Bingo. CS has nothing to do with programming languages. It's about PROGRAMMING. Lots of CS grads still don't get this. They are typically the mediocre programmers that move on to project management (or something else that doesn't involve programming) fairly quickly. Or they end up doing horrible ASP web apps and Microsoft Access front ends.

Think of it like storage classes. The 64GB SSD boots your OS, has most of your frequently used files (non bulk stuff like music and video). Use an external mass storage device (100s of GB) to store all your other stuff. I've got a SSD as a boot disk and most bulk files are on a ReadyNAS with 1TB of space (expandable still to 3TB by adding two more $70 drives). I've got space to burn and my system boots from BIOS to a working desktop in less than 30 seconds (and that includes me typing a password during the login)

Microsoft shipped their own JVM (MSJVM) with XP SP1.

Fair Tax. Only tax on consumption. Have a rich lifestyle? Like shiny cars and watches? You'll pay lots more taxes than somebody that makes a modest living and buys modest things. Plus, everybody pays taxes, even hookers, tourists, illegal immigrants and drug dealers. Plus, everybody (as long as you're a legal resident of the US) gets cost of living prebates on taxes that would be paid on essential food/clothing, so people that make under the poverty line effectively pay zero tax (like now).

The biggest advantage is that you can control how much tax you pay just like your weight. Spend a lot - pay a lot of taxes, save a lot - lower your taxes. Plus it's COMPLETELY transparent and fair. No exceptions written in for this lobbing group or that lobbying group, no kick-backs or favors for changes to tax code - everybody pays the taxes at the cash register, regardless.

Really? How long did you use it? I've been using it for several years and have had less problems with it than with MS Office. Even my non-computer savvy wife used it for several years writing term papers and book reports for her masters degree. Your follow up statement about LibreOffice tells me you don't know that much about either OpenOffice or LibreOffice. They are one in the same - OpenOffice became LibreOffice after it split from under Oracle(nee Sun)'s wing.

Hmm.. Jdeveloper (from Oracle) is free as is Eclipse and NetBeans, and not just the crippled versions. The super-duper versions are free, too. Oracle XE is free as well, along with MySQL and PostgreSQL. There are other alternatives to Microsoft when it comes to free software. Most of the others don't have strings attached, too.

Disclamer: I do not work for Oracle. I wasn't paid by anybody to say this. Hell, I wish I was - I could use the extra cash.

Parent has a point, not a troll.

Bring a towel, you mean...

Technically, he's the Sci-Fi author that's had the most stories turned into films. And speaking of somebody who's read most of the stories and seen all the films - some of them are SO LOOSELY based, it's hard to even say it's based on the story. Read The Golden Man then watch Next and you'll see what I mean.

Same here. At home for years and years, at work for the last 3 or 4, too. (somewhat contrary to the corporate Microsoft yes men...) I still have to flip back to my Windows Vista (blech) laptop occasionally, but since the Evolution to MS Exchange connector has got much better in the last year or so, it's been less and less that I have to.

Different circumstances...

American Colonies: We're becoming our own country!
Britain: Bloody hell, you're not!
[war ensues]

About 125 years later after several other wars and colonies have fled...

Australian Territories: We're becoming our own country!
Britain: Awww, piss off.

Plus, the empire had other pressing things to worry with at the time with Australia, what with the flagging health of their Queen and all.

POET tool? More like Pwnit.

You might not realize this, but not body really gives a fuck what "Anonymous Coward" thinks.

Did you read TFA? Previously: particles the size of a bacterium a few millimeters in a liquid. And now: new technique can move objects one hundred times that size over a distance of a meter or more

Hell, that was even copy/pasted from the summary. You didn't even read TFS

Good point. Make the lighted area well lit, but the big screens on the wall, make them 12 - 15 feet away and the area they are in is not lighted (to reduce glare, improve contrast, reduce eye strain)