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Finally, someone with some sense about this netbook rubbish.

At first I thought this was a garbage comment but it's actually a fairly clever reference. The article is about harvesting methane gas hydrates (which can be thought of as methane …

I agree. He starts off making some good points outlining the vulnerabilities of our economy due to our capitalistic ways. Then he talks about the most ridiculous predictions for th…

I'm tired of all these apple netbook rumors.

The lack of syntax highlighting in books don't bother me too much, it's the size of the book. I've gotten used to a wide screen monitor for code so it's nice when that long if stat…

Ditto. I've never wanted to get rid of my pinkie, I always wanted it to be stronger. I'm sure the author would also agree seeing how he broke his.

I require more data! So San Francisco/San Jose/Oakland and Seattle/Tacoma is on the at risk list because: "relatively high numbers of residents who watch analog over-the-air televi…

Odd... I'm getting linked to: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9818482...

How exactly is carbonating fruit an "Edible Electronic Birthday Cake"?

Here I thought it was a poorly titled article, perhaps for something like a super lower power microcontroller running linux powered by a potato. Instead I find totally senseless sa…

This is such a crappy link covering the details of this case. Here's better information: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081124-teacher-in-por... To summarize: She was a sub…

According to the Zen of Python ( http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ ), and the whole idea upon which python is created: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvio…

I don't have a friend at cisco but I have friends in other large name companies and usually when they force shut down (esp. around the holidays) It comes out of the employees vacat…

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor it would probably be utilized as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossbar_latch

Maybe it was Visual C++ you were programming in. ^ is for a handle to a object on the managed heap so it's almost the same as pointer. http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/yk97t…

I have actually thought very deeply about this question and would often ponder about it in my spare time. Hypothetically speaking if I could go back in time and tell my younger sel…