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Closed, it's nearly double that, at 11 mm. Not thin, exactly, but still a heck of a lot easier to slip into your pants pockets than the 17mm Galaxy Fold.

This was my PDA in the late 1990s. It was 25mm thick closed. It fit in my pocket perfectly fine.

My last two phones were 8.5mm and 6mm. They were actually too thin - I kept dropping them when I tried to hold them by the edges. I ended up buying cases for them not to protect them, but to make them thicker so I wouldn't drop them so often. I really wish they'd just put a bigger, multi-day battery into these and make them closer to 10-15mm thick. That would also alleviate most of the complaints about the battery being non-replaceable. You could limit the charge/discharge cycle to between 10%-90% or 20%-80% (like they do on EVs), increasing lifespan from around 600 cycles to closer to 2000 cycles before the battery wears to half its capacity when new.

So I don't know if JPEG was cutting edge in 1992 or lossy encoding was widespread in the scientific and research spaces and JPEG just happened to be one such implementation? Can anyone who was there at the time comment?

I think the most correct thing to say is that around that time doing Discrete Cosine Transformations in real time became feasible. Just a random blurb I found:

Currently, the Atari JPEG decoder can decompress a 24 bits 320x200 picture in less than one second, which allows use of JPEG in games for example. This decoder is faster on the Falcon030 than the one we have tested on PC 486 DX2 66Mhz.

Wohoo we can decompress a 320x200 JPG in less than a second. If you wanted to show something like a 1024x768 (XGA, 1990) photo that'd only take like 12 seconds. It's also at the core of MP3 encoding, which also became feasible around the 486/Pentium days. Before that it was usually GIFs with lossless LZW compression or simply BMP with none whatsoever. Lossy decoding was actually a costly task once upon a time. And back then it was mostly stored on a floppy or something, "download time" didn't become a thing until BBS via modem and later the Internet.

Actually, there is some earlier evidence for it. Don't know if it's enough to be conclusive.

Definitely not one of the hardest sudokus.

There is a tool to compute the difficulty of a puzzle, and you can also download a massive database of hard sudokus (5 millions+):
http://code.google.com/p/skfr-sudoku-fast-rating/

For reference, this one is rated 10.7:
http://forum.enjoysudoku.com/the-hardest-sudokus-new-thread-t6539-420.html

BTW, there is a database of 31804 puzzles of difficulty 11 and above:
http://gpenet.pagesperso-orange.fr/downloads/hard11.zip
Exactly 7 have a rank of 11.9.

It's Lake Nyos and there is a webcam on the plume which updates twice a day over satellite so the team can keep an eye on its height. The carbon dioxide is from magma below the lake, and this is not the only lake affected in this way.

The example glob would require looking up 37 indexed terms. More complicated regexes would require exponentially more.
With the comparatively tiny amount of code Google indexes this is possible, with the full web index it is just beyond their capacity.

It would be easy to knock together a GreaseMonkey script with the code from http://joseph.rezeau.pagesperso-orange.fr/eao/developpement/expandRegexpToString.htm tweaked to generate Google's OR syntax.

A compatible version of All-In-One Gestures is available from the developer's site: http://marc.boullet.pagesperso-orange.fr/ext/extensions-en.html

Thanks for sharing that :)

A compatible version of All-In-One Gestures is available from the developer's site:
http://marc.boullet.pagesperso-orange.fr/ext/extensions-en.html

The simulation argument paper proposes a philosophical argument about this sort of thing. The consequences that they come up with are pretty interesting. Of course, there are arguments against such a configuration of the universe as well...

And a more detailed explanation can be found starting there:
http://mhalb.pagesperso-orange.fr/kivu/eg/index.htm

Does it really matter if it leaks to the surface if the rate is significantly less than we are currently releasing?

It can be a matter of live or death for life around a leak. Thousands of people and lifestock died when Lake Nyos, in Africa, released CO2.

Falcon

Natural gas reservoirs have contained the gas for millions of years, so it is fair to say that the technology exists to sequester CO2 on a geologic time scale.

CO2 also burbs as it did in Lake Nyos, Africa killing almost 2000 people. Other burbs have killed more people as well as animals.

Falcon

Here is one of the most useful firefox extensions I've used for scrolling. http://pagesperso-orange.fr/marc.boullet/ext/extensions-en.html

A new cell phone.

I'll even add in a new keyboard to be nice.

And for those that miss the old firebird days when it was a super fast thin browser,it turns out someone HAS made noscript and adblock for Kmeleon! Gotta love the ability for open source to fork and hack the code.While I haven't tried it yet,I will be installing them as soon as I get done posting this.And the installers for Kmeleon is here.Enjoy!