My guess is they got wind of Google announcing it's pad and decided to beat the press

So how hours minutes are you engaged on burning the 169 DVD's and multiply by what ever you value your time at (go minimum wage or make it $10 an hour to make the math easy or use your work salary or make it a premium as this is your weekend), call this X. What is the cost of the equipment plus install and initial troubleshooting (install = time x hour value), Y. Take X and divide it by 169, this is your expected OPEX cost per DVD. Divide Y by 580, this would be your assessed CAPEX per DVD (in your current collection). Add the two. Is it greater than $2?

Well, formal education sort of is. If you wanted to pursue a subject for only fun you could do that yourself, informally, at cost. However, the point of education, in this century, is too prepare people for the work place. The certificate is a uniform (pretty loose one though) metric for employers to see that you have the knowledge of a subject you claim to have, at a specific level (highschool, BS, MS, PhD). The education system basically saves every employer from having to test you when you apply for a job. The problem here is that kids turn up to university because they are told that the need to get a degree to get a job. They are not really counseled on what degrees will lead to what opportunities. Therefore, they get to pick what they like to do. Sorry, I'm not a believer of the adage "do what you love", unless what you love is a salable skill, or you've made enough money to not worry if you get paid pathetically for it. However, I'm also not a fan of kids being told that they all need to be medical doctors or entrepreneurs so they can be wealthy. Personally, I feel a good starting point to aim for is get the bills paid and have a little spending cash, higher education or not. Once they get to that point things can get financially better if they care to put further effort in.

I assume you felt the same way about the companies participating in the recent blackout.

It would be nice to try, but not so close to me.

Apparently it was also weighted so it wouldn't land screen down.

My wife has a 2008 hybrid camy and regularly gets 44 MPG (it's advertised at 36 MPG). Now I will give you that she drives like a grandma, but the hybrid is not just about road conditions but the way the driver drives. I can't seem to get above 25 MPG in it.

$3K in ~10 years. Sounds like a deal to me. Anything else go wrong other than normal wear on tires etc.?

Actually correlation does imply causation, it may not be a correct hypothesis and it needs to be tested.

In my research (done in a laboratory with a bunch of scientists) if I see two things that are being tested correlate with each other, given a defined test scenario, the IMPLICATION is that they are related. I then need to go test this implication and find out if I was wrong or that I was right.

If I was to ignore every correlation as being a potential relationship, due to your stated rule, I be a pretty unsuccessful scientist.

*Sigh* Lets not bother with fundamental science, even knowing that it is loaded with assumptions and targeting experiments as a starting point for further work, along with modling that can potentially make corrective measures, I mean it's not exactly the way that the Earth works, so it's a bad thing to do. FOR THE LOVE OF PETE! This is exploratory science. It is understood that it is not perfect by a long shot, hell! it may not even have any practical applications (although this does), it may be a complete failure!. The goal is to begin our understanding and triggers the iterative process of tuning the study methods. If we had adopted your attitude for every thing that we wanted to understand, but couldn't simply reconstruct we'd be still sitting in a cave wearing rabbit-skin underpants.

I just went and check out some of the comments on Glassdoor and have to admit this one made me laugh-

"Cons: You'll work 8-18 hours per day 5-7 days per week"

I can't believe that someone would actually make you work 8 hours a day for 5 days a week!!! Now the upper end would suck, to be sure.

I'm all for this. I've been noticing ad's following me recently and it bothers me. For example the last few times I've been on /. the ads in the top right are reflecting places I have looked at on Newegg or Amazon. I would like to see this practice be curtailed and not just on facebook.

Are you sure? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:_1999

I was having a similar conversation with one of our Patent Attorney's the other day. We wanted to file something, but the landscape analysis deemed there may be prior art. His advice, don't worry about it, it'll cost more for someone to challenge and highly unlikely that they'll waste their time. Sadly, we went ahead and filed and didn't worry about it, contrary to my request for a better legal opinion.

No Dr Who movie has really been Dr Who. I mean the Cushing movies he was an Earth born inventor with the last name Who, and this was before all the copyright BS really hit the fan. In fact any movie with Bernard Cribbins in it is not really a valid movie.

Doctor Who: The Movie, was a weakly veiled attempt at a reboot pilot episode, and for the love of all that is holy, it had Eric "Best of the Best" Roberts as the Master...such a bad decision. It was obviously targetted at the American audience.

This next one, I have very little hope for. In my opinion Dr. Who is a live action cartoon strip, one I grew up with (Baker years). Any movie will just seem like a glorified Christmas special, and really I wish they would stop those.