All of those resources will last for an infinite amount of time because at some point they'll be too dilute, hence costly, to extract. That metric is meaningless.

What matters is what flow rate you can get out at a cost that's acceptable to the economy, and by that measure we're running out of oil and have so for a couple of years, since we're now scraping the bottle of the barrel with tight oil and tar sand. Now that tight oil is peaking it's probably a matter of a few years until we reach peak total liquids. But by then the statistics will probably lump other fossil fuels in with liquid hydrocarbons so the graph doesn't look lousy, just as they did when they lumped various type of nonconventional oil, NGL and biofuels in with crude and called it all "oil." With the old style of EIA/IEA reporting the peak would be too obvious.

FTA: "A touchpad configuration module has been added" This is the one configuration took that has been missing from KDE since the upgrade from 3.5. The activities based power management is also a long awaited feature (turn off powersaving / sleep / hybernate when in presentation mode). Other than that the rest appears to be eye candy. Still waiting for automatic activity settings based on locally sensed wifi.... (I still need to manually change my external monitor setting every time I get into work / home).

Well since the Reddit is the one forking over the money, their proposed model doesn't match grocery shopping either: "When was the last time you got to the checkout register and refused to buy products until the merchant agreed to your pricing?"

Why should any employer want the school system to educate students to do anything useful? Heck, why are we funding education at all? By your argument, employers that want people to be able to keep books (add and subtract), or email (read and write) or treat patients (science) should be funding these things them selves. This is the same sort of BS circular logic people like to give as to why we shouldn't tax companies that depend on public infrastructure (since they just pass the costs onto customers anyway). Stop jerking your self off to Ann Rand and wake up!

> Make sure that everyone knows what they're supposed to do

Easy. Just fix those 5 P1 bugs by tomorrow.

Dude, have you never heard of synergy? All that noise around you is nothing but synergy and it'll improve your productivity !!1!

Amen. Unfortunately cubicles are state of the art in corporate America. That's why I avoid the office like the plague.

You eat lunch? That's bad for you and your peformance. You should snack all day.

I think I am on year 8 or 9 for my Microsoft Trackball Explorer and it is still going strong. Whatever else can be said of MS, they used to make really good hardware. I have 2 new ones in the box still as well. I suspect they will outlive me.

I don't get it! If everyone (most people?) started using diceware and "there are [only] 60,466,176 different potential passphrases" wouldn't it be broken in less than a second if one can make "a trillion guesses a second"?

You can do that with any computer unless you assume BIOS or hard disk fuckery.

It's called an install disk. Separate the storage media for your data and your OS and you can reinstall your OS (or restore from a backup) when needed.

Mod parent up!

Or - "I already do"?

I'm sure it saved a lot on salaries and packages.