There is one very real exception to this rule, in the current market: the netbook. Netbooks tend to have less than 2GB (or only 1GB if Windows is installed - once again MS licensing greed) and the Atom is currently a 32-bit processor if I'm not mistaken. Could be wrong, but even so netbooks and people who specifically *need* 32-bit should be the only ones buying it. Almost all new computers being sold have 64-bit processors regardless of memory installed - why preinstall 32?

Maya, your case is very interesting. Have you tried contacting researchers at any of the big U.S. research hospitals?

I'm not sure which is greater, but suicide rates among transsexuals are closely rivaled by suicide rates among (American) Indians, specifically the age group of my generation (as opposed to the older folk.)

So this is why I idle 24/7 in a vain attempt for a pithy sniper hat...

Kentucky used to be like this until A.B "Happy" Chandler closed the loophole. Guess what? We're still here and doing as well as anyone in the US.

Also recommended: rm -rf front_claws

I shall call my first pacemaker Nosferatu, just for this very reason.

Because I forgot that Sweden was already at 12:01 PM 4/1/09, when it was still late evening 3/31 EDT. FML.

And Slashdot users would be terminally confused.

You fail, sir. They are in fact working as a massive team to solve a problem, hence fitting the basic criteria of a Beowulf Cluster. They just use biochemical processing instead of silicon hardware, communicating with meows and loaded gestures instead of ethernet.

When ships are long and spindly to house the masses of equipment needed for long-term space voyages, I would have each long corridor between two points use the artificial gravity to accelerate me "slingshot" style towards the other airlock, the other half of the corridor slowing me down before I end up as a pancake.

One of my local tack shops is staffed by a lady who had her bell rung enough times being thrown from her horse (sans helmet in those days) that she can't ride for risk of getting her last concussion. And she makes sure that everyone starting has a good *properly* fitting helmet. (Even someone with as big a head as me - finding proper fitting hats is a lifelong challenge!) So no. Concussions are not limited to only American Football.