Im wondering aboutthe efacacy of restricting this study to open source developers. Developing what exactely? IT products, games, systems software, 3d VR? Need to really look more at "mainstream tech" to detrrmine correlation or deviation For example, most "web dev" now is HTML, Javascript, angular, jquery, etc. Is "that" open source? Technically yes, but effectively no.3

That is just dumb to say!

Just Ban Muslims on All flights Everywhere. Problem Solved. While we are at it, Get rid of H-1b Visas and Foreign Student Visas. Again, problem solved. And don't give the B.S> answer that we need "smart foreigners", because, that is just not true. Simple answer, from a college and business standpoint, it is cheaper to get foreign students because its easier to fill seats in college, nd in business, when you have people that will live 10-15 per suburban house you can pay them less. It is time for the Muslims to get rid of our problem, and frankly by REALLY inconveniencing the majority they'll be forced to pressure on the "Few" and clean up this mess.... 64k question is "Do they really want to?" Or is this the systematic problem/goal of Islam? The silent masses seem to confirm that the "minority" is really doing the work to rid the world of "infidels". Same "infidels" by the way that go our of their way to bring them to the USA and exploit them for labor. While at the same time taking seats in classes and jobs that American CAN and WOULD do! So MR or MS MBA, EVEN IF you want the Muslims here because they are "Cheap Labor", Question is Do you want/need your laptop more?

So another example of if you cant get support for something, just fake it. Works for polls. HAH

WELL the CHICOM / UBER LIBERAL takeover of Hollywood is complete. This is unwatchable FUBAR! Count me out. What a pathetic trailer. CBS should have the NETFLIX team develop the show. This "Re-Imagine horse crap" (aka pirate someone else's idea and EFF it up) is wearing thin with me. SO many other directions the series could take they picked THIS? What about Midway between Enterprise and TOS??? introducing a whole new set of characters. Child Spock....really! What a cop out. Looks like an activists dream platform though, yet another interpretation of Klingons. Whos the "social consultant" Barbara Walters? Sort of reminds me of "The View'" in space. Continuity full reverse!! Enterprise was the last Star Trek "Anything" that I truly felt was Roddenberry's vision. Abrams movies could literally have been slightly rewritten to fit in ANY story universe. This looks like a sexist racist approach to a new audience using a much loved backstory with 50 years of fans. "new" Ghostbusters goes in space could be the title! I WONT BE WATCHING THIS CRAP!

You do the UK a disservice with that statement. Truth is they want to ensure any m$ app dev is 32 bit so it can run in virtualized space ON 64 bit servers in the cloud. 32 to 64 bit conversion isn't a 'huge' deal on the compiler / linker side (provided the 32 bit system was designed properly) plus, native apps are going away anyhow WITH windows. It'll all be citrix-esque virtual pc's from now on SAS, so why bother with 64 bit, leave that to LINUX!

We need to stop all foreign aid, that would significantly reduce greenhouse gasses!

Plus we need clean coal, and other renewable fuels like oil, natural gas, bio methane, ethanol (grown on government "set aside acreages", essentially land that farmers are paid not to plant on to maintain market prices of corn), biodiesel, steam power, flex fuel everything

Coal (in USA) is very clean, most of the "smoke" from smokestacks is steam. 1950's Fission Nuclear power tech is outdated and produces dangerous byproducts. We need clean nuclear power of the type like spacecraft use.

Middleeast conflicts are boondoggles for arms mfg and gov programs. Abandon middle east, problems there disappear and alt energy flourishes here. Spend 20% on atomic age that we do on foreign aid(any money leaving USA) WIN WIN for USA taxpayers.

As long as the "renewable subsidies" exist, "renewable energy" will survive. When subsidies end, renewables die.

Most of the time application modification is not a kernel level endeavour

Kind of scary that the stewardship of most of our collective online presence is managed by a company with employees who have opinions like that. Is "Google" saying that there are holes in the cloud?? I thought the cloud would cure the common cold. Well of course the cloud has holes, giant gaping opportunities for data theft, and loss of revenue. The cloud concept has caught on in the most potentially destructive way possible, namely relying on internet hosted resources to solve daily business problems. Its one thing to provide the ability to charge via the internet, another situation entirely when applications (like google apps and other SaaS RELY on it for their operation. IMHO we have too MANY languages now, C, C++, C#, VB, Java, PHP, etc not to mention JavaScript and such. The problem is that what we have is not even close to being used efficiently. The newer "languages" and I use that term loosely as I don't consider C# a language so much as a scripting tool (aka VB with manners). Biggest problem today is that basic programming skills have been lost in favor of "object oriented" thinking. Let someone else do the coding and I will just glom onto that. REALLY bad "strategery" there, reminds me of the way Windows "revolutionized IT management. As long as you could click and push buttons, surprise you are an IT person. "Programming" today isn't so much writing code, it is a lego approach to building things. Frankly anybody can plug widgets together and make something work. But there is a difference between working and working well. Most programmers I have meet in recent years are very deficient in basic logic and design skills. The whole reason that C++ exists is that wannabe programmers couldn't use pointers and linked lists and other complex structures and such used in "C" for example. Visual Basic was created to provide the ability to produce programs by non programmers as well. What the real issue is today that I can see is that there is a REALLY big difference between IT programmers and computer scientist programmers. Businesses want people that can sit and crank code out "drones". VB and C# are the COBOL and PL-1 of the 21st century.

