That logic does not hold up if you have a new product that you intend to sell at full price and that is meant for the same market as the old product, because selling the old product at a discount cannibalizes the sales of the new product in the same market, causing it to take longer to 'recoup' the costs, etc, etc... You don't want to be in that spiral.

Umm... Where is your ground wire when you're in the air?

See subject.

That "radiation that a functioning nuclear power plant releases into the surrounding environment" is a tightly controlled quantity and should be as close to "none" as possible. That number does not include the radioactive waste that the plant generates, because the intention for the waste is to not release it into the environment. Sometimes, however a nuclear power plant does release more than the normal amount of radiation, and then usually it's bad enough to be referred to as a 'disaster', with greatly increased releases of radiation into the surrounding environment (chernobyl, fukushima daiichi). How often has an area been declared a nuclear disaster area from an "event" caused by a nuclear plant?

So... venting the radioactive waste into the air would, well, poison the planet faster than you can say slardibartfast.

Maybe it's still cheaper to build that bioreactor.by growing a cow? You don't slaughter the cow to get the milk...

"It is entirely conceivable that in the next decade we start 3D-printing buildings and electronics."

Wheee, and let's 3D-print a planet in the decade after that!

3D-printing works because they use plastics that melt when heated. They are cool, but they are basically robotic glue guns with fast drying glue.

How would you 3D-print something that needs to withstand heat?

Or how would you go about 3D-printing reinforced concrete, or an economic and equally strong replacement?

You can't extrapolate a glue gun to that many materials/properties.

Obligatory xkcd reference

http://xkcd.com/327/

If your platform has stdint, then you can use ptrdiff_t instead of int/long in your code... It's always the right size integer for pointers.

5) turn that nice phone into something pretty much useless

Or in other words: You're mordac.

That's a classic mistake...

Try this with your function: int main() { int a = 5; int b = MIN(++a, 10); printf("%d\n",b); }

Yeah, that's really '7' what it printed, because your macro causes the increment to happen twice...

DANGER
*Big Scary Laser*
Do not look Into beam with remaining eye!

"We need 92% minimum coverage for herd immunity and we do not have it."

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.

The 'herd' consists of everybody, not just the patients.

Your 'herd' only sampled the patients, hence your percentages are not from the entire herd...

We hope that it is likely for an incomplete or unvaccinated person to be more likely to become a patient than a fully vaccinated person...

It only needs to be is 2.4 more likely ((11+8)/8) for the 'herd' to be at 92% based on the statistics mentioned here...

So... If the vaccine is only 58% effective or better (1-(8/(11+8))), then you do have 92% coverage. If the vaccine is less than 58% effective, then it's a terrible vaccine...

Very true, and there also were the HST modems from US Robotics. Expensive but reliable and fast. I wonder if I still have that 9600bps HST modem that I bought used in a closet somewhere. IIRC, the HST modems where there a little before the PEP modems, but the PEP modems were cheaper so got more popular eventually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_robotics

And then there were these upload/download protocols, beyond xmodem/ymodem/zmodem, you had 'full duplex' ones that allowed parallel uploading and downloading of files (bimodem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiModem).

After that you started being able to do some more things off-line (I remember uucp, and QWK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWK_(file_format) , and 'soup'). You could select files for upload and download offline, and let your computer dialup into the bbs during the wee hours of the night. The bbs would have a prepared compressed package ready for you with your emails, group messages, exchange files, etc, and you could hangup immediately after the upload/download, for a much reduced number of minutes on the phone (which mattered a lot if it was not a flat-fee call)... There were special DOS programs to do all that, they could program the BIOS to turn your PC on at the right time at night and turn off when finished.

Not soon after that the Internet took off and many wheels had to be reinvented with new names and protocols.

It would take 'only a couple of days' for an email to reach the other side of the globe. Email addresses were numbers with a colon, slashes, a dot.

Yes kids: Colon, slash and dot. http colon slash and dot.

Bastards!

But he won anyway, because he learned a valuable lesson about Microsoft...