The problem isn't 32 bit applications, it's 16 bit applications. The new 64 bit processors can run 16 bit programs, but not while they're running in 64 bit mode. If you use a 32 bit OS on the 64 bit processor it will still run the 16 bit applications. And yes, that still matters. There are hardware controllers for very expensive specialized industrial equipment that still use 16 bit control programs to work.

If sodium is a better conductor by weight, would it make sense to use it for space applications where oxidation isn't an issue and every gram counts? Or would the complications during manufacturing balance this out?

So tech workers now, who are very numerous, are making less then tech workers during the peak of the DotCom hysteria, when they were quite scarce? Shocking.

You're being much too generous. You didn't "need to run Windows 95 as Admin", there was no access control in the system at all for running applications. The closest you got to access control was that you could set a password on network shares. The login process only switched you to your own profile.

I tried a couple of searches for Canadian political parties and it didn't turn up anything at all. Is this completely US-centric?

I assure you, bad code can be written in any language.

I'm don't think those two options are mutually exclusive. In fact, I think that trying to create a complete ecosystem in gradually larger and larger bottles may give people the perspective they need to realize that the planet we live on is just a really big container and we still need to take the same precautions we would trying to live in any other.

Is there a chance that people running Linux in a VM will end up getting hit twice as hard due to fixes in both the Linux kernel and the hypervisor?

You can probably also run the program on 32 bit Windows 7 or possibly newer. I'm not sure how easy it is to get 32 bit versions now, though.

I think most people significantly overrate their "mental ability to completely tune them out as visual noise."

In the press conference after the launch, Elon Musk specifically said that the grid fins would be made from titanium instead of aluminum on the final revision of the Falcon 9 so it would not suffer from that problem.

Wouldn't this device just push itself out of the L1 point if it worked? Deflecting the solar wind should transfer momentum to the magnet, then it should fall in towards Mars. No?

Is this carefully worded statement just a way of saying this battery weighs a ton, but doesn't take up much space?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/reyha... No lawsuit from this one, or at least none mentioned. Same lack of support, though. I don't remember if anything came of this being posted.

The definition of "failsafe" depends a great deal on where you are. In areas where it's cold more than it's hot, the heater running at full blast definitely is the failsafe condition. I have had to deal with that exact issue. Midsummer we had a failure in the temperature control system. All the heaters were running full blast. I was told it's part of the building code here, a requirement.