Believe it or not, pure ethanol "can" run great in most engines. Its octane rating is probably somewhere around 100...I say probably because Octane is specifically calculated and observed with petroleum based fuels. The Model T and pretty much all the predecessors ran on alcohol. It wasn't until the late 20's that the OIL LOBBY convinced Ford and others to convert to Gasoline. Ethanol was first produced as a substitute for whale oil in lamps in the early 1830's BIG OIL finally shut that down through ushering in a sugar tax during the civil war that made it nearly impossible to produce alcohol in quantity commercially, this ushered in (coal oil) or Kerosene for use in homes and businesses. Alcohol burns more slowly than gasoline, and at a lower temperature, so it tends to help the engine run cooler. Also does not have any of the additive crap that is in gasoline. The fact that Ethanol acts as a solvent for the shellac and deposits from gasoline fueled one of it's first smear campaigns. In the 1970's after years of use of gasoline with additives, this caused fuel filters to become clogged and people to blame the Ethanol. Trouble with that logic is that once you change the filter a few times, your system is clean and water free. In that Ethanol has no additives, I should say the non denatured Ethanol (i.e. Ethanol with Gasoline added to keep people from drinking it that we are sold) which contains benzene and is responsible for the "fish kills" when ethanol is accidentally spilled The fuel system has to be designed for Ethanol that is for sure. Thats a big reason why fuel injected engines run better than carburetors. There used to be carbs specific for Ethanol (likely methanol too, but Methanol is a whole other topic) We are at an impasse with using alternative fuels. The car companies have produced low compression engines to accommodate the low energy density fuels like 85 octane and lower gasoline. This makes the use of any fuel other than gasoline impractical for example propane works in much a similar fashion to alcohol in engines, clean burning, anti-knock, etc. Trouble is the engine needs to be either 13:1-15:1 compression ratio or turbo charged to provide the right air fuel ratio for efficiency. this is ALL a scam, the cars today are very inefficient for several reasons, primarily so they burn MORe fuel and keep the tax base up, second, they use crapoline (distillate) that is cheaper to produce and less efficient than gasoline "used to be". These are the facts that the media doesn't tell you. not secrets but conveniently omitted truth. PS - before you think that this is speculation, I grew up with racing engines, and all different klinds of exotic fuel around as my dad was big in motor sports and tractor pulling. As boys often do, we experimented with the fuels ourselves in LOTs of different applications from mowers to minibikes to motorcycles to Cars and trucks.this included gasoline (between 95 and 140 octane...yes that is possible) ethanol, Methanol, propane, and lots of other stuff...even messed with hydrogen at one point. bottom line, the "standard talking points " are is not necessarily true. I also worked for Automotive engineering for many years, so this is really (mostly anyway) based on experience and facts, not just spouting off Hope this opens the debate a bit.

Just goes to show you, throw enough poop (i.e. Global warming clowns money) at a wall, and soon you can't even see out the window, and the room stinks. 500 years of data is insignificant. people have been around for a long time. The "Cow flatulence" debate is laughable too......for example, how many Buffalo roamed the plains of north america up til 100 years ago....herds covered entire states (no not the "sissy states" on the east coast, "real men" states like Kansas, South Dakota, and Wyoming sized herds....thats a lot of red meat!!!!! Unless the buffalo were eating LOTs of Beano, probably a bit of methane there too. Umm, the problem here is that we really don't know....it is fun for some to use "incomplete data" to write studies on toilet paper that "prove conclusively" that something is so, but frankly we just don't know. Washington genius has again shut down our space exploration (once thought to be a source of global warming and weather changes!!!!) We now know most "green house gases" come form the mouths of politicians. Simple answer close washington, problem solved. BTW - that is MORE easy to prove than any hokum from environmental socialists. The real "problem" if you want to call it that is the glowing orb in the daytime sky...thats right, the Sun!!! We have no clue how the sun works over time, and frankly since that is what warms this planet and sustains ALL life (contrary to what the libs think) then perhaps studying the Sun and space weather is better use of our time. Trouble is we'd have to divert the "fun money" from washington to do that, and we'd probably stop allowing the Bureau of Land management to harras the rancher out west because of a few desert tuttles.....desert turtles....does that kind of explain how productive the land is for anything OTHER than ranching.....maybe they want the land for some OTHER purpose.....who knows. Desert turtles are like hippies....any surviving of either type had their day in the Sun and should quietly fade away!! HAH