Actually, if you're meeting about the structure of something (a small part of a project, program, ...) it's foolish to not put it in a diagram. I'm not sure how your reports generally are, but mine are very short and I do have a tendency to visualize data as to make it easy to quickly go through it. I'd like to see you draw a process flow in plain HTML in the same time I do it in M$ Word ;)

Yeah, looks the same everywhere until you try to print it ;) And plain HTML is a large step for most people to start editing/writing, plus it has no support for diagrams, charts, ...

The problem is that people use Word for things it wasn't designed to do. Word is fine for typing short letters, summaries of a meeting, etc. In fact I don't think there's any better tool out there for that particular job. It's easy to use, quick, intuitive compared to the competition and you have a good editor for it on every platform that matters. For typesetting though you should use a typesetting system.

This poll means nothing unless you use 24 hour clock notation!

A victory for the British Empire!

Don't forget the good ol' serial terminal commands to overwrite the handshake established config!

No no no, that's what the internet is for.

The elevation display on most GPS units sucks badly though unless you give it a lot of time to average out its error. The main reason for this is that they design the units to track the roads so position on the surface is far more important than the actual elevation. Based on this the filters are modified to give the most accurate result possible in that respect, which might negatively affect the other measurements. Because raw GPS data won't help you much, ideally you get the coordinates from the GPS unit and use a database to determine the elevation. Keep in mind this only counts for cheap GPS modules such as you find in phones and low-end car systems.

Patent infringement on their patent on ad campaigns against patent trolls!

It wasn't a feature, it was a bug...

$35 is plenty to make a profit on these sort of small devices if they're well designed.

Sure, and a massive drop in sales is totally going to help them with that...

Bound to happen, Google is still obliged to follow their contracts they have with the content providers. If they say they device can't do that for one reason or another then they don't have much of a choice. And we all know MPAA would NEVER EVER dare to force a content distributor in such a position. *cough*

That's not a bad idea actually, if you add sufficient lead padding that might just work quite well. The question is off-course how much of a temperature difference you'd be looking at. And you'd have to choose the prism and lens materials very well, else you could end up with x-rays slamming into your sensor at an above average frequency which would significantly increase the noise levels. So you'd have to average the data over a considerable time to be certain.

IR sensors are already very noise sensitive as it is... Introducing radiation won't do much good, even at a distance. It'd be worth a try but I don't see it working long either.