Interestingly, bacteria is the plural form of bacterium, so there's nothing really wrong in the sense you imply. I'm more concerned with the fact that they're apparently not actually creating gold.

I certainly would. Incidentally, that would also make it easier to find comfortable pants.

Don't punish the students just because the adults are bumfuck retarded.

I agree. I don't often admit this, but I grew up and attended school in Kentucky. Seeing news like this makes me sad for my home state. I don't recall much from my high school years, but I don't think there were any overtly religious topics discussed. However, I don't think students should be screwed out of a proper education just because some biased idiot in a position of power can't keep his personal and political beliefs separate.

I would disagree (to an extent). In ages past, I used to upgrade my computer at least once a year, if not more frequently. I've been a software developer and gamer for a very long time, and tend to try to stay on top of things.

That said, my last major upgrade for my main system was about 3 and a half years ago. I can still play just about any game that comes out on the highest settings with no issue. When I end up using a newer system with a "faster" CPU and more RAM, I would be hard pressed to discern a significant performance difference from my 3.5 year old machine.

The only notable difference is I have a (now "out of date") gaming video card, but for non-gaming related tasks, my computer is just as quick to perform anything the newer hardware does. I'm not going to drop another $1500 for such an intangible increase in speed.

I read it as one in a million cells are falsely identified. So, every 10 seconds or so (at 100,000/sec) it would incorrectly classify one. Sounds like a bad thing being spun as good.

I would surmise that someone would need to be legally insane to willingly go to a place without society, without parks, without schools, without culture, without even atmosphere, without children, without the elderly and without the prospect of seeing those things first hand again.

What a coincidence. Aside from the atmosphere, those are all the things I dislike about living on earth.

Well, sure it does. To calculate how much faster it actually is, you take the time it didn't take (infinity - time_it_took) and multiply that by your new factor (1.3 to 2.0), then subtract that from infinity and you have your new rate.

Well, clearly, gravity is the root cause of the obesity problem in the US.

Oh, that's alright. I'll just have to cut back on my video game purchases so that I don't end up with a whole bunch of crappy games that I can't resell.

Don't forget the 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio!

I agree. I really wish there were some sort of minimum portion of the advertised speed that they were required to provide. My connection is advertised as 12 Mbps, but it fluctuates so wildly that I get anywhere from 0.5 to 17 Mbps (from the same source, so it's not server dependent). Overall, I would say it averages out at around 3-4 Mbps. Unfortunately, the only other option in my area is 1.5 Mbps DSL.

The box my router came in has a table on the back that implies that if I want to watch HD movies, I should have purchased the model with "300 + 300 Mbps" wireless. This is, of course, despite the fact that most of my devices are wired and my actual internet connection can only provide 2% of that.

Well, how else are you to let your thousands of "friends" know that you checked your watch?

I tend to agree for the most part. I recently went back to college to start an electronics engineering degree program. While there is a lot of work, none of it particularly difficult. I'm doing quite well, but I can't help noticing that 95% of my fellow students are struggling immensely. What I really don't understand is why they chose to enter a program like this while claiming to hate math and logic.

I often stay after class to help out those who are willing to accept it, but there's only so much I can do. The biggest problem, in my opinion, is that because so many of the students are having a difficult time, the entire class gets behind as we continually rehash the same material far after what was allotted in the syllabus. I'm almost hoping that many of them will drop out so that future semesters can go more smoothly.

I've had the exact opposite experience. I use the start menu far more often when I'm using a windows 7 system than I did with any of the XP or below systems in the past. It's much, much faster to hit the windows key and type a few letters of the program I want to launch than it is to hunt through a desktop full of icons.