Not true. You spent a significant amount of money developing the other 399 that didn't get approved.

Wait, your name is Wyatt Earp, and you've only "driven" through Texas? According to Wikipedia, you met Doc Holliday in Texas, you liar!

That's utterly ridiculous. I bought a cheap second hand 120GB drive off ebay for half the price of a new drive. After a while I noticed that it wasn't actually a genuine 120GB drive, it was an off the shelf drive that had been reflashed with the official 360 HDD firmware and placed in a standard 20GB drive case. I'm still on live just fine.

If they had nefarious fan detection and banning routines, I'm fairly certain they'd have managed to do the same for the unofficial HDDs out there too.

The only detectable modifications are the drive firmware mods, that's what they were banning people for.

More fun with Lighthouse10

Guess what?

Other factors contribute to a lack of savings too!

If households use less energy,
then utility companies make less money,
and will just raise electricity prices to cover their costs.
So people don't save as much money as they thought.

Conversely,
energy efficiency in effect means cheaper energy,
so people just leave TV sets etc on more, knowing that energy bills are lower,
as also shown by Scottish and Cambridge research
http://ceolas.net/#cc214x

Either way, supposed energy - or money - savings aren't there.

__________________________________________________________
Why all energy efficiency regulations are wrong
http://ceolas.net/#cc2x

Summary: Politicians don't object to energy efficiency as it sounds too good to be true. It is.

--The Consumer Side
Product Performance -- Construction and Appearance
Price Increase -- Lack of Actual Savings: Money, Energy or Emissions. Choice and Quality affected

-- The Manufacturer Side
Meeting Consumer Demand -- Green Technology -- Green Marketing

--The Energy Side
Energy Supply -- Energy Security -- Cars and Oil Dependence

--The Emission Side
Buildings -- Industry -- Power Stations -- Light Bulbs

Call me a troll, but I refuse to download an open source software or free product thereof that requires a subscription process.

While I've never seen anything like celebrating an opponent's death, in my social science experience, I've witnessed rampant conclusion-driven methodology.

"Do you think that because we included XYZ in our sampling that it's clouding the results?"

"Don't tell me what the data say; I know what's really happening and the data are wrong!"

etc.

The way science is funded is not amenable to honest science. If the track you're leading dries up, switching tracks isn't really an option because all the other tracks have people leading them already.

Good work telling everyone that fixing things fixes them.

I see you've never had a disagreement with a mechanic or plumber over the definition of "fixed".

Personally I'm very glad they went to the trouble to figure out that "fixing" them according to the procedure is the same as "fixing" them according to our long-term strategic nuclear stockpile goals. :P

I doubt it.

Mount Wilson doesn't just hold the observatory but also transmission towers for all of the major broadcast TV stations in Los Angeles, as well as a majority of the radio stations, along with transmission towers for a large percentage of emergency responder communications and commercial transmission, such as trucking logistics. Mount Wilson is a major asset, and the fire crews have been preparing the area for several days in order to save the area.

Nothing in life is guaranteed, but in the case of Mount Wilson, it's clear they've been concentrating as much effort saving the complex as they have in making sure the fires don't reach the residential communities in La Canada/Flintridge and La Crescenta.

Anyone who was in Canberra around 2003 is going to find this spookily familiar. The Mount Stromlo Observatory was pretty much destroyed by a bush fire in that year. It was especially sad because it could have been saved except that the firefighters were focused on Canberra suburbs and towns like Tharwa. Also, a CCD they were building for an international telescope got left behind in the panic. Stromlo was historically important but past its best as an observational sight by that time.

?surgery? It's a contact lens. I throw mine out every 2 weeks.

Traffic Jams on the way to work - that's what "back-to-school time" means to me.

Grumble grumble

Usually it ends up in another region of Russia, just due to the size of the latter.

"[News Corp] are the evilness that Microsoft only aspires to."

And Microsoft's is the market share that News Corp only aspires to.

Transfering network card drivers to machines is a favourite use of mine, can't think why I don't do this over the network though, perhaps you could guide me.