Scientists have egos. Scientists need to publish studies to prove themselves. The more papers with their name on them, the better their resume. But if all of the good studies are already taken by better scientists, some of them are left with scraps.

You are absolutely right, The K Gee19. People like to blame capitalism, when what they are really mad at is corporatism. With true capitalism, companies have to compete with each other to provide the products and services that the market (that means us, the consumers) want, in a way that we want to receive it.…

The RIAA wouldn't want the bad press - LOL. I just spit up my drink. Thanks for the joke, it made my day.

They may not be able to ask about medical history, but they can make you piss in a cup, which can tell them a lot of interesting information about your medical conditions, especially if you are on prescription medication to treat conditions. And if you are disqualified from employment as a result of a drug test,…

And if the company were forced to "make up the difference" to guarantee a minimum wage and did not have enough people signing up for the hotspot each hour to make it profitable, the company would stop the program. Then the homeless could go back to begging for money. So let me ask this, if a homeless man begs for…

People say that mostly because of the unwieldy file sizes. As hard drives and bandwidth get larger and cheaper, 36mp doesn't seem so big. Of course, almost all photos are viewed on a computer or television monitor that doesn't support such high resolution, but the higher the megapixel count, the more you can crop the…

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You recognized the costume as Iron Man. That counts for something.

Agreed. I watched it a second time with the Benny Hill soundtrack, thanks to Vexorg above - very clever, but it wasn't quite as funny. The play by play comments were giving a personality to the machine that made it seem like more than just an out of control piece of equipment. Comedy is always about perspective. I…

That's an excellent point. Will it REALLY last 45 years? Probably not (and it wouldn't be worth the price if it did), but since none have been around for 45 years, there's a lot of faith in that claim.

You know someone had to do it

And recyclable

Actually, the code has already been reverse engineered by Dan Rosenberg. [news.cnet.com]

Whether it's faster or not isn't the point. In some cases it will be and in others it won't, but the algorithm is pretty damn impressive regardless. Of course, I was impressed by Wolfram Alpha a few years ago, and Watson computer very recently (though Watson benefits from extraordinary computational power, the…