Well, I have 2 AMD systems back home, one is from 2003 and the other is early 2006, both works fine, the older being my file server. About to upgrade and I cannot see any reason why not to go with AMD again.

Off course, this does not prove anything

I agree that the planet itself in not in trouble. However the current ecosystem is in a bit of peril, some say that we're currently living through the 6 great extinction of earth, but iirc the jury is still out on that one.
Anyway, nothing like a global spring cleaning once in a while! ;-)

well, reactors are a bit different than actual nukes, however I do agree it's bloody silly to keep them in LEO. For missions going elsewhere I can live with them.
Even US used nuclear power sources; voyager used RTGs iirc, although that bit more benign than actual reactors

well, it's far less cold than it used to be, despite the letest rattlings from russia. US and russia now sogned another agreement to get rid of some of their stockpile. I think russia and US are quite-ish happy with the current status quo.
Why shake the bees nest by creating am orbiting nuke? By doing that US basically tells the world it's not giving a damn about the treaties they agrees to and all hell will be breaking lose (russian, china, etc all putting nukes in LEO, seeling nukes to countries that should not have it, etc, etc)
Especially as mentined elsewhere, they already pretty much have this cabability with subs.

They might use it with things like a MOAB is similar but bigger in there, packs quite a punch as well

doubt that, nukes not allowed in space, don't think russia, et. al. would be too impressed if this turned out to be a nuclear payload delivery mechanism. Anyway, all that just sounds a bit cold war-ish and soooo last century. :-)

IMHO huge screens are great when coding as you can have your references around your editor/IDE, and you should really have at least 2 of them!

I read that as 'Ultrathin Silk-Based Breast Implants'...

oops.. oh well, shows what goes on in my head...

known about him since his ranting about why he left netscape when they decided to chuck out the old code and start fresh.
Nope, not a manager nor exec, which is regrettable from a monetary point of view I suppose, otherwise quite happy
Doubt I'd make a good boss anyway.. far to grumpy...

would be a great contender for fastest thing on land, just need to extend the landing strip a little bit!

geek card, hand it over, now

No does seems to be very fun at all, saw this TV programme (ccalled My street) in the UK that included a guy who had tourettes, he struggled to complete even a single sentence because of his ticks and you could see he how hard he tried to hold them back and failiing, ultimate frustration. At the end of the program there was a text that explained that he commited suicide while program was in after production. All very tragic.

hear, hear, well, think Eclipse is alright, decent solid IDE once you get to know it. Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA though rocks everything, best IDE ever.
Coming back to VS, the best part with it is that you can install the Jetbrains Resharper, which makes VS behave (almost) like IntelliJ!!

Well, wine is a far worse patent trap than mono nad companies still use it as basis for some linux ports

Also, MS extended their community promise (apparently legally binding) to not go after mono with patents:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/microsoft-issues-patent-promise-dispels-mono-concerns.ars

and directly from MS:
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx