You're basically right, but you're reading the numbers wrong. Those aren't birth rate numbers you linked: it's a ratio of births to deaths. Hence why the USA at 0.97 is considered falling. But the 2.15 figure means over twice as many births as deaths. Maintaining a population requires a birth rate of around 2.1, not 2.5; either way, the industrialized world is on the wrong side of the number.

I have that too, but only on Windows. Heh heh. I tried updating to ~250.something or whatever but that didn't fix it. You could disable hardware acceleration in Firefox if you want, that should stop the crashing. Haven't tried it to see what it does to performance, though. Should be interesting to see if beta 8 fixes this.

...you're staring the problem right in the face, but you don't see it. Why spend our effort making TV the new form of communal bonding instead of fixing the underlying problem?

I'd say one hour a night during the week, never on weekends...except during NFL season, when I end up watching *some* game. So it's 1-5 hours a week except during football season. This goes up from time to time when I get bored and turn on Letterman.

Hehe...I have a Pentium 4 Prescott 2.8GHz that heats up my bedroom a good 5 degrees F.
Of course, I live in Florida, so I never need that heating ability.... :o

Ionized iron. ;D

It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it. :)

AM radio requires a special ferrite bar antenna, which won't fit inside a small device (and give decent reception). With FM, they can just use the headphone cable as an antenna.

Anathem has an end.

I believe Excel 2007 removed the 65k rows limitation; it's something sky-high now. (IMO they shouldn't have, if only to discourage people from using it as a database....)

The Mac never sold all that well in the 80s. The IBM PC, which was 3 years preceding, had the Mac beat soundly the entire time.

The darned thing weighs nearly 5Kgs (10 lbs) with the charger and the charger itself draws 90W of power making an airplane socket "die" if I try to use it.

Really? A 12V car socket can give 120 watts, sometimes more. Plane sockets are actually weaker? Yikes.

Sure, you can use 60GB in one day by maxing it out...but who does that? Heck, even in my heavier usage months, I've never gone above 35GB for the whole month. 60GB should be fine for 99.8% of people.

The Masters is on CBS...get an antenna...as for ESPN, no idea, but what I *do* know is that the MLB has a service that lets you watch any baseball game over the Internet...a coworker of mine has it, and I think he pays $99 a year. I haven't looked to see if the NFL has something similar, but if they don't, they probably will within a few years.

I'm having trouble finding recent numbers, but Sendmail was at 42% and falling in 2001, and possibly at 27% in 2008. BIND had around 70% in 2004. So, yeah, BIND is used way more than Sendmail.