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They're both rich ... no. They're both hairy ... no. Ah - they both choose their computer systems based on stubborn adherence to software ideology.

"You're the one insisting that all-in is always the right solution." I never said the words "all in," and you complained above that I'm not going all in. I'm confused. In fact I'm …

Feynman.

"Nope. We'll end up with a lot of old-tech solar that isn't as good as what we'll get by waiting." No, we'll still get the years of use from the "old tech" while new tech is being …

So that the US citizens that live there are fully represented.

So implement storage. Build more capacity than you need for momentary power and use the excess to charge batteries or raise water columns. Build still more excess capacity, charge …

Link to a downloadable/non-404 version of Hughes' paper: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Paper/702256.aspx Two pdf links below the summary paragraph.

This is well done and worth checking out. The only thing I didn't like is the strictly linear route to all articles, whether you're interested in every article or not. But I don't …

Sounds like Microsoft condemning Communist open source.

Condolences.

"Beyond the technical and management experiences, the experience taught me how to be audacious and think outside the normal framework," Or relates. "Much of the Mosad's power deriv…

"... and their users need to handle multiple versions in multiple locations ..." Man, I get crotchety just by going to different King Soopers (Kroger) stores in my area and having …

Would you buy a bank app from an app store? I think I'd rather get the app directly from my bank. On the other hand, I'm having trouble reconciling that last statement with Quicken…

"So who created programming languages?" We did, but we did it on purpose. Programming languages are mere tools, subsets of human language. Human language evolved as part of human e…

Cooler Twitter. Enterprise Twitter. Better Personal Twitter management. "What possibly" and "conceivably" assumes that the current form of Twitter is all it could ever be. If they'…

Open Twitter, allow anyone to be a Twitter server, and sell their services to Twitter providers who don't want to deal with Twitter nuts and bolts, as Disqus does for comments and …

It's on my DL. You're all (all 6B of you) welcome to all my parts, once I'm done with them.

"don't mean to be a (french) grammar nazi" Would that be a grammar Vichy? "it's spelled "voilà" Right. The dash was in there to emphasize mispronunciation of a mis-spelled word, to…

My point exactly.

This problem was very easy to fix: move his account to another server. It took an amount of one blog post to trigger the solution. He got special attention. Remember that facebook …

So you can't delete delete a picture if other people, who don't own it, like to look at it?

(My comment is backed by fundamental ignorance.) Have you tried university/research hospitals? I wonder if it would be worth researching/shopping for such a hospital and get them i…

Or, they're trying to encourage you to be logged in when you search. IIUC, you won't see "your" personalized picture unless you're logged in and cookied.

It doesn't actually do the exact same thing: http://c-faq.com/aryptr/aryptr2.html

Totally subjective, but with slicehost I recall that their Dallas center had problems noticeably more often. Is there something about Dallas, for Linode or Slicehost or both?