Well this explains (...)

It doesn't explain anything, because it's not true.

Would it be a subsidy? I don't know, depends on the prices they charge, right?

Electrical companies, local governments and perhaps others.

Unless of course electric chargers are installed which can be used to charge any car (for a fee of course).

Go into jobs that use C / Assembly / (perhaps) C++ and you'll still be rather close to the metal!

I worked on 4G base station software and now I work on game development, in both cases I'm rather close to the hardware.

Weren't most (all?) of those layoffs done at Nokia?

I just think it's funny that you talk about "disposable email accounts" and then seem to value non-AC accounts, as there's any real difference...

Notice: If you post anonymously do not expect a reply.

A bit of an ironic signature then ;)

I think it was the other way around for me, maybe it's randomizing the order for each instance of the test.

On average, just 2% of technology workers at seven Silicon Valley companies that have released staffing numbers are black; 3% are Hispanic.

But last year, 4.5% of all new recipients of bachelor's degrees in computer science or computer engineering from prestigious research universities were African American, and 6.5% were Hispanic, according to data from the Computing Research Association.

Comparing one-year graduation numbers to total staff numbers seems like a fallacy.

"With computing, the social element isn't always evident. They ask, 'how am I going to make a difference in the world with a computer science degree?'"

I've never heard someone saying a sentence like this in high school (girls or boys). Anyone?

Are there any actual details of how the bug works?

I wonder if there's any visible impact on torrent traffic from this. Obviously torrents will continue working and many people will just go to another website, but there could still be a small short-term impact. Would be interesting to see.

The base stations that your mobile phone uses to make calls and access the Internet.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/windows-8-sales-are-good-if-not-great-at-40-million-copies-in-the-first-month/

Second, Reller noted that the number of upgrades to Windows 8 was outpacing the volume of upgrades to Windows 7 in the equivalent timeframe. What she didn't note was that Windows 8 upgrades are substantially cheaper than Windows 7 upgrades were