It had been 24 hours. They dropped it to 15 minutes.

Sadly, your last statement is true. :(

That is incorrect: Wired.com: And of course, the best Jeopardy players sometimes ring in before they may have come up with the answer, if they have, dare I say it, a gut feeling or sense of intuition that theyâ(TM)ll be able to answer correctly, right? Watson canâ(TM)t do that, can it? Brown: The IBM Research team made a decision that we were not going to ring in unless Watson had already computed an answer with high-enough confidence. There are human players who may have an intuition that they know the answer but donâ(TM)t quite have it on the tip of their tongue, and are willing to ring in because they are confident enough that they will come up with the correct answer in the few seconds they have to actually answer after theyâ(TM)ve won the buzz. That was an implementation decision for Watson that it had to have an answer with a high-enough confidence before it would attempt to ring in. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/02/ibm-watson-speed/

Watson didn't have a speed advantage: http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2011/02/creators-watson-has-no-speed-advantage-as-it-crushes-humans-in-jeopardy.ars

Watson has no speed advantage on the buzzer: http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2011/02/creators-watson-has-no-speed-advantage-as-it-crushes-humans-in-jeopardy.ars

Wow. Way to make a shitty analogy.

I have a 4 year old HP All in One Printer. Windows 7 will not install drivers for the scanner or fax portion of the printer. Since printing is by far the least used portion of the 'All In One' part of this printer I have an almost useless machine sitting on my desk. Pretty disappointing, because it scans very well.

Maybe someday, some historian will care how often we all pooped. Without our saved tweets, how would they know this important information?

Anyone seen any cows recently? I always love when they go 'Moo'.

Not turning it on is probably safer.

A lot more drafty?

Sadly, this isn't illegal in Illinois. We got lucky and our home inspector caught it before we got to far in the process. Moral of the story - get a home inspector that comes highly recommended and is very thorough.

I wish I had a mod point for you. This picture is very helpful in seeing what two years of dust will do to a rover.