Yea, but the latency will kill you.

There are 2 theys in the story, which one lost?

The 160x100 mode reminds me of the code that I wrote that would remap the characters on the fly to get a graphical cursor on top of a text mode display with a 1 pixel resulution. It all worked quite well until I managed to write code that caused the hard drive to crash when I moved the mouse. I could hear the head crash, followed by the drive spinning down and then back up again. This happened twice in a row, exactly when I moved the mouse. I was never willing to risk running that code again and I did not have the previous, working version anymore.

fava

Considering the scale bars at the bottom are set to 200 miles, then I would say its a pretty big flat.

There would be no problem seeing it from orbit, the coffee table is 100 miles by 200 miles just by itself, and the rug is a massive 700 miles square.

Your brother must be rich to afford a flat that big!

Harassing a critic is just a bonus, what the police really wanted was the names of the internal informants so that they can be silenced.

No informants = No credible criticism.

And if you can see the top row and not the bottom one it means you work at Microsoft.

Well technically my 6 digit ID contains 6 one digit IDs, 5 two digit IDs, 4 three digit IDs, 3 four digit IDs and 2 five digit IDs.

Therefore I should get all of those achievements, thats a total of 20 right there, and 3 of them are user number 1! Poor CmdrTaco has to make due with only 1.

Someone with a 7 digit ID could get 25 achievements and in the future when we hit 8 digit IDs, they will get a whopping 30 achievements simply by registering.

Lucky stiffs.

I wonder how many idiots are going to post in this thread just to get the April fool achievement.

Not that I would ever do a thing like that.

Not me.

Never.

Up for 3 days due to low grade pain from gallstones. Didn't sleep until I got some sleeping pills from my doctor.

No sleep for 3 days does strange things to you emotionally.

Most conspiracy theorists also also assume that hundreds or thousands of co-conspirators can actually keep a joint secret for years. In reality it simply doesn't happen, someone will sooner or later spill the beans.

From a half remembered source:

You don't read much at -1 do you?

Heart surgery in isolation may be easy.

What is hard is the knowledge of what to do when something goes wrong. What is hard is the planning in anticipation of things that might go wrong. What is hard is the ability to stay calm and focused when things start to go wrong.

That takes years of study, years of practice and years of learning from your own and others mistakes.

When the risks are high you don't call in a generalist, you call in an expert.

If the author had not invented them, someone else would have. He is not the cause of the problem, merely the first to implement them.