I have the same problem, seems only to have occurred since the major crash a couple of weeks ago, all 3 of the computers that I run are set to always connected but only one is pulling in 3 work units and it is the slowest machine with one processor!!


It is puzzling but will probably be sorted out shortly.

All the best to the guys at Berkeley you're dedication is admired by all that contribute in what ways they can.

What is your connect every X setting?

'Hand rolled in Havana, Honey'

Bill C to Monica L

Here's a pic of the Moller 400b in action:

What's with the lanyards? Does he not trust his own invention? ;)

That's very observant of you!

I was going to disprove your statement with this pic of the demonstration run for shareholders a while back...

But Lookie Lookie! there's a lanyard there too! LOL


I guess that being a prototype worth $3.5 million they'd rather be safe than sorry.


It's the insurance company that caused the lanyard, visit the website to get the full story,, oh man I gotta get me one of these lol.

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Actually, I kind of like the "i" plural endings - they remind me of my Italian (and, hence, Latin) roots... "Octopus" and "virus" (and "index"!) are Latin words, so the "i" ending is somewhat better, if you want people to remember the words' derivation. (although, by now, they are also correct as "-es") (the proper Latin plural of "virus" is actually "viri" - one "I". You only replace the "us" with an "i"...)

Wrong and wrong—“a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”. Not all Latin words ending in -us form their plurals in -i. For examples of some others that don’t, and are reasonably familar adoptees in English, try apparatus, coitus, corpus, genus, hiatus, impetus, prospectus, opus, and status for starters.

“Octopus” was originally Greek, and was borrowed into Latin before being passed on to us. The Greek plural was oktopodes (four syllables) and the Latin octopedes (ditto)—cf. “tripod” and “pedal” respectively. If you want to pay homage to our classical forebears, feel free to use one of those forms, but I think you’ll find most authorities recommend “octopuses”.

As for virus, we have the problem that there’s no surviving evidence of its plural usage in classical or mediæval Latin. Opinion appears to be divided on how it should be classified: some say it had no plural in use, period (how often do you say “poisonousnesses”?); others think it would have behaved like certain other neuter nouns in -us, indicating the form virora—cf. corpus, corpora—while others still put it in the fourth declension, where its plural would be simply virus (with a long U, to rhyme with “igloos”). At any rate, the only unexceptionable English plural is “viruses”.

Sorry to go on so long OT, but: a) I didn’t start it; b) Latin-abuse is one of my pet peeves; c) blame Misfit.

12:28 AM, Had a snack and took my Meds....
Now I await the Sandman.......

Boy charged after taking family truck for a drive

ASSOCIATED PRESS

January 12, 2006

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. – Eager to get his driver's license, a 7-year-old boy put on his seat belt and remembered to use his turn signal as he took his parents' pickup out for a spin, leading police on a slow pursuit around town.

Officers initially thought they were chasing a drunken driver Monday night.

"He was weaving and all over the road," Officer Josh Laverette said.

Instead, when the truck stopped in front of a home after the seven-mile escapade, they found a second-grader, barely 4 feet tall, behind the wheel. The house belonged to his parents.

The pickup nearly hit one car stopped at a light and barely missed five oncoming cars, Laverette said. When the boy finally stopped, Laverette said, "he said the reason he took the vehicle was because he wanted to get his license." The boy was charged with driving without a license and eluding police. He is to appear in juvenile court this week.