Or the US could order 10.9 fewer 'new' long range bombers; I don't think it would drastically hurt our defense capabilities. I don't think the guys fighting for the DoD contract would be too happy, though. http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/05/07/238250/americas-next-bomber-unmanned-unlimited-range-aimed-at-china

I am not impressed. I would be impressed if he made a sledding hill out of ice that doesn't melt but turns directly into gas!!!

The only way I would ever subscribe to cable is if the salesman were Jim Carrey, and he took me to Medieval Times for some ale and wenches.

Kind of like, say, ants? I heard they were pretty successful at the survival thing.

You could, but what your saying would be illegal. There is a difference. I also just realized I am responding to bonch, so this post is worthless.

I was going to make the same comment as the P.P. The article said that areas with individual competition should represent a higher number of lefties. Their analysis makes sense with baseball being higher than football, but the way their model is explained the most individual sports (golf, ping pong) should be the highest. Also, once at the professional level, course design is not much of a factor for left vs. right handed golfers.

This guy already did... http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Minecraft-Calculator-Graphing-MaxSGB-Scientific,15109.html.

It's called South Dakota.

correlate with supernovae rate? This is a interesting analysis and paper, although I think it is hard to draw the distinction when only two (or three, if you count bacteria over all time) clades have actually 'dominated' the earth, reptiles and mammals. I don't know enough about classification to also include the oceans, but it is my understanding that they contain relatively low biomass other than microorganisms. I guess you could consider some sort of insect or arthropod for both, but those have dominated fairly consistently with bacteria as far as I know.

Good analogy...

Hate replying to myself, but I think it might be worthwhile to add: I have seen the internal workings of the water control systems of my fairly modest local area (3,000,000 area, largest municipal serves ~200-300 K). I would hate to see what happened if any of those controls were maliciously compromised, as it could lead to problematic flooding or draining municipal systems. I am concerned that the major controls for these systems are maintained computationally, but the tradeoff has been reduction in monitoring, and there may not be enough people on staff to mechanically secure the system if something seriously goes wrong. ~Fear mongering late on a Monday night.

I have absolutely no professional or political insight on this issue. Circumstantially, I think it is fairly convenient that the recent controversy about Hormuz and the duplication of the drone happened recently and this story broke, along with the whole stuxnet business. I am not comp-sci literate enough to even understand what happened with that (although, I might be on par with a lot of folks who are dealing with these issues). Are we entering a new stage of 'cyber-warfare' that has been talked about since basically WWII, or are we talking about local infiltration of systems looking to debase a reigning power regime? Is this a serious national problem for Iran, or is it Imperialistic forces taking pre-emptive steps? I probably will never know, but I would like to, just because I am a huge nerd.

the musical fruit, The more you eat, the more you toot! The more you toot, the better you feel, so eat your beans with every meal!! -a song my mom used to sing to me as a child. I'll never forget it.

We already have achieved immortality, but those who retain it are stuck behind the Great Seal.

Nice post! I am running a ten year old Dell on XP with a 15 year RT monitor (I broke the nice 21 inch or whatever they were selling in 2002, and replaced it with a 'throwaway' 17 inch CRT from a friends business). The only thing I have replaced in the machine is the video card, and it is still going strong. I admit that the last high end game I bought was HL2, but it plays nicely. I am not a person that buys into the 'three year old hardware is obsolete' crowd, but the 'planned failure' model pisses me off. I am writing this post from a 2009 netbook my brother bought, HD failed, so I installed Ubuntu linux from live boot to a USB external HD. Works fine.