That would be Vernor Vinge's science fiction short story ``Long Shot'':

http://books.google.com/books?...

Then, tell me you don't want your kids vaccinated.

Jet engine on motorcycle --- MarineTurbine 2000: http://www.marineturbine.com/d...

Agree, the OP would be better served by a Surface or similar device --- my problem w/ the most recent crop of them (I need to replace my Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4121):

  - display not daylight viewable --- no one seems to use a transflective LCD aside from some ruggedized units intended for military/police use
  - moving away from Wacom stylus technology --- the Surface 3 uses an N-Trig digitizer, and I've had my fill of AAAA batteries and weird driver support issues

You forgot to insert ``3-axis'' before CNC mills at the beginning of your comment.

A 5-axis machine can make pretty much anything which the tooling is appropriate for, and they're getting much more affordable: http://www.pocketnc.com/produc...

They are willing to pay others to do parts; Amazon is trying to drive those others out of business. That was the whole point of the rant.

I'm busy F4'ing.

Not to sound cold, but this type of situation a good example for why you should make a living will.
Does this poor lady want to go on tied to machines or does she want to be unplugged? The choice should be hers, but without knowing her wishes, that makes it a no-win situation.

What do you think fuelled the race to the bottom for PC's? The money software companies gave the hardware companies to pre-install trial versions their shit.

I'd like to see a citation for this. The way I remembered it PC prices dropped because of a rise in production based on the demand for applications like Wordstar, WordPerfect, dBase and Lotus-1-2-3.

The cheap trial versions and adware only turned up after PC prices had hit such a rock bottom that it was seen as a way for suppliers to increase their margin.

But that's my recollection. Apparently you know something I don't, so I'd like a reference.

Ted Nelson wanted to do that (bill content reader and pay content creator) w/ Xanadu --- well worth reading up on.

Does anyone make one?

I still haven't found a replacement for my Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4121 (I use it as a map-reader when travelling, and to control my Shapeoko (hobby-level CNC mill) when I'm using it on my back porch) --- the transflective display seems the best option, but no one seems to be making units w/ it outside of ruggedized units for the police and military (which are heavier than I'd prefer).

hearing ``click'' when you want to hear ``bang''.

How many instances will there be of a firearm refusing to fire and thus endangering the life of the user?

How many of those 4,000 children had firearms safety training?

Given that shooting is the only academic sport which has _never_ had an injury in the U.S., why not mandate that it be a part of the curriculum, and that all children receive firearms safety education appropriate to their age each year?

It's just like requiring backup cameras on cars --- it might prevent a handful of injuries statistically (and 4,000 incidents for over 300,000,000 firearms is rather a small handful, no?) --- but it will increase the expense for everyone.

And as pointed out, that just doesn't happen in unsustainable numbers.

So fuck off, you piece of NPD shit.

Speaking for the Netherlands, being an open economy dependent on trade with the rest of the EU, the Netherlands definitely gets more back than mere subisidies.

Let Geert 'idiot racist' Wilders have his way, and we would see an economic collapse worse than the 1930s.

Mart

Have fun monetizing your project w/o being able to bill U.S. clients.

When anything has a claim to fame of "trying to be better than $GOLD_STANDARD", I am skeptical. There must be very compelling reasons to not just stick with what is tried and true. ZFS is the cat's meow, "trying to be better than" when we're talking about something as critical as a filesystem... I'll wait and see, thanks.