AMD went a long way in supporting linux and it seems that they will stick to it for newer cards (Mobility HD 5650 running stable as a rock on Ubuntu 10.10; with Catalyst Control Center).

If your geo-socio stereotyping is correct, he actually might have much higher chance of getting shot then average citizen of the world.

That's why Sweden is an effective stop word.

Yes, we can 'understand' infinity, but that is not the point.
The point is weather your belief(!) that time is infinite is correct or not (btw, is it circular or not?).
At the end, even though you are imprecise, it might be that you are correct and it might be that you are wrong.

Science is trying to get us closer to answers to such questions.

I would say that you are confused due to your incapacity or unwillingness to imagine a realistic concept of finite time (or you dismiss it as 'obviously' false), which is hardly objective.... for example, under current calculations we have no reason to believe that anything existed before 13.7 * 10^9 units of time (which happen to be very close to current rotation period of Earth). Few billions are hardly infinity and if you were trying to be objective it seems reasonable that you would opt for the finite model of time. But then you would probably have to deal with the question such as 'What caused the Big Bang?' and that is difficult. However, resorting to 'infinite model' is not significantly different - the questions change to: 'how the infinity came to exist?' and 'why is it infinite?' or 'how can it be infinite?'.

Could you provide some references? I found claims on wikipedia that

"Once ignited, a simple solid rocket motor cannot be shut off, because it contains all the ingredients necessary for combustion within the chamber in which they are burned. More advanced solid rocket motors can not only be throttled but also be extinguished and then re-ignited by controlling the nozzle geometry or through the use of vent ports. Also, pulsed rocket motors that burn in segments and that can be ignited upon command are available.

Modern designs may also include a steerable nozzle for guidance, avionics, recovery hardware (parachutes), self-destruct mechanisms, APUs, controllable tactical motors, controllable divert and attitude control motors, and thermal management materials."

Well, that would be useful if bandwidth and latency were not problems; we are not yet at the point of streaming interactive video content 1080p60, for example...

Though it could be used for dynamic pre-rendering (baking textures, etc...), but normally you get all that shipped on DVD when you buy your games.

Once the bandwidth/latency barrier breaks down there will possibly be a lot of changes, and yes, then it would be conceivable to have huge wins - in terms of calculations that are beneficial for multiple users (plus content protection) if you would render insanely complicated things on central server farms (even 'physically correct light' some day).

Well, if Blue-ray can do 1080p24 in H.264 at around 25-35 Mbps then not sure where you pulled out 3Gbps out from (I only get a similar number if I multiply 1080 x 1920 x 50 frames x 32 luma/chroma = 3.31 Gbps).

And OK, maybe today we can not use commodity hardware to do real-time (as in interactive) encoding and decoding of 1080p60, but I have always liked the idea of thin clients and central resources.

http://rtw.ml.cmu.edu/rtw/kbbrowser/arnold_schwarzenegger is female, certainty 100%

...of this might be that MS will get its act together and fix the standards compliance and user experience. MS rarely goes away. When (and if!) they indeed fix it one might think - nice, the environment corrected itself; all is good.

However, if we stop to think of vast amounts of resources (money, time) that could have been saved and used for better purposes that was blown away in the industry on making internet work on IE, just because of MS attitude (would not go as far to call it strategy) and quality of its products. It would be great if business environment could fix that, too.

controler such as this.

he is giving MS perspective. For MS, opening their source would show how competent they are. Hence the sentiment.

Arithmetic is nothing - my brain does chemistry at molecular level!

Still it is a bit weird. http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/Documentation was at around ~2% more then 10 years ago.