I, for one, will look forward to the city being sued for an enormous amount of money when the inevitable deaths happen, and the PUC showns they had expressed concerns and the mayor gave zero fucks for public safety.

That is carpooling, not "RideSharing" as the term applies here. Uber is a for profit company. They abuse the phrase "ride sharing" to hide that they have full time drivers acting as if they were licensed to provide transportation to the public.

It won't work, but not because miles are payment.
Trading miles doesn't work when your clients prefer to not have a car

Or, is it a way to share your powerpoint and not have to carry more than your mobile device ? We have a wifi projector at work. This is just another way to let people throw something up on the screen without moving cables around. Think of it as a presentation tool on the mobiles, that supports minor editing and layout changes and it makes a little more sense. Most people wanting this have office, and office documents, and this opens up a new way to present them.

Come out of your hole, apple laptops are dominating in my area. Python, Go, d3, ... all the groups I frequent are apparently not readers of /., or some /. readers do not get out into the real world much.

I went 12 years without needing an office suite. When looking for a new job, it was the first thing I used to update the resume in .doc format, .rtf, and .txt.

+1.

Most articles can be had in a few minutes for those who have even remedial social skills. FB post " Can someone send me this article ?" wait 10 minutes.

we generally pay to be published in the glossy covered journals. The direction of travel for the money is from the researchers to the journals.

Is this Darling project going to be the easiest way to get a functioning google drive client for linux ? Windows, MacOSX, iOS, and Android all have clients, and at this point the lack of a functioning linux client is not a technical issue.

+1 You would think that with all the programmers on linux, something as elegant and functional as sourcetree would be standard.

Although I find it useful, I always go back to pen and paper when I need to work at a pace other than my own, such as one being dictated by a speaker.

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I never ordered from TigerDirect. The prices were good. Too good. I was always concerned I was missing something and would get genuine Kingsten memory, or a sweet Inntel Processor.

Me too. Then we got to move on to using basic of some kind. When we got the IIgs, arkanoid became a huge distraction from logo and basic.