Processing the data takes a while- today. In the 80's, MP3 compression was good, but took too long to process for consumer products.

I think I just found a time machine to 1997.

A good friend of mine has an A+ average. She rarely attends classes, because most of our professors are useless, and just reads the books, spends her time studying, and does better than me. She works harder than most of the students who show up, and spend the lecture chatting on facebook and watching movies on their laptop (yes, this does happen).

The possibilities go beyond just downloading things from the Internet. Intel are hoping to make this the connector for *everything*- your devices, your video, your printer. Frankly, I don't care how or why the do it, but a single cable type for everything, in my eyes, is a dream come true- no more having that box of every different type of wire and connector.

Texas understands a simple principle: oil isn't forever. They have the money now, and can invest in wind, and other alternatives, so that when it runs out, they have another source of income, and a backup energy supply. Dubai is trying for a similar move, building what they hope is the Middle East's Singapore, but may have overdone it a tad.

Living in the UK for the last year, I've seen a lots of investment in wind here. On the horizon here in Edinburgh, there's a pretty substantial wind farm. Flying back home I noticed there's another large one in the waters between Ireland and Wales.

You smoke pot, don't you? And have no idea what "proof" means either apparently.

Seriously though, this is complete rubbish. I've barely scratched the surface on approximations of TSP, but I understand enough that after reading these "solutions" I can see that the author has only the faintest idea about the problem. He thinks he is solving a problem, when he is merely approximating it, and offers no actual proofs that any of his ideas are even good at approximating, let alone solving. A basic course on algorithms and NP would do him a world of good.

If the author is reading this, please buy and read http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Third-Thomas-Cormen/dp/0262033844/this book.

The girl was seriously ill. Anyone who's dealt with depression has been there, myself very much included. The difference is that when I was there, and I talked with people online, they encouraged me to get help, told me that life was worth living. I was on an edge, and they helped me back off of it. If I had been chatting with him instead, while he pretended to be a medical professional, well then I truly do believe I'd be dead today. He was trying to encourage her to hang herself on webcam so that he could watch her die- like he had others before her. That's psychotic, and downright wrong.

FBI Special Agent Sean Archer now has a new weapon against you.

... then EA will gladly pick them up. Both are mega corporations who've forgotten what 'fun' and 'creative' mean, and both are busy trying to scrape every last penny out of consumers that they can. That said, if EA is willing to back up two very creative guys who can come up with games like COD, then I'm all for that. In 3 years, we may see something pretty amazing, or we may find out the Infinity Ward consisted of more than just two guys.

So why then should the court of public opinion concluded that it's Toyota's fault?

"Sir, there's something wrong with our servers, or else the reporting service. Look here, at the pageviews count. It's stuck at zero."

... is based on the book they (GameDev) wrote and recommend on their website, "Beginning OpenGL Game Programming, Second Edition". What a waste of my money. It doesn't teach you anything unless you already knew it. The code given on paper is in snippets, never full programs, and never fully explained. It was like they never actually had a beginner to OpenGL read the book before they published it.

But don't worry, the full source is on the CD. Of course, it's only for visual studios, and even if you get it running on that, it has to be in a specific hard-coded directory called "D:/book/code/examples" or something.

I worked as an intern at MS last summer. First, I can say that while there, I never once heard anyone say that MS didn't like us having iPhones. It just never came up. Secondly, I heard a rather interesting story (maybe true, maybe false) about the head of Windows Mobile development being an open iPhone user. When asked why, he replied "Because it's a better phone- but I'm working to fix that".

Microsoft employees, for the most part, are just geeks, and don't hate some passionate loyalty to the company. The management know this, and know not to dare get in the way of geek gadget-love.

Your brain waves make me feel ill. At all times. What? You can't prove me wrong, because life is not understood yet, so, to be cautious, please move to the other side of the ocean, so that I can feel better. It's the only way. What's that? You think this argument makes no sense? That it's unreasonable for everyone else around me to have to change their lives to suit my personal form of insanity?