You know how I know you have never actually used Google News?

That's easy, Subby. Time. Because US News & World Report already ended regular print publication.

Right, exactly. Because, see, K-12 education is not about having your kid do really well at things. It's about instilling a modicum of basic skills and understanding. This is why the kids who suck at math still have to take math, and the kids who suck at writing have to take English, et cetera. A public speaking class won't teach him anything about how the most powerful approach to discovering knowledge humanity has ever tried works, and a multi-science survey course will do so much less effectively than a single in-depth look at one science.

Not that he's likely to actually learn anything given your attitude, but, at least it's a better chance than if you were being allowed to make the decisions.

Sure, if you selectively ignore the second half of the sentence, and artificially narrow the comparison to only Soyuz, you can pretend the first half is deceptive.

But, since you so strongly object to number of people killed, let's instead count merely by number of fatal in-flight failures. The Shuttle has had 50% of all fatal in-flight failures in the history of spaceflight, and 100% of all fatal in-flight failures in the last forty years.

Well, you know, except for Shuttle failures accounting for 78% of all people who have ever died on space flights, and 100% of such fatalities in the last 40 years. And the repeatedly proven inability of NASA to design and build a replacement for the Shuttle.

They don't? So, in what category, exactly, do you put the Orbcomm, Inc.satellite that was part of the payload of this very rocket?

So, is the above a ridiculous, inadvertent display of your ignorance of the characteristics of standard normal distributions, or a ridiculous, inadvertent display of your ignorance of the fact that intelligence in the general population is such a distribution?

Because, you see, in the case of a standard normal distribution, there's no actual point in making a distinction in which average you're using. The mean, median, and mode are all the same value. The only people who would think saying "mean or median?" in such a case had any point are fools under the delusion that the comment makes them look smart.

Yeah, it's really gotten bad the last 13 years.

Starting with your decision in 1997 to abandon what was the GNU project's official GUI toolkit in favor of GTK.

If you'd stuck with GNUStep, the discipline of compatibility with a written spec (OpenStep) and the pressure for compatibility with a living rival implementation (OPENSTEP, then Mac OS X) would have avoided the "blow everything up and restart" problem. And you wouldn't have spent any time on CORBA if you already had PDO baked-in.

And it would have been actually following the kernel approach. Whatever the kernel might do with its internal structure, in its external interfaces it's been stable. Further, that external interface has been a re-implementation and extension of an existing good-enough interface (Unix/POSIX/SysV), rather than running off and implementing its own ideal of how an OS should work.

Grab the Firefox 10 Extended Support Release and revert to the 3.6 look-and-feel.

1) Not all Kindle books are, in fact, DRMed.

2) Those willing to do so can find tools_v5.1.zip to strip the DRM off Kindle books.

Ballmer took over as CEO, and Microsoft released Windows Me nine months later which was actively stupid.

Me was followed with XP, which was not actively stupid.

XP was followed by Vista, which was actively stupid.

Vista was followed by 7, which was not actively stupid.

7 is being followed by 8. Hey, guess what? It's Actively Stupid's turn again.

Sure. Spontaneous fission is one of the many forms of natural radioactive decay, and a perfectly routine method of making an isotope decay by fission sooner is to whack it with a neutron. Thus the nuclear reactor . . . including the natural nuclear reactors at Oklo some two billion years ago. We don't usually call neutron-induced fission radioactive decay, but that's more a matter of definitions useful for human purposes than a bright demarcation line in the physics.

Radioactive decay in general is believed to be induced by quantum vacuum fluctuations disrupting the equilibrium of an unstable nucleus. Quantum vacuum fluctuations are random in both timing/location and magnitude, and so are consistent with the unpredictability of any particular atom being affected, and with the more stable nuclei having longer half-lives as they would need a bigger push.

So, there is no reason in principle that, say, a neutrino colliding with a nucleus, could not cause a disruption similar to what a neutron does in induced fission or quantum vacuum fluctuations are believed to do in most decay. Whether it will be categorized separately (like is usually done for neutron-induced fission) probably depends on if it's a large enough or useful enough effect to make the distinction worthwhile, or whether it's more human-convenient to treat it as a small variable in the rate of decay.

The trick is there are two types of "Apple fans"

One group is fans of Apple products. They would like, if at all possible, to get Apple products with even better features are even lower prices. They want Apple to be healthy so it can keep cranking out great products, but when they look at Apple's profit margin and pile of cash, they wish some of that money had stayed in their own pockets. When Samsung makes a product that puts pressure on Apple, or Google adds a feature to Android, they see that as a force that will make their lives better, by forcing Apple to step up its game, even if they don't particularly respect Samsung or Android.

Another group is the true Apple fanbois. They are the ones who have given tribal loyalty to a corporation, and celebrate things like Apple's profit margin, root for Apple to successfully use its patents to eliminate possible competitors, et cetera.

People in group one are perfectly reasonable. People in group two are frothing cultists who have a tendency to, for example, jump into Android forums and spew flame.

However, The Last Dangerous Visions, originally scheduled to be published in 1973, is still neither available nor cancelled.

ABIs were already decided in Connectix v. Sony, I believe, which Google included in a brief in this case.