When you can snatch the Grace Hopper from this poll, only then will you have attained the level of Slashdot Master.

Who are you talking about? Was it someone's birthday when you posted this? I checked wikipedia for March 10th and the only easily recognized name was Chuck Norris - who turned 70 today. If he was born 60 years earlier that would make today his 130th birthday - hence born in 1880.

Although why the world would have been better for him then, I'm not sure.

Could you elaborate on this point? I am not primarily a programmer; I am a networking nerd for an ISP. I have however, in the course of my duties, had to utilize a variety of programmer-like skills. I learned programming originally in perl, because it was the closest thing to shell scripting (which I generally understood enough to accomplish my goals) that met my immediate needs. I'm curious what kind of bad habits I may have inherited from my initial exposure to perl as opposed to, say pascal. Specificity would be appreciated as my goal is not to argue, but to hopefully learn and save myself some headaches...

I realize I'm being pedantic, but in 1922, back when German cinema was arguably the world's biggest and best, Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse the Gambler featured an extended car chase sequence between the Dr. Mabuse, and the investigator hot on his trails. The policeman actually first had to follow after Mabuse on a horse, before quickly getting into a car - Germany was still transitioning at the time!

Although obviously it's been surpassed by other car chase scenes, it's uncanny how similar it is to a modern one, guns blazing and all. Maybe there's not much you can do with the basic idea.

Quite likely, you'd only be allowed to learn his past in a final series finale. But my question was not where did he come from, but where is he going.

Speaking as someone who's packed stuff for a living, I doubt it (apart from the other arguments posters have raised). The boxing is almost certainly done by hand - the boxes themselves may be machine folded, though I doubt it. In the kinds of run sizes typical for this kind of thing, cheap labour is far more effective than machinery.

Yep, it's still there...go to Window -> Customize Perspective -> Tool Bar Visibility -> Editor Presentation

Check "Show Source of Selected Element Only" to add it to your toolbar.

Bill Gates co-authored many of the BASIC implementations on early home computers and PCs. He also founded Microsoft, which seems to me to have been one of the pioneers in the commodity software business (e.g. producing commodity software as a product, rather than custom software or software as part of a product).

Most of the development I do is on a dual screen (at work) or three screen (at home) workstation. I'd have no problems spreading that workspace out. I think it would be great for debugging like in the video, but I wouldn't want to write new code in that interface. Make this a plugin for eclipse that lets me open this as a view for debugging and I'd use it in a heartbeat.

You mean like Lord Mandelson of Sith?

Oh, shit.

This is probably just a complete coincidence, but a few months ago Apple removed the shopping cart system from iTunes, switching it to a "wish list" system with 1-click purchasing. Did they see this coming?

Did they just correlate #of kids with TV vs. kids with PC? If so then surprise: correlation does not imply causation.
Either that or they could go around installing TVs and PCs and removing whatever kids had in their rooms before test, which I don't think the parents would let them do.

Peer review indeed isn't a guarantee for proper science if easily-debunkable crap like this can get through peer review.

Yes, lets send up jammer signals that cover the entire continent or EMP the entire sky. lets pull out the missles an put them in every city.
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The expense of the imaginary "safe, unbreakable, unhackable, wireless, remote control interface" isn't an issue; a plain old remote control signal will do thank you.

As for autonomous GPS devices....Say good-bye to accurate GPS.

The image/GPS based autonomous devices.....yep were screwed.

You're right that spinning this as a green result is trendy. But it can't be just a change in constants, since they say they reduced the complexity. "Reducing the complexity" is a technical term that means the speed, as a function of input size n (or l,m,n, etc.), keeps improving as n gets bigger. That is,

lim time_required_new(n) / time_required_old(n) = 0.
n --> infinity

An example is that an O(n log n) algorithm like Heapsort has reduced complexity compared to an O(n**2) algorithm like selection sort. But you can't legitimately claim to have "reduced the complexity" just by cleaning up the code or cutting out a constant factor of work (like going from bubble sort to selection sort).