Seems to me he's already sold out. :-) http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200002/df20000210.jpg

I thought that Santa is just a quantum wave function, and it is impossible to determine both quantities simultaneously to any sort of precision. It would explain how he manages to deliver so many presents without turning into an incandescent meteor in the sky.

I've watched everything they've made so far, it really is well done. I like how the stories flow from the original episodes on which they are rooted.

I started out playing rogue on the Vaxen. Then there was plain hack. Those were the days. Still play nethack now and again.

Nothing new, I saw one of these flying over one of the Florida Keys when I was down there a few years ago.

Linux Journal is still around as an electronic only publication. They keep sending me emails to subscribe again years after I gave up on it for becoming too light weight. As far as leisure reading, track down the IBM z-Series and Unisys Clearpath architecture reference manuals and see how things are done in mainframe land. :-)

And is too embarrassed to admit it farted to its NASA overlords.

Interestingly this article, also from U Mich, talks about observing Dirac electrons: http://www.ns.umich.edu/new/re...

Yes, the neighbors will love it when you take off in yours for work at 7 AM. It would be damn cool, though.

I second this. When the Century Link customer service drones stated, for the second time, that my third party ISP could not support the upgraded DSL connection (much to my ISP's surprise), I said "goodbye" and ditched my land line at the same time. I ordered a $20/mo VPS from my ISP, with whom I was very happy with their service, to host my email. I use a VPN connection initiated from my Comcast provided dynamic IP address to my home. A happy side effect is that I no longer receive unsolicited phone calls on an expensive land line either. :-)

A real pain in the ass it is, we should abolish it completely.

It isn't clear to me from the info available yet if the watch has stand alone GPS functionallity, or has to be tethered to an iPhone. Anyone know?

So much of the code that I've seen is poor because the people writing it have not learned the fundamentals of requirements determination and problem solving skills. Then you need to understand how to choose appropriate algorithms and tool sets to apply. Then you learn what you should have known in the first pass and you start again on a better solution. While colleges attempt to produce people having those skills, they often do not provide enough practice. For all four years of my degree program, only one course was about software engineering itself, and because it was only for a quarter, not nearly long enough to cover what takes years to pick up once you are out in the real world.

Ekornes Stressless recliners are very comfortable, and have a swiveling table (Stressless PC-table) that holds a laptop, but can be moved out of the way when you don't need to use it.

And nary a one is for the job category in question: Patent Examiner.