You're correct that Eisenhower lead the largest amphibious invasion in World War II. Less well known, however, is that the allied amphibious assault of Sicily (Operation Husky) was larger than the Normandy landings (Operation Overlord). Operation Husky consisted of seven allied divisions; D-day consisted of five allied divisions.

Yea, I just finished my military history final two hours ago :)

Indeed "traditional" agriculture as you call it works in a lot of areas. In many areas of the west where we are dependent on irrigation, they don't work so well at all. And the very fact that commodity prices are so low pretty much prohibits more costly, organic, ways of doing things. I've been following organic farming for some time. I have yet to see how I can implement it on the scale I need to to stay in business. This is the catch-22 of modern agriculture. We need the scale we have (in fact we need to increase it dramatically), but at the same time we have to be environmentally friendly. We depend on the environment for our livelihood, indeed for our very lives.

Please cite the relevent law.

Do NOT cite what it says in your DMVs website; DMVs are notorious for printing what they want, regardless of actual law.

Never been married, huh?

I am an interested customer.

Tell me, do the laser cannons automatically come with the packaged shark/s? I have had problems assembling parts in these kind of situations before, so it would also be nice to know if the shark comes pre-attached to the laser, or if any soldering is required.

No, but I've seen the movie.

Its been stated before in interviews with NVIDIA developers that their drivers do share a common code base between all platforms. And as much as i would like to see their own 100% open source driver, I do understand there is likely licensing issues that prohibits that, as well as competitive concerns in releasing the source.
Mostly however I hope they keep their promise of 'not helping but nor hindering' the Nouveau project (I mean obviously more on the nor hindering part) Plus I how they would be of any gain by trying to hinder? other than causing a bad relations shit storm amongst the already divided opinions.
As for Noveau, it seems from my own and other experiences from Arch Linux forums that its as good as if not better than the xorg-nv driver anyway.
Seems they win mostly by not having to spend any development time on it.

If the trash over there is a big enough problem to require deodorant guns it sounds like it's also big enough to use those high-volume plasma incinerators.

Except that it's changed; according to the Wiki article, after France retook it after WWII, they pushed out all the Germans who had moved there since 1870 (that's 65 years' worth of immigrants), and also strictly forbade any public use of any language besides French, effectively oppressing the peoples' native languages.

So the demographics of the area now are probably quite different from pre-WWII due to these policies.

Personally, I think it would have been nicer if they let the inhabitants of the region vote on what they wanted, whether to join one country or another, or to be independent.

Oh, there's been plenty of discussion about it, just check out the forums over at http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/

The options are pretty much as follows:

Earth to LEO:
* COTS/CCDev (Atlas V, Delta IV, SpaceX, Orbital, etc.)
* DIRECT

LEO to Lagrange/Moon/asteroids/Mars/etc
* Earth Departure Stage, typically based on LH2/LO2, like the ULA's ACES or whatever DIRECT uses
* hypergolics
* using in-orbit refueling (either direct refueling or propellant depots) with either LH2/LO2 or hypergolics
* VASIMR

The point behind the new plans for NASA is that many of these ideas will be developed and tested in parallel, and the ones which work better in practice will be used for actual missions.

Wouldn't it full of mature immune system cells known to harbor HIV anyway?

I think it's interesting that the cells themselves can hide in the progenitor cells, that's clever, but I wouldn't think transplants would be done from HIV carriers to healthy individuals even if the HIV blood levels were reduced to undetectable levels by medicines -and- the cells of the tissue themselves weren't known to carry the virus because the blood always could. I know similar precautions are taken with blood donations and cancer. Blood banks won't take blood from you if you've ever had a melanoma, even if it was caught early and burned off 20 years previously source. The chances that you have lingering cells with metastatic potential at that point has got to be far below the chances that you have independent cancer cells circulating. I'd also assume that due to immune system rejection, any cancer cells from another person aren't going to infect you unless you are a Tasmanian devil.

Better err on the safe side, it's not like it's as annoying as FAA regulations that are clearly crap.

Anyway, back on the point: I don't think they'd transplant any tissue from an HIV carrier to a healthy person even without the current finding.

having only tried TF2 via wine once about a year ago, i'd be inclined to agree with the AC. i got it running, and semi-playable, but the graphics were a little sluggish and stuttery - even on low settings, with directx adjustments and all the other tweaks recommended on winehq. it was enough of a performance hit to make me resigned to running a dual-boot system.

i'll check out playonlinux though, thanks for the link.

(hopes to god that it works, since my win7rc is expiring, i only own a copy of winXP 32bit, and having an entire second OS solely for the purpose of playing 2 or 3 games is getting old regardless...)

"on OSX you just target quicktime for audio and video playback."

I hate to nitpick, but on OS X using QuickTime for audio got depreciated long ago. In fact, it's entirely gone in 64 bit. You're supposed to use CoreAudio or OpenAL now.

Sorry, I just didn't want people thinking that on the Mac we were still basing our audio code on a creaky ancient proprietary API. :)

(QuickTime X, on the other hand, is brand new, rebuilt from the ground up, and great at doing hardware accelerated video. But it doesn't include an audio API like the old QuickTime sound manager.)

"It's not stated, but I assume by "Mac" he means "Intel Mac" and not "Intel and PPC Macs". Anyone know any different? (I have a PPC mac and never intend to buy another.)" ...why? That's the stupidest stand on principle I've ever heard.

However you want to crumble the cookie (RISC vs. CISC, Hypertransport, etc), any Intel Mac these days is going to be far faster on any benchmark than a PPC. And Intel deserves kudos, they did a great job with the original Core Duo, and blew away the PPC in performance. Not to mention they designed a chip that was far more power efficient than the PPC.

If the PPC was still great technology I'd sympathize, but by none of todays standards is it still a good chip.

(And I say this as a developer who was in the room when Steve announced the Intel transition at WWDC 2005, and I was involved with the Mac PPC->Intel transition.)