Yep. This is one of the first stories I remember reading on /. Here's the paper from 2002.

I'm guessing you're defining "never" to mean "not in my 20 year life time"

There's some truth to it, even a completely idle system seems to delay writing. Try it yourself: mount a USB stick, and copy some stuff to it. The LED on the flash stick often doesn't even start blinking until you issue the command to eject, when it finally starts writing.

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~lowe/keypoints/ Here's a page for SIFT, and early image keypoint detector

Well, it still hasn't happened to Slashdot

My friend, I hope this has been a valuable lesson for you. It should have been obvious several posts ago with all the ducking and weaving around sales vs market share that you're talking with an unrelenting Apple fanboy, but we're all only human, and in the heat of the moment it's easy to miss the signs.

Next time, I trust you'll spot the warning signs earlier and bow out before it's too late.

Actually, if the difference between life and death is 30 seconds, then a paramedic getting to you 30 seconds sooner will make all the difference. Take it from a paramedic.

My default gateway already is 127.0.0.1, you insensitive clod!

Marriage tip: Just be a good fella and sort the damn LEDs out, eh? She's probably not making it all up.

You know, by encouraging off-topic discussion in the first post you're polluting your own discussion forum, forcing people to scroll through pages and pages of off-topic crap to get to the actual discussion.

Can users also log in and completely miss the point?

You have a mental illness. Get some help before you hurt someone or yourself.

Parking pawls are flimsy, and constant use will wear out transmission components, making it even more dangerous to rely on.

BULLSHIT.

and you'll see that the "park" gear is a dinky soft cast iron pawl.

So? Hook a rope up to that car and try to tow it, and you'll find that "dinky soft cast iron pawl" stands up to the challenge perfectly, and the wheels will skid. There's no point in engineering it any better.

Another example: dock color. This is such a dumb preference but I cannot imagine why they don't make it user customizable. I like dark colored dock backgrounds, they look better on the desktop backgrounds I choose. But Apple simply will not make them customizable.

Actually, you've got two choices, light and dark, which sounds like it might suit you. It's not in the Dock Control Panel, of course. It's in General.