Why are the Russians wasting their time to come up with a solution for this problem?! The United States Air Force already has something in place to take care of Apophis.

It's called SG-1. It's a four-man special operations unit, working out of the top secret Stargate Command, located under Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The team consists of Colonel Jack O'Neill, Maj. Samantha Carter, Dr. Daniel Jackson, and former first prime of Apophis and a member for the Jaffa alien species, Teal'c.

Just give Lt. Gen. Hammond a ring and he'll send them in. SG-1 will have this taken care of by tomorrow. No problem!!

My company has a simple, yet effective naming scheme.

First character identifies the type of computer. L for laptop, W for desktop/workstation (D is used for domain controllers) Second and third characters are for the unit code. For example, DE could be your Detroit office The last two characters indicate the year the PC was built (09 for 2009) The remaining 9 characters in the middle (our names are limited to 14 characters) are first initial and last name.

This tells you who the computer belongs to and how old it is. Nice for determining replacement cycles.

My unit within my company does things a little ass backwards from the rest of the corporation. They use user ID's instead of first initial and last name, and then add the last three characters of the PC's S/N to the end instead of a two-digit date code. Still get a nice result to quickly identify the owners of PC's when they start causing issues.

I hope Boeing continues to take the same approach to plane design that Nintendo does for Zelda games or Blizzard does for ANY kind. Take the time to get it right and make a quality product. I don't want them half-assing it to get it into production, then the thing falls apart when I'm flying it in. That would be very bad. I can live without the 787 for a couple of extra years if it means that using it won't cost me the time I have left on this earth.

As I understand, people are "shithousing" their code because human time is more expensive than computer time these days. The professors who taught me 5-10 years ago told me stories of how they had limited access to mainframes and terminals, and had to optimize their code so they could complete their operations in the alloted times. Now, with hardware being so cheap, but humans (even those overseas) are much more expensive. Yes, if they were taught programming practices to write efficient code, this may be less of a problem. But most of the best coders I've seen taught themselves, and I usually don't see them optimizing their code.

Anywho, that's my mindless random drivel on the topic...

I didn't read the article yet, but did the reporter give the kid a manual for operating the Walkman? If so, the kid could have resolved some of those issues by reading it. If not, then I understand his confusion. CD's have been the standard for physical media since the early 90's, and manufacturers probably stop making cassette tapes for new albums when he was 3 or 4. CD's are, after all, one-sided.

So, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson are sitting outside heaven's gates, waiting to meet with St. Peter to see if they can get in... Or is that over the line...?

What health insurance company accepts claims for plastic surgery? To my knowledge, procedures for cosmetic reasons aren't covered by any firm, so that's why you need to directly pay for it.

Yes, but the reason that health care costs are so high in America is that we have the best quality of health care in the world. When was the last time that you heard of an American going overseas for a cutting-edge, live-saving procedure that could only be done in Britian, France, or Japan? I can't think of one. But the world is flocking to America to see the best our doctors and other health care professionals have to offer. Everyone, from world leaders like King Hussein of Jordan visiting the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN for treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, to little 5-year-old Youssif, the Iraqi boy who was douced in gasoline and set on fire by masked men, who came to America with his entire family to receive surgery to repair his face (provided by a number of generous donors moved by his plight), is coming to the United States to get access to our health care system.

Which is ironic, since Jack Daniel's is made in Tennessee...

Julius Erving. Also known as Dr. J. One could argue that he's not really a doctor, so his doctorate is fictional. One could also argue that as a hall-of-famer, he's a basketball geek.

Pencil and paper.

The "hydro-distribution engineer"...

A waterboy!!

Just don't tell Bobby Boucher...

This job would be great if it weren't for the f***ing customers.

Ain't that the truth some days...

They're eating proteins, not carbs...

No, not little, brown, furry rodents...

Massive, golden, beautiful beasts!!

As most of you know (or maybe don't know), it's called gopher because it was developed at the University of Minnesota... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)