How much energy would that take? What is the cost in creating the heat shielding?

It is mostly produced from hydrocarbon fractionation, mostly natural gas fractionation. It can also be produced from coal. It there does nothing to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and the process release large amounts of CO2. So, in my opinion, it is a useless road to go down and a scam.

Actually much of commercial hydrogen comes from some form of natural gas in a process called hydrocarbon fractonation.. Hydrogen is a scam run by the fossil fuels industry. It can in fact be produced by running live steam over coal. Wiki it up if you do not believe me.

Yep, I'm with you here.

I did a stint with 132 columns awhile back (back when I was running Linux on a machine that wasn't quite powerful enough to run X11), and I found the extra horizontal space to be mostly wasted. If I did start putting comments or code over there, it'd often get "lost".

Now, I do use a wide format for certain debugging applications. It also works well for spreadsheets. But for source code? I've definitely got an 80 column mind, despite ever having used punch cards or paper tape. I went from 28 columns to 40 to 80 as I learned programming in the 1980s. 80 columns is a very comfortable width. 132 pushed it too far.

80 columns actually corresponds pretty well to the amount of text you'd have on a type-written page on standard letter size paper (or A4, if you prefer). You get 60 to 72 characters across (assuming 1" margins) depending on whether you're 10CPI or 12CPI, and that's roughly how wide programs are when written within 80 column boundaries.

Anything like that, IIRC, is administered by the GSA.

Don't tell a Jews that. The Nazis sold it as being part of an anti-Jewish anti-Communist crusade.

Is there an employment ad somewhere you can point to back up your claim?

I've been boycotting them for years. And encouraging other to do the same. But their marketing engine is better funded than mine.

Actually, the answer is probably yes. They still service PS2's! And if they don't... there are other services that can repair/replace a blu-ray drive.

Probably bsd licensed openh264. http://www.openh264.org/

More the fact that the Dreamcast mouse wasn't a common easily available accessory, just like with the Genesis, SNES and PSone mice. I may have owned SNES and PSone mice but they were rare.

With the Sony machines, they just use USB, you can use any old mouse and/or keyboard you have handy.

He's right when it comes to games. Artists, musicians, voice talent, engine licensing, middleware licenses...it costs money.

Sure there's always a few guys basically donating time to thinks like Wesnoth or Nethack, but they can do that because they have full time jobs doing something else. The people who want to actually make a living making games are different.

I'm surprised you didn't ask: "What's the best practices for contacting Alexey Pajitnov to discuss his opinions on playing same-screen multiplayer tetris, after school with kids, with infinite spin, on an SDTV."

You won't see me crying over a thief that got robbed. Wal-Mart has systematically shorted employee pay, forced their employees and their families onto welfare, and demanded tax cuts meaning that other taxpayers foot the bill. They are also supporting a corrupt and oppressive government in China and n doing so helped destroy many middle class lives by having jobs moved there.

So boohoo, they got what they deserved. Hats off to those who 'stick it to the man'.

You must be new to software development....

This is just another example of government interference in the market place and driving free enterprise out of business! Let the industry regulate its self!

What, you don't keep your old consoles around? ;-) I've got an NES within 10 feet of me.

The only PS1 games that won't work on a PS3 are those that won't work properly in a PS2 either, because they break the TRC's. I have only one such game, the X-Files 5 disk graphical adventure game which doesn't work properly in a PS2 or PS3. It runs, but suffers graphical corruption so it's unplayable.

As for PS2 titles, I haven't found a PS2 title that doesn't work on my CECHE model. There are a few that have issues. For some strange reason, Tekken Tag Tournabment runs at half speed. Snowblind Engine games tend to have some graphical glitching and their network play doesn't work, but they're not totally unplayable.

Everything else was fine.

From the slim models yes, older models that had it, still have it. The release of PS2 remasters on PSN is a bit of a consolation.