Q: What do you call a series of FDIV instructions on a Pentium?
A1: Successive approximations.
A2: A random number generator

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Hey, folks, I can keep this up all day.
http://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=PentiumJokes

Dense doesn't matter for the physics of the heat, of course. But it makes the cup more expensive to ship and to heavy to use. That's my point about gallium.

All good, except; gallium is hella expensive. And very very dense, therefore very heavy.
My money is on good old-fashioned paraffin wax, which (at least in the bulk candle variety that I bought in my hippie candle-making days) melts at exactly 140F.
Cheap and food-grade (it coats many candy items) and pretty light.

It's easy to opine on a topic you know little about with a bromide like, "change is hard for a lot of people". There, POOF! You've successfully dismissed anyone who has a complaint against the change - including those cogent technical reasons for thinking that Yahoo has in this case effed up royally and radically diminished the functionality of an old (but reliable and working) interface. Now they're all nearly put in some "change is hard" Luddite basket. Way to go, Captain. Rhetoric!

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Tell you what. Let's go ahead and have you *moderate and run* (not just play with as an end user) a Yahoo group with 27,000 members in your spare time (as I do and have for many years). You get a week to do it with those "ancient" tools and interface, and then another week to do with with the badly broken, slow, ill-conceived, feature-poor, absurdly buggy new interface. After that week - if you can even get through it - come back and tell me that "Neo" is working just fine, thank you very much.

We won't even get started on your false dichotomy - that because some features might have been desired (eg inline attachments, which my users would never want or need) that it was necessary to completely revamp the entire interface and throw out about half the existing functionality to provide them.

Agreed. My network (which serves me and a couple of my neighbors) uses WPA2 with a decent passphrase, does not hide its SSID - but does have DHCP disabled. That's not so much for security (although, yea, it does present a tiny additional barrier) as for my easy tracking of rough bandwidth usage. Each neighbor has a /28 block assigned to them that they're told to pull their static IPs from (e.g.: "You and your family and guests should just use IP address numbers from the 16 possibilities 192.168.10.64 through .79".) They all seem OK with doing that (though setting up Windows laptops to do static IPs but still also to be able to do DHCP in coffeeshops is an effing pain, even with Win 8. Macs are far simpler and more elegant in that respect). This way if one neighbor is massively overusing bandwidth, from the IP range I know whose door to knock on and ask them to have their teen stop watching so much pr0n.

I could accomplish the same thing by using DHCP but having a MAC tagger on the firewall, but then I'd need to keep track of all their devices and associated MAC addresses, which would be much more of a pain, and more invasive (since it would track usage back definitively to a single device rather than just the family "pool"). /tsg/

One interesting feature of the table is the resulting position of iron(Fe) - it serves as the single, pivotal point that "links" the two halves of the table and spiral together.

And, of course, iron is at the bottom of the binding energy curve - it can't be fissioned or fusioned to provide net energy output.

My physics education is too far in the distant past to discern if these two things are just a coincidence - or significant feature resulting from the inherent structure of the table.

About one a month. About 3/4 of that is for one of the next-door neighbors, which I attribute to envelopes sticking together. The rest is for "same house number, different [nearby] street" or "same street, different city zone" (eg, I'm on N 35th St but the address is for 35th Ave NE).

Here they are all in one place for your edification and amusement:

http://medieval.stormthecastle.com/images/new-polearm-thumbs.jpg

Wish I had mod points. Excellent, fair, detailed analysis. You must be new here. :)

Wish I had mod points to toss at you for this. Too many here - perhaps understandably - have no idea of the steps necessary to imagine, design, test, troubleshoot/re-engineer, certify, build, and ship a Real Working Product. If they knew even a fraction of what has to happen before something shows up at Newegg, they might have more understanding of why what you're trying to accomplish is so cool and potentially game-changing.

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Kudos to you and your crew for getting even this far on a shoestring.

1.6 MPa = 232 psi (pounds/sq in). High, sure, but within the level you can contain in a soda pop bottle.

Would mod you up if I had points. And add:

Harlan Ellison: ""Gene Wolfe is engaged in the holy chore of writing every other author under the table. He is no less than one of the finest, most original writers in the world today. His work is singular, hypnotizing, startlingly above comparison."

In the very limited (3) cases that I've had to try and revive a client's dead desktop drive, replacing the PCB board from an identical model - usually purchased cheaply, used or new, online - has always worked.

The other advantage of this approach is that if the first drive becomes revivable, even a time, you now have a second same-capacity drive to transfer the data to (using intermediate storage media if in fact it was the PCB that was the problem and you can only get one drive working at a time).

If it doesn't work, you're no worse off and still have a replacement drive to load data from your (hopefully recent) backups.

And if anyone knows how to take what should be a simple, straightforward, technical discussion and turn it into a MS vs Google flame war, it will be Slashdot commenters.

I live in Seattle, you insensitive clod!

(where many residents were still using their furnaces as of last week, and today's the first sunny and warmish-day in what seems like a month)