Russian leaders had/have(?) no problems wasting vast amounts of plebes while incompetently prosecuting a war. This was true of both WWI and WWII. The whole "quantity has a quality of its own" thing.

Interesting article. It mentions something like "boys like balls and girls like dolls", and I hypothesize that boys like geometric shapes.

1 Make thin, fragile thing thinner.
2 Make it even easier to put it where high-tech, fragile things shouldn't go.
3 Marketing blitz.
4 Youthful customers with few responsibilities snap it up.
5 Fragile item is indeed placed in an untenable position.
6 Fragile thing is broken, necessitating a replacement purchase.
7 Profit.

...and get Daddy to buy them a new one. It's all good, they needed an upgrade anyways. You can't be cool if you can't plug your headphones in from the bottom.

I tend to agree, sometimes all it needs is a one-liner. But, ffs, in this case it is "KDevelop" for KDE. It should be obvious.

Update: re-reading my line above, I realized that yes, I too, can be blind to domain specific lingo. I get called on it occasionally at work. I describe a process in precise, exact terms, look up, and everyone is staring blankly at me. The trick is to dumb it down without being condescending*.

sr

* Dammit, did it again.

Sadly, nowadays, yes.

Your a/c post is even weaker. He stated that he was talking "about Executive power in general", and "not one that falls along party lines". This stuff has been going on for over 100 years. As a general internet post, yeah, he's not going to list every instance of executive presumption every time he needs to make a point. Obama/Bush is good enough to illustrate the examples of a hundred years of policy and practice.

"...the larger criticism should be about how our schools are failing at teaching reading comprehension."

Nowadays one only needs to be able to comprehend short, dis-jointed sentences of 140 chars or less. Probably the best use of those 140 chars is a link to xkcd to illustrate a technical or nerdy point. A link to Charlie Brown to illustrate Life Issues. Etc.

Unfortunately, we no longer teach art, either.

Good job striking down the straw man.

In Soviet Russia, video tapes record y...

Sorry. It's late. I've been working too hard. And I have a pain in the diodes all down the left side of my body.

I'm sure it's a long-time habit with you, but novices need to remember that VHS tapes are magnetic, so it helps to align the source player with the Earth's longitudinal field lines.

yeah, you don't really want to mess with old off-the-tv movies or whatever. OTOH, 3-stooges are fine :) And, of course, like many have mentioned, an old family movie of the kids when they were actually cute, or grandma when she was actually lucid, can be priceless for the family and its descendents.

Today, of course, people video their lunch, etc., so maybe not so much.

The other 1st most important thing: Clean the heads, then test your VHS recorder with a non-important tape.

" I've never created a slashdot account, even though I've participated in this website since nearly the beginning..."

What? You wasted a chance to trot out your lossless 4 digit userid every alternate All Fools Day?

Sometimes one is the fucker, and sometimes one is the fuckee.