is an excellent device for email, web browsing, and so on. If I hadn't bought this, I probably would have bought a Kindle (with a 7" screen, I might add).

I personally think that the 10" screen is better for some things (like movies and documents designed for 8.5"x11"), but for casual internet and book reading, the 7" screen size rules.

I haven't had any luck with programs using OpenGL or with compositing, but then again I haven't tried all that hard, so there might be a way to do these things. Wayland supports remote desktops, which I find more useful than remoting individual applications, but I can see why network transparency matters to some people.

I completely agree with this. When I went to school we were introduced a topic and a language to demonstrate the topic. The purpose of the course was to teach programming concepts, not languages. I can still remember some of my course titles (Structured Programming with Pascal, Data Structures with Pascal, Systems Programming with C, Object Orientation with C++, GUI Programming with Delphi, AI Programming with Lisp and Prolog, and so on). The languages weren't always ideal for the course (Smalltalk would have been better than C++ for introducing Object Orientation) but for the most part this approach worked well.

There were also 1 credit hour 200 level courses for specific languages (I remember Java, Perl, COBOL, and FORTRAN) but CS students could only get credit for a few of these (though CIS students were expected to take a lot more).

I prefer /tmp to use tmpfs, but that may be my Solaris background talking.

One potential downside to having /var on a separate drive is that you now have two drives that can prevent you from booting instead of one. This isn't that big of a deal, but it is something you should plan for.

Probably no correlation at all. Those who can, do. Those who can't, write (or teach).