Comment Re:Ah, they are not dead. (Score 1) 168
It's a dogs life in the modern Monty Python troupe.
I'm stuck on skype v4.0.0.8 because the latest linux skype client crashes literally every minute or so. And I'm not the only one who has this problem.
Or, possibly this is an alien factory planet...
To make more energy available, they take all of a solar system's rocky mass and put it into an orbit skimming close to the central star. That way the metals can be easily separated out, and worked. Since heat engines become more efficient at higher temperatures (especially when you have to radiate waste heat to space), much more energy is available for engineering processes.
This planet isn't "a complete mystery" - it is final, clinching proof of extraterrestrial intelligent life!
Or not...
Three! There are three hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, off-by-one errors and fanatical devotion to the pope....
Nobody expects the Spanish Estimation!
In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug.
