I must point out that "the 10 tallest NBA players ever" and "the 10 best NBA centers ever" are disjoint sets.

Tru 'dat, however "10 totally average-height individuals" is also disjoint. If you wanted your children to even have a likely chance, height is certainly desirable in this case. Being 8 ft. tall versus 7'1" might not help a whole lot, but being 7' vs. 5'10" will.

You, sir, are missing out on some parties if you stopped going to them after childhood.

It should also be considered that for many animals, a gradual increase in intelligence and brain mass isn't much of an advantage. What would a smart cow do differently? I would argue that it was not until our ancestors were 1) standing with two very dexterous spare limbs to play with, and 2) out of our natural environment where there isn't food a-plenty, that even small increases in intelligence was a big advantage. We needed to hunt (communicate and coordinate), and we had the dexterity and capability to carry items over distance that made intelligence worthwhile.

It should also be considered that for many animals, a gradual increase in intelligence and brain mass isn't much of an advantage. What would a smart cow do differently? Would a mouse be able to use tools even if it knew how to make them? Even apes smart enough to use many tools can't do so effectively because they simply lack the fine motor skills to execute. I would argue that it was not until our ancestors were 1) standing with two very dexterous spare limbs to play with, and 2) out of our natural environment where there isn't food a-plenty, that even small increases in intelligence was a big advantage. We needed to hunt (communicate and coordinate), and we had the dexterity and capability to carry items over distance that made intelligence worthwhile.

Really? I would think it would cool somewhere on the way up. Volcanic activity on the ocean floor that boils water doesn't make it to the surface as steam.

It got you to reply. You have already helped achieve his goal. Congratulations, coward.

Keeping your hands still and not moving them *helps* repetitive stress injuries??? The consensus nowadays with typing, sitting at a desk... anything repetitive, is that changing positions often is key.

Hear hear. Moreover, unless I'm mistaken, shielding is the sort of thing where, every once in a while, a neutron can manage to get through... right? Is this accounted for somehow, or is this not the case?

What ensures the detected neutron isn't just some other neutron?

Because Fedora is not a commercial product, this laptop is not an enterprise product (just in case you retort "well what about RHEL?"), and if you're going to pick a single distro to reach the most potential non-serverside users, it's Ubuntu.

I hate you.

+1!!! Linux VM for work, OSX native for the experience. Best of both worlds.

"Wrong. At least on my 2009 MB Pro 3- and 4-finger touch has been working out of the box on Ubuntu for many years." Yeah, and how many apps in Ubuntu understand and use it?

Almost exactly (hehe, see that?) what I settled on. I like OSX. It is arguably the most polished, coherent desktop OS out there. Sure, Linux understands multitouch... but it doesn't use it most places, programs don't know what to do with it. However, I work with HPC. I much much prefer to dev in Linux for that. An all-inclusive package manager is invaluable here. Yosemite has this thing where a maximized window is treated like a separate desktop. So I full screen a VM of Linux (and I have several) and it's presented as just another desktop. One little swipe of the touchpad and I can go in between them. I get the perks of OSX (battery life, compatibility with some apps I need for the workplace, etc.) and the benefits of Linux (dev ease, stronger control of the system) AND the benefit of my work being in a snapshottable VM. Truth be told, I'm actually sitting in the VM most of the time.

Not to mention being able to outright ignore init dependencies. Socket activation has the potential to allow developers to not care about dependencies at startup. It also provides a way to move past distro-specific init scripts.

The original post blindly labeled my entire generation as hipster, gentrifying assholes. The same argument comes to mind.