12.04LTE to 14.04LTE no thank you. I had a Dell laptop with 12.04LTE on it and one day it asked if I wanted to go to 14.04. So it downloaded everything and when it came back up it was command line only, no gui whatsoever. I had to download and install Gnome manually. That has soured me a bit on Ubuntu.

I guess we've found the one guy who didn't embrace broadband. Were I the guy I'd go after AOL for switching the dialup site.

That said, how much time did he spend online to rack up that much of a charge. From what I can find during peak hours it's 42 cents a minute, off peak 36.5 cents a minute which I still find extortion.

If we average the two we get 39.25 cents a minute we get 61906 minutes - 1031 hours - or 42 days of constant online activity.

I am a sub-contractor for a project that burns data onto encrypted FIPS compliant hard drives. If the FBI gets their way that puts us in breach of contract with another government agency.

Will my baggage have a better probability of following me to my destination in the same time frame.

I completely concur with you. The current system dates back to the 16th century and we really need to move forward. THe Montessori system has it's benefits but I think critical thinking skills need to be pushed too.

Just buy your own battery pack and cut off the grid connection completely. Problem solved. That's what I plan to do because National Grid is mostly bandits now - with double digit rate increases annually lately. They claim it's a natural gas shortage because there are only two pipelines in the state. I call bullshit because I know regular LNG shipments come in via big boats.

And I can say that I've only had to restart the phone only once every couple months. Part of it is because I know how to kill an offending app on the phone.

I also have a Kind Fire HD6. That pretty much works the same way as the phone as it runs a later version of Android.

This isn't a slam to all the Apple fanboys and fangirls - its just that Apple perpetuates this myth that it just works. When that is far from the truth.

Prices on solar have been dropping like the proverbial rock - and the panels are getting more and more efficient as time goes on.

When I buy a place I intend to sever the electric connection, generate my own power via solar and wind, and store what I don't use in a storage array. Problem solved and no need for the grid.

You can get a DELL XPS 13 with Ubuntu on it for about $1K. Good machine, ssd, the whole nine.

In my case I have FIrefox, Chrome and IE in fairly regular usage. Firefox for RSS under Sage, IE for access to OWA, and Chrome for everything else.

Are in for the most part horrible shape in my city. You'd take your life into your own hands riding a bike on them. I suppose when the weather gets nicer I could ride my bike to the train station. I need to fix the flat tire on it first though.

Is that yes - we should at the very least teach differing number systems such as base 8, base 16 and so on and also teach simple logic constructs those being and, or, nor, not, etc.

Told me that they'd brought in well over a dozen candidates to interview. Now I'm not all of that but the fact I beat out a dozen other so called Senior Linux engineers astounds me to some degree.

It is that programming a computer requires advanced mathematical study. It doesn't. So long as you get through say 1 semester of Algebra 1 and know different base numbering systems like 8, 16 etc. you can program a computer.

Conditionals are one thing they'd have to learn and so too branching etc. But those are simple concepts that even a kid can pick up.

So in essence the guy bacteria determine obesity levels. Perhaps they are too efficient at extracting nutrient.