yes, that is what esx or esxi are.

a 'little' more expensive? $700 vs $100? That sounds like a LOT more expensive to me.

uhhh---he got a speeding ticket...

uhhh, Apple TV has been out for many years and works fine with non-apple wifi and non apple computers. It does require iTunes, but last I heard iTunes was software, not hardware.

There's no reason to assume the new Apple TV won't work the same way, just without the streaming of video from whatever computer iTunes is on.

(how long do they wait to put them up on the Comedy Central site for free?

Daily Show and Colbert are there the next day...

Okay so you lead the cops to the address of the guy that has 'your' phone.

They confiscate the phone (if it is still there) and it is now evidence in a case. It sits in the police evidence room for 6 months or more awaiting a court date...you really don't gain anything from the whole procedure, except maybe getting the privilege of spending a significant amount of time on the whole process.

The police barely have enough time to find lo-jacked cars, never mind $200 cell phones...

says base price is 49k (though they are including a tax credit, which seems fair to me. As long as I end up putting out less than 50k, then that was effectively the price.)

Huh - so if base price is $49K you are looking at about $55k out the door...sounds to me like that is more than $50K

Demand for rentals is THROUGH THE ROOF right now due to the downturn

Not it's not - in most places anyways. There was just a thing on npr about this - lots of people are moving back with parents or renting a room in a house, as opposed to getting their own apartment. There is a rental glut due to inmvestors buying houses cheap and renting them out.

I have a rental and am not looking forward to finding new renters when my current renters leave in a few months.

Except that microUSB is so new and scarce that my local electronics store wanted to charge me $30 for clearly a $5 cable.

scarce and rare? I went to Fry's and they had them on the shelf. $6.99 for 6ft, $5.99 for 3 foot.

If you are trying to focus with a low res LCD (or any lcd for that matter) I can see why you wouldn't see the need for manual focus...

By unifying video and audio into a single cable manufacturers have been able to make their products easier to set up than ever before

in 1985 we'd hook up our VCR to the TV with a single coax cable...

You don't need PROOF to get a subpoena, if you had PROOF, you could go straight to the trial.

Let's do the math...new dell laptop that is now 'used'...optimistically $1500 for a higher end laptop. Insurance deductible, is probably no less than $500 probably $750 or $1000.

So the insurance company will be out $500-$1000, and will raise rates to recoup some of that.

How hard do you think they'll work?

Actually the Ferraris from the early 80s aren't particularly highly valued, neither are the Porsches from that era - they generally are underpowered due to the perception of a gas shortage at that time.

One would do well with a mid to late 70's ferrari - still carbeurated and significantly more powerful than an 80-85.

the energy imparted to an object by wind is basically area x density of air x speed.

given a constant wind speed and density you find you need a specific area 'A' to propel a mass forward.

You then double the area 'A' - what happens to all the extra energy you are inputting into the system? All you need to do is find a way to use this extra energy for forward propulsion and you will find a way to go faster than the wind, which apparently these guys have done, contrary to the supposed impossibility of it.