I am only guessing here as to why -- no sources and no research.

I am assuming there is more regulation and licencing required on electronic devices than power tools. Hence stricter requirements, increased labor to bring to market and liability concerns.
OR perhaps the cost of the cell used in laptops is higher from the battery manufacturer (he didn't mention individual cell size).

Of course, the other option is companies trying to make a few extra dollars/pounds/yen/etc. However, the author of TFA seemed to be on more of a rant than a research mission.

Funny, Al Gore is going to profit the from all of his.

He is nothing more than a marketing man for carbon credit trading. He is the chairman for Generation Investment Management, partnered up with the former CEO of Goldman Sacks.

How convenient.

Mod parent up.

This is scary as hell. When there is no risk of (negative public opinion) losing your boys while still killing theirs, there is no incentive to declare war only as a last resort.

The image you choose is used by Countrywide (BofA) to provide you with the verification that you are not signing into a phishing site, not as part of your login credentials.

I ran into this same issue on a fresh XP install inside VirtualBox. Ignore it for a few hours; I performed regular tasks such as installing the multitude of updates, installed a few apps and noticed later on the process behaved as you would want/expect.

If I recall correctly from my Marine Corps days, the high/low beam switch is mounted on the floor in a HMMWV. Not sure about the consumer models (Arnold Schwarzenegger type, not the refrigerator-on-wheels).

Agreed. Solaris' cron is a bit of a hassle. But I edit cron as needed for projects. Not a HUGE impact on usability. It is Solaris at its core, so binary compatibility needs to stay in place for legacy support.
However, OpenSolaris also comes with GNU binaries (which are conveniently already in the default path). To differentiate, they are called gtar, ggrep, etc (mind you, not every single GNU tool is in there).

At a loss of what you mean here. ZFS, brandz/zones and crossbow are huge; not sure what is specific to them that is significant over OS.

I'm a Solaris admin; which can make me a bit of a Sun snob, but this was not meant to be a OpenSolaris is superior to Linux comment. They both have their place for each individual (I have tried both options, and continue to bounce between the two today). In my opinion, the Linux community could take something away from the OS communities rules on packaging. Find a compromise. I may just give StormOS a try to get the best of both worlds.

I have been using OpenSolaris development builds for over about a year now(?).

One thing I thing the Linux community could take from OpenSolaris is its concentration on the approval and standardization of applications, so long as you stay on the OpenSolaris repositories. There is pretty much one tool for each job. That's it -- generally speaking of course.
It is exactly why the Linux community shun it (cannot find binaries of specific software). When I use a Linux based OS, I feel the ADD in me kick in; too many options. I cannot imagine I am alone.

Anyhow, I think OpenSolaris is rock solid and a powerful option for people to try. It may not have all the bells/whistles of Ubuntu, but it aids me in getting my work done very efficiently.

FWIW, I purchased the Fluendo codec pack, which made a huge impact on usability -- I need my tunes while working. Well worth the money IMO.

Not sure why he states not to do that.
Granted, if the volume of traffic for a kindle goes way up beyond what Amazon and Sprint negotiated, there would be flags raised.
I'm sure there are some data usage catch-all's buried in the license agreement.

It should be; the data connection (sprint) doesn't use an account-name system. It's based on hardware. The hardware hasn't changed, so one can assume connectivity will work.

I would recommend an eSATA RAID enclosure, similar to this. Run the newly purchased SATA disks mirrored (RAID-1) in the enclosure. Power up, run backup, power down. Rinse/repeat.

Thanks for that!
As usual, my wife asked why I was laughing; always ends up with a puzzled/disgusted look on her face after I provide an explanation.

Historically, developments in racing technology do come to consumer products. For example, semi-automatic transmission (paddle shifting) used in F1 is now common (either paddles or tip-tronic) in many production cars.

Depends on the specifics of the battery voltage, capacity and current limits as well as physical specifications of the motor. There is no direct 'X kW = Y HP' conversion.

Large organizations and especially the government would disable sudo sysadmin_command for users (so, no apt-get/aptitude/etc..); furthermore, patches are tested prior to deployment; which happens on a scheduled basis. We all know how dynamic IT project management is...
They (IT) would have to work closely with a vendor, such as RedHat or Novell to manage patch rollouts.

Good bye quick and timely security updates.