Wha? Qt??!

You mean the toolkit that requires a goofy cfront-style precompiler and comes with their own string class? Sure, it uses templates, but it's hardly a shining star of modern C++.

I have been thinking about this lately, since I know a bunch of parents who have teenagers... The solution is not to suspend people's licenses, but to suspend their mobile phone line. If you take away the license, they can get a ride or drive illegally and not get caught. Take away their phone line, you kill their social life, and it's easier to enforce since it can be done centrally. Sure, the person could go get a new pay-as-you-go phone... but with their account suspended, they will have a different number, and be still be cut off from all the people and services who have their old number.

Without a doubt, yes. Start listening to conservative opinion, on the radio, websites, etc. You will find two factions. One who literally do believe that is a plot: these are the people who listen to and believe Rush, Hannity, Coulter, etc., let's call them "pop conservatives" but they are mostly just paranoid culture warriors. Then, there are the smart conservatives who oppose the taxes and regulations on intellectually defensible reasons of economics and liberty, but usually don't ascribe it to the notion that Obama wants simply to destroy capitalism and kill old people.

Being politically naive, I had NO idea the second faction existed until I started digging for it. This is because the first faction is the current face of the GOP, and gets all the press.

On the flip side, there are equally nutty folks who think Bush started falsified wars to enrich himself and his friends. It may have been a side-effect, but I have no doubt that he *thought* it was the best way to improve our lives.

Pound for pound, conservatives have a lot more batshit-insane people than the liberals do. There's a few liberal kooks on various blogs here and there, but conservative kooks are *everywhere*, 24 hours a day on talk radio. Tune in for 8 hours straight of bashing not just liberals, but anyone who doesn't have the most hard-right stance on ANYTHING! Laura, Rush, then Howie Carr! The conservatives are eating their own babies now.

Wow, you should consider writing some Winnie The Pooh books. You've got the A. A. Milne British run-on sentence down to a science!

Nicely put. I could not have said this any better with twice the amount of words!

Ah, but they CAN fit in the Tubes. There's a site for that.

I believe God, not humans, is the only arbiter of good versus evil. Christian moral codes are the only thing that separates humans from the animals, and is fundamental our functioning as a society. Without God's love and guidance, humans would selfishly murder and steal like animals, because there would be no reason to do otherwise.

This exercise hurts my head. I give myself a D because I can't think this way, though I've heard this exact argument many times.

I told my wife years ago that I wanted to cancel extended-basic cable ("EB") but she balked at missing Stargate. So, the deal was, I'd get her any Stargate series on DVD rather than pay $60 a month for digital cable.

It turns out it was never necessary since I get EB over QAM with my analog basic cable. I'm sure they want to kill people like me off. But if it comes to pass, I simply will let it slide and buy the shows on DVD. I hate to be one of those "I don't have a TV" snobs, but I don't want to pay $60 per month, which goes up $10 every few years. And I most certainly do not want to rent any equipment.

She might look up to you for your leet skillz, your artistic prowess or your meticulously cultivated good manners, whatever

It's okay, you can just say money around here, you know!

This strikes as me as bricklayer who looks at the rock stars getting laid any saying "Hey! Bricklaying is an art too! Why don't I get the girls? Why don't people love what I do? I just want to be loved! IS THAT SO RAWWWNG?"

I read the entire paper, and I agree with most of the statements. However the central thesis -- people don't like pure math because it's not taught properly in school -- is a load of bull.

Given no prompting at all, people will draw pictures. It's fun. They will sing and create music. It's fun. A three year will do it, and good luck stopping them, as it seems to be built-in to humans.

They won't look at a box and wonder whether a triangle takes up half the area and then carefully ruminate upon the chain of pure deductive reasoning towards the clever orgasmic bliss of enlightenment. Otherwise, people would spontaneously get together and have math parties where they talk about hypercubes and whatever stuff mathematicians talk about. No, instead they get together, have a couple of drinks and listen to music.

I love pure math, despite being terrible at it. It's obviously a great thing, but not everyone's built that way. The kind of thinking that he likes is just not as common as he would like it to be.

Sounds rural to me. Maybe rural suburban enclaves in the middle of nowhere, but still rural. Where I grew up, the towns were close enough together, I could bike to all my friends' houses. Everyone I went to school with was within easy biking distance, the schools itself, parks, stores. Plenty to do. Even the rural towns here (central MA) are so close denser ones, that you can just bike there.

Reverse engineering is perfectly legal for interoperability, if you don't copy the implementation code. My friend's company legally clean-room reverse engineered all of CIFS, so their proprietary boxes can act as a stand-in for Windows.

I would prefer an auxiliary tuba player (tubaist? tubist?) performing the "fail" motif from The Price Is Right: "boom boom ba-doom". Followed thereafter by the trombone cluster: "bowwwwwwww...."

iPhony, pure genius. Best new word of the year. Multi-context.

Actually, it's the reverse. My parents don't use tabs at all, just a single browser window. I'm a "power user" and use tabs like list I'm doing right now: loading pages in the background, close when done, because I can't stand when the computer gets loaded down trying to do too much.

My sister, not a power-user, uses tabs like bookmarks. She keeps every single website she visits regularly in one of about 47 tabs. (And she wonders why she gets bad battery life.)