I feel your pain. I gave up on kde and the like to reopen things in the right place and just wrote a script to orient/resize everything I need. Check out http://blog.spiralofhope.com/1....

http://peppersprayingcop.tumbl...

Office 2010 32 bit will work in wine.

I certainly would be if it could replace the malingering "games-only" Windows partition.

Drunkard's Search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I've had very good, insightful ideas about programming while using. But if I use for the express purpose of finding those ideas, it doesn't seem to work. Feel like I'm forcing it and trying to start a car that doesn't have any gas. This "microdosing" sounds a lot like the latter.

Technically, the original story idea was "A Once and Future King." But yeah, I agree with you.

10 sec Google search: http://www.health.harvard.edu/... It's pretty well established that excessive sugar, especially refined sugar, is all kinds of bad for you, regardless of age or weight. There's hippy holistic "science," and then there's actual science. The effects of sugar are pretty far into the latter.

Oh cool, I'll look into that, didn't realize that was once a thing. I've definitely noticed "technology" being used as a fantastical deux ex machina/superpower lately. I have mixed feelings about that, haha.

Ah that's right (I did read the book, just didn't recall the specifics in detail). I feel like even if all that is only 90% or so plausible, I still learned something about applied chemistry. As opposed to "you can survive for a few moments wearing street clothes in a vacuum if you hold your breath" as seen in other stories/movies. :|

Unlike a lot of other "science fiction" books/stories, Andy Weir seemed to make a genuine effort to get as much right as possible, and did his best to drag along the film producer. If all of science fiction was at this level, it would be a miracle. And as you've pointed out, where the science does fail, it fails in such a way as to spark discussion and interest in the real science. I don't feel like my intelligence was insulted after having watched/read it, or that errors and omissions were a result of laziness or "the audience is too dumb/doesn't care anyway, so why bother". (Although the book was better than the movie in that regard.) If anything it served as a launching (punnnns) point for learning more about growing food on Mars and other similar problems.

I think that was addressed in the book, he did some kind of chemical conversion with some rocket fuel for the ascension vehicle.

If only you were wrong, what a different world we'd live in.....

Came here wondering who in the world uses virtual desktops? Two monitors sure- IDE in one, browser/email/terminal/etc in the other. Maybe put Gimp in a second desktop b/c of all the windows it spawns?

I didn't take it to mean they are losing money, but the opposite. They are in a position to be able to cut tuition and grants without taking losses. They think this will attract more students, allowing them to grow.