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Adam Smith wrote about free markets. Capitalism is something above and beyond a free market, first written about by Marx, who argued it was an inevitable consequence of free market and used that to criticize free markets.

When you conflate free markets with capitalism you're buying into a little bit of Marxist ideology.

I was opposed to recovery partitions when MS first started using them. But with Win 8 I think they've added enough options that the pros outweigh the cons. It took me a while to find all this info (or rather, learn that MS had even made this possible), so here it is as a PSA:

All Windows 8/8.1 computers come with a restore partition. I highly recommend you buy a 16GB or 32GB USB flash drive and convert that restore partition into a reinstall flash drive.

If you don't like the default recovery partition state (maybe too much crapware installed), you can create a custom recovery partition after you've uninstalled the crapware and installed your programs.

Finally, if you totally screw up, you can still create a Windows 8/8.1 recovery flash drive by using your Windows key and downloading a clean 8-16 GB recovery image from Microsoft.

Microsoft site for creating recovery image.

Instructions for finding your key

They're probably misrembering slightly - the moon has a two-week day, followed by a two-week night, for a full diurnal cycle almost exactly the same as it's orbital period around the Earth (it's tidally locked after all). The discrepancy is of course due to the fact that the Earth completes about 1/12th of an orbit around the sun per one rotation of the moon, so the length of a lunar sol is slightly different than the rotational period - just like with the Earth itself, but more dramatic since a lunar month/day is a lot longer.

That's what I remember as well - and I seem to remember another study suggesting that humans had a much more difficult time adapting to day lengths outside the range of about 22-26 hours (+/- 2 hours), or was it +/- 1 hour? I forget.

I was rather surprised with the new layout, and last night was buggy as all get out. Now that the bugs are worked out I like the new design. It's not beta, or if it is they built in everything we said was missing and fixed the text layout we complained about.

If there was some sort of announcement system I'd have been understanding last night. That is something Slashdot has never been good about though...

Noob Rocksmith questions. As a drummer for a lot of decades I have always considered picking up the guitar or bass. Much more portable and crowd friendly. First question: Is there a bass version? For either, how hard is it for someone who never picked up a guitar to start on Rocksmith?

You're talking catch, not quantity of available fish - catch naturally increases with better technology, but as available fish reserves are depleted that only makes the problem worse. Both total mass of fish, and individual specimen size have been declining for a *very* long time. But hey, maybe we can learn to eat jellyfish, they seem to be thriving in the warmer, less predator-rich waters.

Funnily enough a lot of the time I'm talking about Ruby on Rails and Ruby's Active Record. They're a very good example of a project that says "Oh look how easy it is to build a web page with our thing!" with a trivial example. Last time I looked at it, I started having to look at implementation-level details of the packages almost immediately. I also remember it being an awful lot of code for what I needed. I really only needed about 10% of the functionality Rails provided, and had no way to scale down to just that.

Funnily enough I went through that phase where liked ruby, but am now back to the point where I'd rather just use perl with "use strict;". If I'm going to do OO development, I'm going to do it in C++ or Java.

Don't worry. He doesn't need his Katra. He's part of a bigger community now.

One that gets to point fingers and scream Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I actually did go to their web site, you may have missed my last paragraph. "Unlock the Revenue Potential of Digital TV" is their leading add.

And his photography.

RIP. Sad sad sad.

Screw auto-play, I'm trying to figure out who "ooyala"and "taboola" are, and why their content is being linked (by default on every Slashdot page). Whois data seems to link them to tucows, who I have not seen since they were found to be spreading malware through their download wrappers.

Yeah, you have to follow the whois chain down the road to get to tucows but it's obvious 2 steps away.

FWIW, taboola and ooyala seem to be both tracking companies (for marketing purposes *wink* *wink*). No thanks, I won't let their video play.

Oh, so you go to the ad hominem method of reason as a response, followed by your own isolated opinion as a follow up. Thanks for proving my point, twice. I'll ignore further irrational methods of proof, so would encourage you to actually learn the material you are attempting to criticize prior to making irrational claims. As a hunch, you will do nothing and maintain an irrational opinion and argue with invalid logic.

The downside of of the high-quality video work that has been done on the Star Trek tapes is that you can see the black stains on his teeth from smoking in the closeups.

83 is a respectable age, but I recently lost someone who lived to about that age and had a similar smoking history. Whether not smoking at all would have made a significant difference in lifespan is uncertain. But it might have made those last few years a bit less difficult.