to drive Lister insane.

Yes with one exception.. Finite natural resources that are easy to access. It's all about blood for oil these days...

market saturation

Cite.

I still have my original Blue and Yellow RadioShack Notebooks that I purchased when I was 12. As a practicing professional Engineer now I want to say thanks for that leg up.

For all the kiddies reading this, realize that back in the 80's there were no readily available resource other than small electronic stores and mail order catalogs for young people to feed their interest in electronics. The material that Forrest Mims wrote was an invaluable resource into learning how design digital circuits using the new IC technology for that time.

I never made that flanger/phaser (audio effect) circuit though...

5000 Gallons of Jello. Orange-flavored of course.

It makes perfect sense to the guy taking your 8,000 dollars every month. They are all for it.

Hasn't come out yet but looks interesting... http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/#page1

So... can we talk about how the deer have evolved into being winged creatures in upstate NY then?

I learned everything I know about beating a lie detector from the stainless steel rat..

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It is true that some newer Radio modems (eg. Telit models and now some new models from Cinterion) have the ability to run scripted programs on the baseband processor. I played with a Telit modem that could run Python scripts. I really don't think that the commercial modems that normal smartphones use would have that capability though.. it would be a dumb thing for the modem manufacture to add in.

Likely the smartphone modem will also have a GSM chipset (eg. Qualcomm) as well; this is mainly separate from the baseband processor and have limited contact with it (eg. maybe need some AT commands to control the GSM modes).

In general, the firmware running on a baseband processor is very hard to change. Changes to that processor must be re-vetted through several approval processes (PTCRB and usually one or more carrier, eg. AT&T) and consume time and money. It is for this reason that you cannot program your own code into this processor (I'm guessing scripts don't count as a program as they are sandboxed within an internal VM-like system).

it leaves us with a question: is this film for people who have read the book, or for people who haven't?

The movie could care less who is watching it. I would say that, for 99% of these type of films, it is never a good idea to watch it if you have any sort of fondness over the book on which it is based. A single 1.5 - 2 Hr movie simply cannot put enough content onto the screen to match that of a decent sized book, and so the book fan will be unsatisfied. All that is premised, of course, on the movie plot not being a hack job of the original book.

humans can correct a robot's motions, showing it how to properly use objects such as knives. They use it for a robot performing grocery checkout tasks."

So in the future, not only will checkout clerks be robots, they will be armed robots.

Been has agreed to leave the Ataris alone for a while and answer your questions about console modding and gaming in general.

Ben, when did you change your name to Been?