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First poster's alarms must not be working.

Nevermind I found the preference setting. I would edit my message but I can understand why *that* particular feature isn't allowed.

I wish I still had the bottle but I don't. A few years ago I found an old glass bottle buried in my backyard, clearly stamped on the bottom with a low 6 digit patent number (started with a 1 too). I typed the patent number into google and it directed me to a copy of the patent clearly listing it as a perfume bottle and including a single diagram picture of that exact bottle. Not only was it interesting, I think of it as sort of a personal milestone in the evolution of the internet. That was the day that Google's knowledge expanded to the point that they KNEW WHAT WAS BURIED IN MY BACKYARD. The bottle itself was pretty awesome, it was designed in such a way to hold the liquid inside by surface tension even when tipped upside down, and would dispense a single drop when touched to your wrist. In other words, patent worthy. P.S. Why doesn't the form submission on a technology oriented website save the paragraph breaks? This isn't 1998 anymore is it?

I don't use Hulu, but I don't think it would matter much on Youtube. I've got a 10/2 from Verizon FIOS, and as noted by a few previous comments they are one of the few that actually do a good job of providing the maximum throughput at any given time. I swear a few times I've actually gone over 10Mbps.. Anyway Youtube seems to have very aggressive... hmm no, "optimistic" streaming settings on the server side, and will grudgingly dole out just enough chunks to keep it a few seconds ahead of the playback whenever possible. It is rare I use even a 10th of throughput on any given video, and I've taken to pausing anything I want to watch for 30 seconds or so, go do something else, then come back and hit play to avoid any potential interruptions.

That's why you look for them at night!

Wait..what? Leap years dude. =]

I always laugh when I read this. AGW is not some sort of diety that you can choose to believe in or not, it's a scientific hypothesis. It may be a hypothesis that turns out to be wrong, but it certainly will not be because of your 'disbelief'.

OK so IANAS (sailor...) but I thought the ability to tack against the wind was due to the interaction between the hull/rudder and the water. There's nothing to um, grab onto in space, so I can't see how you can get any impulse in any direction other than directly away from the sun?

...removing all the juicy tidbits before releasing 400 million pages of meaningless filler.

Sounds like you are hitting the limits of either your ram or disk cache. (in FF) Install the Cache Status addon. Sure it's a bloated interface to what is essentially a few preference settings, but it gives you a visual status in your um, status bar.

I like the cut of your jib. Complex games are great, and when I was younger I could sit down and play 8 hours of Wasteland or Legacy of the Ancients. Now I get my gaming in smaller chunks, but it means I have dozens of epic games with various save points that I can pick up at any time. Come to think of it, somewhere I have a C64 emulator ROM saved game for Wasteland, and stored somewhere at my brothers house I bet I still have a saved Wasteland game on the original floppies. Heh.

Stop being so pedantic or I will hack your internets.

Tired of this misconception. Seriously. I've been using Windows software for 14 years, and I have NEVER had to do a full system reinstall. EVER. People who need to reinstall Windows all of the time are doing something really really wrong. I'm not sure what, nor do I care. I'm not a zealot, Windows sucks in more ways than I can shake a stick at. I've done my fair share of cursing and screaming at it over the last decade and a half, but there hasn't been a damn thing I haven't been able to fix without the need to reinstall the whole thing.

There is a large overlap of SVG and VML features, and framework libraries available if you don't feel like working them out yourself. So not impossible, and VML is even supported by IE 6.