Moto X was a relatively expensive phone, with low specs. If you had $600 dollars to spend on a phone (either yourself or through contract subsidies), there would be very little reason to pick Moto X. The main attraction of the Moto X is that there are many variants in terms of colors and materials, and that's what you pay a premium for. Problem is, in this price range you already have lots of choices for very nicely designed phones, many with better specs. What's left is a niche market that is willing to pay a premium for stuff like a wooden phone back on a otherwise mediocre phone. That's still some market. However, I don't see how you can expect that to sell as well as a cheap phone with good specs like Moto G.

Also, the article suggests in tone that Moto X and phones like Moto X sell better in asia, but the fact is Moto X hasn't sold well anywhere. It's just completely different phones like Moto G that are doing well.

The comments back then were so much better that this link made me homesick for good old Slashdot. Still entertaining to read, but what happened?

I agree that most of what is written there sounds like nonsense, but to be pedantic, carbon as the name of an organic substance predates the discovery of atoms by a vast amount of time. To be even more pedantic, a common definition of an organic compound is that the molecule contains carbon.

Note the 'Virgin Galactic astronaut wings', not Nasa or US. Nothing is stopping you from handing out Mobydisk Astronaut Wings for playing Kerbal.

If you have a site where an attacker would have bothered with the elaborate process of getting the private key, and then do MITM attacks with it on users, and it would actually matter, you wouldn't have used StartSSL in the first place, and $25 would be absolutely nothing for you.

Hint: not you

Both of our KDE's use much more resources than XFCE or LXDE. And it's worth it. But that's still the facts.

And if you want to use name KDE SC for the set of programs everyone has always called KDE, be my guest. I will keep using the term KDE, thank you very much.

That's just doublespeak to cloud the issue of KDE not being lightweight... He mentions all the right factors himself: low memory, low cpu use, fast, not too many features. His complaint seems to be that there is no definition of a cutoff point from where something ceases to be lightweight. That's like saying you can't call an airplane fast transportation, because there is no fixed definition of 'fast'. However, most people who say an airplane is fast are comparing it to cars, walking, boats, etc. They are not referring to comparisons with the speed of light. And, lets be honest here, if a desktop environment is being called lightweight, that means compared to KDE and Gnome. Don't tell me you can not be more memory, CPU, feature and speed efficient than those two.

Disclaimer: I love KDE, use it every day and I happily trade my resources in for the features I get for it.

If Netflix could get away with raising prices without losing too many customers, do you think they wouldn't have done it regardless of this event?

For 95% of non-commodity products, the only factor in setting a price is what the client is willing to pay for it. Cost has some influence there, but it's not nearly as direct as many people seem to think.

This will probably just eat into the margins of Netflix.

To be fair, this is more of an airline issue than a TSA issue. As long as he has proper ID, passes security, and doesn't pose a threat, the TSA likely won't care one way or another. They never cared about fake tickets that could get you through security before in any case.

Of course, being able to get on a flight with this is new, so maybe they will suddenly start caring.

And of course, it may be 30k in lost revenue, but their actual cost per unit, including shipping, was probably closer to $5. I'd be surprised if they actually lost more than 10k on this.

I guess it wouldn't hurt to have static typing in PHP, but for the love of god, why not just pick a more standard syntax?

Some of their examples:

?hh
function f1(): ?resource { ...
}

public function bar(): (string, string) {

Might look good in some languages, but in PHP I would really expect that type before the function name.

Quite the contrary, if the customer didn't want this, they wouldn't care about it.

Don't be silly, the Mayan gods that went there first have been dead for over a year.

Thiefs like money?

The fact that all the answers so far point to VIM is no coincidence: VIM is actually winning that war.