For the record, I read Ender's Game in middle school and enjoyed it. I wasn't a big fan of any of the sequels, but that's neither here nor there. You're right, there are plenty of options to read/watch without necessarily supporting the artist. I may take advantage of these routes, but Card can rest assured he won't be seeing a dime from me.

Reading Nietzsche (as opposed to most sophomoric interpretations of him) doesn't encourage him to write more. Purchasing books from Card means my money will help in a bigoted crusade against a people that makes him feel funny inside. The funniest part is how Ender's Game was disallowed from a middle school for being too homoerotic. Methinks he doth protest too much.

Meh, don't care in the slightest. But please, feel free to support Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh as well.

Umm...yes

With Orson Scott Card's emphatically homophobic world view, I refuse to help finance any of his works.

20.0 on vanilla Debian (XFCE) and it was choppy until I went to full screen...then smooth as butter. Very impressive.

Hell, I've done everything that I can do to help. I've ran for office (won the primary but lost the general for US House), I vote every election and try to be as active as possible. The truth of the matter is that the asshats in office right now represent us, and when they pull these moves and still get reelected it shows that we as a society are giving them our tacit approval.

Once again (from an embarrassed American), apologies for that...

I didn't know Monster Cable made Pringles!

Buy 'em out, boys!

There isn't enough snarky elitism associated with it yet for it to be a "real" programming language. As soon as you can get to the state of natural obfuscation that Perl enjoys, you'll see an uptake with the true nerds.

Not only this (but please mod up anyway!), but as far as I know MariaDB is compatible with plugins designed for a comparable version of MySQL. At least for my Django and PHP work this holds true. I mean, isn't this the reason most developers abstract the database library anyway?

The point is that my phone is what acts as the brains of the device. The glass is what lets you interact with it without looking down and fiddling with a phone. I was able to solve my problem by using the tools on hand, the glass simply would have streamlined the effort.

I'm a bit late to the party, but I wanted to give a virtual (no mod points today) vote up. Sometimes /. makes me sad when unimaginative people can't figure out what new and exciting things upcoming technology will enable us to do. One addendum to your list. I was stuck in Israel a few weeks ago and almost missed my ride out because I can't read Hebrew and there wasn't an English translation on the subway, I remember thinking how much I would have given for a pair of Google Glasses with an instant translation instead of digging out my smartphone, downloading a Hebrew keyboard, and manually inputting everything.

To paraphrase Homer Simpson: To be loved you have to be nice to people...all the time! To be hated you don't have to do squat.