Did you miss the part about them being something like 20 orders of magnitude less energetic...?

Yeah, but it doesn't say how we are supposed to build a cosmological neutrino detector...

Yeah, and I'm one of the victims. Sleep mode wakes to a black screen. Some windows (kate, konsole...) don't reopen in new sessions; all others reopen on the 1st desktop. 'flat' icon styles are not distinctive enough (all grey). If you use the ATI driver there's no more console and you can't unlock the screen... and more. It's usable, but those things are annoying and unpolished. Particularly after years of very smooth Kubuntu upgrades.

Thanks, yes something like that. But the comments on amazon are abysmal ! And they talk about iTunes which I don't use and they don't say if you can load it in Mass Storage mode or mtp or what ?

Whoah, we must be living on different planets. In my teens I had zits, I couldn't talk to a girl to save my life, parents and teachers kept telling me I sucked, I had no money, no transportation and I could never do anything I would have wanted to (too dangerous, too expensive, too far, etc). Maybe it's the reason why I still seek new bands in my 40s... (scandinavian metal rules!)

Well, as might as well asked this here: I'm looking for a very simple mp3 player for a small kid. Only requirements are: no more than a few (real) buttons (play, stop, next), and an integrated speaker. There used to be walkmen with speakers, but I've been unable to find a small mp3 player with one (or they are full on boomboxes).

Sounds like you need to try rock climbing. The one on lead trad (placing protection yourself), not the kind on plastic you can do at the gym.

Same here. I've long wondered why climbing is so chock-full of intellectuals (somewhat less so in the US than in Europe, lots of dirtbags without a job in the former). Most climbers are engineers, researchers, etc... It's certainly not because of money because once you have harness, shoes and rope you are pretty much set for the next few years. Maybe because it's one of the few sports where you can stop and think for as long as you want (or rather as long as your arms can hold).

Nope. Various studies show that religions declined AFTER the black plague. Angry at god for having sent it maybe ?

But then if you have to use another justification, would it be as efficient at starting a war ? I say not.

Reminds me of something that happened when I was a kid (of 16). While on a trip I asked a girl out. She said no. Fine. Then at the end of the trip she asked me why I didn't ask a second time... Turns out she wanted another guy, but when that one went out with another girl she would have settled for me fine.

Relationship are complicated. Events like this make you grow up. After something like that you may be bitter for a while but then you start to understand people better... and economics too !!! If you spend your time doing video games, you won't grow up.

I've been using kubuntu everywhere: home, work and family computers. For the past few (at least 5) years, upgrades have been smooth with very few minor bugs since the kde3 -> kde4. But this time it's close to a disaster on the only machine I upgraded. They didn't do small incremental changes this time, they updated: kde4->kde5, qt4->qt5 (or the framework), whatever->systemd, lightdm->sddm.

I think the latter is the cause of all the graphic problems I've been having. If I use the fglrx graphic driver (for AMD/ATI), I cannot sleep anymore (it wakes up to a black screen) and I don't have ctrl-alt-F consoles anymore. If I use the xserver-xorg-video-ati driver, I cannot unlock the screen (it loops back to sddm). Which makes having a laptop rather useless.

And there are plenty of other issues: opened windows are lost between logins (or moved to random places, and always to the 1st desktop), all opened konsoles are lost, kate doesn't reopen files, some login screens are all white. Or all black. The date on the clock is too big and doesn't fit ! And one thing that ails me is that your preferences are not kept between KDE4 and 5. You have to spend an hour or way more to go through all the options to try and get the desktop the way you want it again.

Before I met my GF's mom, she told me that her mom looked much younger than she was, without telling me her age (or I forgot). So when I met her, she proudly asked me how old I thought she was. As a good programmer, I compensated knowing the way the bias went, and gave her a good decade more than she actually was. She didn't appreciate. Yeah, social skills, blah, blah, blah...

But, if they call it an engine, it must have a lot more specific impulse / momentum than just beaming microwaves off the back of the device. You CAN move by pointing a flashlight the opposite way (in space), but the acceleration is so low that you'll be dead of old age before you've moved a meter. So this must clearly be different and quite a few orders of magnitude better.

I don't understand how those lab technicians are not in jail for criminal incompetence.