It doesn't have to be stupidity. Just like people with dyslexia can have great trouble reading and writing, people with dyscalculia can have great difficulty with basic math and numbers. Even the simple math questions presented in the article could be incomprehensible to someone with dyscalculia.

Most people are suggesting open source apps and games, but there are some really good closed source ones as well:

Spelunky(okay this one's open source)
Cave Story Fantastic platform game.
Trackmania Nations Great multiplayer and single player racing game.
Urban Terror The graphics are a little dated, but the gameplay is still really, really good. Online multiplayer team based FPS.

All soaps are anti biotic. These so-called 'anti biotic' soaps don't kill more germs than normal soap.

I think you're taking this a little too seriously

I didn't incorrectly quote anything, nor lied. I provided links to back up everything I said. Unlike you, I did not pull them out from where the sun doesn't shine.

Yet millions still flock here every year in the hopes of a better life. Hrmm... I haven't heard of hordes of people looking to improve their lot going to the backwards Eastern European country from which you're probably posting.

I think you overestimate it by a tad. There's no flocking, just over a million immigrants a year. If you look at immigrants per year per head of population, the US comes in 31st. Just above most Western European countries, but way below Australia or Canada. Europe as a whole has a lot more immigrants per year than America does, and that includes Eastern Europe.

America hasn't been the promised land for a long time, and not that many people pick it out as the ideal place to live. It's just because American media doesn't cover any international news or events that Americans themselves don't realize this.

Thanks for showing me that. If I had mod points, you'd be modded up.

There's also a good case to be made that without Newton, Einstein wouldn't have done what he did.

I agree. I think 80% is a low estimate. A lot of games on android are copies of existing games with changed graphics. Some companies churn out the same game several times a day with slightly altered graphics in the hope of catching more revenue. It's awful.

Opera was never a threat to IE 4/5/6. Despite being a great browser/suite it gains very little market share. If open source hadn't stepped in the browser market, Opera wouldn't have changed anything.

Does this mean I can record my dreams with Scarlett Johansen and Natalie Portman and view them at a later date? Or sell them on ebay?

Are there alternatives to Java? Mandatory bounds checking, garbage collection and all that implies, and inability to break type safety combined with good execution speed are not easy to implement, especially in a multi-platform way.

I hear good things about Flash. They just released a new version so I'm certain it'll be around for a while.

I question that. Reputable porn sites usually want to help with filtering.

And they make up, what, 1 percent of porn sites?

I still have two Bondwell-14 portables. They could be museum pieces as well. Still, I'm really attached to them, I learned to program on them. :')

Do you know of any places that still sell 5.25" cp/m floppies/software?

[blockQUOTE]Invade Alaksa? No Sarah Palin will just shout across the water to her russian allies, which she can see from her home. No way the chinese would risk a war with Russia.[/blockquote] Why would they risk war? Russia and China are pretty good pals, and have been for a long time. I'm sure Russia would sooner help China invade Alaska than stop them.