You say that now, but wait until that building actually takes off.

Unfortunately, they won't be able to untether it from the ground, as they won't have rolled out over-the-air syncing to it before their liftoff date.

Ladies. Look at your Orc. Now back to me. Now back to your Orc. Now back to me.

Okay, why is this story "news for nerds?"

(rolls eyes upward to see own hairline)

Oh. Nevermind.

(sobs)

Yeah, but given DNF's history, that politician has plenty of time to think about it.

RTA. The CBO report was requested by Senator Kent Conrad, who specifically addressed the fact that the migration of drivers to more fuel-efficient vehicles may impact the government's revenue stream from the gas tax.

So, does Edison finally get his final victory over Nikola "The Electric Jesus" Tesla?

I remember a few years ago, before the end of the dot com boom, reading an article about a bunch of newfound millionaires - and Bill Gates - talking about how the new information economy was going to completely revolutionize the economies of third world nations. To his credit, Gates was dismissive, stressing repeatedly that "the Internet" wasn't going to magically transform poverty stricken countries rife with malaria into paradises of soy-latte sipping professionals in Kenneth Cole shoes. With countries as with people there's a hierarchy of needs, and basic health and safety come way before widespread deployment of broadband.

It's odd that he saw that so clearly when it comes to other countries, but has trouble getting it closer to home.

(Also if anyone else remembers the article I'm referring to, I'd love a URL - gracias in advance.)

Fact free?

Is there a specific claim in the article that you think is unsubstantiated by fact? The opinion polls aren't being used to make a point about the physical sciences: I would hope that the large body of scientific literature on global climate change stands on its own. The polls in the story are used to illustrate a difference between conventional Republican party attitudes about the environment and popular opinion. How would you prefer the author go about that task?

I can see this in an environment when you need to stick a lot of 1U rack systems all over the place, and can't spread out over a larger footprint in any one location. But when else am I going to use this? Didn't we decide a long time ago that large amounts of internal storage wasn't really a good way to handle increasing storage needs?

I'd much rather see a big ol' SAN full of SDDs than put together something like this, unless someone else is seeing an advantage that I don't.

I've written for courses in history, cinema, labor relations, pharmacology, theology, sports management, maritime security, airline services, sustainability, municipal budgeting, marketing, philosophy, ethics, Eastern religion, postmodern architecture, anthropology, literature, and public administration.

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You gotta admit, that's pretty funny.

Agreed.

Also - I don't know about you, but when I press a "close doors" or a "use crosswalk" button and press it, and nothing happens, I tend to press it again. If there was a placebo effect in play, why would I bother pressing it again? The placebo effect suggests that I would be happy with the outcome, rather than stabbing relentlessly away at a soulless machine, like a rat trying to get a food pellet, muttering and cursing the infernal, non functional button and the soul sucking society it seems to embody, when all I want to do is get downstairs and across the street to a bar so I can drown my sorrows in a few glasses of gin and try to muster the courage to talk to that girl who is always there even though I know she's probably damaged goods and wouldn't give me the time of day besides...

I'm sorry, what were we talking about again?

I could have forgiven them for making it up as they went along - hell, I would have been impressed - if they'd just done a better job of it.

During an interview aired around the time of the series finale, Moore said that the team had agonized over the plot of the final episodes until he reached the realization that as long as they were "true to the characters", the plot would take care of itself. I interpreted that as meaning, "Yeah, we just gave up on trying to make it all make sense."

I wonder if this was part of the inspiration for Ruse? Or maybe vice versa?

Don't discount large corporations which are resistant to change. I work for one such company (in the fifty largest companies in the world), and their plan is to roll out Windows 7 internally sometime in 2013.

What's particularly sad about this state of affairs is that it's a technology company. Feh.

Speaking as the father of a micro-preemie (12 weeks early, 1 pound 12 ounces), who is now going on six years old and mostly quite healthy.... I found them a little funny.

Time heals all wounds.