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I work for a web host (not this one). From my experience, this is generally what is going on during downtime (note: times are BEST CASE scenario): T0: Servers go down T5-15: Someon…

I agree that would disqualify it as a universal language candidate. At the same time though, how often do you wish you'd thought out your next sentence in its entirety when speakin…

Lojban: "spelling is phonetic and unambiguous" They clearly ignored that rule for the name of the language =) On a more serious note, this is rather exciting. It would make a very …

I'm of the opinion that the LHC will make a great mess of physics. I saw a show on Discovery where most of the physicists at CERN feel there's a 9/10 chance they'll find the Higgs.…

Because MS is also an advertiser. Bing would become immediately worthless to advertisers if they did. Plus, assuming MS let their ads through and blocked Google's, Google would yel…

I don't think advertising is going to be able to sustain Google indefinitely. As more tech-savvy users get on the web, their tolerance for advertisements will dwindle, along with a…

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise: golf is about getting trashed and seeing if you can still manage to ever put the ball in the cup. While on a business outing, the object of the…

What is possible? Everything. It just depends on what level we are able to effectively manipulate the universe. Suppose for a moment that the universe is comprised of 'bits' at the…

We lack sufficient evidence to prove that we reside in a Matrix-like construct. Pending evidence, we shall continue believing that we do not live in such a construct.... though the…

The digital divide will not close itself, but rather can only grow larger as time goes on. Technology has been key to human evolution since man learned to create fire and sharp sti…

wiki = friend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_doma... They're reserved by ICANN

It depends. I don't think a web interface will cut it. Professors will still need office hours or a chat interface. If this was actually the case, don't you think students could ju…

This is what I would do, but you'd need some prerequisite software and information: 1. Get a genome for the simplest bacteria you can find. 2. You'd need molecular simulation softw…

One day people might get sick of it. But not before American Idol is over.

Math isn't NOT intuitive as far as math itself goes. It happens to be a very nice language. I tend to think that relativity and quantum mechanics do not mesh well because of the la…

COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS! I sort of feel like the internet is as close as we get to it now, with Twitter and other microblogging services bringing us a step closer. But really, I w…

Microsoft got comfortable, bottom line. They made XP (which rocks so hard, btw) and then felt like they won and stopped innovating. The article points out that Ballmer had a blind …

I was an early adopter, I pre-ordered a G1 and have had it for about a year now. I really love hardware keyboards, so +1 for the G1 and for the Moto Droid. However, the article tal…

It depends who you market it to. Seems to me like it would be a great tool for a designer. How do you plan on implementing server side scripts? Hopefully you wouldn't take it as fa…

Ok, you've certainly proven your wisdom to me, but I still don't agree. When it comes to most normal computers users - old people like my parents, kids that aren't computer geeks -…

"So are the advances more software or hardware related?" People don't understand that the difference between the two is irrelevant. Software is a replacement for having to create a…

I'm interested in both. Though I couldn't tell you the tenets of transhumanism, the little I've read leads me to believe I would agree with it. AI, on the other hand, is something …

1) sorry, was habit/laziness. I fixed. 2) To each his own, but I think the community support for linux vastly outshines windows support because you're probably talking directly to …