This used to happen to me all the time. I think about something then later in the day, that same thing pops up! I'm not talking about finding a quarter on the ground, I'm talking about insanly odd things. This morning, I was wondering how deaf people wake themselves up in the morning, then I get into work and see THIS!

Here's a few tips from my experiences. Try www.projecteuler.net Yes, they're problems with a well defined goal. But it's always up to you how to go about doing them. It's probably one of the best sites to help you develop problem solving skills using programming and forces you to delve into the often vast pool of predefined classes and methods that you will undoubtedly use again in your future if you're a dedicated programmer. I'd also suggest trying to recreate programs you've used before. One of the first things I tried to recreate was minesweeper; a project that vastly improved my recursive function programming, frame organization, and event listening. The point I'm trying to make is, the best way to improve your skills and put the knowledge you already have to good use is to just program. Go out (Well, since we're talking programming, I guess we'll stay in) and just experiment. You don't even need to have a goal in mind. Experiment with the limits of a language. Go see how well arrays handle redefinition. Find instances where you prefer one method over another. Try to improve on your past work and examples that you've been given. Just do it.

A computer can do something in a fraction of the time it would take a human!

That way, you'll have the most stable and reliable connection imaginable.

Considering that this is the most complete topographical map to date, I doubt that anyone has ever compared two maps of 99% of the earth's surface.

It would be neat to have this done again in 50 years and have an overlay comparison of the two.

Honestly, I've never had a controller that I couldn't get into. Controllers may differ greatly from one system to the next, but it's rather easy to get acustomed to the feel of it. You can even find your own ways of using it. My friend thought I was nuts when he saw me holding the N64 controller by the right and the middle protrusions for certain parts of games, but that was the easiest way for me at the time and it worked. I don't think there has ever been or will there ever be a "perfect" controller because each one can be adapted to.

What will this do to the gold market? Will the guy on the Cash4Gold commercials become even more annoying and have larger graphs to show just how much he profits from buying gold from people at prices well below market price then selling it when the prices go up?

But that requires extra clicking. I can't be bothered to do that.

Google has always appealed to me because of it's VERY basic homepage. No extra crap unless you want it there (iGoogle). I understand that it would be hard for a website to thrive without a method of revenue, either through a store or ads, but I tend to stick with sites that keep ads to a minimum. I've even stopped going to sites because of the overbearing amounts of ads. Slashdot has a nice system too. Giving you the option to turn off ads if you contribute.

Right as I pressed submit, I figured I should explain my logic a bit more. First off, the formula I said is based off of the formula for the number of blocks in a pyramid of n layers with the number of blocks in layer increases by one when you go down one layer. It's just a sum of all the numbers from 1 to n. I'm also ignoring any server costs that the additional hosted domains may cause.

But would they really want to get rid of what I would imagine to be one of their biggest sources of revenue? Just using the numbers and the method you provided as an example[ $(35((n^2+n)/2))) for n domain names], someone would have to buy 44-45 domain names to bring in the revenue that one squater would bring in for buying 1,000 domain names at $35 each

"The domain registrar for FreeLegoPorn.com, GoDaddy.com, eventually shut down the site and transferred the domain name to Lego under ICANN rules." So if a domain name uses a trademarked name in an 'offensive' manner, it's perfectly fine to strip ownership of the domain from the person who registered it and then give it to the company whose name was used? - Similar situation from 2003: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/04/nyregion/04AMBE.html There are a few domain names I wanted that the damn domain name resellers beat me to, all I need to do is trademark a name that is a slight misspelling of the name and it's all mine! - Don't ruin my plan with your silly logic.

You know that part in Alien when the alien emerges from the guy's stomach? Well, we all know that kangaroos keep their young in pouches near the stomach. Coincidence? I think not.

They're trying to prove that it can fly at night using the energy it stored during the day. Would kinda defeat the whole purpose, wouldn't it?