It wasn't allowed because it is too obvious?
For a patent office that allowed 1-click-purchasing, and anything that looks like "X on the net," this is a real change.

A king who's been dead for 5000 years from Egypt is out in front in this race. We still know THAT guy's name! This guy, I have to scroll back up to the top of the article to remember this one. Sounds like he wouldn't mind having 10000 slaves build him a pyramid, but might be having some trouble motivating them to. His efforts, of course, will be as useless as that dead king's. People have been trying to cheat death as long as there have been people, and all those people are dead. At each point along that time line, they've always used the most modern technologies money could buy. Didn't matter. Dead, every one of 'em. I'm not a bettin' man. Well, actually, I am. And I'll put my chips on Death every time. Will this time be any different? Obviously HGH and The Paleo Diet are WAY more advanced than the humors and mercury the last guy shot himself full of. Oh... heh heh heh, sorry, sometimes I kill myself...

Here's an idea, why not try actually living for a while instead of cowering in fear of the reaper? Why waste your entire life living in fear of something you can't do anything about? Just take what you have, squeeze everything you can out of it and laugh in Death's face when he comes for you.

I can't speak for Scientific Word, but the attempts at front ends that I've used before have all been moderately difficult to understand didn't already have a latex mindset.

Everyone's going to shake their head and go "Tsk tsk, glutin finally got him." Especially once we start the rumor that he accidentally ate some glutin and died, and that's why there's not a display anymore. Right? Who's with me here?

Heh heh heh

That's hard. For example, there is enough food in Africa, but there are famines anyway because the dictators don't distribute the aid that comes in, they keep it for themselves. How do you solve that problem? Do you kill the dictator? But then you'll just get a new dictator who is the same (or worse).

My question is how they were planning on carrying the canon. Is that really something that fits underneath a chair or in a baggage compartment?

The debt is a joke, because it's denominated in dollars. It's not going to destroy the economy, it'll just be annoying inflation like the 70s again. Of course, if you own government bonds that won't make you feel better.

WHOOOOOSH!!!

That was GP's whole point: anybody stupid enough (or forgetful enough) to try to carry something like this onto a plane just isn't much of a threat.

TFA in a nutshell:

"We're going to discover all these neat behavioral things via neurobiology, and change the world!"

It doesn't say they've actually discovered any of these things yet. Just that they plan to.

It reads very much like this.

This is a common syndrome in erstwhile free societies: the police are always complaining that they can't catch criminals, that they need more leeway and exemptions from the law themselves in order to do so.

And when people believe them, the inevitable result is less freedom and more Big Brother.

Anybody who thinks Snowden did not ultimately do us all a huge favor isn't seeing straight.

I was assuming a standard Visual Studio Professional subscription: http://www.visualstudio.com/pr... ($1200 per user per year). Maybe you can negotiate big discounts. I never tried. I saw $1200 and balked. :)

You have it backwards. I'm saying that for the past 5 years Microsoft's technologies have been competitive very consistently in every domain - operating systems, office suites, browsers, toolkits, databases, security, you name it. Before that their technology was inconsistent in quality.

For performance, .NET has compile-time optimization. Java has runtime optimization. .NET uses less memory to launch, and starts faster, and in many applications (especially desktop applications) that's an advantage. But for long running applications like a web server, the Java Virtual Machine has the edge because it profiles the running code and rewrites it on the fly, which offers better optimization than compile-time optimization.

Excellent point, thanks.

That's a valid concern, but in theory pallets are marked so that you can identify what they're made of, and some of them are just made of untreated wood. I would imagine that this mostly applies to domestic-only shipments.

Yeah, zinc vaporizes right around a mere 500 degrees, you can easily exceed that by burning a stack of pallets. Whoops! Been to that bonfire already.