"Most report getting harrassed" Or getting ignored. There was a female collegue of mine from the mathematics department that went to do a course in the computer science department. She told me she had no one to work with because no guy would go speak to her lol. This was a super-gorgeous blond woman, mind you. I am glad I escaped computer science jeez.

When I have children, I will do everything in my power to keep them out of school as much as possible.

Indeed. Having kids these days is like getting a puppy. It's all fancy and dandy for awhile when it is still puppy. As soon as it grows into a dog, or you get tired of it, you just find someone else to take care of his shit.

Here in Portugal, it is a pretty mainstream show actually. Even kids like it.

3 or 4 years ago, my eeePC netbook had an on-board Intel whose driver only supported OpenGL 1.x on Windows. (You had to use Mesa.)

The ps4 and xbone are larger markets than the unix crowd.

ps4 also uses opengl.

It sounds like monopsony better explains the differential, but like I say, there are always some market pressures of course.

The pay for the teachers is voted by the local bureacrats. There are some market pressures of course, but also political ones. It may have more to do with politics than economics.

Wasn't the entire point of Unity that it was more mobile / touch focused?

No. Originally, Unity was designed for notebooks (cheap and small laptops, now obsolete for tablets), and it was shipped only as a special Ubuntu notebook edition. Then they decided to make it the official desktop shell. I have a touch screen and I can tell you Unity is not very good for those. Unity is very keyboard based (launching applications is particularly impossible to do by touch), and using the menu bar and even closing a window is simply not suited for touch. You cannot do any meaningful work without a mouse and a keyboard with Unity. I am not complaining about Unity, I actually like it, but Unity was not designed for touch screens -- if it was, it is awful at it. It is designed for small screens, and (arguably) some people like it for wider screens as well.

The GPL only applies to distribution. AFAIK you can install any software of any license of your liking in your computer.

"For which you can thank the Japanese for actually producing cars which weren't pieces of shit, and forcing the American manufacturers to compete on quality."

Here in Europe the same thing as happened. I have an acquaintance who works at Renault (in Portugal), and he told me the very same thing as the GP.

Quality has gone up dramatically, and they actually have to use error measures in much higher magnitudes, because the competition in terms of failure rate is now cut-throat.

I think it's just because of progress. America and Japan are part of the story of course. But it's not an American or Japanese centric phenomenon.

Canonical did not have a problem with him using the word Ubuntu in the website, only the logo in the title. (which was since removed).

They did ask him to not to use the domain name fixubuntu.com.

all the data they've collected over the last decade will still be right there, tempting management to sell it for a quick buck.

Economics nerd here ... but as long as there are a few people in the world with some foresight, google will make more money selling those assets to them. That's why investment works reasonably well under capitalism; while all people are selfish, and many are shortsighted, as long as there are some that want to save money for retirement or whatever, you can make more money through arbitrage and sell them the future profits.

There are lots of research being done with kinect, by BS and masters students, mostly around physiotherapy. This is one of those creative applications that everybody says after hearing about it .. "damn, why didn't I think of that". Very creative use of the kinect.

Yeah, facebook chat is very resource intensive. It was the reason I first tried and then switched to Chromium. It was unbearable in firefox.

You can start with Coase's theorem. It shows that when transaction costs are null, welfare is maximized. It is impossible for transaction costs to be null. The way law should be structured and government works is by reducing transaction costs, and make us cooperating.