Wow, that must be rare, there can't be more than about a hundred of those.

HOLY SHIT!!! That's crazy! [discretely turns to friend and whispers, "what the hell is a cyno?"]

It's not fair that those who use less should have to pay for the rich (data users). The rich (data users) should be subsidizing those who have less (data use). [I don't necessarily subscribe to the view, but the "tax the rich" parallel is interesting.]

Emacs will settle on git, vim has settled on mercurial. Oh, how delicious!

Apple must be giddy. Coca-Cola almost went with PC addresses.

What about the porn industry? Don't they kind of lead the herd in coming up with clever uses for such technology?

A couple of the photos show the explorers. My immediate thought was how ill equipped for the cold they look by today's standards. Then I started wondering about space suits. They obviously can withstand the cold and also have some durability for the elements given that on earth astronauts train wearing them under water. What are some practical limitations of space suits (perhaps modified to, e.g., not have to carry oxygen) that make them impracticable for working near the poles?

Damn it. Didn't realize I wasn't logged-in.

Clippy would've made the baker's dozen list.

I think this has been severely underemphasized and is missing a dynamic. There are compelling arguments to evaluate whether social justice is doing more harm than good. http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/dec/03/ideology-of-victimhood-hampers-those-at-the-bottom/

I think this extends to many Microsoft technologies. I predict that some years from now programmers/maintainers of the Microsoft development ecosystem will be the COBOL programmers of the 21st century.

The problems with Common Core are manifold, from the (lack of) primary research behind it, to the squishiness of the outcomes. Here's a nice quote: "even if they said 3 X 4 was 11, if they were able to explain their reasoning and explain how they came up with their answer, really in words and oral explanations and they showed it in a picture but they just got the final number wrong; we’re really more focusing on the how and the why." (Fuzzy Math)

Since 1970 we've more than doubled per-pupil spending on primary and secondary students in real dollars (National Center for Education Statistics) with little to show in academic improvement. <sarcasm>But hey! We've found the problem! What we need to do is yoke all 50 states to a common set of education standards! That'll help!</sarcasm>

I abhor the intelligent design crap that some states try to shove into primary and secondary school curricula. However, all the power to them as long as I'm free to influence the math- and science-rich curriculum I want established in my state. I find it more repugnant that the Federal government sees fit to bribe states to adopt a one-size-fits-all model.

In the fall of 1982 I saw a pre-release version of Return of the Jedi. Our high school had some connections to Lucas. An announcement was made that the front office had tickets available to a LucasFilm prescreening of "Twice Upon a Time" (I still have the large blue tickets saved away somewhere). They had booked a large theater in San Francisco for the screening. At showtime a person walked out and regretfully informed the full house that Twice Upon a Time wasn't to be shown, so instead they brought Return of the Jedi (wild cheers erupted).

Some of the special effects weren't finished, and some scenes had only rough editing. I remember several of the scenes were trimmed down quite drastically in the release version. The dance scene in Jabba's palace was really, really (really!) long. At the end of the movie we were all given a questionnaire to fill out on how we felt about various scenes.

All in all, a very cool experience for someone who grew up during the original releases of episodes 4 through 6.

That's the best way to tell

I think the best sci-fi, alien landscape, puzzle-solver mystery game I've ever played is Gnome 3