Not that you shouldn't use stored procs, etc but you shouldn't become obsessed over it either.

Not really. A lot of manual trades probably hit a "stop-loss" and incurred losses. And only the bots that jumped on the crash bandwagon late or with too aggressive targets lost money.

Humans are amazingly bad at telling a lie from the truth (or amazingly good at telling lies).

It has been scientifically tested.

Just an oldish variation of a rather common name.

Know any Catholic (or Catholic-raised person) named Frank? He may very well have been baptized Francis.

Similarly, do you know anyone named Benedict?

Well, guess what, I am not sure I know one, because they probably go by Ben.

Which in this day and age is a PEBKAC for those users (I seriously doubt those are "most windows users"), not something you could blame MS for.

What are they supposed to do, release an OS without a browser? Yeah, why not. After all, you should download your favorite browser via FTP or telnet.

This made a little sense in the days of dominance of IE6 (and IE7, to a lesser extent) when they were really abusing their monopoly with those non-standard compliant browsers.

Amusing how people keep regurgitating those stories, as if MS hadn't done far more evil things.

I am in the EU, so, egotistically, I guess I should welcome the cash... if I wasn't sure MS will just pass it on to paying customers.

Such massively powerful supporters! Impressive indeed! USD, JPY, EUR, GBP, be afraid, be very afraid of the new cyber currency!

www.tvcatchup.com streams, I think, all Freeview channels as long as you access it from the UK with a UK ISP. HD for HD channels.

Doesn't work with AdBlock enabled.

Its legality is being challenged, unsuccessfully so far, according to wikipedia. As a side note, you're still supposed to pay for TV licence.

Hm, can you clarify that? Honest question - I buy quite a few e-books from Amazon.

Readers can't claim they "have the rights" just from having bought a book, at least not the copyright. You retain the copyright.

I still don't understand why you don't release them as e-books on Amazon/Google Play/iTunes. What's the worst that could happen? People copying the books? How is that worse than remaining unpublished and unknown?

I understand you must be concerned about plagiarizers - meaning people who take your book and sell it, or a work that borrows heavily from it, as their own. However that is not indeed not the topic here. No one is saying plagiarism should be OK, every country signatory to the WTO IP agreement (almost every country in the world) is required to have laws against it, and that is not controversial.

A progress bar can be accurate for processes that perform one single action, when all relevant factors are under the program's control or at least predictable. Such as copying one single file, or burning an ISO.

But processes that perform multiple actions depending on a variety of requirements are quite another story.

For example, adding or updating an application through the Ubuntu Software Manager in simple terms involves downloading the software (which requires bandwidth) and installing and configuring it (which mostly depends on hard drive/CPU speeds). In many cases, especially for software from non-Ubuntu repositories, software must be downloaded from different servers, each with its own bandwidth, etc. The progress bar for that process is rather inaccurate.

Progress bars for process that build or update data warehouses or produce complex reports from multiple sources are also very tricky for the same reasons.