SMIT (System Management Interface Tool) on AIX has been automatically creating a script for all of the tasks you do within the GUI. There is even a button to push that will display the command you are about to run with the approriate flags and parameters. This functionality has been there since last millenium. HP-UX's SAM has something similar as well. Don't know about Solaris as I only use the CLI on that OS.

You are full of it when it comes to threshhold braking and ABS. Show me a study where a professional driver can stop in a shorter distance with the ABS off (Aside from heavy snow where lock-up provides greater stopping power). You won't find one. Even more so when the road surface is irregular or partially ice covered.

Kurt Vonnegut wrote an excellent short story, "Harrison Bergeron", where this sort of legislation has been taken to an extreme. It can be found in his short story collection "Welcome to the Monkey House". Well worth the read, like most of Vonnegut's work.

Does one million sales = success? Maybe it does, but I'm not so sure. I think we will need to see strong sales for several months before we can declare the ipad more than a toy for members of the early adoption crowd.

For sake of comparison, over 15 million Windows Mobile handsets were sold in 2010 (http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1306513). That's over one million handsets per month yet we all consider WinMo 6.5 a dead OS.

I know that handsets and tablets are apples and oranges, and that the ipad is performing well in a market that is far smaller than the smartphone market. Still, I think the comparison shows that one million devices isn't all that many in the scheme of things.

It's not like you have to be fluent in a language to understand the code to some degree. There are a lot of concepts in programming that transfer amongst the various languages and it would take no more than a trip to Wikipedia to see how any language works in relation to any other.

Dwindling in importance? Are you certain? EU is considered quite readily as one of the most major powers lately, culturally it retains its identity fine (plus look past popculture; and also from where most of that popculture originated...); and demographically it won't be that big of a problem, I suspect - yes, it will need a wave of immigrants...so? Sure, there are failure stories, but also huge success stories (the largest population of "Muslims" in EU is probably in Germany; rather nicely integrated)

As for the topic - the Catholic Church will of course continue to increase in so called "3rd world" countries. But remember it doesn't have to reform itself to do that... (I would even guess that would inhibit its growth in impoverished areas!)
And since its losing importance basically only in Europe (also the place of TFA), it's sensible to assume we're discussing only that area.

Regarding the shared code and such, browsers use a *LOT* of private memory, that was one reason why Firefox used a ton of memory a few years ago because it cached forward and back pages. The shared code is relatively insignificant compared to the memory used for everything else.

Take Firefox, and open 20 pages in seperate windows. Check out the private memory usage statistics.

I first caught a virus in 1991. And it was also the last time in personal level. But professionally, I also caught one in 2001. Here is the story:

I was teaching some basic skills to people who had been asking me to help them learn how to surf the Internet, use eMail, and create and print documents. Despite my preference to Lynx/Mosaic/Netscape and then Mozilla, I wanted to give the students the standard experience -- the stuff almost everyone was using: Windows XP, Office XP and IE6.

I had fully updated and secured the systems with a few policies against unsigned activeX and taught the students to avoid clicking OK to messages that would install new software, despite the misleading text saying "the manufacturer asserts that this content is safe" in which YES WAS THE DEFAULT ACTION. I knew dozens of people who had installed dialers on their systems due to that design, but I thought that if no code would be installed, we would be safe.

Yet after a week, one of the systems had its home page changed into a porn site. It was a virus; the process could be killed only to be revived in seconds. Searched the web and found it was one of the worst viruses ever made; it had injected itself on system files of both partitions; no tools existed to remove it, so the entire disk had to be formatted.

I asked some other guys, who were doing this thing at a professional level, if they had the same problem and yes, they all did. But they figured that it wasn't an issue since the students were at the basic level and they wouldn't have important files to lose. They also wanted to conform to the exams who would require an additional process if an "alternate" browser was taught to the student. I found that unacceptable. Teaching basic skills to people should also have included basic principles. And at the time, avoiding Internet Explorer had to be such a principle.

