I want a bed that does the chores!

But then why would I screw my wife on it?

  I'd screw her on the *other* bed so the first one could keep doing the chores...

Is there really a need for "interesting solutions" in yet another 3-layer web app? It's a serious question as I don't do this kind of work. But it seems to me that this stuff is already so well known that production sites shouldn't be looking for new interesting (and thus untested) ways of hacking together queries. Forcing programmers to do things "the right way" for established designs and purposes doesn't really seem like a problem to me, though I'm sure it takes some of the fun out of it.

I've been reading through the threads here in my usual shallow manner, and I can't seem to stop reading AFACT as AFAICT. Thus "AFACT is an organisation..." becomes "As far as I can tell is an organisation...". I just have to give up.

hmmm... While I think this is an excellent idea, I do really think it warrants some testing. It would be rather unfortunate to have this plan fail with your flaming corpse splattering intact into the middle of I5 or some kid's birthday party. But on second thought, that might be a pretty epic fail and may be a better idea than the original.

Regardless, testing is required. We just need some human analogues. Now, where did I put my kids...

bc++

I'll jump on the AOL-that bandwagon.

I've been using xmonad for a while (maybe a couple of years? since version 0.4 or something anyway), and I'll probably never leave it. It's just so ridiculously easy once you hop over the learning curve. It's fast and simple. The community support is great too. ++xmonad.

mmmm... twinkie....

They can cross that off the list and carry on with other solutions to the

problem...

This is so true that I'm willing to suffer with two really crappy old crt's that need focusing rather than return to just one monitor.

fingers crossed for a couple of new flatscreens for xmas!

Did u find ur bukkit?

No small part of the unsprung weight is the brake structure and at least part of the weight of the drive shaft. An in-wheel motor serves both as drive and brake. Putting 4 motors in means you get to make each motor smaller to provide the same power. Further, the transmission losses of a current drivetrain (both in the transmission itself and in the u-joints of the drive shaft) are greatly minimized if not eliminated altogether allowing a further reduction in motor size.

I have no idea how this all adds up in terms of unsprung weight, but I suspect it may be close to a wash. But that's only a guess and I'm too lazy to do the research on it.

for the cocktails required to survive that drivel.

Black Guy: "Can you believe Microsoft put the launch of windows 7 in our hands?!"
Group: *laughs*
Black Guy: "Are they nuts or what?!"
Group: *laughs*
White Guy: "(maybe|only)*** by letting you be involved!"
Group: "ooh harsh!"

If only they had followed up with

Black Guy: *pounds White Guy for being a jerk*
White Guy: *screams like a girl while blood gushes from his nose*
Women: *laughs*

it would have avoided

Me: *pukes*

***unintelligible

Will Telkom play fair? Or will they throw resources at the problem to ensure they win? I really don't know a thing about network transport, so what I suggest may not even be possible in the time alloted. The marketing aspects are interesting too. Does Telkom generate good will by taking its lumps good-naturedly and then make real efforts to fix its problems? I suspect that rigging the game could actually do more harm than good.

Of course copyright holders have rights. But those rights do not include the right to physically control what I do with my personal property. period.

If their business model does not work without physically controlling what I do with my hardware, then their business model is broken.

Kindle is a bad example as we've recently seen with their deletion of copies of 1984. Many more people are now aware of what exactly can be done with DRM type control of the user's machine.

Just because no one notices doesn't make it right. If you don't notice that someone has inserted a root-kit in your machine, but hasn't made use of it yet, is that okay? If you don't notice that someone has a backdoor in your OS that allows them to delete certain files from your machine without your knowledge or consent, is that okay? No.