Yeah, I meant to imply the company that made the classic games. It being sold, split, resold, etc. were the basis for the second part of my comment, even though I didn't remember the ultimate fate of the brand. I should have made that clear, but I got lazy. :)

Atari is American. Or at least it was. What exactly it is now I don't know, but it isn't the company that made the stuff we loved in the 70s and 80s.

I do complain about the flicker from PAL/NTSC TV. It can't watch PAL TV at all. It's like staring into a strobe for me. This could be because I only have peripheral vision to work with. LCDs are the best thing that ever happened to me.

They need both. This gets overlooked a lot, but plant cells, at least in plants they showed us in high-school biology, needed oxygen too. In an ecosystem like we have, perhaps they use a lot of the oxygen they create, but they need some to start with. Perhaps it's best to start with even simpler life.

The two movies with Peter Cushing are remakes of first-Doctor serials, specifically "The Daleks" and "The Dalek Invasion of Earth." Including them would be redundant and confusing. The time travel parts don't even change from the originals except for the framing bits at the start and end.

What they did change was the characters and the nature of both the Doctor and the TARDIS. In the case of the movies, the Doctor was a human called Dr Who, an inventor who created a time machine called TARDIS. Susan was a little kid, Barbara was his other granddaughter and she was dating Ian. The second movie only brought back the Doctor and Susan. They just don't fit at all.

He certainly has the wrong business plan. You can never just go to the President with your new-fangled thing. Presidents don't have time for that. Geeks will like it first. He should perhaps try to lure a few geeks with some cash -- preferably geeks who go on TV. While he is correct that he is established, he probably hasn't been anybody's focus in twenty years. Like all things business, networking will be key.

My ISP tries to do this without really saying it. They say we get up to 15 Mb/s, but if it's nowhere near then we can usually get them to put some effort into fixing it. Most of the time we really get speeds between 15 and 20 Mb/s.

What sort of capacitor can you not get? Those things always seem easy enough to get in infinite variety.

This is true of Doritos, but the last can of Pringles I opened said on the side that there are at least 100 chips in it.

Firefox tries to reflow the text. It fails when sites either let the text panel become twice as wide as the screen or let the navigation panels expand to fill the screen. Then you get a little tiny column of text in the middle. Slashdot does that a lot. The navigation panel on the left and the info panels on the right like to squash the stories. The current version of Slashdot is much better than the one from a couple of years ago in that respect at least.

I always thought there could be some fun in an al-Qaeda game where you have to bypass a pile of security and pull off the biggest possible terrorist attack. It could be a co-op multiplayer game where your friends take on different terrorist roles. It would need to be cleverly designed for infiltration that doesn't involve constantly shooting people to be fun.

Add in things kids do. Too much caffeine, too much alcohol, too many late-night gaming sessions, probably some drugs, etc. Stressing yourself out with fun can hurt during crunch time. I was bad at that in high school until half way through grade 11 when I decided to go to bed at midnight every day no matter what. That oftne meant I got a bit less homework done or played fewer games, but I felt a lot better. The things in your list mix in nasty ways with the things in mine.