That's not necessarily true either. A scheduling analysis could be performed to determine the real-time capabilities of the system. A simple stability program running on a massively overpowered linux system could be proven to guarantee scheduling at a low update rate. It's just not an efficient real-time system.

Thinking way out there... but if the Rift catches on, will significantly more brains be trained to cope with motion sickness? Will we be better equipped for space travel? I wonder if it will reduce motion sickness medication sales.

In the bitcoin equivalent of losing loose change in your couch, one of my old hard drives has 4 mined bitcoins on it somewhere. They are rapildly approaching a value high enough for me to stop being lazy and ressurect the machine.

This is especially true for pre-1996 pennies, which are 98% copper. roughly 3-4 cents per penny depending on the current copper price.

Imagine a.. wait, I can't. there's only 6 of them.

For Natural Gas (@0degC)
Specific Heating = 47.7MJ/kg
gas density = 0.72 kg/m^3
cost ~= 0.25 $/m^3 (typical Ontario with distribution)
efficiency = 50%

= 4.77 kWh/m^3
= $0.052 / kWh

this would assume it could run on natural gas, but it needs pure methane. Even so, it ends up cheaper than grid electricity.

That only works if your body's natural clock is fairly close to 24h and your rhythm can sync in with the clock. I think average is around 24.5h. I'm in around the 25h mark. I can sync with 24h for a few days, but if I leave it natural I'll add an hour every day (vacation or on flex time).

Pre-1996 Canadian pennies are 99% copper. Last I checked, the ones I'm saving (hoarding?) are worth 3.6c each.

The good news is that if the laser fails, the data should still be available to read and copy onto a new hard drive. If the laser was needed for reading as well, I'd be wary of the reliability.

I've used a GQ-4X Willem Programmer with good success. The trick is to get a good set of adapters, so you have the flexibility to cover many packages. PSOP, TSOP, etc. I've even found one that lets me do a serial SOIP8 EEPROM while it is still on the board-- very handy to not need the remove&resolder.

---installs BTC miner---

Hey look, elephants!

A top level address would then cost ~16mil per year-- not unreasonable. But since this trickles down the wholesale market to smaller ISPs, then to the end user, and there's profit to be had, and its supply driven, then the poor end user gets nailed with huge costs for a few addresses.

So if I use this unity 3d engine on ubuntu unity using VMware unity, do I get a trilogy?