Did you stand when the National Anthem was played before the feature?
I did.

Last time I'll respond to you. I asked my wife just now and gave her a good practical example. She who will be obeyed responded by saying - 'It's ok to have ads at the beginning and end of shows, but as a CEO, I would want my products to be exposed as many times as I could for the amount of money I'm spending." Heatedly she added "But there are other ways of exposure like magazines, newspapers, billboards, blimps with flashing ads and even hiring someone to walk up and down the street wearing sandwich boards."
So there you have it Noah. She has spoken.

That kind of interstitial ads you speak of actually stuffs up the show you are watching which are now designed with recaps! So now you are reminded of what you were watching before the ads because the ads are way too long. Recently I've seen shows cut at inappropriate moments just for ad placement. Sometimes the show has been cut for length so it can fit into a time slot.
I tell you what. You keep watching your ad based content and I for one will shun them. I don't need any of the shit they are trying to sell. There is enough product placement out there that they can avoid infesting series/movies/docos with repetitive, hateful and pointless crap.

Probably would work as you're getting free electrons from photons coming back the other way, thus pushing the craft forward. Much like a fan blowing air on a sail except you are getting forward momentum. You can probably use it to park your spaceship at the DS9/Babylon 5 you are about to approach.

Probably the same as mine. 8086 with green screen and WP program?
The only way to determine $value is to auction it with a reserve of what you think its worth.

I was going to say 'fuck off' but 'Die.' is better.

I got my Windows 10 offer this morning on one of my Win 7 machines. I am a bit reluctant as there is nothing wrong with the current install and it runs a small server as well. I can always reinstall 7 I suppose.

Exactly. If I had $200k to buy one that is. Last time I looked they were going for $10k.
OTOH I have my own collection which includes Apple II and //, c, gs, early Macs, Commodore, TRS, Microbee, Amstrad, early Olivetti, IBM PC (one of the first I think). The apparent value is almost zero and a few yeas ago I fought to keep them from being thrown out. I have no idea that there might be something in that pile that may be worth something one day when the perceived value becomes greater than apparent trash.
There is some equipment that is very cumbersome, like a daisy wheel and some early dot matrix.
There are a few others I'd like to have for example an Apple ///, a Lisa, a TI (16 bit), an iconic CP/M machine (Osborne) etc.
Pity I don't have a museum for them....

Not sure of the local laws, but in some places the moment you drop off items in a recycle centre or dump, it belongs to the centre as the centre has scavenging rights. They could rightly keep all the money and gain whatever kudos coming to them.

Fine (and good work btw), but the intent you have shown, although admirable on google's behalf it can also be pretty dark side. The fact that copyright is still owned by the uploader may have a significant impact.

I kinda miss the systemd guy.... sniff!

I like serif fonts too....

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All of the museum pieces have been 2D photographed or drawn. The drawings are not what we would call truly realistic. 2D photo and film does not translate to 3D copy easily, although I feel that with the right technology, some items can be made into a 3D representation. As for drawings, check out the early lithographs/woodcuts and even colour plates (zoological for instance) of a few hundred years ago and compare them to RL. There is a marked difference.
3D scanning is a very new technology and some artefacts can be visualized using this method. That's about it as very few have been recreated. The National Museum of Rome is a good example of what can be done with plaster moulds and sculpture. The museum model makers have filled this place up with copies of everything as much as they are able. Some of it is not to scale however.
Elements of ISIS are destroying everything that is not Islam and in the cradle of civilization, this means that some of the heritage of most of us is slowly being destroyed eg artefacts from Mesopotamia, Sumer etc. This is hypocritical as the Kaaba (the place the muslims face for prayer) has origins that are pre-Islamic that was once full of statues of pagan gods.
Uncomfortably, we lose artefacts all the time. This is no different and any attempt to preserve and re-create lost ones are worth the effort.

Ok. I'm interested. Which article was it?