Are you sure? I can't tell where the summary got that number but the article also references "tens of millions." -- do you have another source with better info?

Wait! Your shirt has a back pocket? Tell me more about this marvel of modern fashion.

I can't tell if you're serious, but in any case cyclist's shirts have pockets along the lower hem on the back because they are out of the way when you lean forward and because pockets on your legs would be difficult to used due to leg movement. It has nothing to do with fashion and everything to do with function.

Agree with the rest of your comment though -- bike computers that do everything have been on the market for decades. Not to mention existing fitness watches that also fill the same market.

Maybe. The only link in TFS goes to a short blurb and a video from Virgin about how feathering works, which is nothing new either. I still don't understand what made this news all of a sudden.

It's pretty cool and all, I just don't get why this story on Slashdot exists. Most slashdotters have known about this technique for years, since it was explained by Virgin the first time.

What's the news in this? This has been Virgin's approach for many years now, and it's very interesting, but what brought this to the front page today? Did something change?

Or how about putting a switch on those outlets somewhere that the general public can't get to it, or is at least unlikely to?

Seriously. You know it's bad when even the sports league's network blacks out their own broadcasts so only the cable company can carry it.

That's not the answer I expected! Thanks for the info.

Agreed, although what MS seems to be saying is "I will pay ADDITIONAL taxes but only if you spend it a certain way." Subtle but important difference. More akin to a donation for a particular cause than a voluntary tax.

Bachelor's? Master's? Ph.D? All of them combined?

I think you may be confused, this is just a strict anti-microsoft bias (which is very common here) but I could see how in this case it looks like a socialist bias, especially to someone like you who probably thinks "socialist" is a swear word.

Recalculate for the case where one person makes 75k and the other makes 25k and you'll see what the GP is referring to. I'm not saying it's wrong, just clarifying.

True, but #1 he probably isn't actually the one who came up with the idea, and #2 as I said, wild ideas do make it, but rarely.

I mean I wouldn't expect a non-engineer to be coming up with great ideas for space travel, either. Wild ideas only rarely make it. We hear about stories where those wild ideas from people who have no skill do make it but the vast majority of those wild ideas fall flat.

All of us stoners have seen desperate times and desperate actions but frankly mate you've taken the biscuit

He did?! I was wondering where that last biscuit went.

I've actually done something similar to this in the workplace before and found it to be very effective. Basically I scheduled a meeting for the last hour or so of the workday Friday and invited the other developers to come jump on with me. I shared my screen, we had an open mic, but basically I talked through what I was doing and they had a chance to see how my thought process works and also to make suggestions or ask questions. It turned out to be a good chance for the more junior folks to learn from me and some of the other experienced developers and at the same time it made us think about what we were doing at a deeper level, which is something you can get complacent in after you've been doing it a while.

This is something I did for several weeks in a row, but the last time was at least two years ago -- and yet as recently as last month I've had some of the folks that participated bring it up and comment how much they learned from it. If you think about it, it's basically pair programming on steroids.