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Only if self driving cars have been made mandatory and the only vehicles on the road are self driving. Otherwise the efficiencies will be eaten up by compromises with human driven cars.

And if human driven cars are abolished, it will DEFINITELY make the trains run on time.

There was something that got messed up in the data center, thats the one I recall the best, and when /. came back up they posted this long screed about what they did to fix it.

Then everyone in comments called them n00bs for not testing before they did whatever it was that messed it up.

http://slashdot.org/story/01/06/27/124207/Blow-by-Blow-Account-of-the-OSDN-Outage - this is the one I'm thinking of

Here is the 16.7 million issue - http://gadgetopia.com/post/5631

Bill Gates reached the same conclusion decades ago, in 1976.

I haven't played a space shooter in several years, but I think one of the ones off sourceforge had true physics movement (Vegastrike or the Privateer remake or one of those).

As for Parsec, it wasn't fun (yet) and lost its development team.

    Personally, I don't see a hardcore space physics game being fun at all - you don't need just vector based movement - there would be no sound, burning, or explosions. I'm even skeptical about explosive decompression. Most combat would take place at massive distances, not up close dogfight style. It would be about as satisfying as eating gravel. A mix of real and movie physics can be fun, but also frustrating - you can get something like Darkstar One, which I enjoyed once I got into it, but the learning curve was high. Supposedly the X series isn't bad, but I haven't played it (X3 is now on Steam I believe), so I don't know what gameplay is like.

Offtopic.

Really?

Don't you love mods that have no fricking clue about historical myths?

I seriously wish Mythbusters would put a hole in an airliner just to prove you (ok not you, but other people too) wrong.

They did.

Myth busted.

tji wrote:

The slashdot crowd has a short memory.. This is not a simple issue of "embarassing the management", as the summary states. In fact, in all the original writeups, I don't remember ever hearing executive passwords being an issue.

I remember reading this in a column in a free weekly computer rag, shortly after it happened. The author of the column wasn't willing to mention "Intel" by name... but he was willing to mention that a vice-president of the company was using the password "vicepresident".

In point of fact, I have a long memory. It is not always very good, however, but in this case I think I did okay (though the password in the story is "pre$isdent"...):

• System Administration as a Criminal Activity or, the Strange Case of Randal Schwartz
• Vulnerability scanning can be hazardous to your career
• The Case of Randal Schwartz

4.8% in July, with a strong upwards trend.

6.1 % US market

multiple sources report the share of the notebook market at 12%.

Questions?

Too interesting. I'm glad I don't have to think about any of that stuff. I only use un-piratable software, http://www.gadgetopia.com/post/1869

Anyway, you're missing the point. Yes, people primarily use Outlook to send and receive email. But if you deploy it together with Exchange, you supposedly have a groupware solution. And indeed, the Outlook/Exchange combination is obviously meant to compete with the Notes/Domino combination.

As for Sharepoint, I think you're a little confused as to exactly what it is. Sharepoint is server side software, and it's meant to be used in conjunction with Outlook, not in place of it. Of course Sharepoint has a web interface too — which I guess is what you're thinking about. Which isn't supposed to be the primary interface. Though perhaps folks use it anyway, rather than deal with Outlook's weirdnesses.

Groove was conceived as a P2P alternative the above. Hence my assertion that Groove and Outlook compete.

At least for CD's and DVD's, they are called D Skins. I have some, but have not tried them yet.

There are a few. I've never used them, so I can't speak to their quality, but apparently work is being done on exactly what you ask:

Biscuit: http://bennolan.com/biscuit/
Qcodo: http://www.gadgetopia.com/post/4726
Cake: http://cakephp.org/ ... just to name a few. I just google'd for 'php rails', and got lots of interesting links.

Let's not forget the Krupp earth mover. I don't think it's the largest machine in the world, but it's certainly the biggist mobile machine I've ever seen on land.

Don't Hack Into Your Employer's Systems

NYT coverage.

Gadgetopia coverage.

CASPIAN/Rense coverage.

Slashdot coverage.

I've been using a dual monitor setup for the last 2 years or so. Like someone else said, it's nice being able to have your IDE on one screen, and some documentation on the other. For web development, you can look at your code and your site at the same time. For me, it helps me visualize where I want to edit code. There's plenty of other things you can do. I am never going back to single screen unless I have no choice. I run a 19" CRT and a 15" LCD. I had the CRT first. I really could care less how much extra electricity the LCD uses. But now that I am thinking about it, I'm going to find out.

http://www.gadgetopia.com/2004/06/01/HowMuchPowerD oLCDMonitorsSave.html

That article says an LCD run for 24 hours a day uses about $4 a month. I figure mine is running about 12 hours a day, so maybe I'm using an extra $2 a month. I'd rather have the extra productivity than an extra burger.

http://www.gadgetopia.com/2004/10/12/SegwayCentaur .html

Its full suspension and aggressive rider positioning provide an exhilarating ride for one or two people while maintaining control over a variety of terrain

I want one already.

Yeah, but it is not supported for free. It is now on a contract basis. Citing here , here and here They are rumored to be dropping support for SQL Server 2000 shortly after the release of SQL2k5.

And lets not forget liscense 6. Which will force upgrades anyway. At extra cost no doubt.