I don't trust the numbers presented in this article. Everybody knows that 78.3 % of all statistics are just random numbers,

The Netherlands wouldn't have a single case of COVID-19...

I politely disagree: windows XP was the first version which was stable and could run on modest hardware. I therefore think XP deserves more credit than 2000

Beats all of the other choices, especially when used in combination with beer and snacks..

Trump as president or the fact there are still so many people voting for him. As a foreigner, I really feel sorry for your political system you call democracy, but actually is either a single party system, where the one party controlling the house and senate is busy undoing whatever the other party did in a previous term, or an indecisive mess when the house and senate are controlled by different parties. You guys really need more political parties and the guts to get out of your bipolar mindset.

But I'm too drunk to remember what I wanted to say.

Now I have no excuse any more why my wife can't have any cats!

Nobody wanted 3d TV. Nobody wanted motion smoothing. But the manufacturers decided we need it all.

It is rather trivial to make a processor which can run up to, say, 500 MHz. Above that, things start to become more complicated. When Intel was getting close to 1 GHz, they actually had to throw out digital designers and get guys in who understood analoog, for the simple reason you can't get there with simple digital synthesis tools alone any more. So, the answer is no, unless you want a Pentium 3.

Quite depressing indeed...

Can they also prove particles are harmless for the environment ? Where does the heat come from ? And how much energy does it take to apply the stuff ? What's the chance of mixing it up with normal paper and throwing it away too soon ?

Take a look at how male software people treat women and you got your answer. The main reason a -admittedly good-looking- female friend of mine doesn't have a degree in CS is that she was shocked by all the drooling guys in college. During the new student orientation week, there was always this 'magic number' buzzing around: How many females dared to show up. I sometimes really felt embarrassed by my fellow male students.

Switching sides is rather trivial except for two things: Roads without centerlines and roundabouts. With the UK being quite close to countries where they drive on the other side of the road (i.e. the rest of Europe), indeed, what could possibly go wrong...

- They didn't cause significant delays in loading pages. Quite often rendering a page is stalled because my computer is waiting for a advertisement.
- They didn't keep on showing me stuff I searched for and actually already bought over two years ago.
- They didn't block the website I was trying to visit until I click on the small X that they made as invisible as possible.
- They didn't make the content I was looking for hard to read, and hard to find on the page.
- They were not forcing me to take extra steps or actually wait a significant about of time (your video will start in 30 seconds... uh, no. That video will not play at all.)

I have the feeling advertisements are getting more and more intrusive by the day. I whitelisted a few hosts, but if things continue like this, I might have to block all of them.

It takes me 13 minutes to get to work by car, 25 minutes to get there by bike, and 50 to get there by public transport, for the simple reason that I don't live near the railway station, I don't work near the railway station, and all buses go to the railway station only. In most cities in the Netherlands (except for the four biggest maybe) if you work in the same city as you live, in general public transportation the slowest option to work.

Furthermore, using the public transport I would have to make sure I'm in time for the bus every time, or I'd loose another 15 minutes. Next, using the public transport I'd most likely have to stand in an overcrowded bus and try not to get annoyed by that one guy/woman who always is there to irritate you by smelling like hell, playing loud music or making loud phone calls.