The moon's orbit is getting wider because it orbits slower than the Earth rotates.

The tides aren't just 'pulled up' by the moon, they also pull on the moon. The changing shape of the Earth('s oceans) due to the tides being moved by the speed of the Earth's rotation, adds energy to the Moon's orbital motion. The added energy forces the moon into a higher orbit. That energy isn't free, it's extracted from the rotational energy of the Earth itself. So as the Earth's rotation slows, so does the Moon get pushed into ever higher orbit.

That's my ROM! :D

Unfortunately apparently the floppy disk bootstrap code is broken on metal (I don't have a floppy drive to test with yet). I don't know anything about the FD1797, and damn little about the Z80 - so all this together means I'm having some trouble figuring out where to even start.

But there's the source code, if anyone can fix it.

The head end can be emulated - there's 5 different implementations that I know of. Booting from floppy requires a ROM upgrade.

They did. For example, puzzle zero's capitalized letters form the pattern RPASSWODMIXSWAP...

A variation of the old Door in the Face strategy.

Your numbers and/or units are wrong.

> 33,480,000 bytes

That is only 33.48 megabytes.

But your error is before that.

3600 * 24 * 31 = 2678400 sec/month (that one you got right)
2678400 sec/month * 100,000,000 bits/sec = 267,840,000,000,000 bits/month (you had an error here)
267,840,000,000,000 bits/month / 8 bits/byte = 33,480,000,000,000 bytes/month
33,480,000,000,000 bytes/month / 1,000,000,000 bytes/gigabyte = 33,480 gigabytes/month
33,480 gigabytes/month * 15 $/gigabyte = $502,200

I thought Mexico was region 4, like Brazil. o.o;

-uso.

A friend of mine refers to some of our servers as running "Linux" when in fact they run FreeBSD. (Others do run Linux, but not the ones he uses.)

"The more you tighten your grip, Governor Tarkin..."

I think I've seen more Ford tractors around than John Deere. With this, I expect that to become even more true.

MS gets too aggressive with updates, and people who wouldn't mind less aggressive updates get annoyed and turn off auto-updating altogether, for better or worse...

I did that with my tablet after an automatic update left me stuck at the login screen until I figured out how to roll back the update.

-uso.

Let's hope.

I had mixed feelings about him before (figured he was a blowhard with honest intentions) but now that it seems he's in Putin's pocket, I remain convinced that Ecuador did the right thing.

-uso.

Part of the problem is that there's a push to put as many high school students into college (even 2-year college) as possible, even those who would be better served going to vocational schools.

Protip: You can't outsource blue collar work.

-uso.

I've done native code on Windows in industrial safety and automation. You'd think that's an oxymoron, but it can be made sufficiently robust.

I've dealt with bugs in Microsoft's SDKs, and dealt with multiple generations of drawing APIs. Played WoW and other games on WINE on Gentoo. Watched the incessant scrolling of FIXMEs on the console.

I'd love it if I could get paid to hack on WINE...