I suppose this is the equivalent of flinging poop at y'all...

I wonder how long it will be before someone tries splicing this into a chimp or great ape genome and see what happens... :-)

Yes, it could definitely be considered discrimination on the basis of a medical condition or disability.

Cue the A.D.A.

:-)

(Got karma to burn today, so I feel ok with posting this little nugget of flame-bait :-) )

c/thing/think/ -- damn typos!

I still thing the 15C was the best calculator ever made -- with the added numerical excellence from the god of FP math William Kahan.

Yes -- Ground Effect will be significantly in play while the craft is within 0.5 of a wingspan/rotor span of the ground -- but it does drop off fairly quickly as you increase distance. It's hard to say with a craft like that just when GE stops having a strong effect -- but judging from those videos, It's likely not nearly enough once you're past 50 to 100cm. The Sikorsky prize specifies 3 M off the ground for 60 seconds. I doubt that human powered craft will achieve that any time soon.

It would be trading at under $8 per share.

I would not be at all surprised to see it in that vicinity in the next 6 months.

The 17 inch macbook pro is 1920 x 1200 As far as I know it's the only laptop available at that resolution.

Look, the last thing I need is more penis enlargement ads.... :-)

Most programmers don't fully grok multi-threading issues. Ask your typical programmer what a lock convoy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_convoy) is and you'll get a blank stare.

My team works like this, and it is very effective. You get bug reports while the code is still very fresh in your mind. So I agree that there are significant productivity benefits to having a QA team 12 hours or so out of sync with your developers.

But it in the area of development things are a bit more mixed. My team has a number of developers in the far east, and a few in Europe too. They are all outstanding engineers. But the costs of the pure labor are equalizing fast. There is little and diminishing cost advantages to off-shoring development. In a few more years there will likely be no place left where there is a significant talent pool of skilled and educated software engineers that are appreciably cheaper than they are in North America or Europe.

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

It is *way* harder than you imagine. One of the smartest people I have ever met is very involved in this -- one of the principal engineers. It is an incredibly tough thing to achieve, and if anyone can pull it off, he can.

GLaDOS begs to differ. And if you argue, perhaps a little neurotoxin and a few sentry-bots will persuade you. :-)

Banks don't have cash on hand to pay every account holder should they all choose to cash out their accounts.

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