that is the same as with any abrupt sleep pattern change - try having the old stay-up-to-4 sleep schedule and immediately switching to a midnight-to-8 system (as referenced in http://xkcd.com/361/ ). Getting up at 8 after 4 hours sleep will suck, and you wont be able to fall asleep until 2 or 3. It takes a week or two to switch, so switching to a 6-day schedule should take, i'd guess, somewhere on the order of a month

Actually, conservative is always used in a relative sense - see for example the Conservative Party of Canada. While they are quite conservative relative to most Canadians and Canadian political parties, they really would not be branded as such south of the 49th.

2020-2009 = 11 years. In 1998, my computer had a 5 gig hard drive, and a 250mb drive was as much a joke then as it is now. you are maybe mixing up 2020 and 2030?

yeah... except it would be 6 months /at the best of times/ with conventional rockets. change none or change em both, as they are both dependent on orbital positions

I would be.

well enough*

just being a bit pedantic, but the abbreviation "ns" is actually correct for nanosecond. see for reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano-

legit question - i run SP2 for no good reason (other than that i use ubuntu as my main OS, and only occasionally restart to windows for the odd photoshop/excel necessity). but I have never been able to upgrade to SP3 - why make it unusable on SP2 without some reason?

I'm not sure about the rest of the slashdot membership, but I have cooked many lobsters and I have never seen them "thrash about" in an attempt to escape... in fact, they are quite lethargic in normal cold water, and don't move at all once placed in the boiling water. This quote is a blatant lie.

actually, it could be very easily conducted away using some material, and then radiated (from heat sink-like things).


and to think, i could get modded insightful sometimes if i bothered to use proper sentence structure...

in 100 years when we all have nano-assemblers, the best cars will be the ones designed by people doing it for free

like most jobs though, when you are the two star workers in the company and you have been on time for all the other workdays, they usually will grant you a fair bit of leniency.