It's probably just the result of an early patent dispute. Another hypothesis involves a recently discovered "I'm a Clovis"/"I'm a Western Stemmed" bison skin poster.

I'd always skim the book for a cool ending and then figure out which choices would get me there.

Those Windowses will still run current non-IE browsers, though. If your Windows becomes so old that even FF and Chrome don't support it, then you have truly become statistically insignificant. But even then there will probably be a free Linux distro that will run well on your computer with a current browser.

Brilliant middle-ground between appeasing or shafting the heel-draggers.

A desktop computer that came with Windows Vista can be had for dirt cheap or free. As has been said, low-end broadband is very affordable, even compared to dialup. And if you are so remote that cable/DSL broadband is literally not available, consider a satellite connection.

(meant as a reply to Kagnon)

"nowhere near as much" needs to become "none of the" for the hate to end.

True AFAIK, but web standards emerge through the back-and-forth between web designers/programmers and browser developers. So no, MS isn't technically running foul of an official, authoritative, established, ratified standard. But they are certainly ignoring the current de facto standard: the one that will likely be…

I've got the same book! I saw the concept art and immediately thought it might just be a PS job on this pic.

Limiting religion to a search for a rationale behind the existence and workings of the universe suggests that (a) it's possible to think at God's level and (b) that you care more about God's reasoning than about God.

Two meanings of "why" though. There's a huge difference between "because it has more neutrons" and "because she wanted to see her son one last time". Although, if you're mechanistic enough, you won't see it.

I think it's pretty safe to assume selfishness won't be eliminated, so 1, 2, 6, and probably 3 are out. I take 4, 7, and 8 as an absolute given, if only for those wealthy enough. Anyone who does 10 can't reasonably be considered human anymore, and would probably result in such a sudden and complete change to…

As papercup says, "we" might not be the ones to re-civilize. But something might. And that something might be even worse than we are, and less likely to eventually "opt out" as we did. I see that as the main disadvantage to 1 and 2: we atone for our own sins, but there's no way to ensure things don't go belly up in…

He's using ISP math.

I see a lot of new things (or new combinations of things), but while I agree that we're moving pretty quickly, I'm not convinced that "forward" is the right word for it. Though that's not to imply that "backward" is.

This chart only really works for drawing attention to how long or brief a fruit's season is. If I'm looking for a specific fruit or month (which is much more likely) something like a truth table would be much faster.

Bill Watterson through Calvin and Hobbes.

Capital letter's not a matter of honour. If anything, it more securely flags this as an ideological commitment.

Short of draining the lake with a secure perimiter, I'm not sure Nessie's non-existence can be proven. But it sure seems unlikely that a non-intelligent, air-breathing creature of that size could remain undetected for so long. If there had been a whale in there, we'd have found it ages ago.

Dunno... my public high school's "lower" sciences (geology, biology, psychology) were teaching stuff that had been discredited at least a decade prior. Physics was probably only saved by sticking to the Newtonian end of the pool.