Not to mention my demographic: fanatically indifferent.

Heck, TUVALU had a TLD, until they decided they could get more out of selling ".tv" than having one themselves.

Watch as we move from "search engine optimization" to "grading engine optimization," as students look for AI solutions to write their papers, freeing them for other tasks.

As an amateur astronomer, I find evening hours of sunlight a waste. I'd rather have it get dark sooner, to extend useful observing time earlier into the evening rather than later into the night.

What the article is arguing for isn't getting rid of DST, it's making DST permanent--the worst possible solution. To argue for getting rid of DST, which is what I would advocate, you'd have to stay in the "fall back" time and never "spring forward."

Thanks, I think I must have known that back at the time, but never paid attention to the DOS versions so it didn't stick. Word for Windows 2.0 was the first time I earnestly made the switch to Word from Borland Sprint on DOS.

I don't know quite what to make of this. I got used to skipping every other generation of Office, especially MS-Word, back sometime around the time of Word for Windows 2.0 (which was great) and Word for Windows 6.0 (the next version, which was not... who knows what happened to 3, 4, or 5.) But then later, Office/Word 2003 was the last good version, before they totally messed up the interface with their "ribbon bar" or whatever they called it, that made its functions impossible to find and use.

Rumor was that Microsoft had two competing teams, and while team A was releasing one version, team B was prepping the next version. Then when team B went to release their version, team A went back to development.

Given the later performance, though I don't know that it still holds. I just know that every time they make changes, I definitely want time to watch others' use of it and see what they are before I accept the upgrade.

obligatory:

xkcd

heck, even slashdot does this, to some degree...

Stars and supernovas aren't quite a renewable resource, except possibly through initiating a new "big bang" and rebooting the universe. The universe ultimately uses energy and moves to increased entropy. New stars are formed, but the pool of matter and energy to form them from is limited; some is lost over time (think of loss to black holes, for example... no real way to recover matter once it reaches that state.)

If renewable energy doesn't exist, then the whole premise that any civilization--human or otherwise--could be powered entirely by renewable energy is moot.

...but nobody suspected that meant only one director.

In the end, it will come down to a fight between JJ Abrams and Peter Jackson?

Also most of Ashburn is fairly new construction compared to other locations nearby and most of its power lines are buried... that probably contributes to it keeping power on when older communities in Fairfax and Maryland don't. I suspect also the choice of location may have something to do with proximity to others. UUNET (or whatever they are these days), AOL, Verizon, etc., etc.

''They learn about city planning, environmental issues, getting things done, and even how to plan for the future,"

My son must have somehow gone to that school without telling me. He keeps talking about Creepers being a key natural resource.

I could see this working as a short term investment, rather than a long term holding. For example, there was an "ultimate collector series" millenium falcon they made (which was huge, much bigger than the set my son plays with) that sold for about $500. If I'd thought about it, I'd have realized it would sell out and that only a couple of years later, it would be worth $1800-2000, for about a 200% to 300% profit. It's not major income, but a small, short term thing that could have generated some hobby funds or something.

Not all legos are equal, they have sort of diverged into two types: the traditional brick type (and in that I include even the specialized pieces, as long as they fit together in the traditional stud/brick mechanism) and the Technic/Mindstorms type, which use pieces more like girders that fit together with special connectors. The brick type has moved more in the licensing/set model direction, and those I sort of agree that the creativity seems to be missing these days. But I have to admit I'm glad they came up with a decent lego millenium falcon, which was absolutely perfect for my son for Christmas a year ago.

On the other hand, the Technic/Mindstorms type still focuses a lot on creativity, with alternate directions for different models included, and lots of resources available for idea books and programming and such. If you look on the Lego education site, they seemed to almost have moved in the opposite/more creative direction, with resources for bodging together Mindstorms electronic components with a metal frame & RC servo-based robotics construction system (vertex? Tetrix? I forget what it was called) that another company makes.

Bottom line, if you want to emphasize creativity, go Technic early, then maybe branch off to mindstorms.