I'm betting you don't, either, if you think knowing how to deal with any particular OS makes you computer-savvy. There's a lot more under the hood, like how modern memory management works.

Unfortunately no. While you can build equipment designed to build smaller robots, there are more factors than just size as to whether these things will operate. For instance, you run into physical limits such as the strength to move themselves that have to be worked around , as well as several physics and electrical concerns.

Sigh, indeed...we've been planning this downtime (which involves a major upgrade to our streaming capabilities) for weeks now, so it would figure that we would get Slashdotted at precisely this moment!

We're also busy readying some cool new features to be released by the end of the week...subscribers will also have access to a beta site (beta.last.fm) later today to try out some of these new goodies.

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