Ostie! Je ne peux pas participer dans ce concours parce que j'habite au Quebec, chalice! Mais, au moins, c'est un petit peu mieux que les anciens regles. Merci, engadget, mais.. vas chier!

int iPostIndex;

iPostIndex = (int)floor(rand(gettimeofday()) * (double)(iTotalPostCount-1));

printf("Winner is %s\n",pcPostEmail[iPostIndex]);

Output: Winner is jpl @ somewhere.com

Yaaay!

int iPostIndex;

iPostIndex = (int)floor(rand(gettimeofday()) * (double)(iTotalPostCount-1));

printf("Winner is %s\n",pcPostEmail[iPostIndex]);

Output: Winner is jpl @ somewhere.com

Yaaay!

Engadget is a great way to distract myself from debugging impossible to find bugs in my embedded projects.

I'll take anything, really.

The reason an inflatable costs less to launch, is because it requires a narrower launch vehicle. The mass of the outer 'flexible' shell may be a little less heavy than one machined out of aluminium, but I don't think it would be significant.

However, the cross-sectional area of the inflatable will be at least 1/4 (assuming expanded radius is twice uninflated). Most launch vehicles have very narrow payload fairings, and although it doesn't compare to the delta-V from gravity-loss and orbital velocity, air-drag can be fairly significant through the first 2 minutes of flight.

I've just booted the live CD on my P4 1.8GHz, 512MB box, and browsing the engadget web site to post this message was horrendously painful. I assume it is the lack of hard drive installation, but wow, I have less issues with my IPAQ 4150 when reading engadget.

It had a problem setting the wired LAN DHCP delivered address, but an 'Ctrl-Alt-F1' to a root shell, followed by ifdown/ifup and everything was sweet.

The switch to gnome is neat, but the terminal didn't work when I selected it.

Not bad, but now I have to find a sacrificial laptop on which to install it for real.