Yeah, we got that as well. I think it's called Aluminium oxynitride. $15 a square inch. Fun stuff. ;-)

Wait until 2.39:1 becomes standard. Eventually we'll be carrying around laptops that look like ironing boards. Won't that be convenient.

Speaking of which, I actually want one those 2.39:1 HDTVs that came out in 2010.

Philips

Vizio

The earth's shape is a geoid [wikipedia.org], which is flattened compared to a sphere [wikipedia.org].

So what you're saying, if i read this like a standard slashdotter, is that the earth is flat? I think there is a society i need to join now.

Oh? They invaded Iraq.

I don't think Iraq was a particulaly innocent party in this matter. The term counter-offensive comes to mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War#1980:_Iraqi_invasion

Question directed at Wine users - how does it stack up against VMware, Virtualbox or the other virtual machine servers?

I can run Photoshop CS4 in wine with no major issues. I had been using Virtuabox before that, and I found the performance to be better with wine. (This was with an Athlon XP 1.4 GHz + 1256 megs of ram with Linux Mint)

We'll just send the Space shuttle up, recover the satellite, bring it back to earth, fix the problem and relaunch it. oh wait... nm.

Mostly I fail. And when after all the explaining the family keeps telling me to do something, I cannot disregard them (I do plan on keeping my license, you know?).
I don't think it's so much that western medicine failed, as it is that layman's expectations of medicine are unrealistic.

And there is the problem. Where you have to listen to the wishes of the family instead of looking out for the best care of your patient. The patient should come first. IMHO of course. A doctor shouldn't have to worry about his or her license getting yanked in these sorts of situations.

What model laptop? (and GPU for that matter) So i can avoid it when looking at used ones.

Ohhh.. I'm pretty sure the monkey is dead.

Did you observe the monkey to know it's dead?

The one thing that is holding me back from purchasing it is the lack of 3g. I realize that with full internet, that there'd need to be a some kind of monthly plan. Make the plan $9.99 a month, and I bet anyone else like me would snap one up.

I don't know if they still offer them, but the replacement plans were always nice. Broken xbox, just bring it in and get an instant replacement. Thats about the only kind of plan I pay into.

Like what kind of music to play on the way up?

Internal Cavity Search? Sounds like a CT scan. I do not want that can kind of radiation dose unless it's prescribed by a doctor. Farther more, it better be free, and the scan better be put into my medical records for base line purposes.

And it's more environmentally friendly than burying a few gallons of embalming fluid.

You do know if you donate your body to science they soak your body in a vat of formaldehyde after embalming it (or at a minimum just embalm it). So It won't be anymore environmentally friendly if used for a medical science. On top of that, I can just can't stand the idea of some bio medical firm getting my knee or something similar to use for testing, and then making money on it, when i can't sell my own blood or parts when i'm living. (yes i know i can sell blood plasma).