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The environmental conditions that are good for the formation of fossils are not the sort of conditions that are good for living a long and peaceful life. Outcast males are the ones…

Every star has the force of gravity that is pressing all the gas to collapse, and heat from fusion that is pushing all the gas apart. These forces are balanced in a stable star: fu…

Is there any resource from the other side that provides reasons why restrictions should be placed on community broadband? The explanation "Evil Monopoly wants all the money" seems …

Takedown notices on Youtube are not handled under DCMA. DCMA has protections against false accusations.

This isn't a puff piece. This is an advertisement for the calendar.

They crunch the numbers here: http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/11/pump-up-the-stor... The energy in one gallon of gasoline is equivalent to the potential energy stored in 1…

No heroin addict thought they might become addicted. That is one of the main dangers of heroin specifically.

Might as well add my Lisp in PHP: https://github.com/cninja/pEigthP

The original article was more informative: http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/08/oddworld-new-n-tasty-preview-a...

Opera did something similar back in 2010 in v11 with the opera:config#UserPrefs|HideURLParameter configuration variable. I found I was wanting the URL information often enough that…

I can't say what is is about your comment or the article, but something about the combination gives off the vibe that this is an astroturfing effort to promote Google Comsumer Surv…

I couldn't agree more. Writing my own interpreter https://github.com/cninja/pEigthP provided many challenges but I think it was one of the most enjoyable "toy projects" that I have…

The problem not time in school, the discussion should be about motivating students. As long as the student is motivated to learn on their own, then more time in school might result…

Here is my speculation about what really happened: YouTube has its infringing content tool designed to detect copyrighted content and notify the rights holder. That tool erroneousl…

Intel doesn't have a monopoly on the technique, just a big technological head start. From the Anandtech article on this:"Intel isn't expecting its competitors to move to a similar …

My guess: no. Apple's policies involve dictating the terms of outside services being used in their garden. Facebook's policies involved dictating the terms of their own services be…

I see Opera as being flexible like FF but has the speed and UI polish of Chrome. That way, I only need to use one browser. Top feature that no other browser offers: fully customiza…

This seemed to be the main excuse that people had for not trying out Opera in the past, but people already have their favorite browser by this point. Without a significant marketin…

Opera runs well on Windows 2000

It depends on the size and type of project. When you compile, does your computer's hard drive thrash, or is the CPU pegged at 100%?

The article provided "universal" and Ars specific stats. All the % are drastically different between the two, except Opera.

One thing I always find interesting is that the % of Opera users on Ars is always close to the universal %. I always assumed that Opera users were more technical, and therefore mor…