Because there is a grain of respectability and truth to the pure quantitative analysis. So engineers/smart people pursue it. And the people with money who want to make more will leverage whatever small advantage the quants can generate.

I lusted after that thing as a kid, and now it's rare enough I can't justify paying for one on ebay. It always looked amazing in the pictures!

Technic has been pretty much completely overshadowed by Mindstorms. The good news is that you can still find some fantastic older Technic sets on line (ebay and the like) and Technic can play extremely well with Mindstorms.

Mind you, the Architecture line is what has me the most excited lately, even if they are very much a linear Lego experience.

RTFA. Sony has chosen not to maintain the Hypervisor for the new hardware. You can still run linux on the old systems, and they do not plan to disable that feature. This isn't open source hate, it's a practical business decision by a company that loses money every time they sell a console. They made the console cheaper.

I never have mod points when I discover a sane rational explanation in the middle of a stupid debate about a Non-issue.

So a Kudos, for pointing out the Hacked Dll doesn't work because the system is smarter than the hack finally. Give it a few weeks...

If I had mod points...

Listen to this guy.

Permanent beta in 3...2...1...

Not that I expect any different from /. most days, but who cares if its the middle of a recession? The R&D work on this has been in place for quite a while, and this is actually MORE attractive than an i7 platform right now because you don't need to move up to the new socket for the new chips - they are backwards compatible.

"Despite a poor economic climate, farmers still harvest crops they planted last year...." - come on....

Simple. They pay approximately 10-15x as much as the rest of us for non-local power generation. If a community, city, or municipality (or state, in the US) elects not to install the generators, you slap a meter on every line into the area. You charge them for every bit that passes into their area.

Also allows communities who want to pursue "Cleaner" (aka Hydro, Wind, Solar, etc) energy credits if they can overproduce.

We don't need a radically different infrastructure to implement technologies like this - we just need to better monitor our current one.

Why do you think the standards for entry are so high? They're trying to justify wasting that extra 2-4 years....

I can't tell if you are joking, or serious. I am going to go with the latter, because I do as well.

Actually, I think Bill would be a great choice. Personal gain is kind of redundant, and he has shown (on a number of occasions) his commitment to "the greater good."

Flame-on!