Its a google project and it exists to benefit them.

(posting from firefox).

Soulskill is lucky the wrong link was so benign.

Please give this language strong types. When you have megabytes of code and thousands of functions you can not rely on run time type checking. Its just too dangerous to do that.

When I was out of work recently I had to do dozens of IQ tests as a part of job applications. Eventually I got good enough at the tests to land a job. I must have a really impressive IQ now!

You can't take the sky from me....

D Drive.

The mac wasn't aimed at your typical vim user in the same way a Toyota Corolla isn’t aimed at professional drivers.

Come on. We all know this. Its a 30 year old argument.

When this firts Macintosh came out my dad's friend, an academic, bought one. We went to his place to remonstrate to him. We pointed out the limitations of the little screen and the little keyboard but I noticed that the keyboard had none of the keys-which-do-nothing which I had on my CP/M machine at the time. The mouse made text edting simple and intuitive.

It was the way of the future, and it only needed a short look to convince me of that.

Wind on Mars is not believed to be strong enough to move a rock of that size. The atmosphere of mars has a low density and wind speeds strong enough to move large rocks have not been recorded.

The water in that guy's pressure suit was not a mystery. The cooling system of the suit uses water to move heat around, much like the cooling system of a car. When you spring a leak, you get wet.

How about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

I suppose there could be bits of the bus and heat shield of Opportunity lying around the place, but that doesn't explain the sudden appearance. My other thought is that this is a bit of crud which the rover picked up during the landing and dropped during a manoevour. We have pictures of the top deck of the rover, but they can't show the whole vehicle.

Wow that picture looks a lot more like a meteorite than I expected. I am not sure about the crater ejecta theory but it might well be a rock which hit the ground at terminal velocity and bounced off the rover. Objects like the rover would tend to accumulate little objects like stones around them becuse they get in the way of bouncing objects. This happens a lot on the moon where big rocks have little scree sloped of debris around them.

Your VPN is one network interface going this way but you still have other interfaces on different IP addresses going that way and applications are free to choose which they use.

It depends on how much water you can suck through your filters, and on the available power. This device is not human powered.

I worked with traffic engineers on traffic studies in the 1990s. The objective was to measure traffic behaviour and feed the resulting data into models. You don't change traffic flow for a study because that would invalidate the model.