I can easily get behind the mention of the Sansa Clip+. That is one fantastic player for workouts of all kinds. I put it in a $2 silicon skin and have no qualms about using it in rain, during rowing or going for lengthy runs which are sure to cause a lot of sweat. Just, you now, one ought to clean it occasionally,…

I enjoy using the command line once in a fortnight as well. What I'm really wondering is, why not be able to use both? I know kids these days don't learn to use command line language - and why should they? I was forced to learn assembler and antiquated programming languages, I was required to program the same thing…

It's nothing new when Apple decides to do something that goes against "common practice". However, you have to wonder just what cohort of customers Apple is catering to, and whether it's wise to put off a number of customers who don't agree or can't comply. It seems that Apple thinks this number of customers is so…

And this is one the main reasons why I, as a doctor, will never, ever, have to fear running out of work.

Not 100% true. Depending on your diet, you may already be substituting B6, B12, folic acid and iron in sufficient levels without supplements.

This, most emphatically. And the app itself is also worth it. Along with Quicksilver and few other little helpers, Growl is essential on any new OSX system.

I have to agree with the recommendation of CX.com and shamelessly plug my referral link right here:

Isn't the point of replacing an item that you weigh use versus cost?

...and there's nothing wrong with that. To each their own. I just thought I'd throw it out there, because a lot of people (especially those not from an engineering or IT background) forget about Emacs.

Flow is a nice alternative that behaves exactly like the Finder. I'm a big Cyberduck fan, but ever since I got Flow as a free offer, it's replaced the duck as my go-to ftp program.

There are a few of these around, SMEStorage is another. Unless your data is stretched across more than 2 or 3 services, there's not much of a point to these organisers. And if you're looking to save a buck by using free services, why pay premium for an organiser? Bookmarking the service sites or creating web applets…

Up until 2 or so years ago, I would've heartily recommended Taco as the HTML editor to go with, but it became commercial instead of donationware. It's still a good editor, but I haven't "upgraded" to the paid version and instead keep the last free one around.

And this is the exact (and, quite possibly, only relevant) reason why these courses exist and their organisers thrive. Because thinking you know something and feeling confident about putting it to use is almost, but not quite, as efficient as actually knowing it and being able to put it to use.

There are numerous implications of this question: Is the individual merely a theoretical construct, a sum of the parts that make up the body, or does it reside in those mysterious, often alluded to "21 grams" that appear to disappear once a body relinquishes its grasp on what we define as human life?

You don't have to work in any other field but IT to see people like that. A lot of IT people have to iron out other people's, developer's or system's bugs and glitches all day, so they are the first people to want their hardware to JUST WORK.

This endeavor isn't going to end well. Gavin Hood's Wolverine was a train wreck. And some books, like the Ender series, simply aren't meant to be made into 2 hour long movies. A series like Game of Thrones, maybe. But there is so much subtext in the first Ender book alone that it's clearly impossible to fit into such…

While arguably closer to the truth than the original, this video was as boring as basic algebra.

Not to mention back in the day, people watched the test detonations from behind wooden barricades. Wood. As in, not lead. With sunglasses. And beer.

There could have been a snake and a dancing badger in that video...

True. When they go into meltdown, they literally melt everything in close proximity that can't withstand about 2000 degrees centigrade and then continuously emit radiation.