The more you offer for free, the more people expect for free. Something to do with perceived value and all that. It's a documented psycho-social phenomenon. People are stupid.

Clearly, they are calling with the expectation of free support -- you need to change this expectation. What I would suggest is to do everything you can to ensure that customers are aware of the support fees and rates *before* they call.

Where are they getting your phone number? Your website? The software "about" screen? Documentation? Put the pricing info in all of those places.

Nuclear power is the safest [nextbigfuture.com] energy source [forbes.com] per TWh, bar none. Wind power is more deadly.

And do you have any links citing death-by-windmill?

"No, I don't have any kids."

At least until it becomes illegal to answer untruthfully.

Various tonalities are associated with the specific emotions that we find either enjoyable or displeasureable, and music provokes these emotions involuntarily.

As described in the summary, clashing tones create a vibration or beating (this is empirically known by anyone who tunes musical instruments by ear) and cause a sense of disresolution and unrest.

Yeah, a lot of modern music is just random, manufactured crap, but truely talented artists select their musical tones, both deliberately and subconsciously, to tie in very closely with the lyrics (if applicable) and the emotions they intent to provoke.

you'll see that people with an IQ lower than 100 have a lot more babies than people with higher IQ. So it is not a surprise that overall there is a downward trend

Oooh, what's that law called, again... y'know the one about internet discussions devolving into a comparison between real life and Idiocracy?

Um ... yeah. The more I think about it, the more I agree that this is likely the case.

As it's been mentioned several times here already, it's as simple as providing a flattened JPG or PNG as the assignment and requiring that students submit a completed PSD. Any competent "Photoshop teacher" would know this.

Leave it to Slashdot to come up with a miriad of Rube Goldberg solutions to a simple problem.

You're right, but why nuclear? Why not something that doesn't have the chance, however remote, of causing armageddon?

Would it be possible to power a home or office building with a roof of solar panels? What about a small windmill?

We should be also looking at ways of conserving energy. I'm not talking about BS lighting options like headache-inducing, depression-causing, carcinogen-containing fluorescents ... but building and renovating buildings (homes, offices, schools, everything) to allow in as much natural light as possible during the day. Isn't it absurd that we use any artificial lighting at all during the eight or more hours a day when we this giant *free* light source just out the window?

First, a headline and one sentence about someone accused of murder, then it goes off on a complete, random tangent about butt-drugs?

Is it too much to expect a summary that is related to the headline? Seriously, guys, this is getting pathetic.

Because they'll have to.

Windows 8 is a toilet (remember, it's the "other version" every "every other version of Windows sucks") and they're forcing obsolescence on Windows 7 far too early.