My understanding is that while copper has higher contact heat conductance than aluminum, aluminum has higher conductance with air. Hence (in addition to how much lighter aluminum is), the large number of heatsinks that have a copper core and aluminum fins.

One such hippie: former Republican president of the U.S., General Dwight D. Eisenhower. From his farewell address:

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That sounds absolutely terrible for productivity, consistency, and internal accountability. Not being able to search for (or needing to meticulously save and organize mysefl) things like instructions, contacts, and details sent in past emails would seriously hinder my ability to do my job. I am very glad that I do not work for that kind of company.

You are correct, and this pattern continues to make it difficult for women to achieve parity in the most powerful positions; it is assumed that women of childbearing age will take more time off. In fact, countries that offer more maternal leave and more paid maternal leave have, on average, greater employment disparities in advanced positions.

I have heard of one interesting idea. Certain countries, such as Sweden, have programs in which a certain amount of parental leave is guaranteed, but at least some portion of it must be taken by each parent. I understand that it has had some success in decreasing the disparity in terms of leave time taken, although there is certainly still an imbalance.

Not everyone agrees with you.

I don't think that would be a concern, on account of the fact that they are probably relying mainly upon information that is not really "brain waves".

The headset supposedly uses both EEG (brain waves) and EMG (electrical activity from muscle firing). However, measuring the electrical activity of neurons (very small and very weak) with any kind of specificity by using electrodes placed on the other side of the skull and other protective tissue is... let us just call it "nontrivial". EMG signals are much stronger.

From the paper:

"In particular, personalized mental tasks (e.g., sing their favorite song silently, focus on their personal pass-thought) do not produce higher signal similarity or authentication accuracy over mental tasks that are common to all subjects (e.g., close eyes and focus on breathing)."

Similarly, this discussion includes a comment by someone who claims to have developed for the platform, "IMHO, the NeuroSky devices which are currently on the market exist mostly to record EMG from the forehead."

The paper does not mention EMG. Perhaps they are are specifically avoiding making use of EMG information from the headset, although they do not mention any such technique in the paper. Personally, I would wager that unless you have significant changes to the musculature of your face and scalp or suffer new large-scale brain damage or other abnormalities, your "password" would not be terribly likely to change.

While I'm not a physicist of any variety, the following text from the article also caused me to call its reliability into question:

"As the moniker suggests, dark matter is dark; it doesn’t interact with electromagnetic radiation."

Isn't one theory that dark matter is normal baryonic matter, just not baryonic matter that is concentrated or luminous enough to have a measurable effect on any light getting to us?

Capsaicin (the chemical that makes most hot peppers spicy), in reasonable quantities, is hypothesized to have a few mild health benefits.

A fun board game, and excellent for teaching the basic mental skills used in queuing up a list of instructions and then having them all execute in the order that you specified.

http://www.amazon.com/Wizards-of-the-Coast-217580000WOC/dp/B0009HLSP0/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1350385716&sr=1-1&keywords=robo+rally

Does DOSSHELL count as a GUI? If so, that was the first one that I ever used, back when I had my first computer and was still learning the command line via trial and error. The computer was a 386 (DX, not SX!) and had a Turbo button that bumped it up from 16MHz to a blistering 25MHz. As far as I can tell, the only point of said button was to slow down old games so that they wouldn't run so fast that you couldn't see them. (Yes, the speed that a lot of games ran at depended on how fast your computer was.) Ah, those were the days.

Actually, I am running the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on the same hardware that I was previously running a clean XP installation, and Windows 8 is definitely snappier, plus has better search/launch functionality. I can't say that I am particularly fond of the Metro UI (I mostly use the Explorer-style interface), and I preferred the search UI in Windows 7 to the one in Windows 8. But saying that Windows 8 is a worse OS than such champions as Vista, 98, and ME is quite a stretch.

For many modern cars with internal combustion engines, I hear their wheel noise at low speeds before I hear the engine. Certainly, some of them are quiet enough that I am not confident that I could tell if one was about to back up. Personally, I would prefer less background noise, as it makes it easier for me to pick out sounds that are actually close to me.

Three original and talented groups from France that I found to be interesting:

Pin-Up Went Down

Akphaezya

Polichinel

This being an article about a Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel, a Suk Doctor would have been more appropriate than a Sak Doctor, but close!

I own a Samsung Galaxy Note (purchased unlocked from handtec), and I am very happy with it. It is your phone, too, and unlike most tablets, you can have it with you at all times without needing a backpack or briefcase. My brief review:

Size: The 5.3" screen is big enough for me to comfortably read non-mobile websites in landscape without any trouble, and it's great for reading ebooks and gaming. I have also used it in a pinch for Remote Desktop or Telnet. It fits in my (not skinny) jeans easily, and is actually much less noticeable when there than the dumbphone that it was replacing, which was much smaller but thicker. Depending on how I am standing, I sometimes have to check to make sure that it is there. I have average-sized hands and I can operate it with one hand, but if my hands were much smaller, I couldn't. (Personally, I never use smartphones with one hand, anyway, but some people seem to care.)

Display quality: 1280 x 800 resolution. Good colors, very dark blacks, excellent clarity (the PPI is high enough that the fact that it is SAMOLED doesn't hurt if it isn't a few inches from your face), excellent outdoor visibility. On the downside, it has some issues with banding in 16-bit images with slow gradients. That issue should be fixable in a future update (or custom ROM), but that doesn't mean that it will happen.

Speed: Dual-core 1.4GHz dual-core ARM Cortex A9, one of the fastest out there right now. Everything is very responsive.

Cellular: Uses the GSM1800MHz band, which is pretty standard Internationally so would be good considering that you plan on traveling abroad. In the US, I am using it with AT&T (GoPhone plan, $25.00/month for 500MB of data, $0.10 per talk minute), and it works with their HSPA+ network.

Battery life: With light use, many days. For continuous gaming, about 6 hours. On a day in which I make a few calls and spend a few hours browsing the web, reading, and/or play games for a few hours, it usually has 30-60% battery remaining at the end of the day.

Stylus: I find it easy to use and accurate, good for taking quick notes or sketches. The one problem that I have had is it doesn't really work well if you are lying down and holding the phone upside-down; in that position, it doesn't track the position of the stylus properly.

Camera: 8MP rear camera, 2MP front camera. Good quality and color accuracy on both most of the time, but doesn't always handle very high contrast pictures well.

Sound quality: Middling. Max speakerphone volume is not terribly loud.

GPS: Excellent, one of the best out there.

OS: Samsung reports that it will be getting ICS in the next couple months.