Couldn't that be used as an argument for doing every sort of crazy, dangerous, or bone-headed thing that crosses into people's mind? I mean, you're ALWAYS going to die eventually ...

how do you get down modded for a serious question? /sigh

might as well get this question out of the way ... if she has a baby, technically, would it be her daughter/son or sister/brother?

I really don't understand why those things are used! The only time I ever "needed" a graphing calculator was in high school. In college, not a single math class allowed calculators, at all. Even the calculus courses! The only thing I ever used my TI-83P for was loading it up with equations (in the notepad app) for physics. And in physics, the hard part is knowing which equation to solve given the problem, not how to do math. Most of the time we were allowed cheat sheets anyways. These things are useless. I would've posted the xkcd comic, but someone else beat me to it.

This is quite simply amazing. And even though it's not perfect, can you imagine the implications of this? Everything from weaponization to ornithology. Imagine being able to observe a flock of birds on a migratory route as part of the flock! It's really quite stunning.

Do you have any clue what you're doing?

Don't forget tethering, and the up and coming new favorite annoyance of the wireless industrial machine, bloatware! yes, exactly like the crap that is shipped on pc's! only you can't remove it, at all, ever, unless you root the device

Sir, I think your post is slightly insulting to rocks. They have tons of uses!

1) Beat someone up with it
2) Break stuff with it
3) Throw it at something you don't like
4) Turned into concrete
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100) Crushed to a powder and used to sandblast paint off things

Next time, use a more sensible example, such as ... bureaucrat

A big leg up on Google, I'm usually not on my gmail screen all day. Facebook is a different story.

while i admire your desire to teach 14 years all of this, most of them will not care about that level of detail. in my high school programming class, most kids couldn't remember basic control structures (if, else, loops, etc.), and when given problems to solve, would ask the teacher for the 'codes'. heck, even the universities don't start with architecture, hardware overviews, or assembly

It might be possible to live forever by not sitting down, it'll just be hard as hell to find out. Who are you to say that if someone never sits, ever, then they wouldn't die? You could live to 1,000 years old, but the second you put your ass in a chair, you die. It'll be like the movie Speed or that Family Matters episode where the bus can't slow under 55 or the cop couldn't stop jogging on the treadmill. More research must be done!

It's the pig le resistance! It's just a little airborne! It's still good, it's still good!

Unfortunately that can't always be your answer, especially when your site is an enterprise application, and the bread and butter of your system. As much as we would like to shun users of old or crummy software, sometimes, they're the ones keeping the lights on. Any help with allowing us to support them is help worth taking advantage of, in my opinion.