Chicken Pot Pie or Shepherd's Pie
Salad
Slice of Pie (Your Choice)

$11 in the bay area.

Went there for lunch today :-)

Second. I have VM service on my LG Optimus V that I occasionally use as a hotspot with my Linux laptop no problems. It's not teh awesum bandwidth, but it's usable.

Sprint's network (which VM piggybacks on in the US) is pretty good in the bay area and they're not nearly as price-gougy as VZW or AT&T.

$130 for the mifi, $50 for "unlimited" data (throttled after 2.5G) for a month. Resell the device on eBay if you want when you're done. VZW is at least 2x for the device...

...and the one that gets you busted is the Mickey Mouse ears.

5 years for pirating a Michael Jackson CD
4 years for killing Michael Jackson
Seriously :-(

The guy who staged out the Bible in Legos would have had an easier time of it for sure:

http://thebricktestament.com

He clearly needed to hax0r a bunch of Legos to tell many of the stories...

+1 +1 +1, for the love of God, +1

Disk space is cheap (modulo the current supply problems); disk management is expensive. RAID, index time, backups all conspire to make that $100 Fry's special cost 10x as much in reality.

...though "ability to see into the UV part of the spectrum" is not quite as useful as "ability to smell into the future" (my personal fave).

For everyone else, it's:

1. Get on coaster.
2. Break a hip/rib; dislocate a shoulder on turn 1.
3. Be in horrible, horrible pain until passing out from pain and/or dying from acceleration.

Awesome. I wouldn't even call this a nice thought experiment--it's just stupid.

Dang it. Now I want to bake a pie.

Mmm. Pie.

Actually, getting a relative newbie to get BIOS to boot from something other than a hard disk is way worse than learning a VM environment IMO. I'm all for the VM idea, whether VMware Player or VirtualBox. VirtualBox can import OVFs, too, so it's fairly easy to get just about anything that has been made as a virtual appliance to work.

I worked at SJSU up until 2008 and the policy was that access wasn't particularly restricted in any way but support for non Windows/MacOS was fairly limited.

Except in the College of Engineering--we tried our best to support basically anything the students would come up with, no matter how weird. Getting something bizarre working on our network was a point of pride :-). The school flirted with implementing Clean Access, but I don't know if that ever actually happened (and from the sound of it, the plan was that only Windoze users would have been affected).

Now you just wait a centon. What do you mean we aren't using a base 10 timing metric? ;-)

Folks toss about the phrase "Epic Fail" far too loosely. Here's what a real Epic Fail looks like:

The DRM code has a bug that, when a certain condition happens (time passes, specially-formulated packet received, etc.), it overclocks the CPU to the point that it catches on fire. Within minutes of the event, most of the millions of PS3s in the wild have set peoples' homes ablaze.

As a result, thousands die and the insurance industry collapses. Anarchy reigns, so there's nobody to enforce copyright anymore and the original DRM is rendered irrelevant.

THAT is an epic fail.

B-52s FTW!

I'm personally more of a fan of "Love in the Year 3000" than "Funplex," but it's a good album nonetheless.

The explanation is simple. The plucky young upstart warrior (and perhaps the rest of his party) just defeated the final boss using his strongest-ever attack. One involving, say, exploding materia*.

What everyone saw was just the endgame cutscene for that (at a safe distance, of course).

* Materia is a Final Fantasy VII term. Substitute your favorite mystical RPG energy thingy here if you like.