Comment No way! (Score 5, Funny) 262
Comment No if we could fix this... (Score 1) 243
Comment Purple? (Score 1) 683
Comment Re:Why Firefly? (Score 1) 922
Big Dipper "Star" Actually a Sextuplet System 88
Comment Re:VMS? (Score 1) 875
We still have a bunch of Alphas scattered here and there running OpenVMS. I expect them to be around for a while longer too. They are remarkably stable systems.
I noticed MPX-32 is still around (I actually worked on that one).
I also use Windows, Linux and OS-X... but get off of my lawn anyway!
Comment Re:Heaven forbid... (Score 1) 517
On a lighter note: don't forget that with only a few exceptions, the ones who end up in a jury are the people too stupid to get out of it.
I don't know why this is on a lighter note; this is a real problem. People on juries are people with a strong sense of social responsibility and people too stupid to get out of it. You can probably guess the ratio of the former to the latter. Given how important a functioning judiciary is to society, jury service really ought to be better rewarded, so competent people don't have such a strong incentive to get out of it.
Personally I believe jury duty is an important civil responsibility so I never attempt to get out of jury duty. On the other hand... I might be stupid too.
Comment Hey wait a minute! (Score 1) 527
Comment Re:Videogames in 1982? (Score 1) 320
Comment The library? (Score 1) 369
Comment Re:The beauty of this book (Score 1) 199
Comment Re:Welcome to Last Week (Score 1) 256
Comment Re:Old news (Score 1) 256
Comment Re:I live in the southwest US (Score 2, Insightful) 487
On the other hand... if I lived in California, the last thing I would want my house built of is concrete block (or brick for that matter). Earthquakes do very bad things to masonary structures.
You build for where you live, for the materials available in the area and the conditions you expect your house to have to stand up to.