Your other option when you can't afford it is to take things step by step. Get your associates, take a step forward in your career. Get your bachelors, take a step forward in your career. Get your masters, etc. Sure you don't become a PhD by age 25 this way, but shockingly, life is not "fair."

Coming from a windows environment, you've probably already lost.

But here is a book to show you how much you don't know (in a platform agnostic way):

The Tangled Web by Michal Zalewski.

Also, forget all of the advice above about starting by writing your own webserver. That's a fool's errand.

I wonder what kind of sales pitch it takes to get $12 million for a free web dictionary.

'Just imagine if we could provide 100 definitions from other people for the word "butt", how much is that worth to you?'

Vote with your checkbook. We're not talking thousands of dollars or life critical systems here.

Maybe it would be good at counting illegals crossing but it does nothing to stop them.

When hundreds of thousands (literally) cross every year, we don't need sensors on the border. Just stand there and some are sure to cross your path.

Arizona is an open carry state but a permit is required to carry a concealed weapon. The permit process requires class work, background checks, fingerprinting, and no felony or domestic violence charges.

Can Microsoft deliver my Ms Portman look-alike petrified with hot grits down her pants?

Thx in advance.

Since the UK doesn't have freedom of speech like here in the US, this could really change the internet by creating a roadmap for other countries to follow.

That IRC meeting was painful. Is the reason OOo has been so slow to gain traction in America because nobody on the board speaks english or has the cultural fortitude to face tough issues? Thankfully louis_to was there to get down to business and make something happen.

Beware the Government/Media complex.

Say bad things about your master and you're no longer invited to the evening parties.

It will help a lot of people to have an easy to use remote desktop solution. Remove all of the client/server terminology to the end user. Just run this chromotion program on your windows pc and have the chrome station auto detect it. You privacy kooks are going to hate me for saying this: use the google cloud servers as an authentication and discovery proxy. The average slightly technical person eats this stuff up.

Let me break it down for you.

Who said the era of big government is over?

Who delivered the bribe to Sestak?

There ya go. HAND.

You didn't think the change would be good, did you?

As that Sestak criminal would say, "The era of big government has returned."

They should have went with a more power efficient (and faster) core 2 duo. It's not like the cost difference would have been noticeable given the cost of the shipping container, solar panels, etc.