Show me a graphing calculator with a 10" screen.

My question is just as nonsensical as yours.

Perhaps you can't stop the compilation - but you can sure as hell stop the execution.
(in Agent Smith voice)
Mr. Anderson, what good is in-process compiled code when you are unable to call it?

"fiddle with the engine" - well, not since, what, the '70s? Sure you can paint the airfilter, or put on a cat-back exhaust, but anything more substantial is illegal, and in areas (like mine) with smog checks prior to registration will get found.

I have a friend with a Miata that he put a turbo on. Every two years, he spends a Saturday afternoon swapping the ECU and re-plumbing the engine, takes it in for the mandatory smog check, then spends another Saturday putting everything back on. A bit too much fiddling for me.

This precisely.

We are putting in place all the chains necessary for a psychopathic demagogue to rise to power and control the nation. I'm willing to stipulate that none of the politicians currently in office (elected, appointed, or career) are psychopathic demagogues, but I'm not willing to stipulate that will be the case forever. Once in power, we've created the legal positions, the technical means, and the infrastructure necessary to acquire and maintain nearly complete control of the citizenry, well, forever.

Bad review because of a lack of "wifi, Internet connectivity, and 3D", and poor quality upconversion from 1080 content.

None of which applies to one used as a computer monitor. They did mention motion blur, so it might not be appropriate for the latest FPS games.

From TOFA:
"NOAA is reactivating another satellite, GOES-14, just as the agency did last year when GOES-13 experienced a problem,"

So, yes, GOES-13 had a problem last year, GOES-14 took over for awhile, apparently GOES-13 got fixed and put back on station.

Really strange that you had time to go research and read an older article, but not the one in the story.

Can I ask Congress the same question about the US Governments data collection efforts?
  - How is the US Government going to protect the privacy of Citizens who may not want their every public move (phone call, email, etc ) to be recorded?
  - What about the security of the recordings that are made - Will the US implement some sort of user authentication system to safeguard stored data? If not, why not?

There's a whole sequence of questions that I'd much rather hear the answer to than similar questions about a dorky headpiece.

Sounds like someone who wasn't around for the beginning of the AIDS epidemic (or even the current state of the AIDS epidemic).

There are some health issues that society isn't mature enough to handle. Most of them are sexual in nature - do you really want your STD diagnosis to be water-cooler conversation (Hey, Frank, who'd you pick up that case of the clap from?)? If I had a diagnosis that gave me a 25% chance of dying in the next year, I believe that I have the right to decide who knows that. How about as a potential CEO, having your anxiety disorder (handled nicely with drugs, thank you) bandied about the boardroom?

There are other health issues that are a don't-care. Paralyzed vocal cords? Bummer, dude. Here, I'll tell you one about me - I have vitiligo. Bummer, dude. Exzema? Ingrown toenail? Bummer, dude. Hell, even erectile dysfunction is a prime-time advertising bonanza.

Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. I'll call up our software engineers immediately and let them know that processing a DBT_DEVICEARRIVAL message in the message pump, or using RegisterDeviceNotification() in our service, can't possibly work and we should re-write those sections of code to poll for device change.

I have mod points, but there's no "-1 - ignorant" mod.

Well, I had the misfortune of owning a Zune, and an iPod at the same time. I think it's safe to say that the two apps were roughly equivalent in the height of fecal matter that they were equivalent to. Of course, that was a few (!) years ago...

Unfortunately, despite decades of wishful thinking, the laws of physics haven't changed much in the decades since we went to the moon.

Yup, that's a neat looking device. But it suffers from a fatal flaw - no niche market can use it.

There's no obvious way for me as a hang glider pilot to integrate a variometer display in it, or show a moving map of my position relative to the turnpoints I need to hit in a competition. As a sailor, I can't modify it to do what I need it to do. As a motorcyclist, a Tour de France rider, a wake boarder, a golfer, a surgeon, a pest control specialist, an explorer, a Nascar driver, etc., I can't modify it for my needs. I haven't read up on Glass, so perhaps it has the same fatal flaw, but it is also far more flexible - a golfer could wear Glass and not look as out of place as he would wearing the Oakley HUD.

In a previous life, I spent a lot of time hang gliding. Competition and Cross-Country pilots have to hang multiple instruments on their control bars - variometers, GPS's, radios - to maximize their performance. This is a problem area, as the $1000 worth of instruments are in an easily damaged location which also reduces performance due to air drag.

Google Glass would be a huge advancement here - stick your $200 cell phone where it gets good reception and is protected, use it for GPS, mapping, and communications functions, add a small cheap variometer interfaced to your phone. You'll have far better information, your instruments will be cheaper and your software will be vastly better, and your physical performance will improve by taking all that stuff out of the airstream.

This, I think, is an example of the niche markets that no marketer in his right mind would build a product to meet, but combined with 1000 other niches could start to make the product ubiquitous. /frank

Well, for the reactor itself, pretty much nothing is expected to happen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_safety_in_the_United_States#The_missile_shield). No one has actually tested such a scenario, though.

Unprotected parts of the plant (which sometimes include spent-fuel storage areas) may release some radioactivity, but probably nowhere near as much as you might think.

Well, yes, you can light a lightbulb with a turbine in a stream. No one doubts that.

But a hydroelectric plant is simply a way to extract the Potential energy of water (mass x height) in a meaningful, efficient way. Putting a turbine into the flow of a river allows you to extract the potential energy represented by the difference in height between the entrance to the turbine and the exit - the "head". You can't extract potential energy without "head". Putting a turbine into a free river such that there's a one foot drop from entrance to exit gets you a certain amount of potential energy that you could extract. Putting in a dam that raises the "head" to, say, 500 feet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Canyon_Dam), and running the same volume of water through it, gives you 500 times as much potential energy that you can try to harvest. Your only option for doing that without a dam is to put in 500 turbines, each of which takes advantage of 1 foot of head. Wouldn't that be a pretty sight?