I donno, are there effective treatments for tinnitus? I suffer it pretty bad from years of drums in drum corps, and it makes it difficult to sleep at night, and even artificial sounds don't really work.

That explains Bob Ross' "Happy Little Trees"...

They might find themselves at the wrong-end of a trademark infringement suit if they use colors that are too close to Slashdot's as the default.

If they make a way for the user to set one's colors on the other hand, and leave not-Slashdot as the default, then they might be OK.

I have that Thinkgeek t-shirt actually...

It is mildly amusing that DC, Edison's favorite, might be better suited to an application named after the major proponent of AC, Tesla...

For me it's simply the color scheme. It turns me off to the point I just can't keep using the site. Too much red/burgundy.

How does one demonstrate knowing how to program during an interview process if one doesn't know at least a fair amount about the language and its basic methodology?

Someone might have twenty years with RPG, COBOL, FORTRAN, and DB2, but that doesn't they'll be effective in C++.

Or if people are outdoors, they actually try to drink enough cool water to survive.

One thing that the Israeli army has right is they require their soldiers to take regular water breaks if conditions are safe to do so, and they enforce that enough water is drunk each break. It's amazing how high the temps can be and still be survivable if one isn't dehydrated.

You don't need more than a crappy second-hand computer with a compiler and a couple of programming language textbooks in order to learn how to program.

How many of these pop songs caused the initial promotion of the band, in the long form, versus a truncated radio-play form? Most of these songs were distributed after their respective bands/artists were already popular, and once one is popular, one has more leeway to experiment.

What if my dishwasher is old and not as good at washing dishes as new ones, and if due to a lack of volume of dishes generated on a daily basis, dirty dishes loaded into the dishwasher might sit for a few days before being run? I don't want to attract bugs or have a stinky kitchen...

I wonder if Mars has enough other minerals to make high-grade steel as easily as on Earth, once accounting for the natural differences between the planets that we've already discussed, or if that will be a problem.

Probably none who achieved their initial popularity in the last twenty years. There are probably performers who rose to prominence before it was commonplace that still don't use it, but there probably even large numbers from that generation that have started using it as their voices have aged and their vocal control isn't what it once was.

That said, what I have heard of Lorde, which is probably only two or three songs, doesn't sound especially overproduced, but I don't know if they've tweaked anything to take it from great to outstanding or not.

Pun intended?

Are you joking? Technology has always disrupted the nature of music. Early forms of recording were very short in duration and essentially dictated the time lenggh of their contents. Popular music has had to conform to the technology, and arguably is permanently changed. How many charting pop songs over five minutes long that aren't novelty tunes can you think of?

It's hard to build in canyons and it's hard to navigate them. I expect that the earliest colonies will be built into the sides of mesas, such that the plains on which the mesas sit can be used.