freeciv is light on resources, is roughly equivalent to civ 3 (well at least that's the last one I played) and it's even been ported to the web.

For Microsoft, this is just about sticking a brand name people recognize on their shiny new browser. For Dolby it's about collecting more patent royalties. If it were really just about sound quality, they would touting opus for lossy and flac for lossless. Opus is superior to the now ancient ac3/Dolby digital codec in sound quality per byte and flac is superior to lossless Dolby TrueHD in compression ratio.

Fundamental rights are not a contract. You don't need to understand them to be endowed with them. Do human rights not apply to humans who by inexeperience, disability, etc. are unable understand contracts or laws?

Sure, this is a fair comparison. What difference could a couple centuries of colonialism make?

Quite the reverse. The authors typically also pay to have the paper published.

Maybe it's just me, but I've made far more mistakes with GUIs. It's very easy to accidentaly drag folders into eachother and loose them if you don't notice right away.

Replace "men" with "women" and you've got the situation 100 years ago in the West. No doubt we're a lot better off today, but this"terminally ill society" seemed to putter along. If this really is such a big problem, maybe it'd be better to look at the root causes of why males are dwindling in academia rather than trying to force the symptom to go away.

The greater vancouver area is where most of the gang violence takes place, not in the inner city. In any case, the homicide rate is still about half that of Seattle Vancouver's murder rate low by North American standards. Property crime on the other hand is a bit of a problem Vancouver crime among worst in North America.

This sounds like another annoying thing that apple has done that is actually the RIGHT thing. Much like ostracising flash. Decisions like this will get developers thinking twice about using flash or javascript indiscriminantly, even if it is for the wrong reasons of appealing to Apple users rather than security, speed and stability. As troubling as their choke chain is, I'm glad there are some instances in which Apple are using their popularity to accelerate technically well thought-out change for everyone, not just their customers. It's still not enough to make me buy their products though.

Non rhetorical question: How much worse is mining and processing the equivalent ore?

Appears to exist in American English at least.

There is a paradox in using our capacity to act unselfishly as justification to act selfishly.

This seems to be the consensus among slashdotters given the consistent downmodding of people who even remotely question, let alone challenge, the ethics of animal experimentation. However, no one seems to address the rational justification for elevating humans to a higher level of worth. I'm not saying that experimentation is outright wrong, but the ethical assessments like these should never be automatic.

Grrr, yes it is! It requires you to install memory eating proprietary software that doesn't work on all platforms.

More importantly, it's going to take a lot more than a small drop in birth rate to challenge its survival.