He said it's dead in the US and will be dead in the rest of the world 5 years. Not literally dead, obviously, as it's a company and doesn't have any corporeal form. The term means loosely that the company is on a massive, steady decline.

But feel free to ride that dying horse right into the grave, honestly, no sarcasm - you might as well. I'm not even going to argue with you over the merits of the device versus it's competitors because it doesn't matter. The simple fact of the matter is that, in a few years, the marketshare will be too small to support the company. At that point your preference won't matter, because the market won't be large enough to sustain blackberry. They lost $84M in the last quarter, even after massive layoffs. They've certainly got a couple years left, but it's going nowhere but down until then.

Mike Lazaridis will go down as the biggest tech failure in history. He took one of the most massively dominant market positions and lost it in the shortest period I've ever seen. And the only reason was his pure, blind ego.

I don't see why it can't be both? If you provide them with access to the internet they can learn about how to sanitize water or help grow food. absolutely we should do whatever we can to help bootstrap them and get them going, but if we just continue to give them shit forever how will they ever advance? teach a man to fish, you know the addge.

Bingo! HFCS-55 vs granulated sugar there's almost no difference in fructose content. It's not what's worse sugar or HFCS, it's that they're BOTH bad in large quantities. Diabetes, metabolic syndrome, etc, etc etc. all linked to both sugar and hfcs.

lol fructose is just a disaccharide, its technically a more complex carb chain than glucose (monosaccharide). do you mean high fructose corn syrup? you're sort of right. typically what you see is HFCS55 which is 55% fructose and 41% glucose. to put it in perspective, granulated sugar is 50/50 fructose/glucose. so HFCS is only marginally more fructose than regular sugar, so you're wrong. but you're also right, because sugar, hfcs and all the other high glycemic carbs are what's really causing this problem.

I'm not a python programmer by any stretch of the imagination, but aren't private methods more by convention and less through actual strict enforcement? As in, you can declare a member private but it can still be accessed, it just "shouldn't be" by convention?

Pretty much everyone in the industry disagrees with your assessment of the Macbook keyboard. It has been lauded for years by every review source, and has since been copied by almost every manufacturer (HP, Asus, Lenovo, etc etc etc ad nauseum). The style has become so prevalent at this point it has a name: "island-style keyboard".

And do you think those people give references for that company? Yeah didn't think so. It's a two way street.

Oh boy. Well, when you have a couple hundred (or thousand) hosts, you can't really fit it into any particular window. These websites are also read 24 hours a day by people all over our planet, so there isn't really a "good time".

Ambient backscatter. Ambient is the keyword here.

In place upgrades of fedora when new versions come out is really painless now.

Found your problem, you're using gnome. Switch to dwm and never look back.

systemd vs init, iptables replaced with firewall in fedora19, NetworkManager, etc. Fedora is the test bed for things that eventually roll into redhat. Those are big, established functions that have existed in some format in Linux for well over a decade.

I don't think it's people who would have otherwise written free software using kickstarter, I think it's people who would have otherwise written commercial, closed-source software looking for a different funding avenue.

Don't worry there's Unity Connect now, runs on Linux.