On the other hand, New Scientist reported on a new approach with leaky (non-infinite) multiverse that can explain away both of these uncertainties. It's at least an interesting read.

Ghost universes kill Schrödinger's quantum cat

To quote:
"THE wave function has collapsed – permanently. A new approach to quantum mechanics eliminates some of its most famous oddities, including the concept of quantum objects being both a wave and a particle, and existing in multiple states at once."

Or, we can just have one cable, and everyone provides their own packet framing. Oh wait, I think that was what net-neutrality was all about, wasn't it?

Or the people to not move them after the robot dropped them off.

VxWorks?

It's CS50. It's not even a 100-level classes. This is their way of saying, pay us $X for 3 course credits and see if you would even like to continue down this path.

The title should be: 1 in 8 Harvard students hopelessly undecided about Computer Science.

I'm just curious about the "C" shaped canal idea. What is the advantage of it? And what is the use-case that you envisioned?

Oops, posted as AC by mistake. Forum is here

It might be a silly question, but why don't they just use FreeBSD in that case?

You mean, DON'T PANIC .

Until you become the last person on earth, anyway.

You do it in the same way everyone else who rides motorcycles do, with a tight turn :) and get out and push it back when you need to.

http://xkcd.com/1337/

See here: http://profmattstrassler.com/2... "a known object in Andromeda that emits X-rays appeared to brighten, as a result of electronic noise in Swift’s instruments"

A friend of mine already got hit with this 300 GB limit more than a year ago. At the time, I think they're just targeting their top 1% customers. Now they're just targeting the rest.

If a collision is unavoidable, they'd just brake as hard as they can without skidding, and hope the other side can maneuver out of the collision.