Do you feel that Ubuntu might be losing its way amongst the more technical users with some of the decisions that are being made? For example, forcing a beta-level UI onto users for 3 versions of Ubuntu from 11.04-12.04, integrating paid search results from Amazon etc. Linux Mint, which is rapidly growing in popularity, would seem to be a backlash against Unity and is a splintering of Ubuntu (in fact the vast majority of packages are identical to Ubuntu). Do you therefore feel that Ubuntu's popularity has reached its peak and is at risk of stagnating or declining?

How do you propose to carry out 1 million DNA tests that are all legitimate by your definition of legitimate?

contamination, procedural error etc.

Yes exactly.

Yeah but if someone gives you a bag containing 1000 pounds of (minced) beef, then you empty the beef out and some of the beef is stuck to the insides of the bag, and you throw the bag away you can't claim that you didn't originally receive 1000 pounds of beef.

I'm not really defending AT&T, just providing perspective.

That said they should definitely be completely transparent about how they measure bandwidth.

If we had automatic cars, then the whole drink/drug-driving problem would be solved as you wouldn't be driving the car.

Basically it doesn't scale to spend 30 minutes analysing multiple page privacy policies/ToS/EULA, then possibly several hours or days cross-referencing them with applicable legislation. So I think the approach should be to make any lopsided legal document unenforceable, to speed up trade. Imagine if you had to sign a multiple page contract every time you bought something from a shop.

You can talk about abdication of personal responsibility but its as much companies knowingly loading so much stuff in to cover their back, fully aware that noone would agree to half of the stuff if they actually read it.

no, the advertisers are deliberately undermining it.

The result for opening the word document which shows the SSD performing worse than the others (57/10 sec, 48/9 sec, 58/10 sec.) is odd. I didn't notice the author mention how many times he performed his tests, so I am going to assume he just performed them once.

I would like to see this result repeated several times to verify whether it is an outlier, or whether an HDD will have such a large impact on MS Word performance (which TBH I would expect was mainly CPU bound).

The author is dead wrong about asking questions before he's told you the answer. He says this is bad because you haven't been told the answer 2-5 mins before, therefore this is offputting to students.

Having done some of the Udacity courses, I believe the exact opposite. When he asks a question that goes beyond the taught material, you are forced to think about the problem and solve it, instead of parrotting back what you were told a few minutes ago.

I'm sure being challenged with a difficult question is beneficial for learning, whether or not you succeed in answering it.

That just shows how ridiculous it all is. internet streaming should never have been any different to radio streaming. So that should be coming down to match radio streaming, not the other way round.

This is a really important step forward for the environment.

they have deliberately picked a name which they know it will get shortened to RTC-Web just to maximise the confusion between WebRTC and themselves.

They are such sly cunts.

OK that's fine, but just understand that there is no such newspaper as "The Times of London" it is just called "The Times".