Build your Walmart store with the back facing the railtracks.

I'd say that that works in favour. As bitcoin get more valuable / scarce the tendency to protect them increases. So as more of them get lost the rate of them getting lost will decrease. Note that "gold" also has a finite amount available that gets progressively harder/more expensive to mine.

For a man perhaps not yet -- but you did see this one right? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25178299

inc ax

shl ax,2

would be slightly faster and use less memory :)

If I asked my customers what they wanted, they'd say they wanted a faster horse. Innovation comes from thinking out of the box.

I worked on some mobile e-mail product some 8 years ago. Call it a Blackberry competitor -- it ran on phones like the Palm Treo, Nokia E61 and various Windows Mobile devices. There was rumours of Apple making a phone -- and when it came out, it had no keys... I remember thinking -- how are you ever going to type a message without keys? Well...

Dear o dear you're getting fleeced over in the US. I paid for my phone outright. One off cost. A humble Galaxy S3 mini. £180 / US$ 280 including all sales tax, new, unlocked. Add a SIM-only deal. I pay £8 / US$12.50 for 500 minutes, unlimited messages and 1GB of data. there. Oh, and I don't pay for incoming calls.

Looks like prices in the UK are around 25% of the prices you quote...

And acidity. Nothing wrong with Robusta beans, but you can't sell the resulting product as "Arabica coffee".

Sushi, fishy -- I can see the connection.

Not seen the place, not been there, but I can't see a reason a restaurant won't take cards.

I'll mark you points if you can open a telnet or ssh connection to a Unix shell account somewhere. Packet drivers and NCSA Telnet would get you there, and you could run a commandline webclient from there.

For another starting point look on http://users.ohiohills.com/fmacall/ or http://sshdos.sourceforge.net/index.html

Your next challenge: do it on an 8088.

This one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am5x86

It'll be an overclocked AMD. I had one of those too :)

My dad's case was lung cancer -- even though he was not a smoker -- with a 6% survival rate after 5 years. This happened 10 years ago, I realize our understanding of cancer has improved and more options have become available, but your prospects still don't look great. Sad as it may be, your *should* realize fully that your case may *not* be one with a miraculous happy ending.

On reading back I realize I sound slightly bitter, and I would not want people to just give up hope. My dad's case was lung cancer -- even though he was not a smoker -- with, according to the stats you point to, a 6% survival rate after 5 years. This happened 10 years ago, I realize our understanding of cancer has improved and more options have become available, but your prospects still don't look great.

My dad died of cancer.

Most stuff "doesn't work". Cancer is a terrible disease that has *some* medicines that prolong life, by a bit, but few real cures. About the only thing that has been proven to work is chemotherapy, and that's a race -- poison the whole body, hope that you *just* out-poison the cancer and the body has enough resources left to recover. Few win the race.

Given that track record, of the "best the pharmaceutical industry has to offer" I can understand the clutching at straws. My dad, towards the end, signed on for some experimental treatment, hoping to at least add a datapoint to the body of knowledge. A large part though, is simply coming to terms with the fact that, yes, if you've been diagnosed with cancer, you will probably die of the disease.

If it was a Razr, the transmitting bit is actually in the mouthpiece.