I always loved those model ships in a bathtub being attacked by Godzilla scenes.

Now if they can only re-animate Raymond Burr.

Or those classified documents of how they faked the moon landings?

Nerd!

Oh, wait, this is Slashdot.

I totally agree. I'm not a big fan of TV shows and I started to get peeved about the selection of streaming movies. Weeks would go by with no new content. I'd pull up the latest releases menu and they'd have movies on there that were 2, 3, or more years old. I could have dealt with the price increase but paying more for the same old crap just made me pull the plug. If their content improves, I'll consider going back but not now.

And to fire teachers who cannot teach.

And provide a decent, living wage to those who can teach and provide the resources and books to support them in their effort.

Ah, it's amazing how the absence of a simple space character can change a sentence from true to false.

Here's a helpful hint. If you crash on a mysterious island in the Pacific, watch out for polar bears.

I wonder if online pet food stores are coming back.

I thought about this one as well but I decided not to post because TMMM is really about program management, not programming, per se. Still, it is a fabulous book that every engineer and manager should read, study, and practice.

Newton, 1993
Lisa, 1983
Pippin, 1996

The newest thing on your list is 15 years old. I doubt very much most Apple fans even know what they were.

Bingo! John wins the intertubez for today for what should be the most obvious and yet, most intelligent, statement of this thread.

That is almost exactly how it works except that Netflix itself doesn't provide the caching of popular videos. Limelight and Level3 are actually the source of the video data and they will provide the storage and will serve it to the customers. When a customer requests something not in their cache, they'll go the Netflix server to obtain it and then serve that to the requestor.. That video will then be cached until such time as it ages out because there are no further requests.

They've got reserves of $60 billion or so. $4.5 million is like the budget for snacks in the break room.

Over its six seasons, Lost must have killed off over a thousand people, many implied, but a large number explicitly. Major cast members, guest stars, red shirts. They all died. Guns, smoke monsters, drownings, flaming arrows. Towards the end, they were running out of new and unique ways to off people. It's my theory that that is reason they had to end the series.

It certainly worked with the teabaggers. Dumb as fucking stumps.