"Speed limits should be based on science, not on, "Whatever speed the driver feels is safe enough.""

Exactly, that's why roads should be designed so that people are safe travelling at a speed that feels right, no some artificial limit that may not be intuitive.

Of course, there may be temporal exceptions such as school zone and road work.

If roads were designed scientifically, there should be no need to look at a sign to know what is a safe speed.

Problems come up when the speed limit is not intuitive and some people follow the arbitrary sign, and some do what feels right.

Of course, there will always be idiots too.

" Yes, we won't be able to add money to our accounts, redeem codes, or buy updates. But so what. We'd still be able to play."

That's the problem. They don't really care if you play. The game is only a pretext for you to spend more money. If you have no way to spend money, the game does not matter to them.

I mean this in the best possible way. As someone who has hired a lot of STEM (mostly E) people over the years, it will probably not be easy.

When hiring technical people, we look at education and experience. Depending on the age, one or the other takes greater importance.

At a (relatively) young age of 25, education is the most important. Your education does not qualify you for a STEM job, simple as that.

Now, a number of jobs can be had based on personal relationships. Let's say you have a special skill not reflected by the degree(s) you have, but someone you know is aware of it and in a position to influence someone in a hiring position, you could get a hearing and if you do have skill, you may get a chance at a job.

My understanding is that at the moment you do not have marketable STEM skills, so the only way is to get some.

You can try to do that while holding a job you are qualified for. It will take a while because it will be night school but at least you will get paid while doing it. You won't have too many free nights but not so much debt when you are done.

The alternative is to go student full time, pile up more debt but hopefully get done faster.

Which way to go depends on your personal (family?) situation and the kind and level of pain you are willing to endure.

The woman ALWAYS has the last word in an argument. Anything the man says after that simply is the start of a new argument.

I applaud your trying to satisfy her desire for a neat, tidy and quiet living space in a constructive way. Obviously, even if the PC is tucked away and inaudible, there may be issues later if you spend excessive time playing with it and ignoring her.

So as others have suggested, make sure you understand that life as you know it is no longer available to you and that it is urgent to find activities of common interest.

It would be best for you if these activities involved a highly powered computer, something she may find she needs, like maybe video editing (time to be creative). Once she sees the PC as a tool rather than an annoyance, the noise won't be as much of a problem and she may even let you play with it, occasionally.

Good luck to you!

I would think 20 XEONs for 3 months should get close (or at least used to), but these machines are optimized to move packets, not number crunching...

Yeah, probably the most sensible thing to do considering the short time frame.

I think part of the problem is that marketing types decide that they need a certain type of phone to get people in the store, in order to try and upsell them on a more expensive product with better margins (or one that will suck up data faster so that you have to upgrade to a more expensive plan).

The "feature" phone (in that case, a phone with hardware keyboard which is a real oddity nowadays) is not intended to make any money for the company by itself and nobody really gives a damn if it's even working, to be honest.

They are perfectly aware of it and if you bring it back to the store a few days later because you have found out how much it actually sucked, they will be extremely glad to exchange it for a higher priced model.

On the other hand, the issue is compounded by the fact that most Android phones are hacked by the phone service provider. They are not content to let you have the Google Android experience, they have to "differentiate" themselves from the others, and too often that means adding ill-conceived, substandard, undertested apps that ruins the experience.

In that case, Google may not be entirely clean as I am not sure if Android is even supposed to support a hardware keyboard. I have used several Bluetooth keyboards on my Nexus 7 and they do not all work the same.

The key is that the insurance company has no incentive to reduce your premium, their only incentive is to increase the total sum they get from premiums as much as they can.

Therefore eventually these devices will not be used to help good drivers, simply to penalize bad ones, not quite the same thing.

Seems like a lot of people die from heroin overdose that is self injected. It can't be that painful if people do that to themselves. Why not use heroin overdose for lethal injections?

Replying to my own question, found out the iTune store uses WebObjects, a NexT technology that is not open source.

This group is not intended to only address OpenSSL. I would be surprised if Apple did not have ANY open source software in their products.

Mac OSX is (was?) based on the Mach microkernel for instance.

How about the iTune store, does it use open source software?

Oh wait, they can't afford it, it's not in their budget...

Let's summarize: Oracle took money to perform a job. They disagreed with the way it was handled. Nevertheless they stayed in and kept collecting money. Now they say they had noting to do with it?

"so its less buggy than an over decade old product?"

What a moron!

Read the post. My use of the past tense should have been a clue that it happened in the past and mentioning it was used by corporate edict should have been a clue that MS Word was in its support period, i.e. current. For completeness, that happened in the fall of 2004, but you probably don't care. You are probably now going to object that MS Word being so "young", how could I expect it to not be buggy? I probably should have waited a few more years before they had the bugs worked out?

Now, regardless of when that happened I would expect a piece of software that cost several 100 dollars to be better able to handle it's own f***g proprietary file format than a freebee that had to reverse engineer it, regardless how long it has been since you bought it.

I remember working on a document in Word 2003 with several large tables. Periodically, Word 2003 (which I had to use by corporate edict) would crash while working on one particularly large table, and would be unable to reload the document. I found out that loading the document in OpenOffice and saving it back immediately fixed whatever problem Word was having and I could work in Word for a while longer. I ended up having to do that every few days until I was done with the document.