Exactly.

Someone had to buy those personal computers in the 1980s for $3000 a pop (or more) in order to drive the efficiencies that lead to the current wave of sub-$500 PCs that are all over the place.

If someone wants to spend more to be at the forefront, why not congratulate them and allow the march of progress continue?

Exactly.

Why worry about ranges over a couple hundered miles when you can fill your car up every night? If you drive more than a couple hundred miles a day, you're probably more of an outlier and electric cars are probably not for you.

And why worry about long range when you can do a full battery swap in ~90 seconds?

What's needed is the electric infrastructure to grow and a standard develop for electric battery swaps so that we don't feel endandered by swapping out our new battery for a battery that's five years old.

Or place solar collectors/converters in space. Once you do that (and can manage scaling issues) no more concerns about energy for quite some time.

Who the fuck reads /. for the articles?

We read for the comments and the community.

We may not be as homogenous a community as we were 10 years ago, but we're still nerds. And the comment system here is the best that anyone's come up with yet. Reading at +5 threshold is always insightful. Reading at -1 is often inciteful.

Bingo.

Something a bit higher power, that can push 1080p and have enough horsepower to run a few first person shooters would be all it would take.

I look at the Wii U gamepad controller and I balked. There's no way I'm getting a controller with a video screen on it. If they just didn't make that controller and used modernized versions of the Wii controller that would have shazed a few bucks off the price and been more relateable.

In other words, the lesser of two evils is still evil.

I share my most important personal information (my financial information) with my banks. And I wish I didn't have to.

I get more junk mail from them then everything else combined. Wish there was a way to tell them all I'm not interested in any more credit cards, or refinancing my home, or car loans, or balance transfers, etc.

Depends on the surface area. No one said the monument has to be the shape of an obelisk.

What if it looked like this? http://soler7.com/Fractals/3D22/Mandelbulb2657.JPG

I was an iPad early adopter. It won't upgrade beyond iOS 5.x. I'm not upset about that. I understand that newer versions of an OS have more advanced hardware requirements.

My problem is the issues it causes with the walled garden of apps:

All apps are now going to require iOS7 to be installed. If I have iOS5.x I can't upgrade. This isn't the problem.

The problem is, if my iPad needs to get wiped for whatever reason, I cannot reinstall older versions of the apps from the Apple Store, since they will not allow download of old versions of apps, even if the newer version is not compatible with my hardware.

Also, I seriously doubt the perpetrator of this crime was materially involved in those attacks in 2001.

Fear is for people who refuse to understand statistics. In other words, for the general public.

Another data point:

Built a 4500 sq foot house about 2.5 years ago and populated the fixtures with CFLs (except for the two chandeliers which have incandescents). So far only 1 CFL bulb has died, but I replaced it and the set of three similar fixtures in the same room with LEDs.

Can't wait until more of the CFLs die. I hate that (even though they were all new with the house) some of them are showing signs of needing to warm up to their maximum intensity, and figure more of them will follow over the next couple years.

Love the 4 LEDs so far, and really want to replace more of the CFLs with them.

Looking at their website ( http://www.thesatanictemple.org/ ) and reading their tenents and beliefs, they actually seem like reasonable people.

In fact, their agnostic viewpoint and quest for knowledge and justice seem like quite reasonable things.

Always thought of myself as an agnostic. Perhaps I really was a Satanist all this time?

Sigh. This happened to me a week ago. Tried to hook up a USB-B connector to the back of a laserprinter blind. It fit in but wouldn't be detected by the host computer at all. The computer was running Linux Mint so I thought it was a compatibility problem (even though I just moved the printer from another computer running the exact same version of Linux Mint).

After 20 minutes I decided to turn the printer around and noticed (for the first time) that a USB-B connector would quite easily fit snugly into an ethernet port.

I have a few friends that drive GTs and one who has a GT RS. All of them emphasized that they "worked their way up" to the GT. First a BMW 3 series, then a BMW M3, then a Porsche Boxster, then a Carrera, and finally (in one case) a 911. They all said that the step-up to their first Porsche was the biggest difficulty, and when they went to professional racetrack driving lessons.

YouTube is littered with videos of these things crashing in inexperienced hands.

Bingo.

I recently had to get a home mortgage. I had to identify every deposit into my bank account of more than a couple hundred dollars.

The only way I could do that was to wait a month and not deposit any checks into the account during that time to get a "clean" statement.

Another thing: Try withdrawing $10K from a bank account that you own in the U.S. They'll give you the third degree. Apparently they have to report large withdrawals of cash to the Feds.