large payload to launch their spy sats (which meant the whole vehicle was incredibly more costly than the original Max Faget proposal).

But isn't that what enabled the Hubble, which IMHO the Shuttle's signature achievement?

We should be outraged that this poor gay kid was driven to suicide.

But we have to be a little careful there. If you make suicide an effective way to "get back" at people, you might actually promote it. An unhappy person might chose martyrdom over living.

I'm sure they know what they're doing. But I do find it interesting that this foxconn plant will employ ten times as many people as all of facebook.com (with 3500 employees). The idea that there could ever be enough "knowledge worker" jobs to replace what manufacturing used to be just doesn't hold up.

Are snapshots on a raid 0 volume (across two disks) a workable backup strategy?

Your ignorance boggles the mind:

Now teaching Entrepreneurship at three major Universities and the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps), Blank co-founded his first of eight startups after several years repairing fighter plane electronics in Thailand during the Vietnam War, followed by several years of defense electronics work for U.S. intelligence agencies in "undisclosed locations...."

Subsequent to dropping out of the University of Michigan, Steve Blank arrived in Silicon Valley in 1978, as boom times began. His early startups include two semiconductor companies, Zilog and MIPS Computers (now MIPS Technologies); Convergent Technologies; a consulting stint for Pixar; a supercomputer firm, Ardent Computer; peripheral supplier, SuperMac Technologies; a military intelligence systems supplier, ESL; Rocket Science Games.[3] Steve co-founded startup number eight, E.piphany, in his living room in 1996. After retiring from E.piphany the day before its IPO in September 1999, Blank served on two public boards (Macrovision and Immersion) and several private companies. He continues to selectively invest and advise Silicon Valley startups such as Votizen.

Would it kill you to do a quick check on wikipedia before expounding away?

What I don't understand is why they don't spread out the IPO over a week or two, continuously selling at the going rate.

Since this is powered by ambient air pressure I guess NASA won't be too interested. On the flipside, the concept might be fantastically powerful underwater.

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I want the next bear I shoot (just kidding) stuffed with coffee beans so I can pose it, pump out the air, and use it as a couch or coffee table.

This could be an extremely protective packing material if you pump out the air to harden it after letting it conform to the shape of the object in the package.

Sandbag walls might be much stronger if the air were sucked out of the bags after they're stacked to make them lock into place against each other.

It's no different than selling you car (har har). If you sell it on craigslist and the buyer re-lists and sells the next day for twice the price, would you feel you had done well for yourself?

They're increasing the limit from 250GB to 300GB with this announcement.

The 300 GB isn't really a "limit," it'll just cost you $10 extra for each 50 GB beyond that, which is right in line with what they charge for the first 300 GB (which would be $60 at that rate). That's not so bad - for now, anyways. Hopefully they increase it occasionally as technology improves and their investment is recouped.