But for some reason the pattern buffer is going to get confused a lot, and we're going to have a lot of interesting hybrid car/truck accidents. oh, the ensuing hijinks!

i keep trying to explain this! People are corporations now!

I suspect he weighed the options.. the chance that the guy would never get caught apparently seemed more important than the benefit of damage control of reporting it himself. Ultimately, when faced with two options: Continue to ruin the name of the church by reporting it or cross your fingers and maybe nothing will ever come of it.. you can see why he kept it a secret. The last thing the church needed was more of this!

Exactly.. The idea is that, let's say an explosion happens 1 light year away. Just before the explosion, they send a FTL message to earth to warn us about it. We get the message before the event happens in our frame of reference. Thus apparently events happened out of order. But this isn't breaking causality, because there's nothing we can do with this information that would prevent the explosion from taking place. We'd just know about it sooner. It'd still take us 1 year at the speed of light to get out to the site of the explosion to stop it.

tl;dr: FTL does not necessarily break causality.

That's what I keep asking! I think the first thing they'd do is a control experiment with photons!

This is all nonsense if they first measured with a photon, then even measurement discrepancies would be consistent across multiple different tests. Even if they measured photons wrong, they'd measure neutrinos to be the same amount wrong, and therefore still faster than light.

Why don't we just pick out a symbol and let the media decide what they'll call it!

Chuck Norris doesn't need to prepare.

I find the reason I avoid Microsoft technologies is how fast they churn out new products, just to realize the failure and drop it. Why would I adopt any product microsoft makes when I'm not sure if they'll even hold on to it? They're so fast at changing technology and completely alienating the userbase that bought into it.. The old windows phone that lasted a week? The zune- whose market place is sure to close.. Forget it. I'll go with a small company who has a lot more riding on their products.

hahaa, oh man, thanks for that.

This. I can't see my tabs when I'm on remote desktop because the remote desktop bar covers the tabs completely. I can't maximize the window. This is a pointless decision. Give us options!

I thought the same thing, glad to know i'm not the only one with android on the mind ! :D

If this were the case, they should be calling schools places that condition future workers of america to submit to busy work, not places of education.

My interest in school was learning the material. If I fail to do so with un-enforced homework, then I fail. However, if I learn the material and find no reason for busy work, that should be my prerogative- giving me an opportunity to use my time refining other skills. As it was, I liked spending my afternoons after school teaching myself programming (my highschool did not offer programming classes).

As an owner of the Acer Iconia A100, I can say safely that this is a good contender for a 7" tablet. It's Tegra 2 dual core with 1gb of DDR2. It screams with android. One of the problems I've had with the knock-off tablets is that nothing was as responsive as the touchscreen on ipads. The Iconia definitely fixes this. The transformer and the new transformer due out soon look really interesting, but they've priced themselves out of the market in my opinion.

Seriously, I was an unchallenged child in school. I got horrible grades because I didn't find any use in homework. I always aced the tests because I knew the material well, but saw no value in wasting my time on homework. I would regularly get Cs and Ds because homework was weighed heavily in deciding the grade. At no point was my actual grasp on the material considered.

That being said, the kids who didn't learn the material well, but did a lot of busy work at home usually passed as well with similar grades. It was a system that benefited nobody.