Your doctor called - You're booked for next Tuesday for your Cataract Surgery.

Seriously though, Mt better half used to have the same opinion you do, and yes, on her next visit to th optometrist, they told her she'd be having cataract surgery soon. Now? She very well knows the difference between the formats. As in "Oh wow" 480 to 720p, an "Geeze wow" 720p to1080p.

There are more bullshit myths about HDTV ever since the days when the get off my lawn crowd were telling us that you couldn't see the difference between HDTV and NTSC.

Actually, Genesis would be a good start.

Tell us, what color is the sky on your world?

Grey, from the smog.

The published study offered the bees a choice between a sucrose solution with neonicotinoids and another sucrose solution without neonicotinoids. It was a fair comparison.

Worse yet, PC's today are barely faster than 5 year old ones at similar price points. Moore's law ran headlong into a thermal brick wall. The real speed increases are showing up with SSD's and better GPU's. The GPU's look to be approaching similar issues as intel is, they are just a process generation or two behind them. We can no longer expect a 2x speedup ever couple years, but more half that rate at best.

The net result of this and other trends (brain drain and money drain by mobile) is that we can expect that most home and work PC's will not be worth upgrading much faster than every 4-8 years, while 2-3 was the norm not that long ago.

They are traitors and should be jailed. In fact, since they believe they're involved in a "war on terror", maybe we should try them for treason under military law.

Also, I wouldn't trust the statement that the chancellors office didn't know anything.

The scary thing about Microsoft is that they have at least 10s of billions of dollars in the bank. They will likely never go bankrupt, but I'm not sure they'll ever make money in computers again if the Windows/Office gravy train ever comes to a halt.

The difference is that we still have really strong clients now and use the back end mainly for storage and some computation. It's not very comparable.

The other difference is that the technologies in use today make the "cloud" pretty much infinitely expandable, unlike a mainframe. Amazon has petabytes of storage and adds more continuously.

With single precision you have to be enormously careful not to drop digits even in comparatively modest loops; with double precision you can many digits before you run out.

Ha! I see what you did there. Unfortunately, your verb wasn't double-precision.

This site is for people who are smart enough and educated enough to be able to use both equally well.

But if all you can handle is division by ten, we've got a special handicapped section Just For You!

I have never understood why if your company makes something that is shipped in glass jars why you would care if they are reused or not unless you receive back the old jars like Coke use to do with glass bottles to refill and resell.

Liability, maybe? I think Classico was irrationally worried about getting sued by somebody whose jar exploded while being used for canning (either during the process, due to the heat, or afterwards from bacteria growth due to an improper seal).

The body is ALREADY DEAD. They are planning to use the body of someone killed by a head injury, most likely a motorcycle accident. The head is from someone that would otherwise die because of problems with multiple organs (heart, lung, liver, etc.). Nobody is going to die that wouldn't be dead anyway.

It is either superstition or ignorance.

Or eleven years in Twelveworth,
or five to ten in Woolworth.

Hey, someone had to quote it!

The Baby Boom began in 1845,

I really hope you don't think we had a Baby Boom after the Mexican-American War....