The dude who runs the "#1 site for free tarot and astrology?"

In retrospect, he probably should have seen that reply coming.

At least it has rock-solid stability and a highly intuitive user interface going for it. For example, if I just tab over to Notes and hit Shift-CTRL-F9, it will automati

Ah yes, the elusive Supperman. I was very unhappy when Marvel finally decided to have him killed off by his arch-nemesis Bulimiax.

I still cherish my pristine copy of Supperman #103, in which he manages to incapacitate the entire Third Reich by making them fall asleep after a huge turkey dinner.

I see no evidence to convince me that any type of life exists on Mars, now, or ever.

That's probably because the type of life you seem to have in mind is pretty specific - by the rest of your comment: intelligent, large enough to be visible, and both located near and willing to interact with things that we've dropped on the surface.

There's a lot of living stuff right here at home that doesn't fit any of those categories, so there's no reason to automatically assume that there can't be any life at all on Mars.

You should also be able to comment on the comments. I propose a new "SideSideWiki" plugin to handle this problem.

In expansions (and even moreso in new games), Blizzard has identified the enthusiasts' interests and worked to further enable them. Their appreciation of enthusiasts and community has them labeled as a Smart Company in my book.

It's ironic that you use Blizzard as your example here, given that their response to bnetd established the precedent of using the DMCA to shut down reverse engineering.

So what exactly is an optical lattice, and why is it not considered part of the motor itself? Other than the fact that "motor made out of only two atoms!" is clearly a better-sounding story, that is.

They could easily add a thin layer of foil to the cardboard for RF shielding, without it being a metal case (where the metal is also structural and thus much thicker than you need for shielding).

I'm not so sure about that - according to the pictures in the engadget article someone linked to above, the case is made entirely of stacked cardboard with internal recesses cut out, kind of like a hollowed-out book. The designer of the case says this was to take advantage of the channels produced by corrugation for airflow, so covering up the exposed corrugated edges with foil would likely cause overheating problems.

I guess you could encase all of the internal components in wire mesh, but I don't know how practical that would be.

...Sheep can be traded for Bricks...

Q: What did the one Scotsman say to the other Scotsman while they were playing Settlers of Catan?

A: I've got Wood for Sheep!

Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Try the ve^H^Hlamb!

My impression of de Toro's movies is that he rides on the coattails of his director of photography, special effects, art, etc. Visually appealing, but how much of that is because of him?

There's a lot more there than just imagery, though. In both Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone, the visuals, while striking, are there to serve the story. If you contrast del Toro's work in the above two films with something like late-period George Lucas output, the difference is notable.

On the other hand, if these alternative methods pull the unmotivated and disinterested out of regular classrooms, maybe those classrooms would function better for those students who actually want to learn.

I'm personally in favor of this sort of educational diversity - not because I think many (or even most) of the alternatives are particularly effective, but because they serve to break up otherwise monolithic blocks of students into smaller groups. With our mandate to Leave No Child Behind, students are forced to learn at the pace of their slowest classmate, and breaking up the same number of students into smaller classes will allow at least some of them to learn at a faster pace better suited to their needs.

I don't know about you, but we've tried our own implementation of this phenomenon in our office fridge, and haven't gotten any good computational output. Sure, the General Tso's Chicken came up with a fairly solid quicksort implementation, but that Greenish Liquid That May or May Not Have Been a Salad At One Time still hasn't figured out basic pointer arithmetic, much less decent memory management.

It sounds like you're manually doing things that svn would rather handle itself - specifically, copy and merge. If you're doing those outside of the tool then you're going to confuse the hell out of the repository, which will in turn do its best to confuse the hell out of you :-)

Are you out of Tortage yet? If not, you should be aware that the game you're playing now is not the same game you'll be playing after around level 20.

I've played a lot of video games, and I can't recall another title that did as effective a bait-and-switch as AoC.

According to the article, it's a little from column A, and a little from column B - DNA has an intrinsic ability to self-assemble (A), and it's been studied to the point where the resultant forms of that self-assembly are pretty well known (B).

From reading TFA, it sounds like they're using a traditional lithographic technique to produce the substrate that is filled in by DNA. This DNA in turn self-assembles into structures that are more complex than can be reliably produced by lithography alone. Those structures are then coated in nanoparticles to form the actual IC interconnects.