Spectacular view....

That small (low-gravity), and that close to it's sun?

I wonder if you'd get some outgassing - kind of like the biggest comet you've ever seen, outgassing (in imagination anyway) iron, silicates, etc, etc. Pity I'll never see some pics ...

Needs to be said again, Roadsigns?

Over 20 years ago I drove through Mildura from Melbourne going to Broken Hill (and I was a Queensland boy).

One glance at a paper map from RACV was all you needed to know that if you stayed on the highway - you had to hit Mildura. I mean the highways were drawn up to connect the cities.... Though when they made that bypass past goondiwindi in SW qld years ago, it confused me a little. But certainly an unpaved road is not going to lead to a city....

Actually I blame the car rental companies - I flew down to OZ a few months ago and rented a car - no more free maps, can't even rent maps - have to rent their GPS at 12aud per day - pirates!

Did they fix Cairns yet?

I seem to recall when it was released they relocated Cairns (120,000) 100km further north, past Port Douglas, up into the Daintree Rainforest.....

Considering there is no road there, and you would have to pass Cairns(*) first, I assume nobody got lost there.

(*) unless coming from the Atherton Tablelands - but a bit hard to miss the signs

Personally I loved OS/2

And no doubt others will flame away, but I still remember using a series of 16 PS/2 boxes running 2.11 to beat an Oracle hierarchal database running on astoundingly expensive sun hardware.

Yes, that was a purpose-written app, but Oracle were given the same parameters to start with, and we beat them - over 2,000 transactions per second for the OS/2, vs 31 for the Oracle/Sun.

Beer me!

And the obvious question for the Nanny state is?

You have to do the same thing for any alcohol at the same time.... And the public gets to view the records of all pollie's drinking habits.....

Would that kill the proposal?

Actually sounds like a layer 2 design

They talk about a "broadcast storm", but it sounds more like it was a faulty switch sending continuous spanning-tree updates.

10 years ago, had the same thing happen on the last major Layer 2 campus I did. Same situation, down to one faulty switch that needed to be disconnected to stabilise the network, then replaced. Don't ever believe the error detection and update suppression mechanisms work. They don't.

Put me right off, and I only design layer 3 environments now, far more stable and reliable.

Cheers

US Patent IS broken!

Sorry Andrew, I disagree - if the US patent system was working fine, then how is it possible that Apple was granted a patent for swipe to unlock when that was already covered by US patent 8095879 issued to Neonode in 2005? (filed in 2002). Apple's application was in 2006, granted in 2008, so they didn't even do a search before applying, and the USPTO didn't do a search before approving.

The Neonode NM1 was also released in 2005, using that patented tech.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=4vwAAgAAEBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=8095879&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YHdCT56bFerE2wXU8qiVCA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA

True brand devaluation is.....

What I saw in a few dodgy stores recently.

A Chinese company is making a product that looks *exactly* the same as samsung phones and tablets.

Except where it should say "SAMSUNG" it says "SUMSANG"

Fallen Angels?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Angels_(science_fiction_novel)

Don't try and sequester plant food on a large scale - until you're absolutely sure what you're doing. If you take direct action that without doubt lowers temperature - do you accept legal liability for people that freeze to death?

Multitasking?

I see no mention of now running background processes.......

Modern Culture?

One of my redhat servers was named Silent.Bob is that a fair name to add to the list?

1981 - the venerable Z80 Sorceror

Ah, sad times when such an Icon as PCW shutters the doors.

Part of my initiation into true computer geekhood before passing on from the 8 bit wonders into the (at the time) big iron.

Now I feel like an abandoned relic too - think I'll put my coat on and sit in the back of the datacenter for a while - maybe I can persuade the 8088 or the Dec10 to turn on and make a melody (requiem) for PCW.