I thought the only time one would consider a ChromeBook is when you expect to have easy internet access at all time and not some crappy 3G connection.

My dad is thinking of getting a car but he lives in the ocean. Is there some way for him to get to the grocery store? I have an Arduino and and a Raspberry pi.

Poseidon

Give the poor guy a break. He's got a PhD in the sociology of computer science. He's got to do something with that degree. This seems about as useful as anything you can do with a PhD in the sociology of computer science. What else is he gonna do?

I sold in 2008 for $7.20 and bought aapl

I sold my Ford stock a few years ago when I saw they were teaming up with M$ for their in-dash info and music system. What were they thinking?

I like this interpretation of Joe Cocker at Woodstock

here

I'm against it, that's all. That's all you wanted, right?

This is nonsense. I learned a little programming back in chemistry undergrad when they decided to use x-ray diffraction calculations to teach us some FORTRAN. I've been programming here and there since. Some of it has even been useful. I wrote a number of HyperCards back in the day and really liked the environment. It was quick and easy to put together a nice little program for specific tasks. There was a low barrier to entry and it was easy to make useful things that you could never find an IT whiz to do for you.

Here's the problem. It's a lot easier and more likely to happen that a chemist learns a little programming to get a job done than to try to teach chemistry to a programmer and get his management to approve him spending the time. If a project ever gets escalated to where "real' programmers are needed, the scientists can, at least, have realistic expectations and do a better job explaining the problem. I've helped with the design of data models, which greatly lowered a project's complexity, because I knew a lot more about how the data was used.

I have a good knowledge of my limitations. I now have a pretty good knowledge of yours except that I don't know who you are.

I've given about 90+ pints over the years. Too bad my kids are out of college. I guess I'm not in China either. Maybe we could institute some Social Security points so that I could retire earlier.

I would agree. I haven't done the statistics on who made what when, but I've taken a boat load of those stupid CFL lights to the recycle bin at Lowe's. At least with the old incandescents I didn't feel so bad about tossing them in the trash. And they're cheaper and give off nicer light. The LED's we've tried seem to last and the light is about the same as the incandescents. So I plan to skip the CFL technology and move to LED, slowly. To help counter the greater cost, I bought some Cree stock.

Don't do it, man! You'll have a hard time finding a good (read interesting) job without a PhD and with a PhD, you'll be out of work at 50. And you'll be bitter. Oh, and that PhD needs to be from a top ten university and you need to work for a big name and you'll have to work a lot harder than you think unless you're real smart. Oh, you'll also have to do a post-doc at an even better university and with an even more famous professor. If you're real smart and lucky you can make six-figures. Maybe, till you turn 50. Then you have to find something else to do. Or maybe you can get an academic job and you'll have to work 80 hours/week for 5 to 7 years after that post-doc till you get tenure, if you do. If you don't then you start over. And you may never make six-figures. It's a lot harder to be a happy chemist these days.

I kinda feel the same way. I can't tell that 7 has solved any problems and has created a few. I now run 7 on VM fusion at work and parallels at home. Had to buy the one for home. And I had to upgrade quickbooks 2004 to 2014 ($$). I didn't do 8 cause the whole idea of putting fingers on my monitor screen freaks me out big time.

I was typing something really insightful about this and the stupid page reloaded and it all disappeared. Well, I'm not gonna type it again.

But, I will call BS on this "generalist genes" concept.

If I wanted to annoy a long time reader of Slashdot, I start putting those little ads at the bottom of the screen that cover up text just like Slashdot has started doing.

Maybe the US government should consider doing the same thing.

Build a moat. Oh yeah, get some boiling oil, too.