To me, the most encouraging thing is that it was a partial success... Which means they know that a lot went right, and that they have data to learn from too.

It did achieve Mach 20 for about 3 minutes... At that speed it went roughly 760 miles in those 3 minutes. Getting anything to go that fast at all is damn impressive.

I've had issues with my OCZ Agility 3 drives. OCZ has released an updated firmware, which thankfully seems to resolve many of these issues. However: For some folks putting in this firmware and fully eliminating the BOSD issue requires an involved OS fresh-install and configuration process.

And the only thing I can possibly suggest to you only makes the problem worse...

New job time. Seriously.

No, they're spending a lot of money on a fancy computer system to tell them which parts of town are likely to become crime ridden, before they actually are.

I've actually started to see/hear this. On my local radio, there's an ad to download what I would call a "painfully indie" track from iTunes. So, while I have my doubts as to the success of this particular campaign, it's interesting to watch the tide turn.

I do not see disposable as a boolean value. In time, all things are disposed.

That's just it though... The numbers demonstrate that it's more than just me being old: The evidence suggests that pop music ~really is~ more disposable than before.

Now get off my lawn.

I do find it interesting: Hit songs got progressively longer, more "dancable", and louder.

Aside from what appears to be a very clear divide in key up to vs. after 1980, key doesn't play much role.

I find the "weeks on" interesting as well... The music in the 90's stayed on a lot longer than the more modern stuff. That doesn't surprise me, really, some of the recent hits do strike me as pretty disposable.

Might want to RTFA. Or at least W(Watch)TFV(Video). The concept rolls around a detachable core, which houses the power supply / external speakers. It's a neat idea, though I have my doubts about usability/durability in the real-world.

I think what he's getting at is that "Features" are not, by themselves, vulnerabilities. For a feature to become a vulnerability requires context. To a certain degree, you have to frame the conversation a bit. If you frame the conversation "I want to be protected", you can spend days/weeks/lifetimes spinning around in circles. "I want to protect myself against terrorists" is a lot different than "I want to protect myself from dishonest employees", which is a lot different from "I want to protect myself from a foreign invasion force". A road is not something you need to consider for all of these scenarios.

The real trick lies in tying the micro and macro views together so that nothing slips through the cracks.

IE9 and FF4 aren't really full-release yet, so I can see why someone might include those in their compatibility list. Likelihood of new compat. issues before release is slim, but I probably wouldn't pre-release browsers as a matter of habit.

I, for one, am glad I live in a world where the practical dominates my day-to-day, but the fantastical is occasionally made reality.

Get your head out of your bank acocunt balance, and enjoy the dream... Especially since you're not writing the checks, and the dream looks like a fun one.

This site is useless in it's current state. I wanted to compare the performance of different netbooks... Searching doesn't get me the results I want. Browsing by computer type is useless. I can find two different netbooks, but if I can't get them on the same page together, then I can't ask the site to compare their results.

Needs major refinement. Major. Refinement.

You could always line it with material similar to microwave food heating sleeves / some kind of foil. That may make a significant impact.

As for heat: Paper burns at what... 451? I don't think we have a huge problem here. Most PCs will self-preserve shutdown waaaaaay before that. The only time you have a potential problem is for a bad build/short causing a component to go up in flames, taking the rest of the box/case.

Well, maybe, maybe not.

One of the things the article mentions is using more/smaller cells to reduce power needs of cell phones (by having the broadcast location closer). So, if you have a multitude of smaller broadcast stations, they could be positioned closer to the people that need them... Less towers / more bulding-mounted cubes. For example: The chimney on my neighbor's house gets good LOS to my neighborhood.