I wish you were fully backed up. I hope you Sublimed somehow.
I really like his novels, I see him in the lienage of Clarke and Herbert in his own Galaxy.

It takes amazingly good B&W shots. I've rarely seen equivalent quality for pictures. OTOH when I carry it around I get a neckache in two hours ; the lenses are huge and metal-mounted... So I recently bought a Pentax K5ii, a good camera when you wqnt to tweak the settings and the fixed focal lenses are correct. I just miss the lab part, for which I have not enough time any more...

always prove useful. And some ammo.

It's common knowledge that the military equipment preferred by Tyranosaurs is the F-14 Tomcat. Soooooo cool!

I'm sure that the mobile version of this site is great and all, but currently it is unavailable. Only Slashdot can slashdot Slashdot.

I currently use my PI as an automatic garden watering system (using a relay and an electrovalve). The good thing is that I can remotely change the watering time by ssh to adapt to the weather (I live far from that house). Running for 3 months without a glitch so far, which shows a MTBF higher than 1000 hours. By the way, it was really fun to program in Python.

The ice breaks YOU! -Napoleon Bonaparte

I beg to differ on that, it has been available since January 2012 (at least in France) and several thousands of them are already on the road., see here : http://www.peugeot.fr/configurer/3008/hybrid/ Additional cars with this system are also available (the DS5 for one). I was lucky enough to work on this project, a real engineering challenge, especially to ensure that the front and the rear axle work together nicely. And the car is really fun to drive. Given the complexity of the design of such a car, I wish good luck to the guys trying to do this at home.

Will it run Linux?

Basically that 1 million year from now English and French will both be dead...

Je ne vois pas pourquoi. Dans un million d'années, le français et l'anglais seront deux langues mortes. Votre commentaire est raciste.

+1. The flac version makes you really believe that the piano is right in your living room. She is no Glenn Gould (we have to wait for a few more centuries) but her play makes me think that she has been listening a lot to the 1981 version by the master.

As an engineer I am truly impressed by the clever material breakthrough. However, I can't imagine how they can manage the mechanical precision on the positionning on the read/write locations of the HDD. Having a 1 nm wide bit size is not helpful if you are not in the same range for the relative head/disk position? Or I am missing something?

Several of the best early SF stories I've read are from the French author JH Rosny Aine. Some are now available in English : http://sfscope.com/2012/02/wesleyan-bringing-jh-rosny-ain.html The narrative and topics are amazingly modern for a book almost one century old. This books features several stories : -The Death of the Earth : an apocalyptic last-man story in a agonizing Earth -"The Xipehuz" is a prehistoric tale in which the human species battles strange geometric alien life forms. Definitely wirth a try.