Try looking at a psychometric chart sometime. Heating does not change the amount of moisture in the air. Air can hold more moisture at higher temperatures, which is why air feels "dryer" when it is heated coming out of your furnace.

Or you could stick a bucket under your condensate drain off your AC/furnace and see how much water collects in the winter.

Recently picked up a couple 3TB Seagate drives and a Synology box for a new NAS at home. Since I was planning to move all my music, pictures, video, and general documents to the new box, I decided to download the manufacturer HDD tools and scan the drives first just in case. I think Seagate's is called SeaTools, I'm sure WD has a program as well. No errors reported on either drive, and no errors so far with the RAID array after a couple months of use.

It is cheap this time around. $40 to get an upgrade from a previous version of windows, and 98% of people already have a previous version.

I usually run the most current version of windows, but never actually purchased it (aside from when Win98 shipped on a HP machine I bought back in 2000). Typically I go through the cat and mouse game when MS occasionally catches up to the pirates and limits updates or other software (like media center) without extra activation checks. For $40 this time around I figured it was worth not having to fight with activation periodically for the next few years.

For what its worth, this "upgrade" key worked perfectly with a clean install.

It's a good thing Curiosity brought Surface to Air Missiles along on the trip to protect against an alien invasion of Mars.

On the other hand, if you use Amazon's free super saver shipping, you will have to pay zero dollars per order in shipping costs. You may have to wait a few extra days for items, and order small items in groups to get keep the overall order cost above $25 to apply, but its hard to argue with free.

Apple acquires patents from the AFC (American Football Conference) after talks with the NFC fall through. Apple just had to get a piece of the $10B American Football industry.

Weather delays Endeavour's last trip.

While the hardware is available on most modern consoles, I doubt Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo would let this last long. They need to keep everything proprietary and in their walled garden to prevent rampant piracy after all.

Agreed. My wife was working on her masters, reading lengthy academic papers on an LCD screen (laptop and/or PC) for several hours at a time. After having eye-strain issues she picked up a Kindle, and the problem greatly diminished. Its one of the few devices that comes close to paper in terms of readability for books and such.

You have to know what you are getting. If you are looking for a tablet - decent graphics, games, etc. a Kindle isn't a good choice. If you simply want an e-reader, the Kindle is the way to go. If you turn off the wireless when not in use, the battery life is ridiculously longer than any back-lit display will ever be, since the e-ink uses zero power once a page is displayed.

Please state the nature of the medical emergency.

Or how about CNN? "Higgs boson is like ... a Justin Bieber fan?" http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/05/higgs-boson-is-like-a-justin-bieber-fan/?hpt=hp_t2

Almost all mainstream media is clueless on what the Higgs Boson actually is, or what its findings could mean. Sadly, it would have had 90% less press in the mainstream media if it wasn't given an unfortunate nickname.

Since 1985.... for over three decades... So when did I step through the temporal doorway? Last time I checked the calendar we still had a couple years before we can try to meet up with Marty McFly.