Why not just call it what time it really is and have work start at 8 instead?

The only problem is that there is no evidence that any energy is saved. The only studies I have seen reported have been either inconclusive or show a slight increase in energy usage.

One would assume because slashdot doesn't recognize ·

DST doesn't change the amount of daylight. The earth's orbit and axial tilt change the amount of daylight.

If the problem is that businesses do better when there are more daylight hours after people finish work, that could be solved without having a DST at all - just provide an incentive for employers to change hours or offer flex time to employees.

In fact, I think we would do far more for the economy and the environment by encouraging businesses to stagger hours such that there is no more "rush hour." The time and fuel people waste sitting in traffic could be put to better use doing pretty much anything else.

Have you read Ender's Game?

The writers might think that solved the problem (and there were several transporter duplication episodes....), but I'm not so sure. You'd end up with 100 physicists that all think the same way, so other than getting parallelizable portions of the problem done at the same time, I think it might be the same as one physicist....

Isn't that also the process by which Monsanto created the roundup-ready crops in the first place?

Average. Otherwise I'd never drive faster than I can walk, to minimize the impact of "suddenly appearing" obstacles that I can't avoid hitting.

Fewer characters means they can use a bigger more eye-catching font.

SteamOS handles MS games by streaming them from another machine running Windows...

Genuinely curious here.. what kind of salary range do you think is appropriate for a person to be spending $200+ on CPU alone?

And.. then what?

Vim isn't about typing. It's about manipulating text. Some of which involves typing and that's why it has insert mode, but a lot of it is about finding your place in a document or moving one block of text from one area to another area, or changing all of something into something else according to a pattern, and you can do all of this without taking your hands off of the keyboard.

Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi? makes a pretty reasonable argument.

The cheapest american programmers are not making or even costing $12k a month. ($144k per year in total compensation?!) Salary.com claims an average of $56k per year ($86k in total compensation) for Programmer I, which is still quite a bit more than $1200 a month, but not 10x.

Regardless, H1-B's are not going to be making $1200 a month. They have to live here in the US, and that is barely enough to pay rent in quite a lot of places.

Yep. Firefox had that idea. Probably Opera, too, but I only remember Firefox's implementation of it, so that's what I used as an example.