Don't forget these were the "family friendly" seventies. It really limited just how "edgy" a show could be in it's writing, and technology *seriously* limited the effectiveness of F/X.

But you know what? I enjoyed what "SciFi" there was at the time. It sure beat the heck out of crap like "Dallas" or "Hee-Haw". :P

On the contrary, modern supercomputers are designed for energy and thermal efficiency that rivals and exceeds that of smartphones. Granted, you wouldn't want to put one of these NVidia chipsets in a smart phone, but in terms of compute power per watt, they're far more efficient than general purpose computers.

That said, they do consume a lot of power. But that's precisely why they're engineered for efficiency -- when you're getting the bill for such a monster, that extra 10W/core adds up big time.

That's a little misleading. It's not like they would have locked down the design to use components in 1984. That's just when they started talking about the project. The design likely wasn't locked down until 5 years before launch or so.

In other words, you're only "anonymous" if you don't matter.

With one exception, the best managers I had over a 30+ year career knew nothing about programming. What they knew about was shielding developers from unrealistic expectations, pushing back on the user community's unreasonable and inconsistent demands, ensuring that budgets were adequate for the projects, arranging support from other departments (such as shipping/receiving and purchasing), and listening to what their technical staff were telling them about proposals and in-the-pipe projects.

The one exception was good at those things, too; they just happened to also have over 20 years of programming experience from running their own consulting business.

The worst bosses I had were the ones who'd take the arbitrary "requirements" dictated by the user communities and tell the developers they "had" to meet those impossible schedules, who failed to make resources and budget available to do the work necessary, who overscheduled critical resources such as designers and senior developers, and who insisted on meetings between the users and even the most junior of technicians to "get on the same page."

The one common thread of every bad manager I ever had? They were MBA majors. Not as a secondary add-on degree, but as their primary degree.

Funny thing is, I'm *not* one who just considers "my generation's" music to be music. I listen to stuff ranging from 1920's blues and jazz on up through big band, "classic" 50's rock, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, and even some '00s. But I haven't heard a *new* band that I actually like in about 10 years.

But more to the point is the fact that most of YouTube's content is cat videos, how-to guides, and people doing dumb shit on a dare. Very little of what I "watch" on YouTube is "music", and most of the music I "watch" is illegal copies of old tunes that would get YouTube/Google in trouble if they tried to charge to access it.

Most of what gets posted to YouTube in the first place doesn't qualify as "music", especially what gets posted by the labels.

That's a good move for .NET and C#, with Mono being so far behind on the feature list.

I started using email!back!in!the!days!when!you!had!to!know!the!route, so I've never assumed emails are encrypted unless I use PGP or some equivalent tool.

I thing Groupon's thinking was more like "Shit! They're willing to go to court over it!"

Real? Sure.

But perhaps you can explain why it's only the blacks who cry "victim" instead of the Indians, First Nations, Asians, Hispanics, etc.?

You mean all the pretty pictures and panic-stricken posts on Crackbook for the past few years about how California was *already* subject to radiation from Fukushima were bullshit?

Gee. You can't believe *anything* you read on the internet anymore. *LOL*

I think even Wile E. would give a second thought before climbing on it. :)

By that theory, you should be able to hop into a plane without any training and just fly wherever you want, too.

You have the right to travel: on foot.

By that argument, we should have a serious shortage of mathematicians since the invention of the scientific calculator.

We should also have a lot of bookkeeppers and no accountants.

Automation reduces the "grunt work"; it does not remove the need to think. If your job can be accomplished purely through the "grunt work" done by something like http://msscodefactory.sourceforge.net/ without you having to do any customization work or handle any special cases that aren't automated, you were never a real programmer to begin with, and your project was a joke in the first place.