Netflix works very well over a 1.5M line. I brought my Wii over a friend's house who has a much faster cable modem, and couldn't see any difference in quality. The difference would be trying to stream multiple things at once, I suppose.

Lots of "somebodies" have thought of this, but we have thousands of years of inertia to overcome. Diabetes was realized and diagnosed in ancient times, long before we ever discovered the difference between type 1 and type 2. As a father of type 1 son, I would like nothing better for type 1 to be renamed something without the word "diabetes" in it, but I know it's hopeless. The term diabetes today means "type 2" to the vast majority of people.

As such, we have to deal with the myth that if my 4 year old son, who is skinny as a toothpick and barely has any body fat to put a syringe into, only dieted and exercised more, he wouldn't need insulin, where the reality is that he will die with out it, no matter what his weight it.

Even "type 1" and "type 2" are new terms, and the old ones have not disappeared. It used to be "juvenile" and "adult onset", which was even worse, because in reality adults can get type 1, and children can get type 2. Today, children are getting type 2 due to lifestyle factors, and there is a lot of awareness of this. Still, people are getting confused and think "juvenile diabetes" means "getting type 2 at a young age". I never say my child has "juvenile diabetes" because most people will think that I'm feeding him a steady diet of Hershey bars, instead of thinking that he was just unlucky like a kid with multiple sclerosis. Type 1's face relentless assumption from everyone that the disease is their fault, which is totally untrue.

Actually, less than zero. He paid zero federal and state income taxes, and got something $20,000 back from state/federal due to carrying over paper losses via various paperwork tricks. Yes, he pays other forms of taxes like gasoline and property tax, but that the amount of cash he gets back outweighed all the tax he pays in since he lives in a cheap state with low expenses. Of course he could be lying to me, but I'm not sure why he'd want to. I think his words were "we don't have to pay tax, we get paid to run the business".

Perhaps they are referring to people who get out more than they put in? I'm glad to get a little bit back, just like I'm glad to get my car fixed when I pay insurance. It's called risk management.

However, I know people who pay NO TAX at all, and get back many thousands of dollars in refundable credits.

They can always find someone that they desire.

There is a huge difference between "having any man they desire" versus "having some man that they desire, anytime".

ConnectBot lets you ssh anywhere without rooting. As for root, it's not as useful as it seems once you have CyanogenMod installed.

We have the same set up in our town. Free recycling, $2 garbage stickers.

Last year the price went up to $2.50 a sticker. Why? They said that people recycled too much. The trash load went down significantly, and so they sold a lot less stickers. The tipping fees to the town were apparently a fixed price for some fixed limit, but the reduced trash load did not qualify for a cheaper contract or whatever. As the sticker count went down, the funding account didn't fill up as fast enough. So, the price had to go up!

Not all needles are created equal. Insulin syringes are tiny because it's subcutaneous, not muscular or vascular. Mosquito bites hurt more than an insulin shot. If my 4-year could handle it, you can too.

This isn't hundreds of threads that can run arbitrary code paths like a CPU, you have to totally redesign your code, or already have implemented parallel code so that you already run a number of threads that all do the same thing at the same time, just on different data.

The threads all run in lockstep, as in, all the threads better be at the same PC at the same time. If you run into a branch in the code, then you lose your parallelism, as the divergent threads are frozen until they come back together.

I'm not a big thread programmer, but I do work on threading tools. Most of the problems with threads seems to come with threads doing totally different code paths, and the unpredictable scheduling interactions that arise between them. GPU coding a lot more tightly controlled.

6 billion people, 1 acre of habitable land per family unit. Is there enough habitable land and resources for everyone to live like this?

Well, I'm wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(United_States_coin)

I've only ever thought of a "penny" as a coin, not a price, just like a dime is a different concept than "10 cents" which might be two nickels, or 10 pennies, or whatever.

Oh well. I'll leave this to the coin geeks.

They are not the same. "One cent" is a price, which is 1/100 of a dollar. You can write a check or use a credit card for one cent.

A penny is a coin that has a value of one cent. You can't write a check for 1 penny, unless you tape a penny to it

I preordered the Wii disc, and got it the first day. The quality is excellent. Not as good as a EDTV DVD, but damn good, and they correctly send anarmorphic widescreen versions, so I haven't had to screw around with view mode settings. Our Wii is set in widescreen mode and it all Just Works. Our DSL is quite slow (1.5 mbit, tops) and there is absolutely no stuttering or tearing. Much better than using our PC with Silverlight.

The kids are going nuts streaming tons of Scooby Doo (even my 3-year old can pick cartoons to watch), I'm catching up on 30 Rock, the wife is geeking out to Farscape.

To compete with the people who are doing it for profit. I have some small amount of control over my own information. If I "opt out", then plenty of other companies will do it for me.

Unlocking the platinum (expert) guitar icon at the end of the ESL2 requires playing 84(ish) tunes in a row, including Panic Attack, which is 8 minutes of fast, relentless guitar. That's more than enough endurance for me.