while you're correct, *everybody* feeling like they are helping by turning off a light would actually amount to something, a fraction of a fraction though it may be. i don't go out of my way but i do buy energy efficient tech where performance doesn't matter, set up my desktops to go to sleep after an hour or so (they way i use them it doesn't bother me), use a raspberry pi as my server etc. at worst i'm making bugger all effort to make my power bill cheaper.

100% agree, at this stage there's no way they beat the effort vs reward break point. i'll probably buy in before they get as good as what you've described but it will probably be 10 years before they get good enough to be interesting to me.

i wish that were true, IE still has enough marketshare to make it a pain in the arse for anyone developing web apps for businesses, hell i was pretty pumped when we stopped supporting IE7 *this year*

the problem is that the standards body for ecmascript is so fucking slow and actually getting browsers to support the next version is even slower.
this causes people to think that maybe they can create their own ecosystem and bypass all the bullshit, what really needs to happen is someone forces everyone to stop fucking around and do it one way, not that i have any hope or belief that this is even possible.

he was providing an example of something that didn't end up as "a pile of turds smothered in 3 year old rotten turdonnaise, on a turdseed bun". not that i can talk, i tried knockout.js and decided this style of programming wasn't for me in the short term so i haven't tried angular.

you misunderstand me i think, i don't care in the slightest if people upgrade windows as the only part of that that effects me is the browser version. I still have to support ie8 at work and while that's a massive step up from the old ie6 days it still pisses me off.

my other point was that they're not doing themselves any favours by not allowing older windows versions install newer versions of ie as they're just pissing off users into switching away from ie since it's free to do so, not pissing them off into upgrading windows. eroding one very important market share for marginal at best gains in another if you will.

start by removing the OS restrictions, maybe you think limiting late versions of IE to windows 8 is a selling point for windows, but it just makes people download a browser that supports their operating system and makes web devs pissed off at having to support 3 different versions of IE, 2 of which suck donkey cock.

run dnsmasq on one of your linux boxes
point all your machines to that box as their dns server
add your local devices to the dnsmasq box's /etc/hosts like a so (pick your own domain name ofc):
192.168.1.200 server.l
192.168.1.70 panapi.l
192.168.1.80 sonypi.l
192.168.1.31 mini.l
dnsmasq will just get anything that's not in /etc/hosts from whatever that box's dns server is

also works with ip6 addresses

australia has just committed to buying 12 billion bucks worth of em as well, they much have some fucking slick sales guys

it's about a 30% cost of living increase to a 100% increase in minimum wage (depending on state ofc, but most of the US minimum wage bumps have been quite recent). the US already has a much higher youth unemployment so i'm not sure what you're going for there.

no serious economist? at *worst* economists are 50/50 on the subject, so you can shove that BS right back where it came from.

is it? that's about australia's minimum wage and the sun seems to be still shining over here.

this is what makes me angry about people bitching about minimum wage increases. there are *so* many countries with much higher minimum wages that you could quite easily look at to see the result of said changes.

here's a hint, the worse off are much less so.

people who drop prices to compete with walmart are idiots, as if they could compete on price, better to compete on quality, service or image, which are all actually easily achievable in comparison to walmart.

my guess is (yes it is a guess, as if anyone can do more) is that RT will die and some metro support will be required if you want to be a first class citizen on windows tablets, which people seem to like so it might be worth it if the market continues to grow.