One of the tell-tale signs of the quality of a country's democracy in the internet age is the difference in upload versus download bandwidth allocated to the average internet user. Do the people get a voice, or is the internet a receive-only medium?

Cost of living (COL) is one thing... quality of life (QOL) is another. I moved from Colorado to Chicago. I did that because the pay was better and it seemed that the COL was about equivalent based on a number of online COL calculators. What one realizes when one gets here is that the COL for the same QOL is actually quite a bit higher. Now, I feel like I came out ahead, but not as far ahead as I had imagined.

Here's the deal: the COL is based on the average cost of housing, food, energy, transportation, taxes, etc; the stuff that makes up the average household budget. Housing and taxes typically account for the largest factors in COL differences. For Chicago, housing prices includes some real hell-holes, where the likelihood of getting shot is higher than some places in the world we consider war zones. This accounts for a surprisingly large part of the city's south and west sides. Buying a home in a "safe" part of the city is rather expensive, or one lives way out in the suburbs and spends hours and $$$ commuting each day. Overall, the average quality of life for the same income in Chicago is much lower.

So, if you consider moving for money, take into account not just COL but also QOL.

I have yet to see an online COL calculator take both into account. If you know of one, post a link.

10000? Are you sure?

Who knew that PL/I was still a thing? Hell, even IBM is releasing a compiler update for this language. Somehow it is about as popular as D.

Really? For 4W TDP? Versus the top tier Intel i7 @ 47W? It depends on what you are measuring.

In Soviet Russia, Beowulf cluster imagines you!

Some lawyer is going to make a boatload when he organizes the class action lawsuit against CNET and download.com. There's money to be made here.

You no longer hear a skipping record as the needle hits a scratch and bounces out of the track. Or pops and clicks from dust. Or the pop of the needle jumping the groove every other second when you've reached the end of the record.

Transferring an ice moon across Earth's orbit is something I'd rather avoid for the next 50 years or so. You are welcome to play planetary billiards when I'm gone. Thanks.

Test it against people with fake brains.

Marxism is a religion? If that is the case then Capitalism is a religion.

OK, I see your point.

Well, they are not languages that you will be paid to program in either. The are domain-specific knowledge that a programmer in a common language (C++, Java) may need to know for a specific job. Companies may be looking for a "C++ programmer for network development that preferably knows ASN.1". If they are hiring an "ASN.1 programmer for network development that preferably knows C++", run away fast.

If it were autonomous, you'd be free and clear. But this "semi-autonomous" bit leads me to believe you were semi-involved.