England and our colonies?

Always been a fan of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE_5eiYn0D0 recording. Coolness of pilots just about to ditch it down is rather impressive.

"We're unable. We may end up in the Hudson."

You are a confused man and it appears you might have never used ether one of those.

The use cases are completely different. You cannot seriously talk about substituting BerkeleyDB with PostgreSQL (not that it wouldn't work, but it is so far at each extremes of persistence spectrum when it comes to functionality and operational overhead that they might as well be from different planets).

Actually I felt that the movie was ruined due to 3d. If half of your movie consists of blatant 'show-off 3d' shots it's rather hard to enjoy the story.

I tried.

Now, let's hope that Hollywood follows suit. The situation where there are no movies to watch because everything is ether in 3d or in the shittiest corner screens is slightly disappointing. At least when I want to give them some money.

Meh. One thing we can deduct for sure is that in chance of (dead certainty) there being an actual intelligence out there - they will keep good distance from us.

So, let's give up the cities then?

That fuckwit took the office, rewrote the constitution for his religious liking and got rid of any judges he didn't like. The problem wasn't the democratic elections, but what happened afterwards.

Let's not forget that after getting Democratically elected the government did a little 180, changed the constitution to Islamic spew of hate and shut down majority of judicial oversight. There wouldn't be another democratic elections, in example.

So yeah, strangely enough, a year after having lost to protests Egyptian army seem to be stepping up as the good guys. We'll see how it goes.

Define: energy.

You meant software architects, not programmers, right?

I don't even think you made that up. But which is the 'other' article?

Whoa, whoa, whoa there. In actuality they got slightly drunk, exchanged a bunch of good jokes, couple - not so good ones, arrived at the destination, posed for couple of photos and got their PA's rattle off some politically correct stuff.

The only think what is unsure is why - surely they can afford the flight? Perhaps the whole idea was a brainchild of somebody looking for a knighting and this seemed like a good and reliable way to start associating him/her-self with 'multi-faceted visionaries that are providing insights on how to expand our reach into future'?

Sure, but don't forget that for residental connections there is quite large fixed component of latency in the last mile. IIRC circa 20ms for cable, 5-6ms for DSL and 2-3ms for radio (commercial uplink models, not modded wifi routers).

Would have been a great deal at launch, with all the implications of shipping in thousands and somebody perhaps maybe bothering with more software for it. Nowadays - not quite so.

Ecosystems have value. Their fate is often determined at launch.