For two arm rests, I would happily be facing another seat. And I've flown first class facing backwards a number of times, I thought it would be weird but I found it wasn't strange at all to be facing backwards. Especially once we all have Oculus headset equivalents. Then we sit down, slip on our headset and enjoy both our physical space as well as our visual space. I was on a transpacific flight this year with an Oculus. Turn on the oculus, load up a movie theater set on the beach and presto you're in your own little world. Marvelous.

So you want everybody to be able to live in a suburban house with a yard and a fence/garage but you also want to have fast and easy access to the city? Sorry but adding lanes isn't the solution. If you want city life, live in the city. If you want to live in the country, there are going to be consequences/compromises and first and foremost is the commute.

What Seattle has needed for ages and what finally is starting to move forward is a rail system. 12 lane highways won't solve our problems, what will solve our problem is true high volume transit solutions. That's what every other large city has done. New York doesn't keep moving thanks to megahighway or more roads, it operates because of rail. All of the cities that really operate efficiently rely on subways and rail. Los Angeles took an automobile focused approach and its result is sprawl where you can drive for nearly 5 hours and not get out of the city. Every city around the world that I've been to of substantial size that has an efficient transit system relies on rail as a backbone.

I'm paying the taxes that Microsoft dodges thanks to their lobbyists, extortion by threatening to leave if they don't exactly what they want and their corruption in former Microsoft lawyers writing the laws that get signed off by legislators who have little to no recourse.

If I write a contract and then say "sign it or else" it's good old fashioned extortion. Meanwhile people such as myself then have to make up for the fact that one of the largest employers in the state isn't paying taxes like every other business. They've got enough clout that they legitimately threaten to destroy the state economy by leaving. When you're too big to fail or too big to lose the law no longer applies to you and it's just a formality to officially recognize whatever the corporation's current desires are. If I went to the state house and said "My company also doesn't want to pay taxes." they would say "too bad."

The "Linux Developers" are mostly for-profit corporate employees. They aren't so much donating as collaborating on a shared asset.

They said Tax Dodge. You even posted Tax Dodge, then you transformed it into "Tax Evasion" which nobody else said and burned the strawman that you built. That's a nice slight of hand you tried to pull there. Nowhere is the word "Evasion" aka an illegal tax dodge used in the article or the summary or the headline.

However, I disagree with the principle of what you said, even if they had said "Tax Evasion". Considering the amount of lobbying and corruption that multi billion dollar a month corporations wield over governments, it's perfectly fair to say that even if you legally evade taxes, it's still tax evasion when you are the de-facto rule writer for yourself. Following the letter of the law while violating the spirit of the law means we can still judge the company as an asshole even if they are following what's written in ink.

Amazon seems to be doing well?

http://venturebeat.com/2014/10...

And that's with an OS that is mostly compatible with Android.

Personally I think the doom and gloom over this write off is a bit excessive. Microsoft stated that they're going to go from having like 26 Lumia devices per year to 6. Apple is doing very well with 3. Over 20 Lumia devices is just too many. This consolidation is the right choice. They are killing off the feature phone candy bar phones and focusing exclusively on smart phones, they are focusing their energy into a much narrower and much smarter selection of phones. This will be good for Windows Phone. It will hopefully be like Google Nexus where you have a phone which is a role model for 3rd parties to emulate.

Ummm... KDE and Gnome *are* third party downloads.

I'm having a hard time seeing their value launching from any latitude. For $5m you could easily tag along as a secondary payload on a much larger launch. OneWeb is going to be launching up to 36 satellites per launch for their worldwide sat internet coverage (Rocket Lab's claimed target market). You could launch as many as 80 150kg internet sats on one falcon 9 for less than $70m. That's $870k per sat vs $5m.

Not necessarily.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technol...

Not my experience. It used to be the case in Windows 98 but I haven't found my systems to be slowing ever since I bought an SSD. SSDs solved all of my problems and they're rediculously affordable.

I also have a cluster of windows machines performing raytracing and other extremely performance driven tasks--I can't tell the age of an install based on performance.

This is all just superstition at this point without numbers. Yes if you install a third party anti-virus solution and you have a bunch of auto-installers running in the background your computer will run "Slower" than it did without anything running in the background but that's not Windows' fault and that's true of every operating system regardless if it's *nix or Win*.

Quick trip to a federal court for extortion.

Most United Frequent Flyer awards though aren't claimed though. Except for really popular routes at popular times you can get a Saver Frequent Flyer ticket almost anywhere. Your assertion assumes that Award tickets are always completely filled. Especially considering that most Airlines can now sell out entire flights most of the time that means they are missing out on some revenue.

Frequent flyer programs do cost money but they also do make a lot of money too. Both through Credit Card fees and because if you do legitimately concentrate on one airline you will spend a little extra for the miles. For instance I'll fly a preferred airline even if it's $120 more on a $1,000 ticket because the miles (Especially status miles) are worth $120. So not only are they making more on their sale than a competitor but they're making the sale in the first place. If you fly randomly on random airlines, almost nobody will earn enough reward miles on any given airline to ever redeem them at all.

Try 10 times and assume that there isn't a cap after that. Much easier on the servers than 9999 password reset attempts.

This is a huge security vulnerability and they should patch it. But he also blatantly broke the rules.

Types "Microscope Toy" into Amazon and the first few results are:

http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Girl.
http://www.amazon.com/Educatio... Girl.
http://www.amazon.com/NSI-150x... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/My-First... Neutral.
http://www.amazon.com/Learning... Boy.
http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Sc... Girl Girl Girl Boy Girl.

The only one of the entire lot that *is* gendered is gendered purple for girls. "Nancy B's Microscope".

To be clear % is a bullshit statistic. In the 1980s CS was teeny tiny. In the 90s all of my friends wanted to go into CS because they wanted to make video games. So in the 80s there was probably a broad academic interest which attracted both men and women just like chemistry or biology or engineering. And then in the 90s you suddenly had a huge influx of video game geeks wanting to learn how to make a video game. That large influx of programmers who probably would have been screwed got the luckiest break in 100 years and an entire industry exploded around them giving them employment opportunities outside of programming game engines.

I can't think of anyone who went into CS who I went to highschool with who was talking about how excited they were to go into CS and learn how to program mobile apps.

In my degree program (Visual Effects and Animation) it was almost exclusively male. The women in the program joined because they loved pixar movies and wanted to do animation. The men mostly loved star wars and wanted to blow shit up. Almost all of them will end up green-screening corporate talking heads. A lot of these niche industries like CS are similarly bait and switch teasing a career in something awesome and then delivering a homdrum run of the mill job.

We need to find the CS equivalent of "Video Game Developer" to attract women. Because "Hey you can work on the database that drives Facebook!" isn't really attractive to highschool boys let alone higschool girls looking to pick a major and doubling down on recruiting using purely practical factors doesn't work.

So to answer the original headline's question. I would say no, probably not. CS has successfully attracted a lot of men by using Boy-Focused games (guns and explosions). So I would suspect the best approach to women is exactly the same... deception and trickery to make CS seem relevant to the things they already like.