It actually varies from 94.51×10^6 mi to 91.40×10^6 mi, we're currently ~92.87 ×10^6 mi away from the sun.

The X Series keyboard is so very wrong, the T Series keyboard is closer to the correct layout. For years I said I'd pay big cash for a T Series keyboard with trackpoint and Bluetooth to use for my HTPC, but now I don't need it as I have a nice wireless keyboard and a Logitech M570 wireless trackball, I just wish that Logitech had used standard bluetooth instead of their bastardized version so I could use it with things other than a PC.

Uh, Unicomp still makes the same keyboard, and even offers an updated USB model and they cost only $79 despite being made in the USA.

My Taurus actually did better at 62 than at 55, at 55 it wouldn't use the overdrive gear so the engine was turning much higher RPMs.

A good tool for monitoring this stuff if you're on Android is Fuelio, it not only allows you to collect the data but it has all kinds of nice graphing capabilities and the pro version includes the ability to backup to Google Drive or Dropbox, you can also export to CSV if you want to switch applications or do your own data manipulation.

No, HP has promised no such thing, they've promised mainstream support through 2020 and minimal support through 2025 for the Itanium 8.4 release. They've also announced that VMS Software Inc. is the sole provider for future versions of OpenVMS and VMS Software Inc. has announced intentions to port to x86_64 but they make no promises, and can make no promises on HP's behalf.

The unions in the US have way too much power

LOL! Union participation is at an all time low, other than police and sometimes fire unions the public unions have been destroyed or weakened to the point of irrelevance. Heck, even the UAW and Teamsters, some of the strongest unions historically have little power and have given up almost all protections for new members to keep some of the gains for past employees. I'm no lover of the UAW (actually, have many fun stories about how they messed up things for me when I worked for IBM) but even I will say that the idea that they have too much power today, or any time in the last decade or so is silly.

The way we've seen it done is they use the location service in their AP management software to detect rogue AP's, with Cisco this is accurate to a few meters, if you check before any guests have arrived it's easy to pin it to one booth and remind that booth that they aren't allowed to have their own network.

Yeah, we pay several times that for WiFi coverage for our 5 days each year at the Bellagio for our industries trade show. Of course we're paying that to use their infrastructure and bandwidth, our rental agreement prohibits us from using our own WiFi equipment (which sucked the first year there because we were paying for dedicated bandwidth but they initially set us up on the same line as their guest vlan, if we had been able to setup our own equipment ahead of time we would have found the issue before the show and had it corrected instead of it being 4 hours in before it was addressed). I'm rather surprised Marriott decided to block hotspots instead of just adding the clause to their rental contracts and telling exhibitors to shut it down or move out like most convention centers do.

Groupwise, duh.

Eh, one of the biggest reasons they're keeping 32bit around is there are business customers that need the SysWOW-16 subsystem for stupid WISE installers that use 16bit code (ugh), also for low end tablets the remaining flash memory for 32bit is a bit more palatable.

Microsoft added the requirement that the CPU must support NX which many of the old CPUs running Windows XP do not support.

Which processors? AFAIK every Intel processor since Prescott (launched 2004, 10 years ago!) has had XD/NX, even the first generation Atom had NX.

I spent several years running Windows 7 on a machine with 1GB of ram, it ran ok. I was definitely happy when I got a bump to 4GB when we decided to do that to extend our laptop refresh cycle from 3 to 5 years, but it did drive me insane to run with 1GB. Honestly from a day to day perspective the SSD in the replacement made a much bigger difference than the ram bump did, if I had to make a choice between bumping ram or changing out a HDD for an SSD with a given budget I'd go with less ram.

Have you not seen the HP Steam 7 or the Lumia 620? Both run Windows 8 and both have specs at or below the minimum for the desktop OS. There are also plenty of businesses that have pushed their PC refresh cycle out to 5-7 years so if you want them to upgrade you have to keep the minimum at what a typical business would have bought 5+ years ago.

Considering the Tesla is a luxury car, both by market segment and by marketing I'm not sure where you're going with that...