So what trauma must these golas be subjected to in order to trigger the memories of the original dolly?

So you are saying that if it was genetic the trait would have died out because it dose not promote it's own propagation?

Now that we we have that cleared up. Dose this renew hope that, they will one day find the illusive gay gene?

I wonder how well Pink text on Yellow paper will work?

The technology can't be all that interesting considering that the device in the picture is bigger than my "TomTom". And my commercial GPS had to make additional room for a touch screen and battery. Why wasn't the FBI device seriously tiny?

Unless it's like those giant pieces of Armor some ancient army discarded to intimidate the enemy? I.e. This was a not so subtle hint that: "We are watching you so you better not try any $#!!7"

How about dumping the flight attendants? On short flights and budget airlines, they hardly serve a purpose. (Unless you were going to follow the suggestion of lowering the educational requirements and removing the uniforms... Ohh... and adding some music, mood lighting and garters designed for holding cash.)

Yeah. But at least they can beet it. the tool for changing the appearance of this body-part was one of the 1st ever invented. http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/33936.jpg

And it's far easier to manipulate than those lasers and contacts for fooling a retina scan.

I will let you know. For now I use a drive ontil it's dead then play with the parts in different ways. Clear nail polish on a platter makes it into a long lasting conversation piece.

http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/plusdeck.html Sorry I couldn't do the link properly. busted keyboard :(

Do you mean the one mentioned in the middle of this article

"Molten salts have been used in many industries as a high temperature heat transfer medium. The 'highest profile' use of molten salts in this regard is the Solar Power Tower near Dagget, California (excuse the pun). It uses a Sodium Nitrite/Nitrate mixture to absorb and store the sun's heat from the focus of many mirrors in the desert upon a central tower. The heat from the salt is then transfered via a heat exchanger to produce steam to drive a conventional steam turbine and generator to produce electricity from the sun for Southern California.3a"

"Last modified, 20 Nov 97"

It is all cost vs Benefit. If a company can get a major application ported to a cloud environment at a fraction of the cost of moving it to the next generation of compatible big iron, they will do just that.

Hardware, Software, Support, Power, Space, Labor etc... All costs matter.

This is why Linux is taking over more jobs in the Data Center and when it dose loose a task it's usually to a more specialized Open Platform, Like our bandwidth testing server which we dumped on an old 1u Sun box running OpenBSD, so we could avoid buying a box for that small job, cluttering a virtual environment with this none critical task, and be reasonable sane putting the machine on the other side of our firewall.

This depends on your specific situation and the specific application and hardware in question. Where we have replaced big iron with lots of little boxes, the total Electricity consumption was about the same. But that was mostly because of age. Newer machines do more per watt consumed.

The savings come from increased reliability and reduced hardware cost. I.e. The Million Dollar Sun box mentioned in my initial post would be replaced by about a dozen $5,000 Dell Servers. This won't happen anytime soon however as the software is not written for the cloud and porting it is none trivial.

Ahh... Nothing brightens my day like more free stuff. Especially Cloud Stuff I may actually use :)

Lot's of little boxes with AMD and Intel chips. No more big Iron. That is the dream. We aren't there yet as we still have an app or two that needs a $1,100,000 Sun box to run but this is where our data center is headed, A great pile of little servers and no concern if any one or two of them keels over.

Posted from the chilly Data Center of a Phone Company/ISP.

But the nuts don't know that.

For the record they do loose that much money. If you got a top end phone for "free" with your contract, it cost the phone company the full wholesale price.