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Almost as if flowering plants are related to food for both bees and apes....

And that's why I don't think it will impact economic growth that much. But it will hopefully reduce our CO2 emissions.

The reduced CO2 should make the climate colder. Continued economic growth will dump more heat into the air. But as we expect global population to peak at only a couple more billion people, would the energy humanity dumps into the air be comparable to how much the sun dumps into each square meter of the earth every day?

This actually makes them less like humans. Almost all social animals have instinctive ways to communicate. Think of it as hard-coded stuff which does not need to be learned. A bee is born knowing to communicate using dancing.

What makes humans different is that we don't have universally shared words for anything. Neither objects, nor squares, nor colors.

Very large language families like Indo-European can share many root words. But no word is universally shared or instinctively understood. All must be learned.

Or maybe even a pile of anecdotes, like most of the developed world happens to be in the north today, does not actually mean anything.

That's a bit more than just defaced. And it looks like it was anon. They are bragging about it. But would government sponsored hackers (from say China) brag if they got in even deeper?

In my experience with depression, everyone sympathizes and worries and wants help the depressed person. But being a vicious brain disease, depression will make you think the people who love you actually hate you and lough at you behind your back, when at work, or even while sleeping.

I have been accused of laughing at the person I love while sleeping, by her. No, it did not make me upset. I know it was the demons in hear head making her say that. I had been with her as she descended deeper and deeper and her self-hatred got worse and worse.

So when I hear that we need to sympathize with depression, I think you either have no experience with depressed people, or you're trying to convince anonymous internet trolls. The later is as futile and pointless task as can be. It is better to teach and train people on ignoring the trolls.

Soccer is a religion in Europe (and most of the rest of the world) but no one gets into a university in Europe only thanks to their soccer skills.

I am a cross platform developer. I have spent years developing on Windows, Linux, and OSX. (Also on other OSs, but what ever.)

Debugging with gdb is very different from debugging with a GUI IDE like Visual Studio. And if you are coming form Visual Studio to gdb, then debugging with gdb might seem down right impossible.

However, if debugging with gdb is so terrible, that means that each and every UNIX and all the software which runs on them were developed with this almost impossible to use debugger.

And Linus and the entire Linux dev. community, who rolled out Git almost on a whim, are stuck with gdb and can't come up with anything better.

Can that be true? Or is gdb in fact a great debugger, but with a very steep learning curve?

In my not so humble opinion, gdb is much harder to intuitively pick up than Visual Studio. But if do take the time to learn it, it is just as productive.

Actually in my experience, it is slightly more productive, because it forces you to work slower and think more. This go slower and think more strategy has also made my Visual Studio debugging better. Although if I spend too much time in Visual Studio I can slip into a pattern of less thinking and more break point setting.

tl;dr:

It's good that you are a very experienced game developer, but being a single platform developer kind of sucks. Become the kind of developer who doesn't care what platform they get to develop on.

And wasn't this pioneered on OSX?

I really, really want cheap disposable computers which I can plug into a keyboard and large screen, and save files on something like tarsnap.

Give me that and I'll be buying them by the handful.

First, It is not the US's fault it got attacked, Gandhi changed British foreign policy with peaceful protests. The terrorists chose murder and the attacks are their fault. Having said that.

We have Bin Laden on video tape explicitly explaining why they attacked the US. And why they did not attack Sweden for example. And it is because of the US foreign policy in the middle east. Supporting the regime in Saudi Arabia, etc. Straight from the hose's mouth.

If you are going to claim Chomsky is just plain wrong, please provide supporting evidence.

And please try to stay away from equating critique of US foreign policy as "demonizing the USA."

And "we may soon lose our nation." is just plain baseless fear mongering.

And the fact that Chomsky is an "avowed atheist" has nothing to do with anything.

It scales just fine if you are in tightly laid out cities. Like in the UK or NY: http://www.peapod.com/

Hanging out with other unemployed friends is fun. Getting high and going to the beach is fun. How is a 1970s slacker fundamentally different from 2005 slacker? I'd argue they are not.

Life has always been hard. Slackers have been around for ever. Are there fundamentally more today? Adjusted for unemployment levels? I don't think so.

In terms of the vendor specific features, sure, neither academia, not anyone else knows much about them. But in the fundamentals of scheduling, binning, etc, I don't think anyone is very far ahead of all of academia.

Are you saying industry is leaps and bounds ahead in the fundamentals of CS theory? Or just that there is a lot of vendor specific detail in the hardware and infrastructure? Because the latter is not CS.