I've seen most scifi, but Dr.Who escaped me until recently. Judging from the hype and fanboism, I was expecting something like BSG, but it turned out to be cheap, low budget British tea-time soap. Shit, it's worse than Eureka, if possible.

Sorry, but the pirate problem has already been solved. Citation: Diablo 3. The always-on feature on the new consoles will stream fucking client-code from server, man. This will leak over to applications when the retarded console gamers has beta-tested this technology well enough to go for the enterprise. Check mate pirates. And check mate, publishers. IT sector depression alert. Now comes the time when the pirates will be proven right, finally. Because when they realize that piracy is actually free advertising, you will see this PIPA/SOPA/OMGA/WTFA/LOLWUT crap disappear like fucking morning dew.

nothing is like a good holy war, and thats pretty much why i've been following the vi/emacs threads for years without actually trying any of them for more than 2 seconds. the doctors said i stabbed myself with my bare hands in both cases. so what is the difference between these editors anyway ? except for having weird key combos?

SI is irrelevant in this case, because it obviously does not meet the physical reality of a RAM chip. Some things are just not a multiple of 10, get over it.

lol you are just about to finish your degree, right ?

i wonder if this is a scenario for small vibration powered devices, it should be possible to charge a small capacitor to power an RFID chip, storing the G-forces at work when the device is powered on by said vibration.

This is outrageous. this cant be true. Retail sales people are going to get killed over this. Personally I have almost stopped buying games due to DRM like Steam. I have 'the best' internet connection possible, and i still have network issues couple of times a month. nothing huge, but enough to kill an 'always on' feature. Sometimes the router just needs a restart, sometimes my ISP changes my IP, or restart their DNS service (seems like it at least), or firmware update the router. there are any number of reasons to lose a connection. And while my connection is ok most of the time, Steam and similar crap always has some issues as well. Their random outages + my random outages = too damn high frustration rate for a casual gamer. I have absolutely *ZERO TOLERANCE* for faulty products. (any product that does not work when i decide it should)

It is absolutely a get out of jail for free card. And this points out the phenomenon of 'non-conspirational conspiracy' where a pattern of individual behaviour, when scaled up, effectively becomes said conspiration, only nobody knows. How these individual patterns arise, is another discussion.

I've worked at both ends, most of the time I miss the factory job.

I agree with both you and parent.

There is no justice, only unmarked bills.

We just want to see the world burn now.

Unlike traditional Western societies of the time, many Caribbean pirate crews of European descent operated as limited democracies. Pirate communities were some of the first to instate a system of checks and balances similar to the one used by the present-day United States and many other countries. The first record of such a government aboard a pirate sloop dates to the 17th century

Indeed the code is beautiful and well organized. I think it took me 10 minutes to locate and disable the copy protection, after spending 30 minutes just marveling at the organisation and targeting out code i'd like to steal later. (mostly physics and maths!) Another 5 minutes cleaning up something i don't remember to have it compile. Source download -:> Ready executable ~ 45 minutes. (compiled on an x6).

Didn't they actually just find the Higgs ? Kinda blows the analogy,

if they can pull off 14nm, its a breaktrough. all hail samsung.

the last Ph2 to fit am3 boards was the 960T (it has both DDR2 and DDR3 memory controllers. newer Phenoms does not. am2/am2+ boards does not exist anymore. we're at am3+ now which will fit bulldozer cpu's but not anything newer.

Yeah, i was gonna brace for WW3 if that maniac won.Glad to hear russia are prepared too ;) I'm still not writing off that false flag operation, its not like Obama is an angel from heaven either.