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  1. Way to go for calling names. It really helps the conversation along.

  2. Our brains are too complicated for logical thinking.

  3. Re:Earliest evidence of life on Earth? on 3.77-Billion-Year-Old Fossils Found, Could be Earliest Evidence of Life On Earth (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That is not hard to come up with. What's hard to come up with is a scenario where only one of all those different early life forms on this enormous planet of ours manages to prevail very very early in the history of said planet and bethe oldest ancestor of all life on Earth as we know it today.

  4. Oh that's interesting. I will try it out tomorrow. Thanks!

  5. Re:Not viable on Windows 10 on 94% of Microsoft Vulnerabilities Can Be Mitigated By Turning Off Admin Rights (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    This. It just doesn't work.

  6. Me too. It's just too much of a hassle to switch admin rights off. Maybe it's better now but knowing MS it will not have changed much since 2000 when I tried using my computer as a normal user. "You can only run that program in administrator mode," it would tell me, or it would just refuse to do the simplest things. I gave u in frustration. I do use my Mac as a normal user, which works fine. It only asks for administrator passwords when doing administrative things like installing programs and changing global settings.

  7. It's quite similar to Myst. The worlds are huge though, and as detailed as Uru was. It's also drawn in the same style as Uru and they used many of Uru's sounds as well. If you like Myst it's definitely worth trying.

  8. Re:Second Life still has thousands of users? on Thousands Of Disabled People Are Living In 'Virtual Utopias' In Second Life (backchannel.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Myst Online has been around for over 10 years and is still thriving.

  9. Walking simulators on Thousands Of Disabled People Are Living In 'Virtual Utopias' In Second Life (backchannel.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Thanks to my heart disorder I can't walk far and I can't run at all. Walking simulators like Obduction and the Myst games provide me with the chance to walk for a long time through beautiful environments while exploring them, without getting tired. It feels liberating. I don't like sports on TV or in games though because they bring up bad memories from my childhood.

  10. it's than, not then. I slapped myself three times for that.

  11. Because they are so efficient that even when they're coal powered they are still releasing less CO2 then diesel powered buses. Also, the air in cities gets a lot cleaner and healthier when ICEs are banned.

  12. Joe sixpack doesn't give a damn about what makes his car move as long as it's cheap.

  13. It's now a known unknown.

  14. There was Debian, wasn't there?

  15. I started with Linux in 1995 when a housemate put Slackware on my computer for me. I'm glad he chose SW; back then almost nothing 'just worked' and you had to configure everything by hand, from the network card and the moden to X and Samba. I learned so much from that. In 2005 I was fed up with Linux and bought a Mac but I still use the knowledge I gathered in my Linux years to make the Mac do what I want. In the land of OSes Unix is emperor.

  16. You Americans really think you invented everything don't you?

  17. Re:Skype is dead to me due to birthdate demand on Microsoft Is Disabling Older Versions of Skype For Mac and Windows On March 1 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, what a surprise. You know, I have that on FB too. What a coincidence.

  18. All newborns are suckers.

  19. MS has been pissing off their customers since the 1990s, as has the music industry.

  20. And yet, every year battery capacities increase significantly.

  21. I have the feeling this new technology is not as fantastic as it's presented because of that.

  22. Re:Good idea on Bill Gates Warns Against Denying Climate Change (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    This is so true. I think the current trend amongst non-scientists to give every opinion equal value, irrespective of the reasoning it's based on, is a big contribution to the current standing of science and the devaluation of the word 'fact.' People should be tought to find out the reasoning behind opinions and ways of sifting the opinions that are worth considering (read: based on reliable data) from the ones that are based on bad data, gut feelings and intuition.

  23. Re:IoT is already here. on 5G Internet is the 'Beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I would like to see a reliable and true 'hard' off switch for the internet on my new TV, fridge, toaster etc to prevent it from being turned into a spam box or suchlike.

  24. Re:This is why most people are skeptical on 2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping (climatecentral.org) · · Score: -1

    I think many people are angrily defending global warming because they are sick of deniers who in spite of all the evidence religiously claim that nothing is the matter.