I'm planning on going to see the last shuttle launch. I've never seen one before.

But you can play all of those with a neural interface.

Pfft. Carmack doesn't use WASD, arrow keys, *or* the mouse. He has the console permanently open and controls his character's movement entirely with console commands. None of it is scripted, he's just that fast of a typist. In fact, half the time he's used timers to issue the next 90 seconds of gameplay so that he can just sit back and laugh at how predictable the rest of our movements are.

I thought the same thing at first, but that would only be true if they'd looked at four samples and picked winners and losers from there. What they actually did was look at a number of items (the value of N here isn't clear to me) and picked four which they thought were bubbling. 50% of those predictions were correct.

How many bubbles did they miss?

Also don't forget the bandwidth required to push and pull all those HD videos.

I want a service that provides me with live streaming access to all media ever created. I would be willing to pay a monthly subscription fee for this service, probably up to the $100 USD/mo range. This is *almost* what we have with the vibrant torrent community already.

$1 bills serve a very important purpose: you can place them within thongs or bikini tops being worn by strippers. This wouldn't be nearly as fun with a coin, and far more expensive with $5 bills.

We're past the point of petitions, actually, those have all been signed and ratified. The proposition will be on the ballot going out to California voters in November.

It works fine for a single digit thousands of hosts and three sysadmins, which is what I use it for. Concurrent write access isn't really an issue since updates are fairly infrequent and it's obvious who should have the write lock on the spreadsheet, that being the guy in the datacenter who's installing or removing equipment.

An app would be nice, but it wouldn't provide any real benefit over the spreadsheet model until it was extended to touch on other areas of datacenter operations. Something like RedHat's Satellite (or the Open Source Spacewalk) would be an example of an application which provides extra functionality such as server provisioning, configuration management, and centralized updates.

Rows for hosts, columns for PDU, switch and console ports. Additional rows for asset tag information, unit manufacturer, model number, serial number. Last row for notes on the system, e.g. any historical hardware issues that may be relevant.

Actually they are speculating that they may release on schedule, without the bug or the enhanced features that the patch which contains the bug provides, and then later issuing an update which includes the extra functionality once the bug has been fixed then properly tested and verified.

Yes. Why not?

I think he's probably right in terms of what a government research program should have as its goals. IMO, the purpose of government research on this scale is to drive forward technological development and give the private sector a kick in the pants.

We've already been to the Moon, that technology was developed during the 1960s. We could probably do it better now, but the advancements wouldn't be nearly as significant as what is required for a manned mission to Mars. Leave the moon to the private sector, we should expect to see a private company touching down there within a decade or maybe two. Mars is still a pie-in-the-sky target, let's point NASA at that.

Joke option should have been "It's complex".