Or require pi to be just 3 and not some crazy non-repeating non-ending number.

Steve Balmer has led microsoft to a point where they no longer have this luxury.

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We don't venture outside.

I have no idea if this is even possible, but what if they impregnated the magnets with a foul taste? Maybe babies/toddlers don't swallow everything that goes in their mouths right away, and a foul taste would help them make the right decision and spit them out.

That's one small step for a man, One giant leap for me.

When autonomous cars become ubiquitous, won't it be more convenient for many people to simple "call them up" on a phone and have it arrive at your door in minutes? No hassle parking downtown, it just lets you off where you want to go, and you fetch a new one when you are filling out the tip line after dinner. Want a luxury car instead for that special evening -- just select that preference. Seating arrangement possibilities allow for many new designs. This era might even be as exciting as the arrival of the horse-less carriage almost a century ago.

Pedestrians are safer in the UK (well, in London) because they've painted "look this way" with big arrows on the ground at most crosswalks in an effort to protect visiting pedestrians who are used to driving on the right side of the road from looking the wrong way.

..the government will not only allow autonomous cars to go as fast as they want, they'll let the owners collect toll-road rebates for taking up less space on the freeways. Because, you know, they spend less time on the road going a million miles an hour than you do in your pathetic yugo.

If Ron Paul could go back in time, the best thing he could do for his political career would be to choose a "better" name for his son. Something like moon-unit, or mamma's boy. Or even Betty Sue.

Don't forget Steve Balmer wanted to buy Yahoo.

And then in the mid 90's Microsoft added the I/O completion port routines to the API that *significantly* increased the efficiency of dealing with a 1,000+ TCP (or UDP) socket connections by avoiding a dreaded polling call to ::select(). "Yeah, but you can still use select" responses from the unix/linux crowd became the litmus test for determining ignorance when discussing socket development.

MSDN in the mid 90's was second to none. It was the gold standard in supporting developers. To this day, there's not a c/c++ debugger that competes with Visual Studio. (You know, on-the-fly modify/update/compile/run code without stopping execution). I sometimes watch expert linux developers debugging, and have almost lost my tongue from biting so hard.

http://www.nanex.net/aqck/3099.html

Notables:

Set a record number of trades in 1 second: Over 12,000.
Over 1.5 million trades by end of day. SPY - often the most active, rarely breaches 1 million/day.
Nasdaq quotes went radio silent for 2 hours, but traded just fine.
Many other stocks were affected right before and after it finally opened (AAPL, NFLX, INTU for example)

I can confirm this. In my field (financial), the number of Wall Street Journal, Reuters, New York Times, CNBC, and Financial Times reporters that understand how trading works is ZERO.

It is unbelievable. I've been saving up emails for writing a memoir when I'm old and gray. Which I get closer to every time I fall for the trap and talk to one of them.

I keep thinking about poor number 9.

"Why is 6 afraid of 7" ?

"Because 7 ate 9".