But what was the influence of social media on the build up to this shift?

You want a browser to auto-update, though (or have it be handled by something like Windows Update, APT, yum etc.)

If a browser doesn't update, your freedom and privacy is at risk and assuming the current story is a bug, that's how it gets fixed. Silly maybe but there's no way around it. Or use a browser that doesn't know about javascript, video, sound, mics etc.

Not everyone can be Valve or Blizzard, and Valve has that game free (as well as a couple other) so that they can gain a lot of Steam users, which then gives them new revenue unrelated to the game. They will even lure users to an OS where you almost cannot run games outside of Steam (I'm not putting a judgement on that, just reporting a fact)

Citation needed. I thought the whole business of Valve was to take a cut on everything that happened on their platform. They invented the "app store" model.

Having so few memory on such a powerful computer is a shame, it is very worth looking for that stick of DRAM.
XFCE is about the same weight as Mate, I think you would be better off running LXDE with XFCE's window manager and then there's a little GUI named something like xfwm4-advanced-settings where you can toggle that little option you're after.

That's because 4-year-old is not "old". A PC from that era probably even came with Windows 64 bit out of the box.

Being hot is enough of a reason to emit light (see a classic lightbulb, tiny metal threads are heated at around 3000 Kelvin and they don't burn, else the bulb fails).
In fact, in that weren't true then the flames over an open wood fire wouldn't emit light either. My guess is we have "flames" simply made of hot air when the gun fires, instead of a flame made of combustion products.

Thanks! so General Atomics won.

The huge energy storage is ultimately the ship's diesel fuel, or what variant of heavy fuel oil it uses. That makes the logistics and storage easy (more accurately, already done).

That's ten-year-old news!, reporting is going a bit slow today.
The railgun's projectile is to have an energy of 64 Megajoules. The DD(X) frigate (or destroyer, I don't know the difference much) was originally a candidate for getting a railgun ; that was canned at some point I think.

Here's a video with some testing and stuff done in October 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I had not watched it back then, I remember the high res, short one that simply showed the bangs and shot, I don't remember in which year. Sadly the PDF I remember from 2004 with schematic line drawings is offline ( http://www.battelle.org/navy/r... )
Here's one railgun news article from 2004. http://www.popsci.com/scitech/...

Depends on what's the "linux version", there must be many of them. I have the Gnome 3 version here, it seems to require me to guess. I think Gnome 2's version would give you bomb on first click, which even the Windows 3.0 version avoided (I believe the board is generated after first click?)

If you don't care about licensing, I found stock Server 2003 to be a very good "XPlite" installation.

About ExpressCard, it seems to be rare. The next big thing will maybe be Thunderbolt to RS232 adapters, ROFL.

What does "sensible surfing" mean? I find the notion pointless. You ought to be able to visit any random site or page. If not, "sensible surfing" means javascript disabled, all plugins disabled etc., maybe even pictures disabled. You might as well use only Lynx as your browser on Windows XP. Seriously.

Regarding e-mail, I do disable images in my webmail's options, but that's so I'm free to open even spams without the sender knowing it.

There was a Rama video game in the mid-90s which seemed to suck. I had it. A bit pretentious, lifeless and too many CD-ROM reads for its own good ; I never got far then forgot about it.

Did you try changing the thermal paste? (and maybe have some power management control to prevent it going above 2GHz..)

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.