Just saying....

Tell me about it. I have the choice of Crapcast, Qwest dialup (because 10 years to fix the reason my local neighborhood can't get dsl, but residences to the north, south, east and west are all able to), Hughes, and Clear wireless are my options. I almost went to clear, but after looking at thier support forums... well.

Only if the vehicle is controlled purely by an AI would I ever expect to see personal atmospheric flying vehicles. Take a drive on most major freeways and look at the average driver cutting off and otherwise not allowing for others on the road. Now take a look at some of the major transportation routes of places like India and ask yourself if YOU would want to have people like that in that third dimension around you?

Oh... you're sooo awesome and correct to have noticed my exageration. Really I am. f-tard.

...for at least 18 years now. Too bad it's too late for all those geocities, neon rainbow sites.

One thing that came to mind was maybe putting together some presents for the girl's future birthday and christmas that are picked out by you and your wife, sort of to keep her memory alive. That being said, voice recordings, images, and video will keep her image and sound, but the crucial thing as I see it, is to keep her personality and wisdom. It's more the content than the delivery. Future proofing for 20 years really isn't as dire (imho) as most people make out. You should be fine with current formats and only replicating copies of the formats down the line. Basically, follow the typical backup storage philosophy of multiple onsite and offsite storage and you should be fine as far as technology goes.

You're right! Now we know what they meant.... The right to arm bears! They want to assault us with monkeys armed with AKs, then we should retailiate with bears strapped down with .50s.

Oracle being draconian? Whodathunkit.

I still have some QICs sitting around... *ducks head in shame*

That was always my experience as well. The drives were about as bad as well. At least the cables make for a nice parallel jtag cable.

98 or so was the year I left out a floppy drive from my latest build. A CD-R may have been 'expensive' but not a CD-RW. I certainly owned a drive or two that if it came down to it, I could have installed but that never happened. As to purchasing a floppy, that was pointless. The 5 or 6 boxes in my garage with various 3.5/5.25/8 inch floppys were collecting enough dust. (Heck, still are actually) Ahh... floppys... *hands start shaking* *eye twitch* Damn... now I need to go dig out my old ][+ and play some apple panic and grab a hole punch and some tape.

And there is a problem with that? Mwua!

I don't know that I would attribute the lack of use of the nuclear arsenal to the horror of it's use in WWII as much as to the mutually assured destruction that would have resulted from the use of them in subsequent wars/actions. As we move on to a more widespread availability of nuclear weapons (both of conventional and the 'dirty bomb' style), the nationless states gain an advantage in that they have no homeland to retaliate against and thus nullifying MAD's ability to ensure the world's safety.