Does my development environment mirror user's environment?
It's effectively impossible for any two machines to be set up the same, so development and production environments will always be different. One advantage in them being VERY different is that you will be more aware of possible deployment problems.
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Leaving your computer on at night, bad for the environment?
It doesn't use any more electricity at night than it would during the day. If you're using it for something at night, which you are, then you may as well leave it up.
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What is the point of protecting the environment?
When people talk about protecting the enviroment they are really talking about protecting themselves. Nature is a very powerful force and wont hesitate in killing us off very quickly if we push too hard.
Climate change is a natural occurrence and if mankind attempts to influence he will learn a very valuable lesson whilst drawing their last few breaths. This dose not mean go ahead and pour paint down the drain but a sensible approach is all that's needed. Emission Trading is the get rich quick scheme of this century and will have zero impact on climate change.
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Is a genius born or a product of their environment?
Considering Mozart could already play, compose, and who knows what else by age 5, I'll say born. The environment only helps an average person stand out or go unnoticed, imo.
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CS4 is scripting environment as good as it is in Flex?
There is still Flex and FlashDevelop, so its not that bad. Just have to wait till CS5 maybe, but the way Adobe seems to be developing now-a-days with flash they are leaving Flex to the developers and making Flash its more use friendly animation tool.
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