And it looks like it can't handle the slashdotting. The MyIEEE page seems to be good and busted as I go to try and change my password. Glad it's not reused anywhere.

I see now: The article says "The net price for you — the part you have to pay for through loans, work and family contributions —". All clear.

I don't quite understand this link and your spoiler. What I see there is that "sticker price" has gone up while "net price" (to the student) has remained mostly flat. Something has to be filling the difference, right? The linked article only says the difference can be filled by grants and student loans, but does not give any numbers about how much of either was made available through private or public means.

Let me guess, a GIMP developer?

I consider Arduino a microcontroller and would use it for robotics, cheesy DSP and other real-time tasks. Raspberry Pi on the other hand runs Linux and should be good for general computing type tasks which the Arduino isn't capable of. I wouldn't say either is really better, but I think you could definitely write a longer feature list for Raspberry Pi.

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The exemption for fruit juice is interesting (and IMO wrong), because juices still have a huge fructose content. Quick search shows around 30g of sugar per 8oz for 100% Juice (a couple different types) and Coca Cola.

So if the 28% he paid was actually paid by his employer and the employer (a corporation) raises prices to pay for it so that the consumers ultimately pay for it with the money they get from their employers who raise prices to pay for it and so on... I have no point, just a circle I found.

It appears that in 45 states in the U.S. the mercury saved by not burning that much extra electricity's worth of coal offsets the mercury content in CFLs, even if they are all broken to bits. http://nearwalden.com/blog/2011/08/averages-cfls-and-mercury/

Don't forget there was the Jewish kid playing meatspin on his iPad in the barracks.

Dan Pink in a lecture that I think was reused for a TED talk discusses the pay for performance problem. I'm sure the citations can be found. http://vimeo.com/6248069

G620 was released a year after I bought that i5. To be honest though, I didn't look at Pentiums at all. If it had HD graphics and would handle HDMI, then I suppose I should have looked!

I want to add home theater PCs to the list of good uses of integrated graphics. My current HTPC has a 1.5 year old Core i5, whatever the cheapest I could get at the time, and it handles 1080p with audio resampling out over HDMI with no problem. Flash is no problem either. Not having to have the discrete graphics card is a huge benefit that allows me to use slim cases for a set-top box feel.

If you don't understand the difficulty of getting a large amount of rolloff with an analog filter in the space between say a nominal passband width of 20kHz and a Nyquist frequency of 24kHz (for 48kHz sampling), maybe you need to revisit your basic EE course. As another critic of the GP points out, they discuss recording at higher sampling frequencies in the article section "Oversampling", and they give the same reasoning for it that the GP does. TFA goes further to say that once you've recorded at that rate, you can digitally implement the anti-aliasing filter that allows you to drop the sampling rate to 48kHz without any aliasing, and still keeping sound up around the 20kHz range.

Depending on the plant, when consumption is low during the night, there may have to be some power dissipators on site to keep the power plant load up at some minimum for it to keep regulation. Any method that uses that extra base power at night that isn't just wasted as heat would be a good thing. Storage is the most obvious solution and batteries aren't the only way to store energy. Pumping water up into a tower, heating some tank of well insulated molten salt (for using the heat later), or in this case potentially aiding in the conversion of waste to fuel.