Sorry to interrupt. But finding a suitable name is one of the few exciting things that I like. I feel that giving a solid name to a project gives it a good feel and motivates people. Yea.. I am one of those types.. I focus on the exterior more than the interior.

Where is this coming from ? Care to elaborate a bit further ?

Was that an Artemis Fowl reference by any chance ?

Very true indeed. True comparison of languages is really difficult because it depends on a whole lot of other factors which take higher priority while choosing a language. Just because you are choosing the latest stuff like ASP.NET MVC 4 and IIS8 won't make your code run faster.

So have you switched back to chrome now ?

Indian here. Just wanted to point that the prime minister knows very well that its a futile effort. Well, about the money, it is going to land in the pockets of politicians. That's how things work here, the prime minister is just puppet in the hands of others. Poverty is something on our blood, even if we become rich and live in modern cities, that's something hard to take out of our system.

A small sacrifice for the greater good called "technology". Its a trade off that we need to take our chances on. Anyway, this is just what the FBI is telling us. Think of all the stuff that they might already be tracking on us. Consider unauthorised wiretaps, satellite tracking, cell phone triangulation to name a few.

the pinky and the brain brain brain .... Capture the world ..

Stupid algo, stupid topic. Obviously you can't "calculate" influence by your online presence. I am surprised sites like klout even exist. And even more we are comparing Obama with Bieber, I mean come on guys..

Reminds me of Michael Crichton's "State of Fear". And btw, wasn't there an article on /. about a certain melt in the antarctic ice mass ? (I can't remember for sure whether it was in /. or not) Wonder if that was fake too..

My point is how does that make it a polluting substance ?

Okay I might be ignorant, but is caffeine a polluting substance somehow ? Suppose somehow, caffeine concentration has increased, now what ?

And if you are so hell bent on caffeine, why not check other substances like vinegar or soya sauce for that matter ?

Aah I see they use VMWare to manage the virtual machines. .. I guess Citrix is still lagging behind in the server virtualization field.

I am from Citrix ... if you know what I mean . :P

This holds true for every theory. But I guess the basic idea is that people judge themselves by the reaction from their surroundings, in this case- the society.

Lack of negative feedback is in no way the only factor in overconfidence. Too much of a positive feedback will also give overconfidence. But this theory is from a different perspective. Its just trying to point out that we are reluctant to give negative feedback and people might take it in a different way. I have to say that I do not totally agree with this view because I feel, unless you get positive feedback or what you can call "appreciation", we don't feel motivated to do better. How can a neutral situation make anybody overconfident ?

Anyways, people will continue to make radical attempts to understand society. This is a weak one.

You say you are(were..) an ardent Linux fan but you think it doesn't suffice for a desktop. I absolutely agree with the reason to not look around for every other thing just to do a simple config change or an install/reinstall, but I assume you have tried the most popular Ubuntu distribution. Were there any problems you faced in it ? Currently I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 alongside. Though I absolutely hate the Unity interface, but still from a plain user's perspective, it appears to be quite ok for a desktop operating system.