The key phrase in tfa looks like "absorb the carbon dioxide they emit." How many earths will be needed if we shift to a low/no carbon economy? Have they factored in any allowance for increased efficiency? It'd it be nice to see some breakdown of the analysis, not just a bald number.

That's an interesting analogy but I don't think it's obvious that a codec belongs in the everything-else category. Firstly, it wasn't *that* long ago that OSes and compilers and network stacks were part of how manufacturers competed with one another. Secondly, I think that what's infrastructure and what's not depends on what you're interested in. For your average YouTuber, the choice of codec would be a matter of eye-glazing irrelevance, and they'd be hard-pressed to make an informed choice, which is a crucial ingredient in a market-based system.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/05/2864086.htm

One of them compares the regeneration of the Doctor to the appointing of a new Archbishop of Canterbury.

There are derivative desktop distros based on *bsd, like pc-bsd (see here http://www.pcbsd.org/ and here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-BSD). There's also a corporation based around providing enterprise support for pc-bsd, http://www.ixsystems.com/.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_profit

There's a 2003 article on the BBC reporting similar levels of coke on German euros.

Thank you sir. I think my kids will enjoy this, and if not, then it sounds like there's plenty of other stuff out there that might pique their interest, or at least mine. Special shout-out to the dude who posted the link to FreeBasic.

IANAP, but I imagine you'd need much, much more than one planet orbiting backwards before you'd even start to think you might need a new theory of solar system formation. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a Bugatti Veyron full of tapes.

it had been Indiana. That would've been fucking awesome.