Cat6 for six-toed varieties.

Can't say what you'd get if you downloaded a Schrodinger Cat.

Depends on the model. Check out how many varieties of potatoes the Inca cultivated. Maybe the reward was the honor of having your child sacrificed, but whatever it was, it must have worked well.

What you're saying sounds like corporations are paying for development of these varieties exclusively. Are any of these programs partly funded by public monies? Do the facilities or researchers involved at UMN receive any part of their funding/salaries from the public?

Reminds me of the book Amazon revoked from Kindles because they didn't have electronic media distribution in a contract. In an even broader sense, we might need a law that says once you've paid for something and have taken possession of it, unless it's in a general class of forbidden possessions (bombs, stolen goods, embargoed items, etc.), then it can't be taken from you. Not to mention something else I think you were implying, that no one else can force you to kill a living thing (probably with exceptions like anthrax, etc.).

had the Monolith reporting to someone/something about 450 ly distant. It had reported how bad humans behaved, and was therefore ordered to destroy them. The messages took a combined 900+ years, so it didn't receive orders until 3001. What a coincidence. Or maybe I remember all that wrong.

I loved Circuit Cellar in Byte. Steve was a good writer. I usually complain of magazines losing their focus. In this case, I'm complaining that Circuit Cellar magazine narrowed its focus too much. For me. Maybe not for hardcore hardware hackers.

Yep, model RR, R/C aircraft, and a few other categories are the only ones that seem both stable and likely to stick to their old formulae these days. Hey, and thanks for your work. I'm pretty sure you're not making a killing from it.

I mostly agree, with a few exceptions. Home Power, for one. Classic Cars, Classic & Sports Car, and a few others sometimes have some practical articles that would actually be of use to a buyer or owner actually touching the mechanical parts themselves! A few rags like Hot Rod (at least used to) still have hands-on articles, though their preoccupation with cars that sucked even when they were new gets annoying (flame-bait comment: Chevelles, for example). Model RRers have several from which to choose. Still I think, like Home Power, the niche/hobby mags that are decent come from true believers. Some of them never make a profit, but that's not their primary reason for doing it.

Another "good old days" comment... years ago, WSJ had a decent editorial staff, and reported "economics" issues as often as "financial" issues. Now it's more honest to its name—just about Wall Street. Another Murdoch victim.

Takes me back... from the mid-80s to the early 90s I read almost every page. Haven't seen one lately, didn't know it was still in print.

Sorry, I meant Cyprus. Thought they might mention Cypress too.

At first I read not "cyrus" but Cypress, and I thought, actually it does feature Cypress frequently...

Still like SciAm sometimes but I have to agree—they seem to be trying to compete with Discover.

They were fat, but I must've missed that issue. Sure it wasn't a Computer Shopper?

I've always liked Science News, but it's just what it says, News. I prefer the in-depth stuff from American Scientist. Sort of like the difference between the first years of PC Magazine and the first years of Byte. I wouldn't have missed John Dvorak's Inside Track, but I didn't really learn anything long-term useful from it besides an attitude (thanks John!). I occasionally still pull out a 1980 or so article from Byte to help in understanding something.