So... just keep the organism as is, treat waste in an oxygen free environment. Simple, effective, expensive to treat existing contamination, but at least the organism cannot cause trouble if it cannot live in the open.

well. I just think it is sad that people know so little about the history of their prime medium.

uuencode, base64. wget.

Thee have all been mentioned, but the ability to hack together means to send messages under any circumstances is our history. It is the way the internet was built.

Is this really the state of geek culture? "How the hell do I do this?" rather than going out, looking things up and making it happen?

You are not the only one.

The spec that matters most to me is the idle time power. The phenom processors have tended to be on the high side.

Tom's hardware has an interesting commentary on this in its review. The i7 processor has a much lower power consumption at idle. However, the power consumption of an intel system as a whole is much higher.

The AMD Phenom II contribution to the ring seems to be an improvement in this respect, with lower idle power than ye olde phenom.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/phenom-ii-940,2114.html