Why should the trackball faze her any more than any other object in the house. They are all new items as far as she is concerned. Whether they were invented 1 month ago or a 1000 years ago are irrelevant. Everything is new. She'd just learn using a trackball just like learning to use a cup or even walk.

I like to think of the brain as a sponge and knowledge to be water. In kids it's like a dry sponge it has plenty of space and will absorb things quickly. We on the other hand have quite a lot of our spongie brain filled already for better or for worse.

My nephew who is also 4 years old navigates youtube for his cartoon fix. And knows how to start any installed games. He also knows how navigate to flash game sites from history and knows not to click on ads :).

Generally yes. But remember that anything running on the VM is behind your routers firewall and might be in a more permissive network. So it can be used as a platform to execute a exploit to gain access to other machines on the network, the host machine or maybe even compromise the router/firewall (defualt passwords anyone?).

I use VMs when I test applications if I'm not sure about its origin, but you should always be carefull about how it's network access and such.

Indeed the config is a bit of a mess. Although most distributions have made it much more modular and easier to maintain, the psuedo html doesnt really work that well. It feels inconsistent and verbose.

If it's something that can be exploited then it's a bug. Any security/privacy feature of the browser should be in the control of the user not at the mercy of the http server.

If it was something like a buffer overflow would microsoft still complain how that bad guys should stop sending invalid data packets to the browser?

I don't like googles extensive tracking either, but complaining that it's not using some unpopular protocol is just silly. If you are going to implement privacy control then make it work regardless of the information that the site may send or just don't bother.

I think what you're looking for are not generics, but interfaces like they are implemented in Google Go!. (http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#implements_interface)

In go when you define a interface to have a certain method/signature any existing class which happens to have those method signatures are automatically considerd to be implementing those interfaces.

So in GO, you would define a interface which has the indexer method, and make your functions/classes accept that interface rather than a base class, and it would automatically be compatible with DataRow and DataReaders.

Unfortunately this is not possible in C# and microsoft had not defined a common interface for DataReader for DataRow indexer methods so this is not possible to do in c#.

But so far atleast C# and MS have been very good in evolving the langugae features which are usefull, so who knows maybe it'll be there in .NET 5/6.

Indeed! it used to be great. Before they went all out commercial.

Remember the deported British twitters from America? They too thought that their information was no value to anyone and that it wasn't important. Well the Homeland security proved them wrong. How little you think about your details are irrelevant. Its what others think about them that matters. You might be absolutely innocent but if your browsing habits or facbook posts indicate to a possible power (goverment or otherwise) that you are a suspect then you'll have a hard time proving your innocence. You might be able to do that but is the hassle worth a couple of hundred dollars?

This should not be a problem just go to the 3D movie and wear the glasses like all others you should see it in 2D just like in the real world.

I don't think animal rights activists would stand for it either.

I cant play any FPS game because of this. The only FPS game I finished was the original DOOM. I remember taking a break every 30 minutes to recover from the headache and dizziness.