Also this way there is a globally-accessible and searchable database of all the materials and their various properties - so for your exotic project with a weird requirement, you can find the materials most appropriate to your situation.

This is useful for more than coming up with a single solar cell, it helps pave the groundwork for hundreds of varieties - each the best-fit for a different situation.

Example: Organic compounds may make sense if you can 'grow' the system for a self-repairing/expanding system, say in a biodome on Mars; or on a floating station in the Arctic; both of which you won't have an easy opportunity for a 'service call'. Identifying which one(s) work best in those environments will shave years off development time, allowing a focus on other design issues.

http://www.packtpub.com/puppet-3-beginners-guide/book

(Currently) $23 USD for the eBook, and $45 USD for the Print + eBook access, and no Amazon-Kindle-DRM. (But you can still get it in a .mobi format for your Kindle, in addition to ePub and PDF)

Because if you can build one at 3% and one at 9% but all other costs being the same, you build the 9% one. They're figuring out which is the most efficient so they know what order to look at capabilities/options on. Start with the most efficient, and work your way down the list until you find one that meets the other criteria.

Here is your Radeon HD7850: http://www.gpureview.com/Radeon-HD-7850-card-678.html

It has 1024 Shader Processors ("Radeon Cores" in the summary), and (stock) is clocked at 860MHz. The 8670D included in this new APU has 384 Shader Processors, and is clocked at 844MHz. So about 2/5ths of the computing power; presuming all other factors are equal.

So while for high-end gaming, it won't quite cut it (Turning on most of the shiny and enabling it across 3 monitors with Eyefinity would make it beg) - it should be plenty powerful for light/medium gaming on a single monitor, or any light/moderate duties across multiple monitors with Eyefinity.

No, the worst possible use case would be remote X11 over a RFC 1149 compliant connection. (Although 2549 adds QoS, or RFC 6214, for those that use IPv6)

You can update and keep TabKit:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabkit-2nd-edition/

(If that is what was holding you back; the original dev disappeared so someone forked it and has kept it current)

Here's how Norton did it, back in the late 1990's: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH106806

I recall using this in college, in 2003, to reimage our 'learning' workstations. (After we'd break them, like discovering that Windows 98 SE would let you format the OS volume, and not crash.)

Funny that Google (one of the backers of CISPA) announces something that will catch everyone's eyes and ears on the same day CISPA goes to the Senate floor for a vote.

I think the AC (Anonymous Coward) was referring to "before" (the first two frames).

Now there is 1.

Any web-based client *should* (unless they use a plugin or other weird config tool) save any filters, etc. to the web-based-profile (Like GMail does). Otherwise, if you choose Thunderbird (or any other sane client) you could just copy over the profile between installs. Even across OSes.

I've successfully used a singular Thunderbird profile on both a Windows and Linux boot off the same machine; granted Linux access to the NTFS partition Windows sat on and it used that profile directory. Been copying it forward to new installs for a few years now.

Migrating towards a VM (that gets backed up regularly) holding the 'core' stuff that doesn't sync well (Firefox and Chrome both do; so can run that on whatever) - then just use that VM for non-GMail email, and whatever else is worth consolidating down to one machine.

Build in a longer delay before the cross-traffic gets a green after the red goes on. Justification: Do they want to be known as the City that let someone die because they didn't account for physics when timing the light? I've noticed that some places do leave a little bit more 'buffer' for that reason. Make sure its in the meeting notes that Jim, Joe and Bob were against looking into adding the time, and someone's comment about it being their fault if something happens. (Or talk to the engineering/maintenance department involved; talk about a theoretical or real close-call that would've been a non-issue by a 1-2 second delay)

Go read the forums on Steam - linked here for ease: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=742

The original devs are all gone, they're basically adding a few new structures and calling it a new release, it still has some game-breaking bugs that have persisted for 3 or 4 releases now.

I highly recommend Tropico 4 - you end up with more control over individual structures than you did with the Sim City series, but it is equally fun.

Steam even has the Collector's Bundle (Game + Expansion + all the DLCs) on sale for $9.99 through March 15, 2013. http://store.steampowered.com/sub/19282/

Sadly, Tropico 4 has an online-required component - you have to create an account and sign in to launch it each time. About the only issue I have with it, otherwise it is awesome. (I haven't tried it offline, my laptop won't run it well so I play other games when traveling)

Because after 2 years (typical contract length, 1-year contracts exist but not commonly signed) you're more likely to sign a new contract for a new device, and forget to unlock it. Also if you travel outside their service area, they get to bill you for obscenely priced 'roaming' fees. Calls, texts and data jump to ridiculous rates.

TL;DR: They do it because they can get away with it, and its profitable.

Which upright mouse are you using? I've got Evoluent's VerticalMouse (right-handed, wired) model - http://evoluent.com/vm4r.htm - and very much enjoying it, highly comfortable and natural once you get used to the change. Not sure if there are other models out there to consider if this one goes, or just as an alternative on another machine.

Using the Logitech M570 trackball for my personal laptop, and a Logitech gaming mouse for the desktop at home. Variety is the key, I've found. Working different muscles and different movements have made all the difference for me in the last 7 years since I first started having issues with the hands and wrists.

Quite a few, actually. For small-scale stuff it can pay to outsource. Really depends on the workload, and where the 'users' are.

But, once your core infrastructure gets big enough, putting a few more racks in the DC and adding a few staff versus now having to manage a 3rd party service with the same added staff becomes extra overhead and burden.

Also, some stuff may not due to legal or contractual obligations be feasible to be placed at a third-party site. (Verify THEIR staff as well as YOURS conform to standard, and two companies' policies, etc)