Not everyone needs to know how to code. What everyone does need to understand is information. How do I find the information I need to solve a problem? How do I discern the quality of that information? I'm I looking at different information or multiple views of the same information. How does visualizing information in different ways help us solve problems.

Coding is what kids do in their basements and students do in CS class. Coding is to a professional software developer/engineer what skating is to a professional hockey player. The job can't be done without it, but it's only one of many core skills. Yea, it may not require a lot of math, but don't expect to be able to just code and get far.

This is great news and I hope the Chinese are successful. I hope their space station is an improvement on the ISS so then the ISS can improve on that and vice-versa. We have touched space a few times (LOE is not really space, but the doorstep) but there are problems to be solved there before moving to space space.

I run DHCP with a white list MAC filter also, but I still have virus protection on my mobile devices and PCs.

Do these charities accept Spocked $5 bill donations?

From the Dice article: (at the bottom under methodology of the study)

So they only surveyed people that hired a Linux professional last year or plan to hire one this year to determine if the need for Linux talent was on the rise?

There are people who treat all racists as if they were the worst kind of racists. Throwing anyone who fits the broad term of "racist" (and that is all of us) into the same category and treating them as such is no different from racism.

You need a "Gaming Friendly" wife, not the other way around.

A little NASA regulation is not preventing this. In fact, we already let people voluntarily die during the course of their job. The military (from where astronauts typically come) is a perfect example of this. I'm sure if the benefits outweighed the costs, a one-way manned mission would happen in a heartbeat (though it may not be marketed as such.)

I thought this was standard operating procedure for any game these days.

Here are two pages full of examples, many for games most people never heard about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_video_games

http://comicbookdb.com/user_list.php?ID=466&user=

That being said; EVE Online has done amazing things through their willingness to listen and work with fans and players. I wish more games were like that.

Could you do something with vibration in the floor/chair? Someone tapping the beat on the rungs of the chair or floor.

Yes, you are responsible for doing the research on what you buy. If you do not like that, move back in with mom and dad.

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The company behavior is ultimately driven by the people. If the company can make more profit selling $300 plans with more than people need vs. a simple $40 plan with just what you need they generally will and must. The fact that they just hide these plans (legally) is immaterial as they are not hard to find (I asked how to get barebone service and they told me.) You are also free to shop around and choose the best value/fit for you. The fact that they have been offering such expensive plans for so long underscore the public acceptance of it.

You can get comparable prices in the US for similar service (except we can't seem to break 25megs down.) They are just not advertised and you need to specifically ask and work with a customer service person to get your bill down that low. The problem in the US is the public, not the businesses. Most people are content to pay the huge prices to the telecom companies because they generally do not know any better or different. Many people in the US also have been duped into think they "need" more than 30 TV channels. We prefer several hundred channels of nothing to watch to 30.

I'm sorry, but I don't get the drama around Microsoft not getting it. Microsoft has been nothing but fail recently. It's the world we live in. #dealwithit

Windows phone
Surface Tablets
Always on DRM
Charging $$$ to watch your paid for Netflix account on XBox
Windows 8

I wonder what they will add this year to the fail list

Don't let past Oracle execs run your company. Oracle has single handedly destroyed Java by their indifference/incompetence.