NASA had proposed several Apollo to Venus back in the 1970's, including a triple flyby that would take 800 days. The rational back then was to keep funding to manned space program going after the Moon landings were completed.

https://falsesteps.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/manned-venus-flyby/

That's space travel in a nutshell.

The Venusian women are much sexier than Earth women... or so I read.

After reading the summary, I think the schmuck... uh, questioner... wants to make some money off his collection of used toner cartridges. He might have better luck on eBay.

I did that when the laser drum went out on my eight-year-old Brother printer. A new printer was cheaper than buying a replacement laser drum. The new printer was not only faster than the old printer, I could print from my iPad over the wireless via Air Print.

Pack the old toner cartridge in the box, taped the shipping label on the box, and leave it out for the mail carrier. I've done that for years.

Finally, a new OS for my Commodore 64. Goodbye, BASIC! Hello Linux command line in 8-bit block letters!

The same Cisco that has default SSH keys on their security devices that allow hackers to run wild?

The problem was specific to Rage and the 7970 video card, which steam had a long hoary thread on. Yes, I'm well aware that everyone with a 7950 or older video card was able to run Rage just fine.

Not until Ewe Boll turns it into a movie.

Good point. I thought I mentioned the AI. Then again, I only play against the AI in single-player mode and I never played multiplayer mode. As a professional video game tester for six years, the game is broken if I can use same strategy over and over again to defeat the AI. (i.e., not enough variety to keep the player off balance). Since I'm no longer being paid to play video games, I'm not obligated to slug through levels after levels of the same AI behavior.

As Clint Eastwood once said, "A man got to know his limitations." Hence, I don't play against human players because it will be game over in 15 minutes. A lesson that I learned in Age of Empires.

If you want to work at Google with a minimum of interview fuss, become a contractor. I spent eight months working help desk and a month building out a data center. The only interview I had was with the contracting agency.

Back in 1997, I had an interview with 3Dfx and Nvidia.

The 3Dfx interview lasted a short hour as the QA manager had more tats and body piercings than I could count, and the company was doomed as his boss was the marketing manager. If you ever read Dilbert, an engineering company run by the marketing department is always doomed. 3Dfx peaked in 1997 and declined into bankruptcy over the next few years.

The Nvidia interview lasted eight hours, as various members of the QA team came in to quiz my knowledge of video cards, PC hardware and software testing. I almost got the job. Not surprisingly, someone else had that little special something that the hiring manger was looking for. Of course, Nvidia is still going strong.

I had a situation where two companies made offers but I wanted to work at a third company, stalled them for a few days, and then the third company came through with an offer. One company was understanding that I accepted a higher paying job elsewhere. The other company was pissed that I accepted a higher paying job at a much smaller company rather than work at a MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR company (a fact that the hiring manager repeated two dozen times during the interview). The funny thing is that the smaller company had a 10X larger network than the MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR company.