Esperanto failed because it was artificial, created from theories on language that were popular at the time and not created naturally out of actual human communication. I'd think that any serious attempt to use Klingon as a REAL language would fail for the same reason. However, we have in this child's brain a language generation machine. It's possible that he "fixes" the Klingon language, turning it into a true human language worthy of serious study. God knows that Chomsky would have done to get to study this child (and father).

(F.Y.I - In reality, I seriously object to experimenting on children this way. It is really interesting though.)

or we start treating it like a war
instead of a police action

It would be a lot easier to treat what is going on in Iraq or Afghanistan like a war instead of a police action if they were actions conducted between states with distinct geographic bases rather than an efforts to suppress the elements of populations which are dissatisfied to the point of violence with the regimes established over the regions in which those populations exists.

I doubt we could have won WW2 under the rules we use now

Yes, its generally difficult to win an interstate war if you treat it as a counterinsurgency action. Of course, the reverse is also true. Applying the methods used to win WW2 to the operations in Afghanistan or Iraq wouldn't end the insurgency in either place.

...AND it would promote the .NET platform to a wider audience who might then be more willing to try other .NET apps after having a good experience with Paint.NET.

If they know what that means. Everybody that I tell about the software is intially confused.

Me: "It's called Paint.NET."
Them: "Oh, so www..."
Me: "No, sorry, it's not a website. It's a program you install."
Them: "What?"
Me: "It's built on a thing called the .NET platform, and I don't know why they included that in the name."
Them: "Oh."
Me: "But it's really good!"

How about I develop a game that caters EXACTLY what the Chinese government would like, and then they use their overpowered censorship and propoganda to promote it and only it...

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Profit?

GIMP isn't ready for serious users because its called GIMP.

I'm not familiar with the negative association you mention, but I do have a negative association with the word "Gimp": it's slang for a crippled person. Just what I need: software that hobbles along!

One thing that Linux seriously needs to get over is the need to name everything with acronyms. Mozilla didn't call their browser the Standard Link-browsing Universal Gui, because SLUG is a horrible name for a browser. And GIMP is a horrible name for... well, anything.

Then the icon is this crazed badger or something. I'm confused from the get-go.

The complete lack of marketing savvy is one thing that gives Linux the "not ready for prime time" public image. At least Ubuntu makes software that doesn't scare people.

Easy to say, easy to Prove? I'm not convinced. I work with Artists, and Graphic Artists at a national graphics company. These artists beat the drum for anything Adobe, but in a AS3 program, you can't import an *.AI, *.EPS, or *.PS file; why? I can with GIMP. Then I convert it to *.PNG, or *.SVG, and AS3 can import it; why do I have to jump through these hoops? I can say this, "I'm richer for Adobe's clumsiness."

That won't work. The problem starts at step 2. If the top layer isn't reflective, then as it "boils away" it will convert incoming energy from the laser into heat efficiently enough to destroy any reflective layer that might be under it.

Even if that weren't the case, you'd still have a problem at step 3, because your reflective surface will still absorb too much energy. An expensive mirror that's new, clean, and in perfect condition would still absorb 5% of the energy hitting it in lab conditions. In the air, in combat conditions, coated with goo from the stealth paint that just got burned off of it, the reflective layer wouldn't last even a measurable fraction of a second.

Funny, I thought Moore's Law predicts transistor density (at the lowest price point) will double.

Is there a map for this?

And has been known for a while. Oddly, this vulnerability is the easiest way to secure the greater vulnerability in the router.

Funny enough, I was reading an angry comment from a Python user from China this morning, who has no idea why python's offical website was black-listed by the GFW.