I agree with Virtualization (really, it is a must for any lab).
If your budget is low, crank up the specs on your desktop machine, and use VMWare Workstation (or some such).

If you budget is a bit higher, get that machine and dedicate it with Xen Server or vSphere (or whatever)

Higher yet? Get a couple of boxes, and an iSCSI solution so that you can support clusters (iSCSI is much cheaper than fibrechannel, and you can do windows clustering as well as your virtualization platform clustering.)

You want brands? I did it with generic computing hardware (24GB core i7 boxes) and a Thecus iSCSI solution (because I didn't want to take the time to build the iSCSI myself). WD RE4 drives. Get funky with quad-port Intel NICS and a linksys switch that supports VLANS.
Make sure to get a Microsoft TechNet subscription if you are working with Microsoft platforms.
Have fun.

Gonna grow it? Start with VMware Workstation. The VMs you create can migrate to dedicated virtualization platforms as you move up in expenditures.

Which phones out there get vendor supplied updates after 3 years? Certainly not any that I've ever owned.

My company got me a Droid Eris (I had no choice). 6 months later, no update to Android 2.2. (Maybe 8. Whatever)

I'm not sure why Apple is getting dinged for not supporting a 3 year old phone. No one that I know of supports 3 year old phones.

You look at the bills, you look at laws, you look at the decisions.

It is obvious that most of congress has very little to no understanding of science

If they think that scientific theory and hypotheses are just guesses, why should they fund it?

Especially the ones that believe that evolution doesn't exist and that intelligent design is either science or the equivalent of science.

Look, there are lots of benefits of scale to living in an urban area.

There are also lots of benefits to living in a rural area

These benefits are not the same. If you want benefits like infrastructure, live where infrastructure makes sense.

If you want to live in the middle of nowhere, all by yourself, enjoy your dialup and/or satellite connection.

When (and if) the Economist releases an iPad app, I will pay for news.
I will not, under any circumstances, elect to give money to Murdoch or anything in his empire.
If the Economist doesn't release an iPad app, then I don't foresee paying for electronically distributed news, iPad app or not.

That's right. Republicans. 50-50 with Cheney breaking the tie.

The only information re: screen breakage on that page is that 76% of accidents are screen breakage, and that 7.8% of 3GS owners report accidents during their first year.

By my math, that means about 5.9% of screens are breaking on the 3GS.

I think that I can see just like everyone else, but I can't see the dot patterns.

Actually, sometimes I CAN see the dot patterns, but even though I can trace them with my finger, I can't see it will enough to tell what the number or pattern is

Because I can't see that dot pattern, I can only fly during the day (fly as in pilots license). I'll also never be instrument rated.

I also can't see some informational graphics. My idiot local newspaper decided to publish election results of a contentious issue by using tones of red or green if counties voted one way or another. I had to ask someone if they could please explain what the results were.

If it limits me in those ways, then it is a disability. It does, and it is.

If you are achieving that much at that time in your life, why on earth would you be going to community college? Either make sure that their high schools can challenge them, or get them to a college with an academic environment that will.

A community college does not have that environment.

1password when on my mac.
KeePass otherwise.

I guarantee they aren't using 1.6 MW of power.

On the other hand, Tesla coils are all about the voltage.

For me, it is easy. If I spend hours listening to lossy compressed music, I start to get headaches. It doesn't happen when I'm listening to lossless compression.

For me, that is end of story.

If this $300M Datacenter was for brand new applications and brand new servers, then they might have a point (probably not, but they might).

But in my experience, cloud computing works best for particular applications, and not as a blanket answer to wholesale moving everything in your datacenter to mystical hardware in the cloud.

I haven't seen anything in cloud computing that can handle main frame and midrange apps, Sun apps, or any of thousands of other requirements that are going to be handled in the $300M Datacenter. In the end, this is just politicians trying to seem cool.

The Watchmen was Great!!!

It was much better than Cats!!!

I want to see it again and again!!!

Yes, thereby forcing anyone with federal funding of any sort that wanted to research on lines that weren't already in place by 2001 to create entirely separate laboratories to work with these new lines.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/24/science/24conv.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

Gosh, I sure am glad that he supported stem cell research.