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I really expect MRAM to be on the scene before flash is seriously competitive with mechanical drives.

It depends, of course, upon your particular glasses and what you're trying to protect against... but I've only ever *needed* "safety" glasses when working with chemicals which would cause eye problems (lacrimators, for example) outside of a hood, or when in a plant with high levels of particulates.

Fushigi needs a little more accounting....

Not on trans-Atlantic flight....

Having worked in chemistry and biology labs, as well is in industrial facilities, having glasses is a great way to always have your eyes protected....

People tend to think of a car as a vehicle, and not as an investment with transportation perks....

You have to push *a lot* of volume at those prices....

Translation: He wants more car than he can really afford.

Possibly... its true. Foxit is a pretty cruddy piece of software. It doesn't interpret some PDF correctly or respect certain security settings.

Who, other than a large OEM, buys CD-ROMs over DVD combo drives of some sort? At retail, is there even a meaningful difference in price?

Tried installing/running in compatability mode. It works... sometimes.

Australians.... can't even choose. At least Canadians know what it's aboot.

Civ3 was only on the cusp of capturing my interest... Alpha Centauri still seems to me to be a better game. When SMAC2 comes up, it'll merit much closer consideration.

How many known security flaws in your operating system is acceptable? Once you hit that limit, you'll need to upgrade.

Hardly. Look at the Great Vowel Shift and English's half-assed spelling. You cannot blame the Americans for that!

It sounds like a 3D rehash of Civ3.

I'm literate. I speak English. I live in a corner of the globe. It is therefore English. I declare it to be so, and it is is. Keep in mind, now, folks, that nothing that Tannin types here can be "English" because he's "Australian." Or something like that.

Perhaps it's a lack of acceleration?

You have to realise that all RTS games of this genre are very similar. It *is* what they are all about. Armies of Exigo is a considerably more inspired rip-off of the genre than War Craft III. I don't play a lot of RTS multiplayer as I don't have time to think. Basically, I show up and get...

Baloney. I use it. Most folks in the mid-Atlantic states use this construction. Even those who don't use it understand what it means. It's also in the dictionary. That makes it true.

You asked about how to work around a bad decision. It would be more intelligent to fix the problem, instead....

I thought that DNS stood for "domain name system"; this makes "DNS server" sensical. This is contraction. For better or worse, it's now an acceptable construction in English.

I believe that this is called, "I put my desktop computer in a bad location."

I'm sorry kids, but you have it wrong. The "last" of anything is the immediately previous one. So, last Sunday is the immediately previous Sunday; in this case, the day before (why wouldn't they say yesterday?). Last July was July, 2005. July, 2005, is "a year ago, last July." I'm torked...

Holy crap! That looks exactly like the Chevrolet Chevy!

If anything, the visuals are very good... I found the game considerably more interesting that Warcraft III.

I would suggest a good drill and some cat5.

The problem with Saabs these days, is that they're starting to look a lot like Saturns. Did anyone else notice that the new Mustang looks surprisingly like a Jaguar?

They're not looking out for the long-term interests of the shareholder. The three-quarters outlook that most large corporations use is entirely too short to see the worst impacts of business decisions.

My copy of Generals is permanently on loan to a friend. The single player just isn't interesting to me. Have you tried Armies of Exigo?

I made a post in the BARTER section of Craigslist recently. I was contacted by a guy who is, more likely than not, an idiot, wanting to BUY the items which I wanted to trade with. I let him know that I was looking to BARTER not BUY, and suggested that, if he was willing to buy the items, that...

Okkay, I'll ask. Why would you want to do that?

If your scanner is TWAIN or WIA, then Photoshop can plug into the native software for scanning. Cuts out the middle man.

Gaming has been really uninspiring lately. The accountants have wrested control. The only game that I've bought in the last six months is Nintendogs -- and that wasn't for me.

Some of these are just confusions. Folks who didn't learn anything in elementary school English. What really peaves me is this stupid-ass IM-speak. Anyone see the pre-merger Sprint ad with the twins? "where ru" "bright back"

I suppose you could, except that you'd be wrong. You eyes grow directly from your brain. There are also a group of cranial nerves -- all of which are internal -- that grow directly from your brain. So, unless you're doing some serious slicing and dicing, that's the only part of your brain...

I'm personally a little touchy about putting bits of plastic on the only part of my brain that sticks out.

Things that piss me off: I'm a a bad speller... but this guy isn't even trying. "You" has three letters in it, damn it!

And where are you going to get your sacred underwear anyway?

So, uh, what's IDN?

Whose economy? They can't trust just anyone to do this. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints produces all of this stuff, itself, through subsidiaries. This is to say, the Mormon church is raking it in.

Barbara, don't you think it's time take that silver spoon out of his mouth?

Perhaps so, although the impression that I've gotten from my friends at Apple and IBM is that it was getting too expensive to make the technological improvements that Apple wanted. The Macintosh is a niche market, especially as far as the processor is concerned; there really aren't any other...

Wasn't that Truman, not Roosevelt? http://www.trumanlibrary.org/buckstop.htm At least, that's what his library says....

I have to disagree. IBM's production engineers are the best in the world. Unlike Intel, IBM not only makes in-house design chips, but is also a fab-for-hire. Using cutting-edge technology, and doing it well and in quantity *is* their job.

http://www.dogeatdogfilms.com/tv/polls.html

Get a bike.... with a back seat. You'l save thousands on car insurance -- better than Geico.

It's amazing how much better things can be when the legislative and executive are held by different parties. Something about accountability....

Okkay. I'll ask. Why would you do that?

If you'll excuse my Acadian... The mayor said, "Oh, shit! Call the governor!" The governor said, "Oh, shit! Call the feds!" The feds said, "Please fill out a 3945672 stroke 734 in triplicate with your emergency request, and we'll get back to you right away." The mayor said, "Oh, shit! Send...