More generic interpretation:

People get good at doing stuff they care about.

This.

First, you start with the talent pool, which is very low on minorities and females.

Then you cut off the 95% bottom part, as these companies get more applicants than the average tech company, and can be somewhat more picky. You have even fewer (not because women or minorities can't be good, but certain demographics statistically do better at showing off their strengths in the shark pool).

Now of whats left, these companies have a biais to hire ultra monitivated/no work life balance/eat and dream computer science people. That cuts off anyone whom's life doesn't revolve around the field.

And then the coup de grace, they favor younger applicants, and women and minorities usually have kids younger (the gender age gap stereotype of women usually dating older guys doesn't help here...it means usually the woman will be significantly younger when they have kids). So a young man is more likely to not have kid than a woman of the same age, and thus will have more time to dedicate to the career.

All that together means you end up with white males, asians and indians. Its just the correlation between these groups and the criteria the hyper-competitive companies use to hire that cause this.

The article uses energy and electricity to mean the same thing. So if you have a gas water heater, then it won't be in the same bucket as the box.

I do have a 50 gallon electric water heater, and its definitely a distant third in electricity consumption, behind the HVAC and the gaming computers (only if we put both computers and count them as one thing though)

The laundry machines are a joke, especially if you have a gas dryer. In summer, my stove/oven + dryer together cost me 6 bucks a month to run.

IMHO upgrading javascript to a full blown programming language that can run in, or outside of a browser would be sufficient

Node.js. Node-Webkit if you need client UI.

Boom. Done.

You can turn off the ability to locate (or at least get a general idea of the location) your cell via triangulation? WOW!

yes, exactly :) I hadn't been able to find it in a while. Thank you!

The evidence shouldn't be too hard to come by. For a while Youtube offered a page showing statistics for your ISP's streaming rate vs other ISPs in the same general area.

I was on FiOS at the time, and the streaming speed was pitiful (could barely stream 360p during peak hours on youtube), while the average in the area was significantly higher. Switched ISPs (yeah, I had a choice at the time), and sure enough, it was all better.

Its a knee jerk overreaction to people being so freagin retarded in this country. If you don't have laws, enforced laws, with teeth, people do whatever to the full extent of what is allowed, with no common sense whatsoever.

Now, everywhere in the world has that issue, but just not to the full extent the US has it (as far as the "first world" goes). I've lived in multiple countries for a number of years, and now I'm in the US, and its just shocking. People smoking while leaning on a no-smoking sign. People screaming on top of their lungs in the street at 3 in the morning. People letting their dog bark for hours while cheering it on. Lines while waiting at a busy bus stop? Hell no! If there's no risk of jail time, not only someone will do it, but a LOT of people will do it.

And people pointing laser pointers at anything and everything.

Its such a ridiculous society that doesn't give a flying duck about their neighbor. EVER. So you end up in a world where everything has to be fucking spelled out with someone in uniform wacking them behind the head all the time like little babies, or they won't apply the slightest bit of common sense.

Until SP3 it had an issue where randomly the registry would get corrupted and it would blue screen at boot, requiring a system restore. It didn't happen often, but no matter your configuration, the longer you used it, the closer to 1 the probability of it happening. The issue was fixed in SP3 and then life was good.

XP also took until SP2 to be bearable... people forget history so quickly.

At the same time, now Powershell (which can be accessed remote and ecnrypted, like a typical Bash over SSH), can do pretty much everything out of the box without needing to add anything (aside a certificate if you want the encrypted part), so you don't really need the UI anyway.

IIS, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server etc, all support it just fine, and you can obviously run any command line utility through it for anything that supports it.

Its rare I ever hit RDP on my windows servers anymore. There's no point unless you're dealing with software that seriously needs an update.

Yup. The customers pay for downloading from their ISP to their home. Netflix pays for streaming from their CDNs to their provider(s). What happens in between is the problem of the ISPs.

Comcast wants BOTH the customer AND netflix to pay for the download part. Thats where it gets messed up.

There's a few "3-monitor-in-one" curved monitors around (I don't know if they're actually sold and too lazy to check, but Alienware showed a prototype years ago). It looked pretty freagin cool in games.

While too short for taste, Nexus devices at least have a well defined/known EOL, so they're good for that.

Too bad the nexus program is probably not gonna go on for much longer though :(

There's 2 big use cases for desktop virtualization. The common one is to run a ton of desktops of off little hardware, with the idea that most people only read emails and use MS Word all day anyway. Big cost saving.

The other is purely to have desktops centralized in a data center so you can have data center admins deal with them instead of needing (as many) on site tech monkeys.

I worked in companies where it was the later. The users still needed 16+ gb of RAM, dedicated powerful hardware, etc, but now if something blew up, you didn't need to send someone at their desk to fix it, and you could still just move the image to a different machine while the first one was being fixed.

This technology seems very well suited toward the later.

Of course I do. This one has the nice side effect of easier collaboration than any other I can think of, though!