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Thanks for the variety of replies so far. This is helpful. Microsoft isn't "too big to fail," but, even its size isn't necessarily enough. That said, it probably has enough cash-generating stuff to keep it going for a long while yet. If indeed Windows 8 is every bit as stable as Windows 7...

Answering the question "Does space have mass" requires that we know what space is. Unfortunately, that's a complicated question. And, presently, (pardon the pun), this question is actually quite important in physics.

∑(x)^2 = (n)(n + 1)(2n +1)/6

X = total # of squares n = number of squares per side X = (n)(n) + (n-1)(n-1) + (n-2)(n-2) + ... + (1)(1) Your example 14 = (3)(3) + (2)(2) + (1)(1)

I haven't used any devices with Windows 8. I'm quite happy with Windows 7 on my laptop (I still use XP on another work laptop -- I'm not permitted to make changes to it). I have an old iPod Touch, and I'm happy with its OS. And, I have a Nexus 7, and I'm happy with its OS. But, I haven't...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/02/25/172505187/the-microwave-miracle-of-cooking-in-mugs Doesn't help with the "don't stick to a recipe" though you can modify. I can attest that the microwave, mug brownie recipe is amazing.

You know more and feel differently than you did when you were 14. When you were 14, you knew more and felt differently than when you were 7. What makes you think that you've reached an age such that your knowledge and feelings will remain the same henceforth? Today, you don't want to be...

Oh God am I ever jealous... Welcome to the group.

Welcome to the group. And, lucky you, you've been educated in one of the strongest education systems in the world. Perhaps you can teach us much.

What are facts?

Go the the UNAIDS website: http://www.unaids.org/en/dataanalysis/datatools/aidsinfo/ Click on every link, read every PDF, learn about HIV, and then let us know what's what.

During the epoch of anatomically modern humans, long after we split from earlier primate ancestors, but long, long before the Neolithic and our tendency to settle, there were advantages for offspring in being provisioned by both mother and supportive allomothers. Sometimes those supportive...

I've watched several people die, slowly, from debilitating illness. I have seen people's faces express abject terror as they suffered from incredible pain. I've seen people make horrible choices that caused other people their careers, their relationships, or their friends. Those are all pretty...

Your result for The Mythological God Test... Thoth Indeed, you are 75% erudite, 50% sensual, 38% martial, and 38% saturnine. Thoth, the Egyptian God of secret wisdom, intellect, geometry and other forms of higher mathematics, was also the God of books and learning, of writing and...

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Read Plato's Republic for examples of this. Interestingly, after a few reads, there are stories behind the stories that are interesting. Plato did some amazing work with this.

Interesting test. I scored 30. Dave

My wife, INFP, is an aspie. My own score, here (http://rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php) placed me as: Your Aspie score: 97 of 200 Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 121 of 200 You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits Her Aspie score was something like 150 or so and her...

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I can make stuff up too. Just because I create a key and then use a formal system to express myself doesn't make any of it meaningful.

Whose mind?

To say that "X is good for Y" is a different thing than to say "X is good." Probably, however, there is a big problem with the word "good." Sometimes it means one thing, sometimes it means another.

Generally, people admire others who have confidence. Teaching leadership isn't a bad idea at all. That is, given the composition of the world generally.

Let me know when you get this procedure worked out. I'll pay good money for a trip.

It appears things have changed in a year.

Starving Artist You are 29% Rational, 14% Extroverted, 43% Brutal, and 57% Arrogant. You are the Starving Artist! Like some sort of emaciated Frenchman, you sit in your fancy little chair and contemplate beauty, meaning, flowers, and all kinds of other ridiculous crap. You are more intuitive...

Lester Bangs tells it straight! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpISLkb5L5E

Yeah. Lots of stuff there that's a little too far out for comfort.

Paul Jacobs was on Charlie Rose last night (02 Jan, 2013); the interview was informative. http://www.charlierose.com/ Dave

If you scour the whole site here, you'll see that I've posted a link to this book dozens and dozens of times. I wager that far fewer than 1% of the people who use the site have bothered to get a copy and read it, but, I'll post it again...

Here's what matters to companies that are hiring: 1) Competence: can you do what you've been hired to do? 2) Socialization: can you function with the others who work there? 3) Dependability: will your attendance be excellent, will you do what you're asked to do? ... 99) Where you went...

I don't see why not; those are decent scores. I agree. I went to a community college, took all the mind-numbing prerequisite courses VERY cheaply and then transferred to the public university that offered me the most money. While there, I researched all the professors and took classes from...

First, work out that stuff enough so that you can function. In the meantime, lean on anyone willing to feed you. Now's not the time to be looking for a job. (For you, I mean, not in the market.)

Meaning-creating creatures shouldn't find it all that surprising that when they examine the world they find meaning.

Hello.

So how much of this "patriarchy" thing, and commentary about oppression, etc., is really about human culture? What I mean is this... In virtually every primate species, there are male-female dynamics that vary in all sort of ways. There are some dominant females, but, for the most part, except...

I'd like to see some medical advancements. Regenerative medicine. I'd like to see people get organ transplants from their own tissue (organ transplants today are great, immuno-suppressant drugs that have to be taken for the rest of the patient's life aren't so great). I'd like to see nerve...

Welcome.

I'm an INTP, my wife is an INFP. I'm not sure this is such a key, but, it's given me insights into the INFP mind. Dave

I can pad my post count too! Oh, hi.

Welcome to the playground. Dave

I don't consider it obvious that you're an INTP. I couldn't tell that. You're welcome. Have fun. Dave

Welcome back. You'll see my avatar hasn't changed. :)

Sounds like a refreshing change of pace.

Excellent.

I usually drive more than 100 miles at least 3 days (usually 5) a week. I usually have no passengers. If there were some trustworthy system that found passengers for me, and this didn't make me late, and this didn't inconvenience me, and this didn't cause other problems, I'd be pleased to...

Here's one response I've heard to this sort of thread: We can make dichotomous keys of all sorts of things. For example, we can say that a sentence either does or does not have a truth value, and that if it does, that truth value is either true or false. We can say that a sentence either does...

Over the course of a few decades, I've picked up a few things. First, pay attention to what others do, especially others who are comfortable socializing. Importantly, pay attention to adults who are comfortable being adults. The world is predominately an adult world (despite what teenagers...

You're welcome here. You'll find that, for the most part, we only consider someone's age when it's relevant. Enjoy your stay. Dave

Locke, Mill and Hobbes did a pretty good job thinking about these questions (heck, so did Plato and Aristotle).