I think I can relate to that. I'm quite introverted so I need a lot of time on my own to "hear my own thoughts". I also don't like listening to music very much. OTOH, I'm kind of a musician, and I generally prefer instrumental pieces. I can feel similarities between social yapping and music with lots of lyrics. Making music is great, listening is kind of meh -- I guess it's like the difference between doing some sports yourself and watching it. (I've never understood the fascination of self-proclaimed straight men in watching other men work out.)

There are theories about introversion being a symptom of generally heightened sensitivity - we get more easily overwhelmed by sensory input, so we try to cope by locking ourselves within. As much as I like music, I easily get my daily dose of auditory input from all kinds of background noise.

I'm somewhat over 30 and I still don't know what to do when I grow up, and frankly I find the entire notion of growing up and settling down in a middle-class suburban hell quite revolting. FWIW, I did graduate with a master's degree and got a real job over 10 years ago, but at the moment I'm basically having a gap year of student life and show business. Now, after carefully considering the fact that

my honest, professional opinion is, fuck you.

Europa? What kind of a country is that? Is it somewhere near Texas?

If you're talking about the Broderbund Printshop software, it works quite well under Wine.

http://appdb.winehq.org/object...

Also, there's the quality of life. In my experience, things like meat, coffee and nicotine are brief pleasures followed by long-term discomfort. I feel much better overall without them.

Now this is a great comparison. One language is bad because it enforces tidiness, and the other is bad because it doesn't.

Screw Keurig. I got one of their machines for Christmas. Damned thing has already stopped working.

Going back to that 10 year old Mr. Coffee brewer.

It was convenient, but the aggravation of maintaining that piece of junk is not worth it.

Inside the Six Billion Dollar Man - recently sold his cybernetic kidney for $19B...

This is one of the reasons I use Gentoo, it already comes with real programming tools.

More generally, though, any Linux distro is fine as there is no particular barrier between using a computer and programming it. I don't really see the difference, because when you use a computer you are telling it what to do, and then it's only about different levels of abstraction and power. There is only a problem if the OS places artificial limitations.

Dude, it's modded up as "funny" as I intended, therefore it is a parody. Besides, you just plagiarized my post by using my word "parody" ;D

GPUs are great at doing stuff in parallel, so they should be great for modelling a quantum computer. Then you can use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

Duh, it's a parody of a well-known work, at least well-known in Slasdot readership. I guess the next time I refer to the theory of relativity, I should refer to "on the electrodynamics of moving bodies".

Situation: There are 2 competing standards organizations.

"2? Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standards organization that covers everyone's use cases."
"Yeah!"

Soon:
Situation: There are 3 competing standards organizations.

Step One: Find someone born on Krypton......

This is also old news in fine particle research circles (but so is every bit of science news by the time it reaches Slashdot :) Also, most of the current news you see on fine particles is about their negative effects -- for example, burning organic fuels kills a lot of people directly, rather than via global warming. On the other hand there are decades-old experiments on cloud seeding which also have an environmentally questionable reputation.