What still-alive platform has a decent C compiler (crusty K&R ones don't count), but doesn't have a port of Perl?

Was there somebody who didn't know this was going on?  Petrochemical plutocrats were obviously behind this.  In many cases they didn't even bother to hide.

There are flickers you don't consciously perceive but nonetheless tire your eyes after long use. To show the effect you'd need a large randomized controlled trial. That does not mean no effect exists.

[T221s] Yup, me too, and I have mounted them in portrait format. Here's a photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7500206@N08/6851350945/

I have 1920x1440 in a 19" screen.

Sounds lovely - is it a CRT? If not what's it called? (A few years back you could get 1600x1200 LCDs but everything has become letterbox since then.)

It depends which monitor you have. A good monitor will have a wide viewing angle along both axes, but it's true that many cheaper ones are not usable in portrait format.

Overnight charges before a short trip are unreasonable. What if I need to use the car, "oh I can't drive my 101,000 dollar car tonight...it has to charge for 8 hours before I drive 265 miles."

First of all, the US has had missile defense via missiles since the 1960s with Nike-Zeus/Spartan and Sprint

"AEGIS" is the combat system, the US Navy's missile defense is - Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, a subset of Aegis and on some ships

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Ballistic_Missile_Defense_System

Overwhelming the system with missiles isn't going to happen, the primary threat nation (the Russian Federation) has nuclear capable cruise missiles, ICBMs and SLBMs limited through treaties, when China has enough to be a threat there will be a treaty with them too.

Remember that the hardware requirements for the rover were set in 2004, or when the PPC750 was 7 years old and the RAD750 was 3 years old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAD750

The 740/750 models had 6.35 million transistors on a 260 nm process has a die of 67 mm2

The RAD750 has 10.4 million transistors, is manufactured by BAE Systems using either 250 or 150 nm process and has a die area of 130 mm2

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Get one of these and you'll be OK up to F24: http://www.ebay.com/itm/110693794545

Airlines make all their profit from a tiny sliver of their customer-base who decide to be brand loyal.

The airlines themselves are always going bankrupt because it's nearly perfect competition.  Most people just buy the cheapest ticket from A to B, with no second thoughts.  These programs help create a small number of customers who fly a specific airline or alliance, which gives them a slight edge.

I won't take an extra trip because I'm Premier 1K, but it does make me more likely to book on United than US Airways, since in the one case I'm likely to get upgraded and in the other case I'm not.

French is the language of love!

This sounds reasonable to me - the telephone company has no business filtering phone calls, so it should not filter text messages either. Subscribers may choose to employ a spam-blocking service, which could be provided by other people than the phone company.

You can Frankenstein your laptop too... I bought a Dell and replaced the motherboard, processor and heatsink, memory, hard disk, wireless card, and part of the case. I have a replacement video card and keyboard waiting to be installed. But admittedly you cannot simply build a laptop from scratch.