Almonds will also become a scarce luxury foodstuff, with California accounting for 80% of the world crop.

All those hipsters who drink almond milk will have to find another kind of nut.

Well, someone will bring this up

Nestlé bottling water in California

But the first thing I thought when I saw the story (in a campaign email) was "I bet it's a small fraction of the total water usage".

I can't believe that it takes over a gallon of water to grow a single almond. Maybe they should look at ways of improving that.

And of legislating that people should be given a sound thwack around the head for buying bottled water. It's a wasteful, stupid, con.

UK news says yes

We do have the O2 reflex, it's just not the primary one and not active in most humans.

In individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the O2 reflex takes over - which makes it dangerous to give them high flow oxygen, because they will build up an excess of CO2 (because they don't breathe enough to expel it all). This reveals why CO2 is the usual trigger - normal air has enough oxygen in it, and our lungs are normally very efficient at absorbing it.

No, there is documentary evidence that the incumbent members of the justice administration consider it too humane.

How to kill a human being is a documentary where a prominent British politician investigates the commonly used methods of execution.

He concludes that the nitrogen method, used in abattoirs to kill pigs humanely, is ideal for human execution too. All the other methods have drawbacks. In particular, lethal injection is noted to be quite painful. In a country who's constitution forbids cruel and unusual punishment, this seems odd.

Several members of the incumbent correctional organizations express the opinion that nitrogen asphyxiation isn't cruel enough because asphyxia induces a brief, mild, state of euphoria before the victim loses consciousness. They also seem of the opinion that the execution should make the target suffer before death to provide a sense of justice to the family of their victim.

(and it's rumoured that Oklahoma is actually taking up nitrogen as an execution method after seeing this documentary).

It's more that boys take failure differently. We're presumed to be behind to start with (because by now everyone knows that boys are outperformed academically by girls).

Therefore we have more tolerance for failure.

Girls are always special and beautiful and awesome. So when they run into something hard they don't do well at right off the bat, they get turned off and move to something which is judged by less objective standards that you can fail "soft" at. It's a problem with prejudice alright, just the positive kind.

Mostly the asset production budget. Engine is either off the shelf or a relatively low cost for a few ubernerds. But you need a shitload of artists, musicians, voice actors, motion capture performers, and writers for a AAA game.

He isn't negatively affected at all - sure, his bank account might not be as full (and there's the increased equity from a more motivated business to consider).

His chosen lifestyle is paid for, in full, by the $70k salary. He's winning.

Now his staff are too. And he feels good about that. That's something that putting more money in his own pocket wouldn't have bought him.

Maybe the problem is CEOs who look at that pile of money in their account, and say "What the hell can I do with all this?!?" and their answer is what benefits one man.

It's not just the people, it's the way they are treated.

Most people with no worries are nice pleasant folks. People who have to regard life as a constant battle are likely to be hostile.

Are you more likely to be of pleasant demeanour, if you know that after a work day in one hour you are

a) Going home to a nicely appointed white-picket-fence home where your wife, who can afford not to work full time, has a good home-cooked meal waiting for you

OR

b) Going to your next job as fry cook in the McDonalds. You'll probably eat the free food there again, because you're trying to save money because you're behind on the rent. The bus journey there will eat about a fifth of your wage packet for the day.

Steve Jobs, and many others, could probably live like Gregory Peck in The Million Pound Note ; people are willing to provide you goods and services if they think you're good for it, and will bring them more business later...

Decent *and* sensible.

He might draw a much smaller salary - but as he notes, a $1M salary had low marginal value for him.

What he just did was remove all money worries from his staff. Now all their focus can go on increasing the value of his business.

Good for them, good for him. Good morals, and good sense.

And they're fucking stupid reasons.

HTTP requests are raw user input. You don't want raw user input anywhere near a kernel module.

If you hadn't put an HTTP handler in the kernel, you wouldn't need a switch of context.

You could do that in a user process.

You could do that in a user process too.

And there's the real reason it's done - it should say "IPC sucks real bad in Windows, so we made this stupid, stupid, idiotic hack to try and compete with that other OS we're not mentioning."

> "When an electronic medical record is printed out, the amount of repetitive data in it is ridiculous,"

Some of that is because the standards mandate it. In order that you don't lose context for a stray page, the patient demographics have top be on each sheet, etc, etc.

It's actually Intersystems Caché - it's a trade name.

I had a look at it about 10-12 years ago when I was actively developing on EMRs. My overwhelming reaction to it was "ugh".

It's one of those lock-in products that's incredibly expensive because people have built vast sprawling systems on it and they don't dare migrate to something else.

Bigtrak!

I was always fascinated by them, but they were a rich kid's toy back then - they cost about the same in numbers, but the forces of inflation have made them so much cheaper now...

Now they have one that has an app!