I love love LOVE ctrl-option-cmd-eject (shutdown), ctrl-cmd-eject (reboot) and control-shift-eject (blank screen)

I use them every single day.

I've been secretly using Jude Law's biometrics. Eventually I'll be on that ship to outer space.

twist: the wifi router was located in the closet

Maybe things are changing, but shouldn't sales taxes be for tangible goods?

But this is an opportunity. It means even nerds like us can make movies now!

Scripts are just crazy mad libs, and we can fill in the blanks with whatever we want to.

  "_____________!
(exclamation)
he said ________ as he jumped into his convertible
(adjective)
______ and drove off with his
(noun)
__________ wife."
(adjective)

"UBUNTU! He said FREELY as he jumped into his convertible HYBRID and drove off with his IMAGINARY wife."

I think the problem is that the Flicker Fusion Threshold might be poorly understood by manufacturers.

I think lots of factors affect our perception, young people can perceive flicker more than older people, and things like caffeine can make flicker more noticable.

Harbor Freight shopping list:

[_] Air Compressor, 5 Hp, 60 gallon
[_] Shop Press, 20 Ton
[_] HF-35A Joint Strike Fighter, 25 ton

I've been to a La-z-boy showroom recently and some of their stuff is awesome.

Drink holders with 110v outlets. Multi-way power recliners, with cool stuff like a headrest tilt option to put your head at JUST the right angle to watch tv. :)

...also the crappy alignment of the last text bubble. :)

I have some of these bulbs and they are fine for me. I have noticed they don't dim all the way down though.

I mean that if you were to move the dimmer from 100 to 0, the bulb would dim down to 30 and shut off below that.
But basically it works fine, you just have to move the dimmer from 30-100 instead of from 0-100.

I have noticed that virtually all the new LED light bulbs that replace normal incandescent bulbs are dimmable.
(This is true for the bulbs I've seen on sale).

This is not true for Compact Fluorescent bulbs. You need to buy special and expensive dimmable bulbs
(that frequently whine when dimming).

Even if there are failures, I suspect the cost savings is still great (both in power use and maintenance costs). Also the lights have a warranty.

The analogy would hold if you licensed your house. Or possibly a reverse mortgage.

What are you TALKING about?

The CEO is definitely the one calling the shots for stuff like always-on DRM, free-to-play, in-app purchases and other decisions of this kind.

He implements "big" policy and mediates the power struggles between for instance marketing and engineering.

There are numerous examples of this, but one that comes to mind is Steve Jobs' architecting of Apple so that Jonathan Ives would "win" when it came to design decisions.

I use these earplugs:

http://www.earplugstore.com/eclsupvcfopl.html

and have been very successful blocking out noises.