For security reasons, I prefer to channel the wireless signal through these great flexible waveguides I found. The ends LOOK like they're phone jacks, but the Geek Squad guys assured me they were in fact advanced security caps.

I'm one of those engineers.

I ran windows for a long time and got sick of the crappy OS and security so poor 50% of the CPU power is dedicated to preventing me from getting hacked.

Then I ran Ubuntu for a few years. This time I got tired of the completely crappy/inconsistent interfaces, and having to spend way too much of my time being a sysadmin.

Now I've got a Mac. It's nicely designed, I don't have to mess with it, and I've got a Unix-variant at my fingertips when I'm feeling that command-line itch. I still have to deal with lack of software due to Windows dominance, but I'm learning to live without some stuff.

All of this is on my home machine. At work where I need the real thing it's vterms to a Unix box, baby.

Having said that, I did this because it was MY CHOICE. I didn't hand control over to anyone. I can install just about any software I care to on this machine and Steve Jobs is not going to show up with a baseball bat. OSS paranoia about the big bad corporations coming to steal your compilers doesn't help anything.

Or you could go read the 'print' version which is all on one page and not 75% advertisement.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/363175/who-will-win-the-battle-for-control-of-the-web/print

The slot machines have very clearly printed disclaimers that all malfunctions void the entire transaction. They will get the original bet returned. That's the equivalent of taking that defective shirt back to the store and getting a refund.

It's disappointing for the people that they didn't win their jackpot, but the rules are presented very clearly beforehand.

Even without that issue, it was still a mediocre steak at a premium price. There are a lot of steak places that are much better for a much lower price.

Ruth Chris sears their steaks in a 1500F oven where the flames come from the top

They also bring out your steak on a plate so hot that your medium rare steak is medium well before you're halfway through. Ruth Chris is the worst high-priced steakhouse I've ever been to. I'd rather eat at Outback.

In most cyberpunk/dystopian SciFi, the area from Richmond to Boston is usually referred to as The Sprawl. Given that developers are currently on a mad quest to make sure every square inch of land is covered by a generic subdivision, office park, or strip mall, this is rapidly approaching reality.

Five. Do you want me to set up some sort of RSS feed for this?

When I checked right before hitting the button, it was seven, but it immediately dropped down to
five. Two of them are right in the edge it would seem.

Now it's back to seven. Now five . . .

They sent me a T-shirt once. I used it while painting so I wouldn't get any clothes that I'd wear in public stained.

Although to give them credit they did send me an excellent insulated coffee mug once. I still use that at work.

So, how is liquid diamond different from liquid graphite or liquid carbon? It's my understanding that the only difference between graphite and diamond is that the crystalline structure is 2-d in graphite and 3-d in diamond.

Is it just the fact that at those temperatures and pressures the natural crystals formed from the liquid are diamond?