Possible?

Yes. Especially if they both had the fish.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit antidepressants.

Not to mention that a person intent on committing suicide by pushing buttons and manipulating flight controls may still not have the motivation to physically harm another person directly.

It may not sound obvious to some, reading words on a screen. But put yourself in the copilot's seat. It takes a different kind of person to kill a flight attendant than it does to drive a plane into a mountainside.

No. They carry pretzels.

Hey, you laugh, but one of those suckers nearly killed our last president.

You can't keep blaming Obama. He meant Jeb Bush.

None of those is an honest review. The rest are trolls and jokes in poor taste.

(Take it from an alt.tasteless award winner.)

In this case, the autopilot appears to have worked for an Alpine landing.

(For certain values of landing.)

Yes but ketchup manufacturers (Big Ketchup?) paid the researchers to figure out the ketchup bottle problem. Not our long-term health. That problem is dumped by Big Ketchup into the FDA's lap who'll then turn around and ask Big Ketchup to study the problem for 90 days and, if nobody dies of cancer during that time, will deem the super slippery ketchup bottles safe. Unless the FDA decides that they can fast track the approval process because the American People need this product as soon as possible.

Yep... You're developing muscle memory.

In a similar vein, Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows -- What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains" discusses something very similar from the standpoint of our using the Internet. It affects how we absorb and retain information and the changes in the brain are measurable. Essentially, the brain rewires itself to adapt to the technology that we use. That one's brain/thumb wiring is strengthened from messaging on smartphones is not a big surprise.

I can't type worth a damn on a smartphone with my thumbs. Anything texts I tried creating using my thumbs would be autocorrected to the point where the recipients would think I was having a stroke.

Your friend with the privileged account (I'm assuming this was running VMS, no?) might have been able to get away with using as much memory as he could. (Let's just hope he wasn't using an account with BYPASS privs enabled by default. I've encountered too many people who abused VMS boxes by setting their account up that way. They made terrible messes. Like code that can't run when accounts with less than "god" privileges are used. The problems they created were a pain -- and, sometimes, impossible -- to clean up.)

I had an intern discover that it was indeed faster to not do everything in memory. He was reading everything from a file into an array, applying some scale factor to all the elements, and then writing the entire array out to disk. It was taking forever. I had him try reading in one value at a time, apply the scale factor, and immediately write it out. Ran in a fraction of the time. Why? His account was on a system with a lot of other users. Memory quotas were enforced to avoid a single user taking over the entire system. When he read everything into memory, VMS was paging like crazy to fit his process into the smallish amount of RAM his quotas allowed and his program was spending a huge amount of time waiting for I/O to complete.

I'm guessing that I'd see the same thing happening on my Linux systems if user account ulimits weren't, by default, all set up as "unlimited".

Marco's comments, and other valid criticisms of Apple get taken way to seriously by the mainstream press and distort the intent and strength of the criticisms. Apple does many things right, they do some things wrong; in trying to correct behaviour you need to have it be correctible, not merely a bitch session of unaddressable issues without resolution.

If you criticize your child for making a poor decision you don't subsequently publish that criticism in national newspapers...

``Even if we were in the right and could win,'' said the former official, ``it could take a lot of resources away from other enforcement.''

A side effect of following up and taking an offending company to court just might be that other companies might clean up their act lest they suffer the same fate. ``Sternly-worded'' letters haven't done squat to end anti-competitive practices. The fines, though, have helped to make some money for the government. Not like that does anything to the groups who've been screwed by the anti-competitive practices. All they get is a warm and fuzzy feeling that some justice has been done. At least until a future Justice Deptartment decides to look the other way again.