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I'm sure this gimic will help sales.

Being as I was allowed to escape my mothers womb on one such Pi day many years ago, I applaud those celebrating it. I will be eating Peanut Butter Pie this year in celebration!

Yeah but natural gas burnt in a gas turbine engine is up to 60% efficient (converting energy in fuel to electricity), compare that to any diesel engine driving a generator.

Its not a "diesel" engine, it is a gas turbine engine. They operate the same as aerospace gas turbine engines, except they are 10-20x bigger (think school bus sized). It is a continuous burn, no pistons or cylinders, and some of them are up to 60% efficient (compared to 35% for coal and 10% for your car). They can burn just about any fuel too. See ge-energy.com . GE makes quite a few land based gas turbine engines, in Greenville SC.

Here is the original article on PadGadget, with the video mentioned here. http://www.padgadget.com/2010/10/01/hacked-ipad-runs-google-chrome-os/

I am a gun owner. This guy needs to be locked up for the rest of his life because he is an idiot. I do not leave a gun loaded in the house. Easy to load yes, but not loaded. I don't have any children that young and both of my kids shoot with me. All of my guns are always secured, even after intruder checks.

No, we pay to be told which pages of a textbook are relevant and take exams on the material. Classes are a waste of time. Skip them all, and read the textbook, and you'll learn it better than you will just listening to your professor gab. Twice now, I've discovered when reading the textbook just before an exam that hey, this stuff *can* be interesting, it's just the professors that make it boring! Stupid attendance points.

One exception: Gabe Parmer, GWU's new Operating Systems professor, can make confusing things like concurrency (spinlocks, semaphores, etc.) and page caches easy. After spending only one day on concurrency in his class, I got it. I overheard one student tell him that in a computer architecture class they'd spent 2 weeks on page caches without it making sense, but he'd just taught it in one day, and it made perfect sense. Such teachers are rare.

Did you check for discontinued models too? .380 ACP is an older round, so it's possible this was an older-model S&W.

I remember reading somewhere, and someone will surely correct me on the numbers, but Walton had 4 kids and when he died he left his fortune to them. Each of them immediately rose to being in the top 10 richest in the world. That's wild.

There's no way a toddler has the hand strength to chamber a round and cock the hammer. Furthermore, no toddler would ever mistake the weight difference between a real pistol and a fake plastic one. In fact, I'd be surprised if a three year old could lift one without dropping it. Perhaps the parents aren't being entirely candid.

I have a great deal of respect for RMS. Linux the kernel is nice, but Linux the OPERATING SYSTEM was mostly GNU tools. It was the GNU and RMS that allowed Linux to take off along with the GPL.

Yes, he may seem like a bit of a crack pot at times, but a lot of you owe him quite a bit. The man is not perfect, but he did a LOT for the computing world. I did my senior paper on Open Source and you know what? His name was all over it. He was quite a driving force behind the movement.

Possibly. Someone who is "too honest for their own good" would not be wanted in the modern intelligence community, of course. It was one thing when he was helping to win the war, but as intelligence became more a political than self-defence thing, the days of people like him were numbered.

Ordered a disk from them in 2005 as part of another promotion I think (one of those complete X deals). I never got the disk as it was improperly addressed, they dropped off my apartment number, so it was returned to sender, but I got a lovely $70 charge on my CC a month later. I called to complain and they offered to resend out the disk at first, but I finally got them to refund the charge. Ended up working out OK, but again, that was a few years ago.