The earth can probably support a trillion people just fine, if we reduce our body size sufficiently. If height is reduced by a factor of 20 (to around three inches), resource consumption should drop by a factor of roughly 400. Metabolic adjustments could easily yield another factor of 2 (do we really need to be warm-blooded?)

Even if my GPS is not "properly engineered", I really, really don't want it interfered with. I think millions of GPS users feel as I do.

I'm on Linux and I suffer from it rather badly. If the browser runs more than 2 days or so it becomes unusable with 5-second pauses. However, it usually doesn't get that far because it crashes first.

replying to undo mismoderation. (When will Slashdot fix this?)

Insightful. Unfortunately I have no mod points.

Unfortunately no. They do use "torrential rain" upon occasion, which is, well, not good enough but better than nothing.

You used a good one: deluge.

This is a group discussion. Isn't it better if you provide the citation, rather than every other interested person having to hunt it down for themselves, and possibly not finding the exact studies you have in mind?

That depends; what's the penalty for denying it?

I installed a Wifi card last week on 64-bit Windows 7. It came with unsigned drivers on CD. Windows refused to install them and I didn't see any option to work around that. We had to move the PC to another room to plug in an Ethernet cable so I could download signed drivers.

Perhaps a terrorist would be willing to complete such a mission, even at the cost of his life.

2010 does this out of the box; 2007 needs a service pack from MS Update. A fresh install won't always have PDF on the menu if it hasn't had a chance to install that service pack.

Oh. You were talking about language manuals, but I was thinking about technical ebooks. My bad. Of course I use the online docs, and I wouldn't want to have to consult a pdf every time I want to look up a library function. HTML would probably be better for the ebooks as well, provided they were written that way originally and not converted automatically from something else.

That is my normal pattern of use. Or rather, it would be if the memory leaks and freezes didn't prevent it!

Note that I wouldn't recommend writing or reading a programming language manual in PDF form.

What format do you prefer? I mostly see them in either PDF or CHM; and of the two, I much prefer PDF.