Heh, imagine throwing away all the heatsink hulla-baloo and using processors to toast bread!

And pray tell me how exactly you're going to encode a "/" in the file name?

wuh-wait... there's a bad kind of money?! Say it ain't so!

Well, there's a great discussion of it on the Arch forums (great before it got bogged down with bickering, although I didn't see Godwin's law being invoked).

Frankly, I think I'll move to offical [extra]/KDE tonight. KDEmod has served me great, but I think I can handle to live without all the extra patching and branding they do if it means I get 4.3 goodness a week early.

Grr, still waiting for KDEmod to catch up!

I use Bell, and I noticed the hijacking maybe a week back. Even thought of submitting a story to /.

But then it magically disappeared later on (next day?). Hasn't come back since, and before posting, i made sure that I was receiving NXDOMAIN's and not Bell's specially crafted "Domain not found" for opera: [eon@enthalpy:~]$ host fadfad.ca Host fadfad.ca not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) [eon@enthalpy:~]$

So, did they change their policy, or am I the only one mysteriously not affected by this?

You get free lube?! Where do I sign up?

I've just recently graduated from high school, and just finished co-teaching a grade 10 computer engineering class (it's a cool program, senior students help teachers teach junior courses).

Anyways, one of the cooler cheap projects we found was building a rudimentary taser from a disposable camera. They cost about $5 (or cheaper if you buy them in bulk), and the ones we used got up to about 300 volts (good zap from that one). Sure, there are concerns of safety (one kid zapped his dad in the neck... and well, things went downhill from there), but it's an easy, quick project that let's you get involved into more interesting electronic components like capacitors and transformers (instead of the standard resistor, diode, and LED). You can even talk about how the amperage becomes minimal as 1.5 volts from a battery is stepped up to 300 volts.

Plus there's an instant cool factor to building a taser. From personal experience, the grade 10's loved it.

Bash quote:
<Handy> Japanese scientists have created a camera with such a fast shutter speed,
<Handy> they now can photograph a woman with her mouth shut.

From: http://www.bash.org/?537155

... Okay, I'll go get my coat.

Just because hard drives increase in capacity does not mean that I have to fill it up, and fill it up with just music.

For comparison, let's take my own personal case. I'm 17, and my entire music collection clocks in at somewhere around 3.6 G (ridiculously small compared to the old timers 'round these parts). But that's 3.6 G including a whole lot of songs I don't listen to.

Indeed, most of my current music comes from free sources like jamendo, where artists put up their music under CC (or similar?). So, if I wanted to, I could easily, and legally, download music to my hearts content to fill up my 8 gig iPod. But do I want to, or even need to? No.

I'm not going to bother generalizing trends, but from what I notice from the habits my peers is similar. I have friends that walk around with 80 Gb in their pockets, and yet only fill a small portion of that with music. The rest they fill up with movies, or use it as a really large usb stick/small portable hard-drive.

So yes, while your numbers do illustrate your point, I question their relevancy and applicability, at least in my environment.