Why use an x64 browser?

Because *everything* on my linux system is 64 bit. Why should I install *any* 32 bit?

Yes, but that's not how the calculus works.

An executive says, "hey, let's outsource this to those guys in India who work at half the rate!". He sacks the locals, hire new guys. The executive gets a big fat bonus, promotion and pay rise.

As for getting less work done because of inefficiency due to distance &c., well, that's some poor project manager's problem. The executive has already made his bonus.

Did the mortgage meltdown, financial crisis teach you nothing? To paraphrase Lombardi, short term gain for yourself isn't the most important thing, it's the only thing.

I have a great solution for reducing spam. Don't reply and it will stop. If you don't buy any h3rb4l V1agr4, they eventually notice and stop.

They won't ever notice. For example, my not buying Sony products over the past dozen years is of no discernible impact to Sony. I haven't bought a Dell, but that isn't due to any problem I have with them. How is Sony to infer that I don't care for them, while Dell I just haven't bought from yet?

On the contrary, the "I" in "RAID" stands for INEXPENSIVE.

Are they shipping Firefox 5 now? It may have "native HTML 5" whatever that is, but if it ain't shipping then how does Mozilla ship a native HTML 5 browser?

There are bits and then there are naughty bits. It's especially bad if these naughty bits belong to someone underage.

How is "telnet smtp.example.com 25" a server? As per the RFC, outbound is NOT a server; it's a client. The SMTP server listens and receives mail on port 25. So I don't understand why a no server TOS clause should prevent sending mail. Another TOS clause is probably more relevant.

Q: Why not just buy a monitor with the correct/best resolution?

A: Because they no longer sell them.

TFA was talking about laptops.

Until lightning wiped it out, I had a thinkpad t42 with a 14" screen. It was 1440x1050 and 8.5" tall. That's near 120 dpi. The machine weighs under 5 lbs. It was a perfect size and weight. The high resolution was awesome. No current laptop comes close to those specs.

You can no longer find ANY laptop with a screen 8.5" tall and under 5 lbs.

This is bogus because the old laptops used to have a screen that would fill out the lid. With "widescreen" they just lopped off half an inch from the top and bottom and filled in with a big plastic frame. Same size lid. Less screen. Losing with shortscreen.

But you can't get a laptop with a 14" 1400x1050 screen any more. You are stuck with something short and squat or wide and heavy. Turning your laptop sideways is not really an option. Nor is dragging an external monitor around with you any better.

Bing, otra vez.

It's very hard. They took away my green card when I became a US citizen.

Web 2.0 is a crock. You know the ".0" version is always bug ridden. Just patch it and release 2.1 already.

Now if we could only ban "v6".

You have misunderstood. It's not the Microsoft window update doing its job as it is keeping ALL your software up to date. Windows update does not update all those other piece of software you have, e,g., java, flash, firefox, adobe pdf reader, virus scanner &c. Instead, each piece of software some unique mechanism (or none at all) to keep itself updated.

There is no common infrastructure to do this automatically. I don't expect MS to update my flashplayer, but I would enjoy some kind of help like a master list of update-sites and repositories to check the software against. Unfortunately, it would open up some kind of security can of worms too. But then again, vulnerable software is also a security can of worms.

I particularly loathe those crapplets which load up automatically and exist only to look for updates. They don't just check and go away, no they stay loaded all the time. Can't they make some sort of cron task?

If I had mod points, I'd mod you as a troll.

I am a systems engineer (no, not a computer tech, the other kind) and I am sick and tired of all the belly aching from software when you ask for even the simplest linear algebra. If I want to say, multiply a matrix times a vector, they want me to spell it all out for them. Asking for solving a linear set of equations using Guassian elimination or Cholesky &c and it is suddenly a major million dollar undertaking. God help you if you want something advanced like singular value decomposition.

No matter that libraries like LAPACK for this have existed for over 30 years. Open up Golub and VanLoan. Why should I need to re-explain this stuff?

The problem, as I see it, is that there is insufficient overlap between domains. The systems people could do with learning a bit more about software and the software people need to understand the domain. Software is not just software. You should see the crackpot monstrosities that are written from insufficient understanding of the higher level structure. I'd rather have the engineers write the numerical/math code and leave the user interface to the pure software guys.

No doubt, BLAS and LAPACK are kind of awkward when used from C or C++.