Saphires are made off aluminum oxides http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire and they are already used in helicopter windows.

Being a web dev myself, I do appreciate the importance of optimization but static files are definitely not the cause of such performance issues.

Usually, it's either application load or database load.

These "experts" are giving really "obvious" comments. The point of architecture problems is most likely the culprit, or simply, they've just haven't planned very well for the amount of data transfer that the system would have to handle.

First thing that crossed my mind as well. Especially the way he was grabbing that tiny nob. :) Blinkin form Robinhood Man in Tights is going to be so happy.

I don't think this is a matter of lazy or stupid. There are smart people all over the world. Finding them is the problem. Also, the US thrives because of smart people, so why not give incentive to the special ones to come over?

The sample size is truly ridiculously small. I would expect some rigor from people before publishing these results.

I bet this guy had no idea he was being recorded. He looks like he just woke up. I kept staring at his beard thinking that a bird would come out of it, like in Family Guy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnyEiXFyK10

I thoroughly enjoyed it. Really cool performance.

And we found the grammar Nazi.

Gentlemen we found Magneto's cousin, ElectroMangeto. His powers are retarded though.

Correlation and causality are not the same. Also, I really would like people to stop publishing articles on "Scientists say", a study found, etc without publishing a link to the peer reviewed article so we can understand what is going on. If we don't have such reasons we can make this sort of reasoning too: "Northern latitudes are have less light during winters, and people have bigger brains to deal with the depression that is associated with lack of light." Of course I just pulled that out of my behind, and it's only meant to indicate that any yahoo can come up with some theory behind correlation. So, you have to control for all sorts of variables before making such conclusions, but heck, we just care about the 2 line summary, eh?

It looks like "Watchmen" inspired someone, to make toys and become the richest person on earth. Hail George Lucas!

I watched the movie while coding on a project and I remember liking it. I have found out that bad movies are not as bad if you code while watching them. This allows one to only allocate to the move a very small fraction of brain power. You'll feel happy because you actually did something, and that you did two things at the same time.

Hmm, I was thinking of how Mebroot installs itself in the MBR of the drive. Maybe looking at that code might help you. :) However, I don't think one has to deal with firmware. I think writing a simple filesystem that writes or seeks sequentially only might be a better way of dealing with this issue. I think there are a couple such file systems for NAND flash that pretty much work this way. Then, you can put all your directory structures at one end and all files on the other end of the drives.

Heard the music and it sucked!

I once (well okay twice) used the "net send /domain" command to just creep everyone in my college of 1,500. The funny thing is that, I don't think the admins would have figured out it was me because they didn't track MAC addresses at the time. Was I the first? PS: probably not!