Microsoft Cordless Phone System

You might be able to find one on EBay...

-34C is the same mark... Without significant special gear, and complete body coverage of every sqin of skin, you simply can't safely go outside in these temperatures.

Pfft. You need a touque, scarf and snowpants. Then it's time to go play.

I'd put the -10C into the biting cold category, and -20 is simply too cold to go outside.

Ha! My childhood would like a word with you. -20 was when I'd RUN outside, because it had been -40 for the last week. -10 meant spring was on its way.

I've been using a 16x12 21" CRT for around 12 years. I've also been using /. longer, so I win (lose?). :)

My monitor is dying now, and that HP was on my short list. Do you do any gaming with it? I'm a bit worried about lag.

If Smith -> Smiths, then why do you assume Jones -> Jones instead of Jones -> Joneses? That's what I meant about "official pluralizing rules". There aren't any, so your assumption is invalid.

I'll remember that the next time I invite all the Smith over to dinner.

Some interesting questions arise here. Where exactly is the line between aggregate and specific? Would it be OK if they used the photographs to texture the model? Would it depend on how many photographs were averaged to generate the texel?

"The Jones" is already plural.

Where are the official rules for the pluralization of all proper names? Who's to say whether Jones pluralizes like "lens" or like "species"?

Grammar fail. This use is not possessive at all, it's simply the plural form of Jones: Joneses.

Perl is not an acronym either.

this was mostly attributed to development flat-out refusing to even test compatibility with a beta product (Firefox 3 and IE8 come to mind from recent experience), since they didn't want to have to muck about with the code to get it to work, and then muck about with it even more when a given browser went from Beta to GA.

Then they suck. That's how the game is played when you're a large company building a browser based application for wide release. They should have been testing on the alphas and betas, and had devs in the project forums or mailing lists to sort out issues. The GA release should just be a rubber stamp for testing, not the starting point for development.

Seconds on this!

Interstate 76 did a good job of it. It's now old enough to be rebooted itself.

Actually, jibe is something you do in a boat. A jib is part of a boat.

No doubt this research was funded by GE. They'd love to increase the efficiency of incandescent bulbs, while having them maintain their fragility and short lifespan. Thankfully it's coming too late to avoid the ban. Bring on the LEDs, and good riddance to the notion of light sources as consumable products.

All your base are belong to Benford.

But I think we're going to need literally quantum advances in energy storage technology

You mean the absolute smallest possible advances?