My problem wasn't that some hacker had found their way to run code with IE. That was simply a mistake from Microsoft. But the fact that Microsoft would allow installation of software based on the message I linked above and considering that IE was the defacto browser of new, inexperienced Windows users -- now that was bordering with either malice or stupidity. Of course things must have changed since then, especially with IE8 and sandboxing, but the problem is not that I have simply lost my trust to IE -- it's that I find it counter-productive to try and get it back. Trusting IE again would require effort which I have no reason to make since the alternative (Firefox) is simply great.

Then comes the issue about standards. Yes, like many others here I've wasted time trying to make pages work in IE6 work the same way they do in Mozilla and Opera. Again IE8 is improved, but when I read people in Slashdot saying that IE6 is the only problem, I smell astroturfing. Hey fanboys, did you check IE8 Acid3 scores lately ? It's worse to what Firefox, Opera and Safari had been ages ago!

Sure, the Church will never be as powerful in Europe as it used to be, but Europe has been demographically, politically and culturally dwindling in importance for decades. The Church could lose Europe and still become more influential on a global level (not that I'm saying that would be good or bad, I'm just a neutral observer).

Correct.

“The next step is to develop magnetic packaging that will enable users to take advantage of the chips,” says the university, “using something, such as laser technology, that can effectively interact with the nanodots.”

They have a storage medium with nothing to read or write it... yet.

Although they seem confident that this will come with time, it’s a bit early to be celebrating. Interesting technology, but time will tell whether it’ll ever be usable.

I like this quote from Sam Harris... "I've read the books. God is not a moderate. There's no place in the books where God says, 'You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.'"

Why do people still believe in Christianity? It is 2010. Must we propagate this insanity any further?

Also please don't smoke in my office. I enjoy sex way more than you enjoy cigarettes, and you don't see me screwing in your office.

Oh dear.. well, we couldnt have THAT, could we? we couldnt vote for ANYTHING that "the Christian Right" wants, now could we?

I hear that those right wing nutjobs are against rape. The NERVE of those people! We clearly have to fight against Christian Morality Bigots, and legalize that sort of thing.

What? they're against theft too???

DONT DENY ME MY RIGHT TO "pursue happiness" by by personal choice of acquisition style, you bible bashing nutjobs!

This has been discussed ad nauseam, but like the guts of the Earth, it emerges as a volcano here or an earthquake there. I have worked as a programmer. I can feel the pain of the companies who see the product of their hard work being used for free because some people think it's too expensive (some people wouldn't pay even a cent, but that's pricing). I can understand what they do: Anti-piracing measures. DRM is not new in a sense: Key disks, parallel port keys, code cards and other software protection methods have been with us almost as long as the PC. But that is not the answer. Software protection is a nuisance for legitimate users and does not deter non-legitimate users. We have seen it even in company-critical software, like accounting or payroll; nevermind in games! What is the solution, if you ask me? I lay no claim to the universal solution but for many software products, I even dare say most software, pricing is the key. Some people does, but the lower the price point, the less problems. I'm not willing to pay $50 or more for a game. Or $500 for a single-employee business accounting software. But I would happily pay (or wouldn't bother piracing if you will) something that costs say $9.99 and comes with Right Thing Satisfaction Guarantee (TM). Maybe the pricing has been set so early in the spreadsheet that the suits won't change it no matter what. Or there are clever marketing guys that say that is the sweet spot. I don't know. I'd just bet a beer against them that they make more money at a lower price point. Same thing, incidentally, with music - but that's another story and must be told at some other time.

congratulations you just figured out the basic premise of being the house in gambling. All the games are already set so that the house has the advantage. In different games it is a different margin but in the end the house plays many more games against many more people so that the law of large numbers sets in and they will always win, by how much will vary slightly but in the end they win. You didn't think Vegas paid for all of its showgirls by paying gamblers to win money did you? Also you don't need everyone to loose all the time to make money, you just need MOST people to lose more than they win. The few winners as you note are spread around so that people have the illusion that they might win big which they can but not as likely as the house is to win big. This is why gambling should be an entertainment not a job and anyone who thinks other wise just doesn't get it, well in some cases they do get it because if you are not playing against the house and in stead other players you just have to be smarter than they are. Some of the games have small player advantages like blakjack if played properly the house just throws you out if you consistently win too much.