Most people who play board games really don't sit around and play Scrabble and Monopoly all the time.
They play games like:
Settlers of Catan
Power Grid
Runewars
Puerto Rico
Dominion
etc
All of those are not cheap at all.
You mean the viruses for those people who were stupid enough to leave OpenSSH running on their iphone, with the default login/pw?
Except that newer LCDs have LED backlighting which is no longer constant, but flashed (WHY? WHY? WHY? Just to save some power? Please, computer manufacturers, let *me* make that decision!), so the experience is somewhat more like a CRT.
The reasoning between flashed LEDs is so that manafacturers can advertise a greater dynamic range and color gamut. It's kinda like a pissing contest between manufacturers. However, many of those features can be at least partially disabled by disabling dynamic contrast on your set (which is highly recommended on the CFL backlit sets, as an overall dark scene with a very bright spot will cause some nasty image quality issues).
Also do note that the flashed LEDs do switch significantly faster than the LCD pixels update, so although there is flicker, it "should" be past the perceivable threshold.
Sadly, this is like the FCC complaints on indecency. There are a few special interest groups that generate hundreds or thousands of complaints that don't accurately represent consumers. That way, the FCC acts, and those special interest groups get their agenda pushed, even though the actual number of consumers complaining are minimal or none.
Ozone is really bad for you -- it's an irritant and a powerful oxidizer. Imagine what that does to your lungs. OSHA has pretty tight standards on ozone exposure.
Actually, speaking from someone who works in a related field, using the prefix-less format is the accepted way of writing these numbers:
MeV (1,000,000), GeV (1,000,000,000), TeV (1,000,000,000,000), etc
As a fyi, TeV is actually tetra-electron volts.
Sounds like a tech geek's way of looking at it.
Most people would say -- having a sizable amount of compressed air storage in one's house is great all around -- for your pneumatic power tools.
Squaretrade first tries to repair the item, and if it's not repairable, they will reimburse you up to the cost of the item (assuming no repairs have been made so far). Note that repetitive repair attempts diminishes the total value of your warranty, so the most they can spend is the cost of the item (so if it's repaired and breaks unrepairable, you only get the remaining balance).
As for this SquareTrade article, it wouldn't surprise me if Apple fell a few points behind other manufacturers, though I cannot possibly imagine why someone would buy a new Mac and get a SquareTrade warranty instead of Apple's excellent 3-year warranty. Makes me wonder if the Macs covered by SquareTrade are largely used? You can't buy them at Target.
Because Squaretrade's warranty is about half the cost of Applecare?
For example, the Department of Energy (i.e. the National Labs) are part of the defense industry, but they are not part of the military.
National Labs work on a variety of things, from military-related activities (i.e. nuclear weapons) to scientific-related activities (for instance, physics research, projects similar to the NHC). For instance, traceroute, libpcap, and tcpdump were originally developed at a National Lab.
I can't figure out if this is a troll or if this is genuine confusion.
Defense != military, just FYI. Our military budget is tiny compared to our defense budget.
Not that i'm not against decreasing the amount that we spend on defense as well as what we spend on military.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
