We are not "ARM fanboys". We are "Intel-haters". There is a difference.

Furthermore, a carrier deck has markings and lights at precisely known locations. Just by tracking any three of these points, plus the GAIL (glide angle indicator light), the vision system should have enough information to nail the landing. This landing is a notable achievement, but I don't think the vision system was the hard part.

No, the majority doesn't care. Even those that think Snowden was a hero, aren't doing anything about it. Is a single politician going to lose an election over this issue? I don't think so. This is a dead issue. It has been pushed off the front pages by Kim Kardashian's new baby. It's a girl!!!

Polls show that most people think Snowden was a criminal, and that the NSA is keeping us safe. Excluding and isolating your opponents is often a good strategy when you are winning. But privacy advocates are not winning. They are losing. In this battle for hearts and minds, engagement may be a better strategy.

They are not taking a side. They are disagreeing on means, not ends.

In high school, your grades are primarily a reflection of how hard you work.

In college, your grades are primarily a reflection on how smart you are.

I climbed Mt Fuji in the summer of 1991. There were was a restaurant then, but no vending machines. I bought and ate a bowl of hot noodles before descending. It is a nice mountain to climb, with great views. It was about a four hour ascent, with no technical climbing (just hiking). The descent is easy because you can walk down through areas of loose pumice and slide an extra half meter or so with each step. Dress warm, because even in July there was sleet and snow on the summit. If my memory is correct, the trailhead is about two hours by train and bus from Tokyo, so you could do it as a day trip.

I know nothing about Spanish law, but if it is anything like American law, then there is no requirement that a real child, or even a second person, be involved. If, while alone in a locked room, you are turned on by a drawing of some stick-figures that could be perceived as under-age children, then you are breaking the law.

To be included in the comparison, and even to get high ratings, you had to buy ads in the magazine. I worked for a company that ran ads in PCWorld in the 1980s and 1990s. The ad salespeople would come right out and say that if you increased your ad budget, they would make sure you were "taken care of" in the reviews. So we increased our ad spending. We were more interested in being rich than ethical.

Ah, but in the early days, the ads were the best part. I rarely even bothered to read the articles. When each issue arrived, I would open it up to the cheap yellow "tombstone" ads near the back. You could run an ad there for $100/month. There was always some fascinating new gizmo that some guy was making in his garage and advertising there. After a month or two, most of the products disappeared, but some of them grew into successful startups. Reading those ads was like watching the history of technology unfold.

Logic fail. Rural areas can provide substantial resources and still be a net drain.

Isn't that the whole point of subsidies? If rural lifestyles are not "better" than urban lifestyles, then why should money from urban taxpayers be used to pay people to live in rural areas? Personally, I think lifestyle subsidies are idiotic, but by democratic means we have collectively decided that some lifestyles are superior and need to be encouraged at the expense of others.

No. The amount of thrust goes up linearly with the velocity of the airflow, but the amount of energy required to move that air goes up as the square of the velocity. So for the fixed amount of energy that a human can produce, you will get more thrust by it pushing down a large mass of air at a low velocity than a smaller amount of air at a high velocity.

Simple solution: Instead of just presenting an error message, popup a dialog that displays the error message, along with a button that says "Report this Error". When the user clicks it, your program then generates an email with the error message, a stack trace, and other relevant contextual information. You can also include a text box for the customer to type what they were doing at the time.

For internal company applications, I don't even ask for confirmation. Reporting the bug is the only option.

When we first implement automatic bug reporting, the reports went up twenty-fold. I turns out that 95% of the time, people were just ignoring or working around the bugs. But with the additional info, we were able stomp these bugs quickly, and get the reports back down to a reasonable level.

Furthermore, popular libraries like jQuery, Mobile-jQuery, etc. are much more likely to have clean, efficient, memory-lite implementations that some "roll-your-own" code. If you choose your libraries carefully, learn to use them, and avoid "rolling-your-own" unless really necessary, your code will certainly be smaller and cleaner, and usually be faster, smaller, and use less memory.

At the risk of going slightly off-topic, I would like to point out that this is not the only reason to desire subtitles. I have some hearing loss. It is not severe, but I do occasionally have to ask people to repeat what they said, and I cannot relax and enjoy any movie without subtitles. I strain to listen, and still miss things and have to rewind.

Subtitles are also a great way to learn a foreign language, and even build up your native language vocabulary. I live in a trilingual family (English/Mandarin/Spanish) and subtitles have been a great tool for me and my family. I can read Chinese/Spanish much better than I can understand them when spoken. So to improve my listening skills, I watch English movies with English subtitles, Chinese movies with Chinese subtitles, and Spanish moves with Spanish subtitles.

If a movie does not have good, accurate subtitles, then I don't watch it.