depends on the network. Right now the process is to put the pump on a 2 node network temporarily. Sounds like he just wants to be able to do them in parallel. His listed solution is to use 16 2-node networks, but even if it becomes a 17 node network it's still temporary.

It sounds like he's only networking them long enough to update them. He brings the hardware, plugs in the pump, does his thing, unplugs. He just wants to parallelize; de-networking the pumps is still a step.

oh, never mind, I see what you mean. Not through the play store, through firefox's plugin browser.

the only ublock I see on the play store is for phone calls. Did the plugin get removed in the same sweep as adblock, maybe?

Ah, my bad. I thought you were disagreeing with his definition of "programming", but you're disagreeing with his definition of "work". Gotcha.

You appear to include a lot of things in the term "programming" that are not actually generating code, though they certainly make it faster/easier to generate code. GP apparently doesn't. Is that really such a big deal?

I'm not sure how increased bandwidth could make a difference beyond sheer number of tries per second. On that scale, it's (very) roughly a factor of 2 difference, so add a bit and move on, no?

the shape of a phone is trade dress if it is not done for functional reasons. What has apple done that they don't claim a functional reason for? Round corners have an obvious functional aspect: they're not pointy, so they don't poke you in the hands.

Which makes me think... pretty much all of Apple's design decisions have some functionality aspect, no? How do they get trade dress for anything?

TFA at least mentions that "trade dress" has restrictions regarding functionality versus brand identity, but wikipedia is much more informative to my mind. But yeah, I'd love to see a place that collected this stuff. Wikilegal, anyone? :)

as in so many things, the word "infinite" makes the question both solvable and irrelevant to reality

if/when I can swap out the fiesta's trunk for a suburban's trunk, maybe. But extra cubic feet are much harder to fit into the same form factor than drive platters or ram sticks.

Oh, there's a little bit. If the bigger (fed) can't regulate the smaller (state) in an industry that is pretty much inherently interstate in nature, then why can the bigger (state) regulate the smaller (city)?

If I understand it right, Greece is an example of a country which gave up its own currency (and with it the power to play certain tricks to nudge the economy) without having the productivity to make it work without those tricks. So they ran into trouble, and asked the controllers of the currency for help, which was refused except on terms that minimized the helpfulness (austerity measures make sense for balancing a budget but do very little to increase the flow of currency in the economy - and "flow of currency" is pretty much what an economy is, so...) Since Germany's the one with all the productivity, and hence a lot of the power over the Euro, they get blamed by the Greeks for the lack of helpfulness. Whether it's really warranted takes more knowledge than I have.

they don't have caffeine free diet lime coke.