Yes, and they just send more cleaners round to pick it up. Also at major train stations in London, but in fact the general effect has been less garbage since people know about it and take the garbage with them or dispose of it outside the station.

But actually, GP is wrong: this was not a reaction to 7/7 but dates back to the early 1990s after the IRA bombed London multiple times, including the Underground and train stations. Some of those bombs were indeed hidden in bins. At the time the IRA was detonating bombs in London every few months so it was not an imaginary threat.

... for a pack of two. $0.64 per bulb.

No.

Yep, freezer trick worked for me on two drives, and not on a third. Recovered all the data from one drive, and about half off the second. The thing is, it's a one shot, last chance attempt, since the thermal shock is as likely to kill the drive as revive it temporarily. You need patience, and dry air, and dessicant in the bag with the drive.

Two other methods which have worked were running a drive on its side (!) instead of horizontally, and keeping an overheating drive cool with extra fans (well, that one should be obvious).

I struggled with this too, after updates took me to FF 12 a few days ago. Completely useless, click on tab: greyed out; click to scroll: greyed out; click to search: greyed out. Top showed 500MB more RAM usage over FF 11, with the same tabs and plugins (only Adblock and SessionManager).

Finally I gave up and installed FF 13 beta from the Firefox-next PPA and everything went back to normal - reasonable response and CPU load, RAM below 1GB. Either there is something wrong with FF12, or with Ubuntu's build, but it seems fixed with FF13.

It exists, or close enough[*] - it's called SIMBAD:

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/

* - new objects are added all the time, so it takes a while for that information to make it into SIMBAD

Actually Kodak do make their own chips, and have done so successfully for years: many cameras and webcams use Kodak-branded chips.

Kodak image sensor solutions

Where I think Kodak failed is packaging: Canon, Nikon etc. had vast experience and brand awareness packaging quality _cameras_, Sony the same but with video cameras. Kodak had comparatively little experience of that, except for a few point-and-shoot cameras mostly made as a vehicle for selling more film. Kodak was never going to win a camera mfg. war. They might be able (or might have been able) to hold their own in a sensor mfg. war if they'd played it right. Also, a lot of people do still want to print their pictures - that is, or was, another avenue for them.

I had a similar problem finding ways to teach basic networking such as addresses and masks and routing to non-computing students. Having looked into NS2 and similar things and finding them powerful but way too complicated (for the student's level), I settled on Clack:

Clack Graphical Router Project

It's written in Java, graphical and easy to use and does quite well at showing many of the important things. You can also extend it yourself if necessary (open source).

Since it's astronomers that build and operate the observatories, and we've discovered, among other things, exoplanets from long term monitoring programs at said observatories... your statement makes little sense.

Given the low cost of high end amateur grade scope, if useful science could truly be done on it, where are the ongoing proposals from the astronomers that such things be be built/obtained?

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GP is correct. The long term monitoring for exoplanets was done at professional observatories, but using what are now considered "small" telescopes, equivalent to large-ish amateur telescopes . But there is only so much money and so much professional manpower for these. Amateurs with a good location, telescope and camera and some care can indeed contribute to real, published research, monitoring comets, asteroids, variable stars of all types, exoplanets and stars which might have exoplanets, or looking for supernovae. It's a very good field for amateurs.

here are some (non-exhaustive) examples and discussion:
http://www.aavso.org/aavso/about/pro_am.pdf

(disclaimer: I am a professional astronomer)

It is insignificant.

Part of the problem (and I speak from experience) is that in many science/engineering departments the Fortran is taught by scientists/engineers who never learned any modern programming concepts, and who learned Fortran from people who frequently taught themselves Fortran back in the early days when Fortran was limited and many modern ideas didn't exist yet. Which has the effect of propagating many of the bad practices Fortran is (in)famous for.

Other languages are better for teaching because they often enforce (or at least encourage) good practice, and people trained well can then go and write good Fortran in a modern dialect.

All depends. I used to live in London. When I could take the tube, all was well. When I had to take the North London Link rail followed by a bus, it all went downhill. Nominally the journey should have been about half an hour, but between both train and bus running notoriously late or not turning up at all it frequently became 1-2 hours of frustration. I took to driving the car - 25 minutes, every time (no problem with parking).

I don't mind public transport, but it has to be (mostly) reliable.

Funnily enough, for me time spent in public transport is wasted time. On a good day, it takes me twice as long to get to work by public transport as by car, on a bad day four times as long. The transit is also often so crowded that I'm standing and so can't read or sleep, as well as being jostled and crushed by other people. Using a laptop is also out of the question. And this is in a dense European city with nominally good transit. Driving is quicker, more relaxing and more comfortable. It is more expensive, though.

From what I can see there is no hard and fast rule about which is better, public transit or car. Even within one city it can vary depending on location, route and time of day.

I'd like this as well.

In a new installation it would be easy enough to arrange the wiring such that the fridge, alarm, and PVR were on separate circuits from the rest. Then the ordinary circuit breakers could be used to shut everything else off. In an existing installation it would be harder.

It doesn't work like that. A push directly away from the Earth will not give a 'higher' orbit (one with more angular momentum), it will change the shape of the orbit (the eccentricity). Essentially the orbit will become longer and thinner, and at a different point in the orbit it will be lower and start to brush against the atmosphere, thus invoking atmospheric drag.