Aren't the red shirts the ones who always die first?

I used to be an electrical engineer, working strictly with hardware. Then, a layoff and lousy job market forced me to make a career change. I went back to school for a grad degree in Computer Science. It was difficult for someone like me who started out without a software background but I've been working as a Software Engineer III for 1 1/2 years now. I'm now working with Java, Groovy, Spring, Hibernate, Solr...just to name a few. IT is a thriving market now and in the foreseeable future.

Understood. we are the trailer-trash of the universe.

space sloths?

The aliens would come here because they want us as specimens for their intergalactic zoo, a la Slaughterhouse Five!

Its actually GNU/Linux because desktop and laptop systems mostly use GNU software with the Linux kernel. For simplicity sake, the family of operating systems is referred to as "Linux". Most distros refer to it the same way.

Indeed...and most of the population fails to understand the concept of open source or how something that is freely available and isn't commercial and proprietary can be any good. Its also hard for people to understand exactly what Linux is when there are more than a half dozen desktop environments for it. Most people identify Windows 7, Windows 8 or OSX by how they look and act on the surface, not by what's under the hood.

You are an idiot and a wingnut for spinning this into a political discussion

LoL....Singularity....SkyNet. Just use your imagination

They'll ban toy guns. Then I wonder what they'll use next as a scapegoat after the next mass shooting. Lets see....anything but guns. When it comes to pinpointing and admitting to the full cause of these shootings, the gun advocates just keep missing the target.

No kidding. Do you think the New Star Wars trilogy will star Hanna Montana?

I HATED the JJ Abrams reboot of Star Trek. Now he's teaming up with Disney to do the next Star Wars trilogy? I'll pass. In fact, I'll wait until its available on Amazon Prime AND at a low price...and that probably wont happen soon since Disney has a deal with Netflix. As for Harrison Ford, I respect him but The Crystal Skull was an abomination in an otherwise excellent Indiana Jones franchise. Can't he see that this new Star Wars trilogy will sink as low, if not lower?

This story is total bullshit, if you ask me.

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At home, all I have is LibreOffice. I used it through all of my time as a Computer Science major in grad school. The word processing and spreadsheet software was up to snuff for all the work I needed to do. The presentation software (Powerpoint equivalent), not so much. At work, I'm forced to use MS Office 2007/2010. I've been using it infrequently for a year but every time I see the Ribbon interface, I'm totally lost and frustrated. Doing things as simple as an Undo is a chore. I'll take LibreOffice over MSOffice any day, except when doing slide presentations.