Never understood Shark Week. I mean, I like Greg Norman as well as the next guy, but a whole week of him...?

Well, actually, it's the old thing. SSL is broken. You're supposed to be using TLS.

because of you tough stance on support of Emu breading research.

Mmmm, fried emu.

The point was that his argument is as invalid on the move from phone to watch as it was from desktop to phone because people don't seem to give a damn about image quality, but instead for convenience or even just being able to show off their new toy.

And my point is that drawing an analogy between desktop to phone and phone to watch doesn't work, because while there is a noticeable gain in convenience from a desktop to a phone, I have yet to hear how moving from the phone to a watch increases convenience. Being able to show off their new toy I'll grant you, but without some concrete advantage like there was from desktop to phone, I don't think it'll fly in the end.

Why in the name of hell would we want a replacement for the Golden Girls cosmonaut, if it comes to that?

Actually, vim won the war, not vi.

True, if you're want to split hairs.

Uh, both?

Nope. Every distro I've seen (although I'll admit I haven't made a business of surveying them) installs vi by default but not Emacs.

Even if not it's about 3 words into the command prompt away assuming you've got internet connectivity.

I can install JOE the same way. So obviously JOE has won the editor wars.

What is the entire lab doing planning to run Win 10 Home? That's the only edition that forces mandatory updates. Pro lets you defer them; Enterprise lets you completely control the process

It's the extortion model of OS pricing.

"Lovely little computer you have here. Shame if it got broken in an update. Just buy a little insurance and you can avoid all that."

the Emacs vs VI war is over (Emacs won)

Say what? I work in a shop with extensive Solaris and Linux installation, and run several personal Linux boxes as well. They all have vi. None of them, as far as I know, and I checked several, have Emacs. This was not a conscious decision for any of them: it's just the way the hosts installed (although on my personal boxes, I would've installed vi had it not installed by itself). Who won the war?

with the production releases and patches. I won't use betas or nightlies unless I'm trying to fix a specific bug.

Why would I look at the tiny picture on a phone when I can look at a big one on my desktop?

Because to look at pictures on your desktop you have to be at your desk. That has proved to be enough of a reason for a large audience. What does the smartwatch give you that the phone doesn't?

What the hell? Why would someone advertise prescription medication? Isn't the idea behind prescription medications that the doctors decide on the drug to give you?

A) Your doctor is a lot more likely to prescribe it if you ask for it and B) they advertise to the doctors. A lot.

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If so, seems many Chinese website will have problems too, becuase it's used so often in Chinese.

As you have just discovered, Slashdot cleverly avoids all Unicode bugs by not supporting Unicode at all.

Because a) it makes them looker cuter (the younger a child is, the larger its head is in proportion to its body, so large heads make chararcters look babyish and cute) and b) it allows the artist to be more expressive with the face, which is where he'll be doing most of the physical characterization.

Correct; if you followed the link, you'd discover that it's about people who don't trust banks moving from keeping cash under their mattresses to using cashless payment services offered by mobile phone companies, rather than banks. This is very common in Africa.