Dropped Firefox for Edge. Simply because their user interface degraded over time. It became less and less user friendly. The new batch of programmers must have forgotten to read the human interface guidelines. You just don't switch break and throttle pedals in a car. Their loss !

Sure FF did screw up on its UI. Like so many applications nowadays. There once was a 'user interface guidelines' that brought us some standards regarding what menus and buttons to use, and where to place them. But apart from that the reason why browsers like Edge and Chrome are on the rise is simply because MS pushes Edge on every win10 computer, the user did not choose this browser or may even not use it. Chrome alike, try to install some third party software and high chance it installs Chrome on the side, if you don't uncheck the option. And don't forget Google's behind Chrome. Edge is now based on Chrome, so Google can push its AMP - which by the way is a total rape of all coding standards and will eventually augment the time and thus price for yout IT department in maintainig these sites.

I also agree with Cook. While Win10 may be solid under the hood, the user interface sucks. Like being designed by a three year old. Above all an awful waste of space. The Ok button does not need to be that large on my desktop. For using touch I can understand that, but not for a pc with a mouse. That's also why the borders of a window are now 1 pixel thick. Try that for resizing a window. I estimate a 30% less time efficiency using an application while (trying to) resizing windows. Again on a tablet, windows don't need to be resized. So merging the two systems into 1 only makes sense when the OS can determine the hardware it runs on and give you the right UI. I think it's time we - as users - should unite ourselves and make these companies understand that we are fed up with these forced changes and that we want to have a real say in how we want our system to be.

Ryan Calo does not strike me as intelligent ! For AI - Artificial Intelligence, means the robot will do things that are not programmed into the system. What it may actually do is by means of deduction, act. And like Isaac Asimov so to the point wrote in his novels: A robot may have the law programmed into him 'not to harm a human being',yet it may - by means of deduction - descide to save 100 people and let 3 die, because the boat can only hold 100 people. And what about malware taking over the robot ? And what about OS bugs ? Like to simulate the side effects of that.

To my opinion, start with Pascal or Modula-2. Two languages well structured, that will force you in learning certain important basics like initialisation. Once you're proficient in one of these languages, a more loose language like C will not trouble you if you keep using the structured way you learned with Pascal. At least that's what I did. Once you get some experience you might try C++ or Java.

No, their computers upgraded to win10 overnight. So none of their custom software worked anymore.... :-)

Two years ago I was in the same situation. I looked into Joomla, Drupal, Typo3 and Magento. They all seemed so complicated. So I started to create my own php framework (had database knowledge enough to do so). Later on I had( the opportunity) to learn Joomla for a project and realised that these systems are complicated for a reason. Reasons I saw now that I developed a very small cms myself. To my experience Joomla is well supported in terms of community and plugins and reasonable simple to adapt to your likes. Magento that's a different case. Drupal, I have no hands on knowledge but I do know that it is not supported on all hosting providers. That it is a bit heavier on the server. So I should go for Joomla.

Anyone ever thought about a solar tower plant ? With mirrors reflecting the sun towards a tower where natrium or some other substance is heated up to hundreds of degrees celcius and then drives a turbine to generate electricity. Clean power, the ideal industry for counties like Spain, Greece or Mexico to become an energy supplier for surrounding countries.