640kb ought to be enough for anybody...

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Almost sounds like a troll to me. I think most consumers would love a 100Mbps connection -- assuming it was reasonably priced. That being said, Verizon already offers FiOS at speeds up to 50Mbps, so 100Mbps isn't that much of a stretch.

Sadly, I'm stuck in an area where it's either ADSL1.x or cable.

This is funny -- as its called "cheating" in the CS world, but in the EE world it's "working in a study group."

Of course, having impossibly hard EE homework at my university probably didn't help. It was not uncommon (and actually, quite frequent) that I encounter midterms/finals with average grades of 40% or less.

But that being said, most of the people who didn't learn the material didn't stay in the EE field after graduation.

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?

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).