Yes, time travelers will almost certainly be limited to early 21st century communications technology.

Why? Because time travelers are probably pretty stupid. I mean, aside from inventing TIME TRAVEL!!!!!!!!!

Methinks the Occam's razor argument against this drivel is a wee bit stronger than the "where are the cell towers?" argument here. I can imagine a man from 1928 seeing a picture of what looks like a man holding a phone from, say, 1840 wondering "if he's a time traveler, where's the wire?". Well, if he's traveling from 2010 instead of 1928 ...

I believe he's talking about positional notation rather than base. Roman numerals could be considered Base10 but they can not be considered positional. They use sign-value notation instead.

I don't see the point however. As mentioned above, physicists derive their own math all the time.

Are you sure about 11 and 12? The French continue using discreet words for numbers up to 16, but I wouldn't go so far as to say they developed that from some hexadecimal system of the past. Especially since Italian goes strait to "Ten and One" (undici) without discreet words for 11 or 12 much less 13-16. Spanish has 1-15 discreet but not 16. 1-12 being discreet seems to be a purely Germanic thing; English, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian all do it, but neither the Slavic languages nor the Romance languages that border the Germanic group do so. In fact, the only non-germanic language that uses words like "eleven" and "twelve" (which mean "one left (over ten)" and "two left (over ten)") is Lithuanian and it uses them all the way to 19 (devyni-olika "nine left (over ten)").

Or you could just fire up a terminal ... Oh, Windows. Never mind.

I just dusted off a couple of C-64s, an Amiga 500, a Sun 3/50 and an Apple IIc the other day. They were filthy. And on top of the box of cables I needed to get at.

1. Go to Miata.net.
2. Search for "icehawk alignment"
3. Victory

You'll get a lot of argument over wether a rally-type setup (soft springs, hard dampers, lots of travel) or a track-type setup (hard lowering springs, hard dampers, on the bumpstops all the time*) is superior for auto-x. Personally I prefer the rally-style setup, especially for a dual-use car.

My CSP 1st gen Miata runs the icehawk alignment on stock springs with re-valved Koni yellows on the lowest perch, 63 mm FatCat bumpstops, 2nd gen rear hats for more travel, biggest front sway-bar I could find and no rear sway. It's fairly quick in class. Much quicker than the STS cars, but that's down to tires, diff and power more than suspension.

* Miatas are designed to use the bump-stops under load so that's not as bad as it would be for most other cars.

Yea. The 1st Amendment violations here pale in comparison to the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendment violations. No warrant? Check. Deprived of property without due process? Check. Specifically NOT informed of the accusations levied against them? Check.

Hell, they just need to quarter some troops in this guy's house and they'll have shitcanned half the Bill Of Rights in one case.

Really? All I can figure out is that you are a pretentious wannabe pedant who can't fathom the meaning of "certain respects" because that would get in the way of your headlong rush to attempt to stun us all with your mighty intellect.

The analogy was apt as far as it went, your attempt to extend its relevance into something never intended is... well, moronic.

"...we have received no reports of infections from customers."

So, anti-virus company warns us to be on the lookout for trojan that they have yet to see in the wild?

News at 11!

We know Apple is not as vulnerable because they have not had any malware through 2 years of a billion downloads and over 200,000 apps...

OS X hasn't had any major malware in the wild for a decade now, yet a hefty percentage of the people you're preaching to have a near-religious belief in the immanence of such.

Well, that would be because you do printing in the physical world and not in the plane of platonic perfection where, apparently, all of the GIMP print jobs get sent to (I assume this since I have never seen, in 15 years in the biz, an actual print job made with GIMP). A cloud-filled wonderland where 4-color separations happen by magic, trapping is done for free by dedicated itinerant monks (trappists... get it?) and fluffy bunnies pre-flight your print jobs while you drink frothy mugs filled from the free-as-in-beer trees.

It's the classic OSS answer to missing features: "Who needs it?"

In the 11th century Urban III refused to condemn a bishop accused of keeping his preteen daughter - by a nun! - as a concubine. U3 quoted Jesus - "Let he who is without sin..." - to the accusers and sent the bishop home; Where his flock burned his house down around him.

The situation hasn't changed in 1,000 years. Well, except now the Church can't answer criticism with a crusade that wipes out the population of southern France.

I hate that analogy.

Jackasses are beasts of burden, dray animals. Donkeys WORK and they work hard. They're smart, tough and eminently useful.

Thoroughbreds are high-strung single-purpose overbred dimwitted toys that only indulgent wealthy people own or want.

Google and I have been a plausible match for a long time. Web-centric, check. Search, check. Open-source, check. The list goes on.

Unstable, check. Virus ridden, check. Poorly documented, check. Good enough but cheaper than the best, oh you better believe that's a check.