Suggestion: Install some of the demos or free games available (I can recommend Peggle Extreme casual or the Sam&Max point and click adventure), and test out if the steam offline mode works for you. It has improved a lot recently, but some still reports problems, therefore the suggestion to try it for yourself.

His adventures are available from Project Gutenberg, so I would assume they are safely in the Public Domain by now.

I won't talk about intelligence, but the ability to score high in IQ tests is correlated to both employment status and social background.

The EU Commission is a non-elected body which has as it sole mandate[1] to restrict the rights of citizens, and extend the rights of EU based corporations. It is the Commission that negotiate these treaties, and in general propose new legislation.

The EU Parliament is an elected body which cannot propose new legislation, but can, and sometimes do, block the proposals from the commission. The good stuff you hear from the EU is usually from the Parliament, but they contribute their share of crap as well, as parliaments do everywhere.

[1] Judging by its actions.

You can then do online banking directly from the host OS (if you deem it secure enough), or from a different VM.

I'm pretty sure the main purpose is for porting Unix applications to MS Windows, and/or for maintaining a common build environment for the two platforms. At least that is what I use it for. I actually compile with MinGW as the application itself have very few OS dependencies, Cygwin "just" provides the pure build environment.

I also used to use Cygwin/X11 to provide a Unix like interactive programming environment, but as the MS version of GNU Emacs is quite good these days, and GNU Emacs itself provide most of the common environment I need, I don't bother with that anymore.

What is now SCO used to be called Caldera, one of the first Linux companies. The old Unix (Xenix) company SCO is now Tarantella.

Modern coal, wood and straw burning plants are all quite clean. If you see a polluting one, it is either from the 70's or before, or build with technology from that era. I guess countries with lax environmental laws will still allow such polluting power plants to be build, but Denmark's environmental laws are not lax.

The source has him as Larsen, also here is his work page.

Speed don't kill. Sudden deceleration kills.

Outlaw sudden deceleration.

I'd probably not attribute HP, but I might attribute Mathematica if I used results of computations that are non-trivial (not easily recreatable without Mathematica).

I believe it will sort itself out with Wolfram Alpha. Normally you'd try to go to the primary sources and attribute them (just like you'd do with Wikipedia and Google). And simple calculations could be done by any means, so attribution is not necessary (the presented results cannot be traced back to Wolfram Alpha).

But for some of the more specialized queries where you let Wolfram Alpha combine information from multiple sources and perform computations on them, you will want to add an attribution. The sources section of Wolfram Alpha is sufficiently vague and the computations sometimes non-transparent, that you are basically trusting Wolfram Alpha on this stuff, and your readers deserve to know this.

It also serves as an insurance if the information happens to be wrong. Wrong information presented with attribution is the fault of the source, wrong information given without attribution is your responsibility.

I presume the poster doesn't read the kernel list, or other development lists. There is no lack of constructive and informed (or otherwise) critique.

If he talks about the user experience, critique is more complicated because Linux is not that well defined when leaving the kernel. There is usually always a patch or package or distribution that does it in another way, which you will tend to be told if you just address your critique vaguely to "Linux".

It makes much more sense to critique a specific distribution, which is what is responsible for the user experience, but again, there is not really a lack of distribution specific critique either, partly due to the competition between distributions.

Emacs calc is actually based on the HP-48.

Successful free software projects focus on the needs of those likely to contribute to the projects.

This can obviously be other developers who contribute with patches, but it can also be businesses that contribute to Red Hat Linux by buying an enterprise version of Red Hat Linux, or ordinary net surfers who contribute to Mozilla by using the build-in Google search facilities.

If you want a free software project to become popular, you should try to find a way to make increased popularity turn into increased contributions, like Red Hat and Mozilla did. If not, the project will die out along with your passion for the project.