This matter is completely subjective - even when there is an actual school policy about such things. I have dealt with teachers who would complain to me about my child not "marching with his right arm up when told to do so"... incidentally that was a teacher who was unable to command respect from my child, and likely others.

write a more concise, coherent, and far more correct article than anything that ever comes out of Bennett Hasselton's keyboard...

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/. bs=1024 count=10

For the love of the FSM, put in a filter so that we can click "Don't want to read any more of this author's drivel"...

Sadly, you are still in Texas.

"I'd never copy code".

"I'd use that exact library".

Those are mighty fine hairs to split.

I think you're using very negative words for a very normal part of the coding process.

For example, about 20 minutes ago I needed a function to measure password strength. Could I have written it from scratch? Of course. Did I? Hell, no. That would be a needless waste of time. I used the Interwebs and had a choice of 3 or 4 perfectly good functions within about a minute.

That's how coding works today. And if you're not making use of other people's code you're not doing it right.

Just out of curiosity are there any professional programmers out there who don't regularly copy functions from the Internet?

Part of being a contemporary coder is making use of available code. Libraries of functions are "other people's code". Languages are other people's code. Etc. it's all about other people's code.

The field of artificial muscles already has multiple competing technologies which are superior to this.

For one, the amount of force generated here is problematically low. Secondly, gold? That's going to be a problem for obvious reasons.

The future is in a combination of electroactive polymers and/or electro/thermally-activated shape-memory alloys -- both of which are cheap light and flexible.

Turn to Google and look up "king tides."

The term PC was invented by IBM to describe the original IBM-PC.

Windows PC's are the descendants of the IBM-PC. Macs aren't. Which is why "PC" implies "Windows PC" everywhere and always in the software business unless it is prefixed by "Linux" or "Chrome".

The logic of what "PC" should or shouldn't mean is irrelevant. Language is a system of practice, not logic.

The entire argument in favor of modular phones is highly questionable IMHO. I see little evidence that this will represent a cost savings for consumers, that modular phones offer any serious advantages -- or that this is even something consumers want. It is also highly likely that modular phones will be larger, as modularity implies a component system that is by-definition less space-efficient than factory assembled.

A regular silicon valley salary would be an insanely good income in Florida, at least for someone in the tech industry. I left Florida to move to silicon valley, and got a very nice bump (which exceeded the living expense difference) in the process.

Of course having left Florida, I'm not sure I'd want to move back there.

If you want to accuse the HadCRUT team of fudging the numbers, hence your putting "adjustments" in scare quotes, kindly provide evidence.

Your choice of loolking at tropical temperatures and excluding polars is utterly disingenuous.

We're in 100% agreement. You're misreading the position of my comment ;)

How about using the actual global means? Same site. Same interface. Global data instead of just the tropics (keep in mind the greenhouse effect does a lot more to the poles than the tropics.)

http://woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1997/to/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1997/to/trend

Anyone not woowoo pro-globalization (usually being historically-ignorant, and pro-socialist dictatorships) has already established:

1. There are massive profit incentives in the hundreds of billions of dollars for establishing a worldwide treatise system of carbon credits, which in turn will require a common, goal-seeked understanding of global warming and anthropogenic causality.

2. This doesn't mean that the world's about to end, but we aren't doing enough to prevent profound harm to your civil rights.

Carry on. ( Non-free thinkers usually do. )