My shipped-with-Windows-8.1 tablet is FAR better with Windows 10 than it was with Windows 8.1. I upgraded my daughter's desktop, too, mostly for the built-in video game recording. She seems to like it over Windows 7.

Obviously, I won't be upgrading my Windows Media Center TV tuner system.....

Those are my only Windows boxes I have control over (aka: my work laptop is W7, and I have no choice in the matter.)

I *MAY* install it in a VM on my primary desktop, too, but my tablet is probably sufficient. (Yes, I have an iPad, an Android tablet, and a Windows tablet.)

They tested the $340 one because they weren't willing to pay for the $1000 "Ethernet audio" cable...

Audiophools are dumb.

If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. I'm tired of seeing headlines calling it "NASA's"... That would be like calling something "Slashdot's" just because someone posted it to /.

Would he have done it? Yes. And I am thankful to him for that.

But he would have done it when the actual bill were being debated, not at a random time that was convenient for press coverage...

While I applaud Paul, Wyden, and the other Senators who have pledged to do everything in their power to block the spying-allowed version of this renewal; Sen. Paul's "filibuster" was pure PR stunt for his presidential campaign. It was during the discussion of a completely unrelated bill, and wasn't even an official filibuster.

You lose, time to leave Slashdot

Oh, so Apple is sending a dozen computers?

But irrational people insist on it.

Yup, for a while, it has been my retirement dream to buy a couple "touring motorcycles", and a 6-place, twin-engine airplane modded with a cargo door/ramp (Cessna 421 Golden Eagle or the like,) and tour the world.

It would be great if the Terrefugia TF-X is ready by the time I'm ready to retire. (And, of course, to have the money for either option...)

This isn't a "flying car", it's a "roadable airplane", just like the Terrefugia Transition: http://www.terrafugia.com/airc...

It is licensed as an airplane, with many, MANY exceptions when licensed as a ground vehicle. The idea is that you drive it a short distance to an airport, then take off and fly as an airplane. Then drive a short distance to somewhere at the other end. It's not meant to be driven even as much as a high-end sports car on the ground. It's mean as "get to airport, fly, get to destination."

As for "production-ready", Terrefugia claims theirs is "production-ready," too...

Agreed. I learned about the Gravitational constant and the variability of gravity in high school physics in the US.

One of my proudest moments in high school physics was running a "measure gravity" experiment 3 times, getting to within 0.005 m/s^2 of the right answer all 3 times - for where I was! I thought for sure I was doing it wrong, until the teacher said "and if some of you are getting a number other than a simple 9.8, it's because the local gravity here is actually ." Mine averaged to 0.002 off.

No, that came out after I stopped buying. And the Death Star, and the Star Destroyer...

But I now have permission from my wife to buy TWO of the next similar "ridiculously expensive Ultimate" set. One to keep for myself, one to re-sell three years later.

Okay, give me your mailing address, and I will print out the relevant Wikipedia articles and mail them to you on a postcard.

"...the highest ranked and lowest ranked offerors were separated by a minor amount of total points and other factors were equally comparable."

AKA: "We were bottom, but dammit, not by that much!"

Lining the window sill of my home office. Pretty much every minifig-scale non-collectors set from the launch of LEGO Star Wars through 2003. Original Trilogy only. I also have the "Collectors" TIE Interceptor and the "Destroyer Droid" Technic; plus a smattering of prequel trilogy sets (that were all given to me as gifts by people that knew I had the SW collection, and didn't know better,) on a shelf.

Plus a few (less than a dozen) of my old childhood toys (all smaller ones,) in a "keepsake box" in the attic.

Oh, and on the LEGO front, I have one of each "primary" LEGO Space minifig from the launch of LEGO Space through the discontinuation of the LEGO Space theme. So not the one-offs, but if it appeared as a "generic" Space minifig at some point during the theme's run, it's in there.