I suppose this restriction will be mentioned in the rent contact, right? Because I would not count this sort of service as "internet" access and I would have to go to another ISP for the real thing, provided that it's not against the terms and conditions of the rent contract, in which case I would look for another apartment. It better be an otherwise kick ass apartment in order to persuade ageek to live there, unless your target group is something else.

You got it completely backwards. We should press for educational success and interest as much as possible, regardless of race and topic. You don't do this by forcing the more advanced group to a lower standard, but by raising everyone to a higher standard.

Leaks on the VA? Can you please provide a link? Outside the US we are not familiar with this.

I don't think the TV is at fault here. The poor dynamic range comes from the sensor used to produce the recording. Our eyes and brain can view scenes with a range of about 24 stops, whereas a pro camera can only give you about 10 stops.

BTW we need a new term for describing the actual meaning of HDR because the acronym has become synonymous to horrible post-processing practices and unnatural colors.

So what? Men can also not tell who the bad guys are. Maybe it's that biker dude? The black or the hispanic? Maybe rape is not that relevant for men, but robbery surely is. Once you generalise you're in the wrong, no matter what.

I fail to see how the OP is part of the problem just because he complained about taking the flac from some false accusations that concern his social group.

The quality of the posts has deteriorated, to be sure, but in this case the topic is relevant. There is an awful generalisation being made by someone who obviously is not familiar with the geek culture and this is our opportunity to retort.

Do you mean you carry it with you like a notebook? Because if you do, you might want to check out the Galaxy Note 3. At least this device fully covers my needs when I'm on the go. For indoors though, there is no replacement for the god old engineering paper block.

The laws of thermodynamics are actually axioms, that we use in order to predict the behavior of physical systems. If we ever find an experiment that defies them they will have to be extended or abandoned. The same purpose (the prediction of physical behavior) can also be achieved by using different axioms (like the less-popular but by all means equivalent single-axiom Hatsopoulos-Keenan formulation). Nobody "promoted" anything from theory to law.

As a scientist, you don't go about validating any beliefs or disbeliefs that you may have, you simply use the theory and its laws to help you figure out how stuff works.

Unfortunately, yours didn't think this way either. And now we're stuck with an asshole too many, that thinks that people aren't entitled to their own opinion, no matter how subversive it may be.

Why is this modded flamebait? The post expresses an opinion quite politely and clearly. Correct or not, bringing arguments that need to be addressed in the discussion is a good thing.

Especially resurrection spells, I've heard, take particularly long to cast...

I'll give you the one about chasing the ball, these damn things keep rolling and rolling and it can occasionally be fun if you manage to catch them before they roll into the river or the lake or whatever and before you get completely out of breath. But it may be ok if you live in a place like e.g. Nebraska that's totaly flat sans lakes and the ball will only go as far as you can kick it, which is not that far in most cases.

But climbing a tree is outright silly. The lowest branches of most trees are often out of reach and you can scatch yourself pretty badly on the way up. The small branches keep poking into your eyes or knocking on your glasses. And the foliage obscures the view so bad that the whole experience is pretty much a pain in the ass even if you finally do manage to get up. Also, how come everyone is so quick to point out that climbing trees is sooo much fun but no one mentions the fun involved in getting back down again? Exactly. Because it isn't.

This is an obvious troll, but I'll bite.

From TFA: "They're so used to the instant buzz which you can get with these games and gadgets that they find it really hard to focus on anything which isn't exciting."

So make the fucking school exciting. And no, using computers in the classroom isn't the answer. Inspiring kids to learn is a very demanding task and you can't hide your incompetence as a teacher by blaming the kids and their tablets/phones/laptops. Inability to concentrate, you say? Have you actually *seen* a kid play Unreal Tournament (or whatever it is kids play these days)? Also, in my day, D&D, Magick the Gathering and similarly complicated games would be the grand examples that your "inability to learn" statement is full of shit.

Lastly, fuck you and your sociallizing. If you don't address issues like bullying, the kids will burry their faces even deeper in their screens in an effort to get away from it all.

Indeed I should have gone with CentOS in the first place. It was a bad decision on my part, but it also turned out to be much worse than expected.

The absurd release frequency, the unnecessary changes, and the bad quality forced me to air-gap my system and freeze it in an ancient version in order to keep it running (or, better said, in order to reduce the risk of it breaking down). I stopped recommending fedora ages ago. Now that that system fulfilled its original purpose, it will be repurposed and updated with something different, probably CentOS or Mint.