I've tried to like Firefox. I even switched to it for a couple of months but the thing that really annoyed me about it was the syncing of bookmarks / plugins / other stuff between machines. I use browsers on my desktop PC, laptop, mobile phone and tablet. With Chrome I have them all synced and they all work perfectly. With Firefox on the other hand I'd have them syncing perfectly for a week or so and then one of the devices would suddenly stop syncing for one reason or another and I could never work out why. I'd have to disable the whole sync configuration on the device in question and then reconfigure it again. What a time wasting exercise.

PCs generally have better graphics cards and CPUs due to the fact that they are not as restricted when it comes to keeping them cool. Try putting an Intel i7-4930K into a console and see how quickly the whole thing lasts before it crashes due to overheating. There is a reason that the PS4 and the Xbox One use a 1.8Ghz CPU which is essentially equivalent to a laptop CPU. Plus with gaming PCs (such as mine) you can have multiple graphics cards making them even more powerful. Oh and higher resolutions for PC gaming as well (1440p for instance is becoming the norm). Take my PC with an i7 3930k running at 4.4Ghz, 16GB RAM, 2x AMD 7950 graphics cards and a Samsung 840 Pro SSD and compare it to the PS4 or the Xbox One and it should be obvious that the PC will wipe the floor with any of them.

Because a degree should teach you for the pure love of learning. Education for educations sake.

I don't hold with the idea that education should just get you ready for work. If that were the case what would be the point of reading Shakespeare or learning Latin? There wouldn't be any point but not doing those things would be a huge shame and would result in people with hugely lopsided educations where they can do one thing and one thing only well and all the rest has been ignored because it is not required on the job.

Heh. A house built in 1929 is considered a reasonably new where I live.

You do realise that older computers use more electricity than newer ones don't you? So by solely using older computers you are actually using more electricity and thus they are costing you more money for less performance. Keeping up-to-date is not solely about power but also about power consumption. My new computer which is about 5x faster than my old one also uses about 100w less.

Sounds like a rather sickening torture method to me. I'd be surprised if governments like the North Koreans didn't do something like that.

As someone who is about to start their own business the one thing articles like this tell me is to never trust bankers or venture capitalists. If you want to start a business use your own cash. Never trust others with your business. If you fail make sure that the failure is your fault and not the fault of someone else screwing around with your company.

The majority of Americans came from Europe. Unless you are talking about Native Americans it would have had exactly zero effect on our genetic makeup.

Haha, your signature made me laugh. The phrase is "for all intents and purposes".

Sorry, but Java is most certainly not write once, run anywhere. Especially when you try and run the Java code on a different Java VM implementation. What you really mean is, write once, run on the same Java VM implementation anywhere.