Yes. This is perfect. You get the magic of the stars, planets and moon, as well as the fun of optics. This is a gift that will be used for years. Mod Parent Up!!!

Actually, the first thing that I thought about when I read this was the Glenn Beck rape/murder thing (which he still hasn't denied).

I totally agree. This is all about the video services they want to sell. I've noticed in the past month that my connection to Hulu has become extremely slow. On another point, I actually talked to the comcast people about my connection slowing down, and the comcast customer care center told me that my connection speed was due to my cookies -- I could pay to have someone come over and clean out my cookies for me, and that would make my connection faster....

No, those prices will go up. But I'd also be happy to pay more for goods which have to be shipped long distances.

I dunno. For someone like me, who doesn't use highways very often, it would be nice to be relieved of a tax burden and have it put back on the people who actually benefit from the highway system.

"Parallel is not going to go anywhere..."

Really? Look inside any machine nowadays. I'm working on an 8 core machine right now. The individual cores aren't going to get that much faster in the years to come, but the number of cores in a given processor is going to increase dramatically. Unless you want your programs to stay at the same execution speed for the next 5-10 years, you need parallel. And what we need is languages and compilers that abstract away the actual hard work so that anybody can make a parallel program.

But how much is actually used to perform a search, and how much is just the cost of running the servers? I doubt that running searches on google uses much more power than their servers just idling.

What is this "love"?

Or you are taking the train to work?