Ask and you shall receive. Hubble Deep Field in 3D

What he's saying is that webmail interfaces are painful and limiting to use.

Why are we comparing against antique Atom chips? Aren't AMD's Brazos 2.0 chips significantly faster at half the power draw?

Your first clue should have been that this was an article from the WSJ.

It doesn't go New York, Detroit, LA. There are a ton of other cities out in flyover land, many of which have solid manufacturing histories and currently healthy economies.

My bank's (outdoor) ATM just got a touchscreen. No buttons. It doesn't work when it's raining. It doesn't work when it's cold.

Silicon Valley is as pure and free of toxic sludge as the New York subway.

Slackware, mid-late-90s (just to play around with)
Debian, late 90s (mostly to play around with, also small webserver)
Xubuntu, ~2005 (on an old laptop)
Ubuntu, ~2007 (on a new laptop)
Slackware, ~2009 (same laptop, after Ubuntu broke my graphics/sound/wifi for the twentieth time)

Pretty happy with Slack. But been considering a move.

It only lists the highest temperatures for each country. The US temperature listed is from Death Valley.

"North America: 56.7 ÂC (134 ÂF) Death Valley, California, United States"

For me, I've never used webmail service that was even remotely as fast as even a big clunky client like Thunderbird. Gmail and MS Live Mail or whatever they call it are absolutely terrible to use from a browser! Ugh, javascript monstrosities!

50K a year is not a paltry sum, but it's a disappointing reward for ten years of higher education. The real problem, though, is that these are typically for one-two year appointments. Benefits are meager. There's no retirement plan. There's no room for advancement. In a year you will have to uproot your entire family to move somewhere else in the world.

I'm not the GP, but, well, yeah. You should hate the current tech landscape, too. It's awful, for the reasons outlined above.

Franken co-sponsored PIPA.

http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/F000457

Unfortunately, while New Horizons left at the fastest speed ever, it's currently moving at 15km/s (and slowing) and Voyager 1 is cruising at a bit over 17km/s. Per Wikipedia, when NH is at the distance that V1 is now, it'll only be moving at 13km/s.

I think people just go by whatever died first on them. I'm prejudiced against Maxtor and WD because I lost data from failures in the 90s, and I've avoided them both ever since. I've had a number of Seagates in the past decade that have started making scary noises that forced me to retire them, but I've never actually lost data on them so they still kind of sit in the "pretty good" category in my head.

I've had no problems at all with any of my Samsungs, though, so that is sad to see them go. I bought a pair of Hitachis last year for the first time, and I haven't had any troubles with them yet. Knock on wood.