My wild theory was that there was some highly valuable cargo onboard. One or both of the pilots were in on the plot to steal it. They diverted the plane, flew to maximum altitude and depressurized the plane to kill the passengers, then executed a water landing someplace remotely in the Indian ocean. They rendezvoused with a boat, unloaded the cargo, and the plane sunk basically intact (so no debris). Though your theory is also interesting - I wonder if a successful water landing could be executed by remote control?

You don't really have to redefine anything, it's just those constants will have different values in the new measurement system, just like they already have different values depending on which system we have now anyway.

Besides, when you think about it, why is our standard unit for time 1/86400 of the time it takes for our planet to complete one rotation? Maybe we should just use Planck time?

C'mon guys. I have the same problem. What registry setting did you change to get it to work?

Maybe it's just me, but I find Palemoon to be much more stable. I also don't care for the Chrome-ish new UI that Firefox has now.

There's plenty of other open source browsers, such as Konqueror. Firefox is just the largest of them.

Opera was MDI before it was "tabbed". Until they ditched their Presto codebase, it was always MDI but with a tab bar to switch between the windows. I don't remember when they added the tab bar but it was before Firefox even existed. I always thought the MDI interface was super handy as I could put pages side-by-side, etc. without having to open another browser window.

Keep in mind that the Intel NUCs can be had with a quad-core i7. The Mac Mini is only available with the mobile dual-core i7. So besides being cheaper, you also get twice the cores.

You mean the current 1.8 or the Beta 1.8 that everyone bitched about a couple years back?

At least Microsoft isn't crazy enough to reuse version numbers like that.

Microsoft's been acting like they are legacy since Windows 95 introduced long file names. However, until Microsoft can address the usability and security issues that come when file extensions are hidden, there's no way they can truly become a legacy thing.

Fun fact: That water tower actually caught on fire once. May want to take that into consideration :)
http://www.swnewsmedia.com/eden_prairie_news/news/local/article_70f4b714-a9ba-52e9-8173-779bb4666ef1.html

A roll of dateless buffalo nickels would also be a good choice. For those that aren't familiar with the design, the date on the buffalo nickel was on a raised area, which would eventually wear off. Since you can't read the date (at least without resorting to tricks like using acid), the coin really doesn't have much collector value anymore.

One of the problems is that those adapters only work with drives that can report their geometry to the bios so that it can auto-configure itself. If you have to go into the BIOS and type in the number of cylinders, landing zone, etc. then those adapters are useless. Luckily I have a 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapter and no shortage of PCs that have PATA ports on the motherboard so I'd have no problems retrieving the data from that laptop.

That's pretty much it. He knows his boss is the same way, and doesn't want to give some wishy-washy we don't know but we're working on it type of answer when his boss asks how long it's going to take. By giving him an answer, even an answer he may even know you made up on the spot, he's got something that he can tell his boss, and when that estimate turns out wrong he's got someone else to blame.

To make it even more fun, Intel won't release 64-bit drivers for a lot of their integrated graphics for the Atom. Which means that if you want to run Windows on them, you pretty much have use the 32-bit version. Luckily there's always Linux.

My favorite are the cheap notebooks that are advertised as "Quad core processor!". What they don't tell you is that it's a quad core Atom. Granted, for a lot people it would be good enough, but I'd rather have one of the Haswell-based Pentiums even if it's just a dual core.