It can even be disabled with driconf and/or doing export vblank_mode=0; pay attention to the lowercase. I've found the open source drivers to be far far far better than the catalyst drivers for stability. I hate the power management (I can only get it down to about 40W total usage for my laptop compared to 30W with the catalyst drivers), but it has been getting better and better. I've actually been running the development builds recently and they seem to be very stable still.

You should talk to the BSA, they started all this shit. http://www.bsa.org/

No Water would not likely be the waste product. It'd be helium in most fusion reactors. Which means that we'll all have lots of latex balloons for parties.

You can cut that down to half an hour of possibly messing with the printer by just downloading one [1]. As these printers get more common and "standardized" like with the Makerbot Replicator and the Printrbot, it'll soon be less hassle to print one. Though the cost is still higher on the plastic bits to go in, it is being worked on by the reprap people to get the printers to be efficient and as more of them become available the cost of the spools will go down. There's been some work at directly using injection molding pellets but I don't believe it's printed any fruit yet. That alone will get the cost down by about 50% per object.

[1] http://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=spoon

While I don't know about this particular machine, some of the repraps have been doing some very fine detail models down to 0.01m layer height [1] This combined with I believe about 0.3mm horizontal resolution should let you get some decent detail at 28mm sizes. You might still need to do a little additional clean up (the hot plastic like to make thin strings on some models, and some other minor things like that), to get a finished product but it could easily end up cheaper than some of the prices I've heard of other people paying for things like Warhammer ($4k investment for an army to play with... just go to the dollar store and buy 100 little green army men!). Along with units it'd also work well for doing buildings and other structures, possibly better than for units.

[1] http://blog.reprap.org/2011/12/001-layer-height-on-prusa-mendel.html

While that is true, it is nearly impossible for us to determine such things right now. That's why current searches are looking for things that appear to be earth like for the simple reason that we know what to look for. Until we can find other things that we KNOW are life we can hardly begin to speculate on if we are detecting things that might be life but not as we know it. As we get more comfortable in detecting these kinds of things we'll be much much better equipped to come to conclusions for things we haven't seen.

Even when "adequately" insured it can still be a nightmare. I've got a neighbor that spent about 4 months fighting with the insurance company to get the money to fix a car when they got hit by an uninsured driver. This was because even though they were stopped at a stopsign the insurance company still wanted to claim that they were at fault and not pay anybody at all. It can still be a huge imposition due to the nature of some of the stupidity of the insurance industries.

I've personally had stability issues with the AMD drivers for my laptop. But this seems to be because they only try to support ubuntu and all the versions that they use, anything else it's hard to get a fix for until ubuntu either updates to your version or you find a work around in the community. The open source drivers aren't as performant but they are much more stable for me.

#define PERCENT = / 100.0f
#define PAYROLL_TAX = 12 PERCENT

Just like we learned in school!

It was probably wood's alloy. It's got a nice low melting temperature around 80C-90C and would probably have been perfect for those kinds of toys.

I believe that you are right, that you could do this, but it would end up requiring a different ABI in all respects. You'd either need far pointers or wide ones on the host which I don't know of any systems supporting easily, aside from DOS.

I'm at about 12GB myself, and that's one of the two big reasons that I keep the mail in maildir format and connect all clients to it via imap. Using a real mail server has kept that from happening to me (again) for years now. The other reason is that it makes it really easy to change clients to play around, or access it from lots of places.

While I can't confirm the Niels Bohr idea, I strongly suspect it rose out of one from Hawking.

Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking

Where I grew up it was even weirder. They would put Ranch Dressing on Pizza. WHAT THE HELL.