Fortunately, every other vehicle on the road is made of granite and thus incapable of catching fire...

Someone needs to let them know that they have a huge base of very useful, non-trivial plug-ins that people actually use, and they tend to break at least some of them with every update. We're still stuck on 3.6 waiting for the plug-ins to catch up because frankly they're more important to us than FF itself. And now the new hotness is your addons will just start being continuously breakable at any time?

This article like many others before it continues to miss the blatantly obvious - that once anonymous, people are finally saying what they actually think

I learned so much more from Bob's writing for a couple of bucks than I ever did in school in EE. It's not that school was 'wrong', just that they taught and followed rules, and Bob actually understood what they meant. A loss of one of engineering's finest talents - the guy that both knew it, and could explain it in English.

It's not clear from TFA, but it doesn't appear that they have taken mortality into account. So they're selling the 'lifetime payback', but that assumes you have a lifetime.

Wow. I had seriously written off ever getting off this rock because only hands-on science specialists ever get the seats, no matter who it is. As people in arguably the world's most remotable profession, I assumed we were doomed.

Can we finally just admit that the FSF is irrelevant and move forward?

FSF -- Free as in Not

Actually resistive touch screens work fine with a finger, no stylus necessary. Case in point a Palm Treo, which was designed to be dialed with a finger tip. The stylus gives much finer control so apps were written to leverage that, but that wasn't a requirement and any number of Palm apps were 'finger friendly. For a more recent example, the HTC Sense UI is entirely finger oriented and runs perfectly on WinMo devices like a Touch Pro 2.

Comcast's idea of the Internet is an increasingly detached 'consumer endpoint' version of the Internet. If you're not in a rural area, then find a true Internet provider and move on.

Really? I'm totally game to build this thing, but I think building a compressor from scratch looks pretty real.

Still, it's always what you don't know that scares you.

The assembly process is intense, to put it lightly. Instructions are generally correct and straightforward 90% of the time, but given the intimidating complexity of the project, insane number of parts and dexterity required for some of the assemblies, simply locating the correct widget can sometimes be challenging. As the online assembly guide progresses, the instructions increasingly rely on your prior knowledge of repetitious concepts. We’re talking sanding, soldering, cutting, punching, scrubbing, gluing, and screwing hundreds of bolt/nut combinations. Only attempt this project if you’re the type of person that wakes up with ideas on the order of, “I think I’ll build an air conditioner this weekend.”, and actually completes the task. Like I said: intense.

Awesome! Damm this post is going to cost me a ton of time.

I have a new Nook here, which is a complete piece of junk. It can't handle PDFs in reasonable way, no zoom at all. And yet today I remember why I waited so long to get a Nook instead of a Kindle.

I'm returning the Nook, and now won't be getting the Kindle. I should all but applaud Amazon's desire to remind us of their complete disassociation with the Constitution.

I'd write cust service, but who are we kidding. Only surgical removal of dollars is real to them. But if we could, I'd write "Dear Jeff -- you don't tell my kids what they can read at my expense."

How long before we admit eReaders are nothing but PAID FOR ads for certain distributors?

That rocked! I can't believe I'm the first to say that.

And so where do we get to donate to cover said 7 figure expense and otherwise bitchslap said patent trolls?

Checkbook's right here. And they still suck.