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According to this article (http://us.gizmodo.com/5851288/why-the-barometer-is-androids-new-trump-card), a guy from The Weather Underground says it won't work. He says that the pressure gradients are too flat and the sensors are too imprecise to be able to accurately measure local pressure any better than the existing network.

I've done the opposite - I've lost motherboards due to defective boards and defective power supplies. Maybe its just been bad luck, but I also sometimes swap out the motherboard for a newer one with more features - you don't always need the fastest cpu, but sometimes having a feature (like USB3.0) is worth the upgrade.

lol, it wasn't that long ago that ISDN was still considered bloody fast.

I'll second that. All it takes is for the bad guys to use the alarm function and then they still get the bomb to go off and the victims can't even call for help. What a stupid idea.

SWF = Shocking White Flasher.. I think..

I fixed that for you:

[2] The tea party types complain that this is *more* government intrusion.

I bought 2 2TB Hitachi's in May 2011 for $69 each including shipping from NewEgg. They were that cheap back then.

It has about the same odds as getting the /. editor to include the state for which this law actually applies in the summary. (It's California in this case.)

In the five hours since I posted this, two /. articles on these guys have come up:

http://slashdot.org/story/12/11/07/1722200/pixar-names-main-studio-building-for-steve-jobs
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/11/07/2225208/elon-musk-will-usher-in-the-era-of-electric-cars

The second even compares Musk to Jobs.

Counterexamples:

Steve Jobs had Apple and NeXT and Pixar. Elon Musk had Paypal and now has Tesla and SpaceX.

[quote]Residential customers are usually charged for real power only[/quote]

Yes, that's true, but power plants have to supply the "naive" amount of current. When you factor in losses due to delivery, it adds up. The point is, regardless of the power factor, it's worth saving electricity, if not for your pocketbook, then for the environment.

It's not that I don't trust the LCD. It's that when you change the resolution, you tend to screw other things up as well.

I have three monitors and I game on the center one. I like to keep my email and IRC open on the other ones while I play. But if the game adjusts the resolution, the positions of the other windows move around and I can no longer see all of them. This happens in Windows if the game doesn't run at the same resolution as my center monitor.

Citation needed.

What difference does it make who (the graphics card or the monitor) is doing the scaling??

Except that we're no longer in the era of CRTs. Since LCDs have one native resolution, they should always be driven at that resolution. If a game wants to run at 640x480, then that should be accomplished by scaling it up and adding black bars, if necessary, but the signal to the LCD should still be at the original resolution.