Their mistakes have multiplied greatly over the past 5 years, ranging from basic testing errors that wiped out the hopes for several thousand students, to outages that shackled tens of thousands of applicants for a variety of programs, not just in the academic field.

Questions abound over how they managed to obtain half-billion dollar contracts with states. This stems from non-profit organizations that are attached to the corporate body itself. Plus the heavy-handed lobbying and borderline monopoly they have over the instructional book, testing and exam industry.

Sounds like Pearson needs to come under a congressional audit and grilled until they are past well done.

That is if the eye is not already damaged... If someone has cataracts or similiar myopia and their eye's cannot respond properly, then damage can and will result even during a time exposure that would not damage a normal eye.

There is the point of my concern.

Past the first person with eye problems (particularly photosensitive people) being blinded permanently....

They were both predicted to fail in spectacular fashion due to the already entrenched CDs and VCR cassettes.

Erm, this was postulated by (respectively) RIAA and MPAA...

Both live and strive to this day, despite the industry's best (and worst) efforts.

How do we give TomTom a nice mug of STFU and don't resell, distribute or donate my information?

And it'll be curtains for the data center's infrastructure.

Very, very poor location for a high level center people.

The MAFIAA tried this tactic during the early days of their little war against the pirates, and the judges swatted them down hard.

This bunch never caught the precedence and got smacked for it. Money wasted.

There was talk about a child's version being tested. I think that this might be just that. The adult version is a bit bulky.

At a bank, they put in gold-tinted reflective panels as exterior decoration. Shortly afterward they realized that the reflection was roasting their vehicles. So they called in a contractor and they lightly blasted the panels, making them opaque. I forgot what material they used, probably something soft to keep from knocking too much of the gold coating off, just to soften the mirror finish.

Reprogram them so they can go to work in schools as touchscreen systems for pre-k to 6th graders. They were built to take a beating so a bunch of kids could not put much of a hurt on them, right?

Shades of Raul Julia: "FIIFTY MILLLION!!" And there was great rejoicing (while the ball went down the drain).

Tilting: "Heh heh heh, you're a funny guy!"

That thing sucked more quarters out of my pocket in one day compared to when Gauntlet hit the streets.

I don't think Cousin Itt is ever going to like me; I used him as target practice every time he came up.

How NVIDIA had laid out the hardware specs of their chipset put EVGA on the spot. The chip die does not allow for efficient heat transfer (the dammed thing's as small as an AMD Athlon 4), plus the form factor limits how much cooling they could add to the card. EVGA did their best in putting the leaf blower on it plus the Precision software. I'm planning to deploy the Omega drivers onto my GTX285 1G here shortly to see how it reacts to it.

They'll delve into the masses of data accumulated over the years, peering at impact traces, peeling back gig after gig of data in search for that miracle that would flip the universe as we know it upside down...