How are you doing your math? The genetic evidence shows that Homo Sapiens can be traced back 200,000 years. Nowhere near the 5 million you are stating as an average for species longevity. If you are counting Australopithecus anamensis, that would get you back to 4 million years, but I would hardly consider it to be the same species as us.

Furthermore, the actual average longevity of a species is 1 million years, not 5 (as evidenced here. Just because 10 million years appears to be an extreme upper limit does not make the average 5 million.

People with technical or scientific training are always told they have to learn how to communicate with people without that training. This is bullshit.

How about the mouth-breathers actually use the muscle between their ears during high school math and science classes so that they are better equiped to understand what scientists are trying to tell them later in life? Truly, you do not need to be a scientist to understand articles written for general consumption. A basic understanding of high school science (biology, physics, chemistry) and math (algebra and statistics) will get you there. While we are at it, I distinctly recall the steps of the scientific method explained in detail (several times in middle and high school), as were the definitions of "theory", "law", and "hypothesis". Jesus Christ people, use your brains.

A few days ago, there was a discussion here about how evil Apple was for trying to kill Flash. I said then, and will repeat here: Fuck you Adobe.

They took their sweet time porting their "cross platform" plugin to Linux, and in the meantime, we were stuck with the barely functioning (although I do not fault them for the effort) GNU implementation. Cross platform to Adobe means: Windows 7, Windows Vitsa, Windows XP, and Mac OS. Personally, I pine for the day that HTML 5 is able to displace Flash, and therefore Adobe, permanently. In my opinion, they have squandered any goodwill towards the open source community. I'll be the first one in line to dance on their grave.

People have VERY short memories. When I read TFA about how Adobe's sob story is that they offer a cross platform standard language that works in all browsers, I laughed so hard I cried.

Adobe took their SWEET time porting Flash to Linux. Getting it to work in different browsers was nearly impossible and the 64-bit version was a day later and a dollar short. The GNU alternative to Flash sucked, resulting in the same issue (things work on some browsers, but not others). Just a few short years ago, I hated Adobe with a passion for their piss poor Linux support.

I did not forget. I hope they die a slow death as more and more companies move toward a real standard (HTML5). In the end, I'll be there to dance on their grave.

Chuck, is that you?

Come again? You point the weapon at something, pull the trigger, and it makes a hole causing damage. There are other intended applications?

Is it accurate to say, then, that you feel that "Dey turk yer jerbs!?!"

I very much disagree. Open source is not the issue. Companies like Apple and Google manage to innovate with it every day (operating systems, servers, programming languages, libraries, etc.) and even manage to contribute back to the the communities that they borrow from. Plain and simply, the issue is corporations and executives not being properly educated with regards to strategy, tactics, and long term planning. The only long term plan that IBM has is to move from country to country like a plague of locusts. Once India's costs are up, the next emerging market will be targeted and India will be left to burn as the US currently is.

I agree with you that the parents have made an unforgivable mistake. However, the loss of their daughter is punishment enough. Their lives will already never be the same and I suspect that the grief they are dealing with is far worse than any punishment they may receive from a jail sentence. Why break up a family (they have another child) to sate YOUR rage?

No. Or your child (or other loved one) may die and you'll have to live with the repercussions for the rest of your life.

The Microsoft designs are all still prototypes. I would say that one of the two companies have "introduced" a multi-touch mouse. The other is currently researching a way to copy it (as always) and quite possibly playing with themselves. This design makes it look like you are holding a nutsack

On the bright side, I have a magic mouse now and will say that it really is a whole new (awesome) experience.

If I could, I would have modded you up. Instead, I'll add this anecdotal evidence:

Many moons ago (maybe in 2004), I was working on developing customizations to the SAP Enterprise Portal for my employer. We had a set of requirements to theme it to look a certain way (among alot of Java functionality to write). I went through ALL of the documentation and scoured the Internet for anything that I could find. All that I could come up with was how to change colors and the header background image. No information on how to set images (for gradients on menus, etc.). We finally caved and called SAP who very kindly sent us a consultant from Germany for the low low price or $280 per hour. Having spent weeks working with him, I got to know him and we got to talking. They often purposely leave stuff out of the manuals so that you have to call them as a way to drive consulting revenue.

Fucking infuriating.

Yes, watching Iron Man has given you many false impressions. To address this:

Do you mean like this guy: Linus Torvalds It started with something small:

Its douche-bags like you that help to keep the general population convinced that they are incapable of anything special. News flash: Everyday people, with dedication, determination, hard work, and the proper application of intelligence and education are capable of doing huge things. The people working for the DoD are the same CS and EE majors working at IBM, OnStar, and Verizon.

You are either delusional or full of crap. They are nothing alike.

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Its called "growing up". I was that kid in elementary school and junior high. By high school, you learn how stuff works and have ways of dealing with it. Regardless of that, schools have rules about harassing other students. Enforce those and stop trying to change a country's fundamental laws by invoking the "think of the children" clause.

Frankly, I am grateful to have had those experiences. Those same assholes from the playground exist in the workforce, bars, movie theaters, and just about anywhere you could go. Now I know how to recognize and deal with them.