That sounds pretty much like a deal with the Devil, where everything you owned now belongs to Her Satanic Majesty and you don't own anything at all, neither your own life...

Meccano is remarkably the best construction game ever made. It's not only about imagination and building things but also about learning how to use the tools, mixing them when neccesary and understanding physics (for example, why does this nut gets unscrewed when the motor is on) and learning real world building, and in later years, they should be able to fix their own bikes when they need to change the brakes, because they know the tools, how to use them and why are they to be used that way.

OK, I found it: It was Triangle.

Which X-Files episode was that?

What I don't really understand is:

if it's only 900Gb of data or, for the sake of the argument, suppose it really is 9000Gb of data, come on, what could be the cost of hosting 10 terabytes? How much is yahoo saving every year after removing geocities? Something like, I dunno, 100 bucks a year? You can buy 1Tb disk for less than 100$ and will last for a decade. And in a decade you'll have 1000Tb for less than 100$.

Really, I think it's been much more troublesome for yahoo to remove geocities from the net than it would have been keeping it alive.

In fact, it is not. The opposite of cat is tac:

Yes, you'll be able to do that. That is, probably, the most basic functionality of Asterisk. You can, as well, make your Asterisk server connect to another SIP provider (like voipbuster and the like) and redirect your phone calls through the trunk it provides. And that's just the beginning...

Given that those sentences are not equivalent, I'd choose the first one. Sure, it's not pretty and prone to make you make mistakes. However, I think that your intention is to compare if foo is true, not to set foo to true and then test if that succeed.

Sadly for us spaniards, foreign companys just do a 1 to 1 conversion with dollars and euros, so your cheap LCD at 105€ (converted) is exactly the 130$ which will cost me 130€.

I thought carefully about your statement and did a few calculations.

I'm currently using a 17" CRT, with a consumption of 90W. I've found a 19" LCD with a consumption of 18W. That's five times less (better than you said, in fact), but costs 150€.

Given that electricity costs a mean of 0.15€/kWh and that I use my home computer around 5 hours per day, I would save 5*(90-18)/1000 kWh per day, that is, 0.054€ per day.

To get to the 150€ the LCD display would cost me, I'll need 2777.8 days, that is, more than seven years and half.

That said, I'm gonna stick with my CRT until it dies, since I'd rather have the 150€ spent on something else than wait 7 years to get them back.

Why don't you try something about cars? Maybe it could do better!

Yes, but it already exists: it's called a keyboard.

How come this comment's got modded Informative? Can I metamoderate that as funny?

So you mean I have to spend more money on something I wouldn't need if I could get a modern resistive touch screen phone.

That could be a solution, but I'd face one of the problems pointed before: can I use my BIC pen to use the touch screen, or do I have to keep changing pens and stylus?

That's the very thing I really HATE about capacitive touch-screens. All this blah blah blah about how much precision it has. What the heck do I mind its precision when I don't know where I've put my finger, since I cannot see what's behind it? Not to speak of the problems using a screen of these when you're wearing gloves and such.

This things are really stupid. I can get far more accuracy in my old Palm TX since I can use a stylus as thin as I want, my fingernail or just the reverse side of the BIC pen I'm using to write down on paper.