Indeed, it means that the 75M/year isn't even permanent, whereas NASA will always need money (for different projects, sure, but we're comparing the two for whatever reason). Are you forgetting the sort of project ITER is? It makes the shuttle look like child's play. 75M/year for even a century would be chump change in the grand scheme of things.

Why is this modded insightful? Using "M$" and other such derogatory acronyms was fine when you were 12, but people come to Slashdot for (hopefully) enlightening discussion. Using "M$" is like swearing in a debate, it makes you completely out of place.

It's an interesting list of issues, but all it does is whine. If you actually look around for web languages that are widely supported and easy enough to get running, even on cheap shared hosting, you'll find that your choices are extremely limited. PHP, sometimes Ruby on Rails, that's about it. Before you dismiss shared hosting off hand, remember that not everyone has a lot of money to spend on a website, and that a language's widespread adoption DOES factor in the decision to use it.

I take it you've missed the "web" part of the question. Writing web stuff in C/C++ is already all sorts of horrible, but Haskell? There's a special place in hell for people like that.

My computer's screens cast all the light I need, you insensitive clod!

So that's four full years where the Republicans could've fixed it, then.

Somebody pissed in your cereal this morning? Their previous games, Joe Danger, were pretty good and didn't try to oversell. They're obviously trying to hype their game so they get a fanbase, but that's nothing special. It's also quite a bit more understated than Elite: Dangerous and Star Citizen in terms of bling.

Also, a team of 10 is tiny. I take it you stopped following games around 1995, where two guys in their garage could make a solid game in six months. Expectations have changed, believe it or not! AAA game devs number in the hundreds and for a game of this scope 10 is very small. They're also not all programmers/artists and I believe not all of them are working on the game.

What you're saying makes sense, but I've found it incredibly difficult to sleep on the plane reliably. Usually I'll get an hour or two out of a seven hour flight after some heavy trying and back and forth, but that's it. I've been pondering some sleeping aids to get that sorted, even though I don't like the idea so much when I travel alone.

You're saying that as though it's inevitable. It's not.

Sure! Build lots and lots of solar plants in Africa, where there's a lot of sun and unused land. Middle East would work as well, and perhaps parts of Spain.

In Germany though? Wind and hydro would most likely be a lot more cost efficient, unless you want to float balloons above the clouds with arrays of panels attached.

Um, actually, you can? It means that, in 1942, 20% slept six hours or less. Today, that's 40%. Perhaps you haven't slept enough?

That's amusing, implying the Democrats are socialist. You guys in the US have this big boogeyman in the socialist policy (still stuck in cold war thinking perhaps?), but you haven't even seen what it actually is like. Your left-wing parties and ideas are every other country's right-wing.

If the attacker has access to the financial details used by the company to pay for the hosting, which is generally how you can authenticate people safely, you have much bigger problems.

If the Fiat EV is any indication, the American motor companies only want to make an EV to prove that the tech is doomed to fail so they can get the govt off their backs. Collaborating on creating a viable standard for charging or increasing battery capacity would go against that.

I may be wrong, but that quote sounds like they're saying DRAM/Flash hasn't been able to keep up with the amount/size of data. The Word example's not the greatest, but in many computational fields you'll need hundreds of gigabytes of data to fit in RAM, which can get rather complicated.