You fail to understand what scientists know versus what they speculate about.

Making the assumption that they are even somewhat accurate about the big bang (unlikely), the math used to get there breaks down and doesn't work as the size approaches infinitely small. Everything is just speculation from unimaginative scientists who think they know what happened 14 billion years ago at some random spot that they can't even point their finger in the general direction of.

That does not mean that space was not infinitely large while at the same time infinitely small, its all a matter of perspective. Outside looking in, its infinitely small, inside looking out its infinitely large.

Note: We can't get an accurate police report 20 minutes after the event with 20 eye witnesses, but many are dead set that we KNOW what happened during the big bang. When you think about things like this, use your head and think about the police report.

I knew some asshole would try to use some bullshit like Aaron Schwartz to try and act like theres a double standard.

The reason you're hearing about this on slashdot ... IS BECAUSE THEY ARE IN FEDERAL COURT.

Seriously, its in the fucking summary, don't even need to get to the full article.

Dear Microsoft,

In case you haven't noticed, no one likes either the Firefox (or Chrome) model for updates. People who don't know any better put up with it, but no one likes it.

WTF part of your tiny little brain makes you think people want continual changes to what they are used to because YOU deem it to be better.

My job does not revolve around learning new Windows crap every couple of months, and if you try to make it that way, I'll use something else.

My screw driver doesn't change every 2 months, thats not a bad thing, get the clue you idiots, just because you're entire life revolves around making a new version of windows to justify your existence doesn't mean my life does too and trying to make it so it does means I'm going to find an alternative.

You must be a MBA.

At least read and understand 1984 before you apply it to situations that aren't really anything like that.

You don't look intelligent to anyone that matters, you make it clear you're puppeting what you've heard about 1984 than actually having read it.

Stop fucking calling it one. You share a ride to the same place with a friend.

When you communicate with a dispatcher, who then sends you a stranger driving a his car who has never met you, to take you to a destination he isn't even aware of without the dispatcher ... And then you pay him when you get there ...

That's called a taxi.

If you are too stupid to understand this then there is absolutely no way we can have a discussion about it in any form.

If you can't even understand what they do, you don't get to have an opinion on the subject.

Clear you are correct ...

Contrary to the fact that there are several major BSDs that survive off contributions from people using their software.

Contrary to the fact that even a Linux vendor contributes back to them.

Contrary to the fact that Apple gives them a fortune in both code and cash.

Contrary to the fact that Yahoo gives them a fortune in both code and cash.

Yea, no one ever contributes to the BSDs or BSD licensed people ... except, you know, all the people that do.

GPL is for liars. Its for RMS to tout as 'free' when its no such thing. Its a lie. Its free ... as in you can use it ... but you have to give me everything you do!

Hrm, you know what ... now that I think about it ... you have to be pretty fucking stupid to call any GPL software free since it is actually more restrictive than pretty much any software I use anywhere else. Even commercial libraries that matter don't require you to give them all your code.

And the only place that changed is with people who aren't afraid of the GPL as in ... violating it doesn't bother them.

No company I've dealt with in the last 10 years accepts GPL today if they do any kind of software dev. They aren't stupid, GPL is a 1 way street to having no IP.

Oh FFS its mind blowing how you can be on slashdot and still be too stupid to figure out that you can just switch to manual updates. This is seriously a problem for you?

Sure, if you mean over provisioned batteries that you never have access to the full capacity of, then sure.

Tesla has nothing special, they just sell you 20kw/H batteries, and call them 5kw/H batteries, now they last 4 times as long. No those numbers are not exact matches for Tesla packs, but the point is the same.

My point is simply that they don't have anything special other than a different usage pattern to prevent stupid users from destroying the batteries.

If this offends a girl, she has a problem, not the photo. Its a head shot. A face. She has to look at the exact same thing in the mirror every fucking day.

This is a product of ultra-libral trendy ignorant uppity assholes, not class.

If you can't handle this image you aren't going to be able to handle life, just off yourself.

No she doesn't. ITS A FACE, not a nude body.

The picture used WAS JUST HER FACE, if you want to see the full image you don't get it from the first Google search with Safe search on. You have to go out of your way to see nudity, and if they want to see nudity on the Internet, she's pretty fucking low quality nudity. A much less targeted Google search will yeild 18 year old boys HUNDREDS OF FREE PORN SITES ...

They don't give a flying fuck about Lena.

Sigh, Miss Zug, have no idea how that got autocorrected to Mr

Grow up.

Its a woman face and she's very proud of her picture. If there is anything about the image and the way its being used that bothers you, YOU have a problem and need to shut your uppity ass up.

You will not survive in the world if you unable to look at the face of a smiling woman in a photograph. You need to be evaluated. You aren't principled you're an uppity drama queen that no one is going to give a shit about in 2-4 years.

To take that a step further, if the naked female form bothers you in general, you also have serious issues and one has to wonder how you managed to cope with yourself this long in life? Or is it just jealousy?

Theres pretty much no way you come out of this without making it clear that your just being an uppity cunt. I presume the statue david and Venus shouldn't be in your lesson plan either?

If this post offends you, then it also applies to you, so just consider that when replying.

In general, if your game engine is tied to DX or OpenGL, you suck at making game engines or aren't trying to be cross platform anyway.

Rending backend abstraction is ultra trivial when it comes to game engines.