Yes, superhero movies like Serenity.... oh wait...

Star Trek: Lens Flair

The only decent big-screen sci-fi director/producer//writers that are left seems to be Joss Whedon and James Gunn.

It doesn't. Seriously. Its like nobody has heard a fucking Jamaican accent, but some people think they know what a jamaican sounds like and have declared Jar-Jar a racist character based on only their imagination. What we actually see here is there isa group of racist people that see an annoying computer generated thing on the screen and have stereotyped it.

Here is a real Jamaican, Peter Tosh giving a fairly long speech. Jar-Jar and the rest of his race sound nothing at all like this. Zero similarity.

Jar-Jar was annoying. End of story. Progressive racists wanna see racism everywhere. End of that story too.

You just described how journalism used to be, not how it currently is. Nobody is doing that.

The Federal budget is almost $4 trillion dollars for a population of about 320 million people. Thats about $12500 per person, and that does not include the nearly $4 trillion dollars also spent by State and Local governments for the same people.

And you've got the balls to say there isnt much waste? My guess is that you are a Democrat, right? You guys have a real hard time understanding numbers once a dollar sign is put in front of it.

Zero chance that you will ever run a successful business. Your ideas are insane. They dont make any sense for any reason other than hand-waving.

Businesses try to maximize total profit you ignorant donkey.

To quote my 8th grade math teacher when I asked "But isn't there a way to calculate square roots?" .. he answered "There is no way to calculate square roots. It must be done by trial and error."

That sums up K-12 math education right there. He wasn't lying. He just didn't know.

Because real Journalism is dead. These people dont work any more. They just report.

Toshiba invented flash memory. I am hopeful that they do something decent with the OCZ brand.

Yes, but why would the owner of a herd of rhinos want to maximize the value of an individual rhino?

Think.

Do you think that farmers try to maximize the value of an individual ear of corn?

I think sleep allows the brain to repeat experiences, but otherwise isnt all that special as far as learning. For those that don't know, the primary learning methodology of the biological brain is known to be hebbian which can be summed up quite succinctly as "neurons that fire together wire together." Sleep allows experiences to be repeated, increasing the strengths between neurons that otherwise rarely fire outside of those experiences.

Being the smartest kid in the shortest bus doesn't make one "special" all on its own. Now, also being captain of the AV squad... now THAT is special.

They do support the TRIM command.

The "bug" is how TRIM and command queuing interact (specifically a race condition labeling the wrong logical sectors RZAT/DRAT) I put "bug" in quotes because the specification specifically says that TRIM is a non-queued command. Windows/NTFS makes sure that the queue is empty before issuing a TRIM. Linux/EXT4 does not.

Ideally the drives should make sure that their queue is empty themselves, but it likely takes a tortured reading of the specification to think that compliant drives will make sure that their queue is empty.

Imports: $60.5 billion
Exports: $33.8 billion

Difference: $26.7 billion

so about that $7 billion...

Its one and the same to the left-leaning. Not sure why. The left used to be about Liberty, now its about State.