Funnily, the ADD 1 TO 1 GIVING A example seems to elude the usual computer bullshit. Semi-colon, what does that mean? a=1+1, is that assignment or test for equality? And superficially COBOL looks cool. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION, DATA DIVISION etc. that shit looks and sounds better than that old tired preprocessor crap and free-roaming braces.

In fact I guess I would like to get vocational training in COBOL and COBOL systems (getting paid while learning it) and then raking in big numbers, showing at 11 on the job and playing Tetris most of the day.

I'm getting nostalgic for Ubuntu 10.04. I didn't use it for that long sadly before moving to 11.04 (with gnome2 interface), squeeze and such. But it was great and looked great, pinnacle of accomplishment just like XP SP1/SP2 seemed to be.
Its support was ended and I don't think anyone will come up and say "hey, I'll be providing backported security updates for all the packages for the next five years"!

I find Cinnamon to be sluggish, the Gnome 3 tech behind it is heavy and the 3D acceleration came make it slower unless you have the right hardware or driver. So to me Cinnamon Mint is kind of a Vista ; Mate edition is more like XP (still slower than an XP without malware and crapware).

Nope, Windows 3.1x is kind of an operating system I believe, similar to Windows 9x in a way.
It's crude of course but was decent for what it was. If it isn't an OS then maybe Classic Mac OS was not an OS.

I've just read that in a wiki ; for old CS (1.5 and 1.6) grenades never do damage on impact.

It happens in good games too. In Counterstrike 1.x, a real headshot from highly explosive grenade is an extremely rare occurrence, I've seen it happen exactly once!
It's not just a grenade hitting your face (or head in general), detonation needs to happen at the same time. Enemy player maybe needs to be injured beforehand, as there may be no specific damage value for a grenade headshot. I'm doubting my memory, but I'm pretty sure it happened.

I now like tabs on top, it makes the URL bar easier to reach (and the search bar for occasional lusers who use my browser)
It helps that Firefox comes with the "File edit view.." menu bar intact and title bar intact by default, on the OSes I use.

Isn't there liquid water in the first place because of tidal heating? Tidal forces move some things around.
Lack of sunlight including ultraviolets is the problem I think of, especially if the ocean is pretty much sealed from the surface as you speculate though there is cryvolcanism.

But here it became an issue that spiraled out, or mothballed. The "controversy" is parasitic, or "viral". Regardless of moral opinion on this or that, the off-topic debate is a poison, I'll be more interested in end user reception of the new Firefox GUI, privacy or Firefox phones than about sticking a penis into a non-vaginal part in a monogamy context.

A laptop with A4-5000 and two slots can technically take 32GB.. but the 16GB DIMMs are a bit special and unobtainable.
Someone should make a laptop that takes four registered DIMMs, Opteron or Xeon. You would have been able to have 64GB on a laptop yesterday. Good for several niches of users.

Funnily I've switched from 1024x768 to 960x720 and I don't suffer from it that much. Slightly inaquate web pages stay slightly inadequate and the completely resolution agnostic ones stay good. At least I don't suffer from the "bug" of webpages displaying kilometer-long lines of text when the width is something from 1600 to 1920, that's the big issue with "old style" pages.

Yes using that res is inane, except I found it's a good thing to use on low end CRT, I created myself a mode at 90Hz. yay!

There's about a thousand comments in this slashdot discussion, which points at how much the issue is distracting. If he apologized and stayed CEO I bet the issue would still come up every time, this time with meta-debate about why did he rescind his position, is it pressure from Mozilla, is Mozilla infested with political correctness etc. and whatever trolls and crap still coming up.

I think the resignation is a pretty honorable act from the guy, he simply can't serve as a CEO anyway. His role as a figurehead was ruined already. Just get another figurehead.
Mozilla is not a $50 billion megacorp or a swift-boating presidential campaign, I don't think they can afford the media pollution.

Learn how to drink great quantities of alcohol without incurring headaches. Water-flavoured "beer" doesn't cut it, you'd have to drink many liters of the thing which means too many bottles or cans around and you have to take a piss too often, and end up overworking your kidneys. That isn't healthy. Booze and other spirits is expensive and toxic. Have to keep a glass of water around else your mouth, body and eventually brain will dry.. not good.
Red wine is great, and exponentially healthier when you don't get the worst products. The better the wine, the less sulfur dioxide in it (and red wine has a ton less of it than white wine). Which gets me to the bottle. Know what? it was conceived as a container for a daily dose of wine. What's more, it's the working man's daily dose. So one bottle can last for the duration of a workday, but you can have another one after work. Of course friends, coworkers and acquaintances might drink from your bottle in which case a third one is needed. If you need to wash your mouth or you feel like it, have great beer, such as micro-brews and similar, beers that are not sterilized and alcohol content typically 5% to 10%.

Once you get it going, never give up. Depression is a serious topic, lifestyle, culinary and drink habits play a good part in curbing it. You want a stable, healthy life with reliably recurring elements in it.

No real experience apart from trying quick stuff like getting the list of running processes..
It just seems rather useless and unfathomable as an end user shell for everyday common use, the way cmd.exe and bash can be used by beginners and even computer illiterate people learning the command line.
It seems made for writing admin scripts instead, replacing .vbs, similar role to using perl scripts to administrate unix machines.
It's just alien and hard and you don't know why you would use unless you're a professional Windows admin.. It's here on Windows XP, 7 and later but no one ever use it.. If you want to ping stuff and run short sequences of commands etc. there's still old cmd and batch, so why care?

Shit tons of embedded device with a user facing or operator facing display run on Windows XP embedded. They do have that market already.