Well, I was supposed to have typing classes in both the high schools I went to, but I managed to skirt around that requirement. In 10th grade (in 1999), I took elective classes in QBasic and Visual Basic programming the first semester, and then C++ programming in the second. Beyond that, I helped found a computer club....although, that quickly degenerated into a "play Starcraft after school" club, which was much more popular. When I was there, they had mostly phased out their ancient 386 machines and moved to some 166MHz Pentium II's. By 2000, I was in a different school, which had a number of computers open for student use, but no programming or computer science courses.

The first school was a DoDEA school in Germany. The second was a public high school in a fairly well off neighborhood in southern California.

Well, that sucks. Meebo has been my go-to site to sign in to IM on when I'm not at my own computer. Time to strike it from my list, I guess.

Siri's really just a slick interface to Google's "I'm feeling lucky" button, with pre-processing done prior to performing an actual search. Google pops up a map if it looks like you're talking about a location; it provides a definition if you ask for one, etc etc. Google already contains a lot of the AI-like characteristics shown by Siri.

To get that kind of functionality, you could always get a netbook and a power inverter. It has a similar size of display to most of the portable DVD players, and functions on hard drive storage. Another option would be a tablet with a large SD card. In that case, you could even pay for a data plan and have streaming media onto the device.

Of course fear of CJD infection can be considered irrational, until there's proof that it's a larger problem. If BSE has a sufficiently low incidence in cows and/or a sufficiently low transmission rate to humans, then your fear could easily be out of proportion to reality.
The direction I think you were going (and with which I agree ) is that we need stronger testing requirements to actually determine the percentage of incidence of the disease in our food herds' populations. Rather than being afraid of the disease itself, I'm more worried that the government is taking the position that further testing isn't necessary when we can't be sure of any such thing.

Travelling and traveling are both valid spellings of the word, the former being more common in British English and the latter more common in American English.

My guess is that their tool provides some language extensions, or some method of specifying the inputs and outputs of the chip's pins.

That would be "System on a Chip", a term which describes a complete system included on a single chip. An example I've seen used more often would be a phone's central chip; they tend to integrate the CPU, GPU, wireless chipsets, and part or all of the RAM on one chip. In this case, it looks like they're advertising the ability to quickly create a hardware chip that functions the same as an arbitrary chunk of C code; essentially, you can make a hardware chip that implements a specific algorithm.

That's a goofy thing to claim. My desktop workstation is powering a display area 2400x1920 in size while running three virtualized OSes on top of a fourth.
I'll agree that the Atari ST did more with the hardware that it had than this machine does now, but to claim that they can do just as much is laughable. I've never understood people that could make that sort of claim with a straight face.

Agreed. I bought my current desktop monitor several years ago when 1920x1200 was more common, and I LOVE it. 1920x1080 feels too cramped.

I had to search around for a decent resolution. I ended up with a 15" Sager with a 1920x1080 screen. 1366x768 is endemic though. You've gotta be picky about the resolution if you want something else.

If I'm remembering right, you can make a Reddit username by supplying the desired name and a password. Good luck attaching that to an individual person.

Steam is similar to Origin, in that it's a game management system. In general, I use it for cheap games (I'm willing to put up with DRM if I'm getting 80-90% off of a game). The original draw of the system is that you can load Steam on a new computer, install whatever games from your account, and start playing from your cloud-saved game. It's DRM, but it's some of the least-onerous DRM I've ever used (provided you don't want to play 2 different games off the same account simultaneously...)

You're still paying for them anyhow. Deleting the listings is just hiding the problem.

Some models of Roku accept a wired ethernet connection, although yes, most only support wireless.