Do you know any geographical features that are 32 km in the vertical? So there is NO usable 3D information. So it would not be a 3D map. It is a really low resolution flat globe.

Well scale, and resolution are completely different things.
I have no problem with the SCALE that IBM is using. I have a problem with the resolution, Personally I don't think it is legitimate to call a half mega-pixel "globe" of the earth a 3D map. with 1000km resolution there is no valuable 3D information in there. This is a picture of the earth in globe form. A really low RESOLUTION one. Calling it a map is a stretch. Calling it a 3D map is not legitimate as there is no usable 3D Information based solely on resolution.

With a surface area of 511,000,000 km^2 and only 500,000 pixels you are talking a pixel for every 1000 km^2. That is not what I would call a map, more so a spherical blob.

While what you say makes perfect sense, there is a problem with your argument. The question was "a way to print the numbers from 1 to 5."

The answer you gave, while showing no real grasp of the obvious concepts, IS a PERFECT solution to the problem. If you want a better answer you should have asked a better question.

Personally the cheat finder programs are absolutly absurd. First rarely (at least at Georgia Tech) are the 'results' of the cheat finder ever looked at by a person. But they don't account for LEARNING. About 45% of my freshman class taking intro to progamming got formally accused for cheating (I would bet close to 75% got flagged at one point). Including a few of my friends. Some of them did cheat, downright copied code. Some of them worked together to produce the code (for a HW assignment) then changed it up a bit and submitted. The thing was that ANY other non-CS class doing homework together would not even be questioned as cheating.

I didn't get accused of cheating, but got flagged and confronted about my 2 line solution to sorting a list. The thing was I used the example the prof. put up in class, allong with evenyone else at that class. But I had to prove that I was at class, and show my notes in front of a quasi-legit review board. There were ~80 people there for the EXACT same reason.

I also had two of my friends accused of cheating after discussing a MATHAMETICAL way of getting a faster prime number list. We all had done our programs and were shooting the shit about how we got our prime numbers. Mine was significantly faster than theirs, so they used my method to get primes. I changed mine a bit and sacrifced speed for the lower values, but got noticible improvments (because I had a side project I was starting) at much higher numbers. They both got charged because they both had 1 identical (but very odd and quirky) mathematical calculation in the middle of their completely different code. Add on to that the project was about concatenating lists, the math was just a method to get another value to concatenate.

I eneded up calculating the first 1,000,000 prime numbers (it may have been 100,000, or other very large number) then printed them to a doc file, then printed 128 sheets of 6pt font of the numbers. Then wallpapered the hall outside my dorm door.

No just being at the school (or in reality being questioned by police) she should invoke the 5th so that they can't use any information even remotly linking her with the ability to commit a crime.

Speak through your lawyer people.

Well you don't have to be guilty. If there was a murder, and I did not commit it, I can refuse to answer questions that may incriminate myself. Like if I were to say I was in the same hotel in the next room that could be used against me in the court of law.

You should NEVER answer questions when being questioned. NO MATTER WHAT. Get a lawyer and have them speak for you. As they CAN NOT incriminate you.

Yeah because google isn't the closest thing to big brother we have currently.

Not Starcraft 2!

Well the USPS isn't really self sufficient. It is illegial to compete with them.

Because of this they can average the cost of mailing a letter to 0.42$. It is less expensive to mail that letter within say Atlanta, but much more expensive to mail it to Honolulu. Now the lack of competition comes into play so UPS, or FedEX can't start running a tiered cost letter operation because 80% (probably something +- 19%) of all letters could be delivered at lower cost, and drop the total mail the USPS handles. Thus raising the cost to send letters to Hawaii and Alaska.

Now making it illegial to compete with the USPS is probably zero cost, so you would be right Taxes don't get used. But they are not 'self-sufficient'. They require federal law preventing competition.

I want to start yelling now: BEST SLASHDOT POST I HAVE EVER READ! I want to use caps. I want to YELL!

We regret to inform you that we do not supply the following: *Road* *sewer* *water* *gas* *electricity* *telephone* *cable* *sidewalks* *police* *fire* *post* to your location. We have found that providing these services is not as of yet economically feasible. This may change in the future so please check later.

Point is without a government this would be case for LOTS of people.

And before you point out that some of those are private, all are required to supply people by various government arms (except Cable). And ALL of them use public right of way to provide services.

You would still have the problem of dictated focus. One big problem I have with '3D' movies is the fact that the foreground or background (or both) are out of focus. I tend to have my vision wander while watching movies and well trying to focus on something that appears closer to me that is out of focus is a fasttrack to a headache.

But this would actuall create a real 3D expierence, versus a sterio vision appearance of depth.

I am sorry this is not the full story. It requires a large amount of energy to seperate Hydrogen and Oxygen in water molecules. You get that energy back when you burn them together and get water. But you have to input energy in there somewhere. It is thermodynamics.

Awesome now another chip in my phone to help trim away my already bad phone battery life!

You highly overestimate the US (I am assuming here) population. First off having a name attached to the defacto standard because everything either is prepay and on credit. You have to go to a store and purchase a pre-paid phone in cash to not have your name attached. Or purchase one with someone elses credit card/ID.

And finally you say that 'TERRORIST" [ZOMG, the horror] are using prepaid cell phones and the the clerk at Target will start asking for ID to buy your phone in cash. No one would bat an eye. And all the people not voting AGAINST the terrorists would have a tougher time getting re-elected.