From the full article :

How is that an empirical truth?

Personally I find the site's design really suited to it's purpose. It's clean, no bright colours or extraneous graphics. The content even though dense is easy to read. It is as far as I'm concerned, perfect for the job it is intended to do.

Now the article after making this broad unsubstantiated statement makes one and only one specific complaint. That editing wikipedia pages is too complex. I agree, it could possibly be easier but wiki markup is the best we have come up with so far. If you have suggestions on how to improve that. That is concrete steps that can make writing wiki pages easier, please share them, most of us are all agog.

I'd also like to point out the lenovo x120e. It comes with the AMD APU which has quite decent graphics compared to the Intel Atom. Might be useful if there is some OpenGL app or game that the kids might like (like Celestia).

You mean like this :

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6007/amd-2013-apus-to-include-arm-cortexa5-processor-for-trustzone-capabilities

Seems it is used to implement "Trusted Computing".

Mod parent up.

I think the reason a lot of people which get outraged by such practices (nerds as you call them) are outraged not because we expect everybody to be able to do these things. In most cases, even we don't have the time and or energy to all these things and hire a professional. But we get outraged because it becomes difficult or impossible for these things to happen.

The point is, it's not necessary that everybody should fix their dishwasher. But it should be possible to do so, if somebody is so inclined. For the world to head in a direction where the only possible way to replace a battery in a personal electronic device is to go to the manufacturers service centre and have it fixed is akin to eroding of our rights as a consumer of the goods.

When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.

from: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis

Really, just please read the whitepaper.

And if that is too much, then here is an abstract.

The sensor is 41MP. Then they use a technique they are calling oversampling wherein multiple pixels are used to calculate a perfect average pixel and as far as I understand the final res of the saved image is configured. For an example, they say a 5 MP image.

Pretty cool stuff and as an engineer "Doh" moment stuff.

And yes, Mod Parent up.

http://unblock-us.com/

I understand that there are copyright laws involved which make distribution country specific. But seriously, this is the 21st century, get your laws in order. Something designed to work in the 19th century just no longer cuts it.

You are wondering about Dual_SIM. Just google for a "Quad SIM phone".

Actually No.

This explains it better : http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2320#comic

True:

But then this is usually what happens : http://xkcd.com/349/ [XKCD post, obligatory]

Copied from somewhere, but you should get the drift.

When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.

Well not me, but my niece is a 11 year old kid, can and does use gmail but does not own a phone. Also my mom, who is a stay at home housewife just keeps her cell switched off, but again uses her email regularly.

Btw, as long as this is an optional if you are worried about security and not mandatory, iId say it was a good thing.

Also really: "Won't someone think of the children? (the ones without cell-phones)"

Well Doh!!

The malware seems to have specific code to target the centrifuges. There is reportedly sub par performance and high replacement rate for the centrifuges.

Do you need a diagram too?

Uhh ... I live here (New Delhi) and no, the DMRC trains aren't driverless.
Included are some links that tell about an accident that happened when a driver did something stupid.

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_driver-started-metro-train-before-getting-signal-dmrc_1282211

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/driver-started-metro-train-before-getting-signal-dmrc/501738/2