Its news only because people feel strongly about their preferred aspect ratio. The 21:9 aspect ratio is the story, not the physical monitor. I stubbornly cling to 16:10 for example and dislike the continual shrinking of the available vertical space. If they'd scale up past 1080 I might be able to get into a wider screen as it'd allow two decently sized tiled windows on one monitor. That is not the trend though and I hope that this particular aspect ratio does not catch on.

Chances are an aftermarket ECU will be used to get around those cases. As more of the system communications is encrypted more will have to be modified to be able to use the car, but the basic components of the car will be intact. This solution might work fine for the collector. The individual who just wants to fix their car will more likely pay a lot more to a dealership or highly specialized repair shop, however.

Maybe for software in active development. I've dealt with million line projects where small teams may have developed a part of the project (a library in your case), but had subsequently brought it to maturity and left. The people who came later, such as myself, could fall back on domain experts to tell us what the code should do but might be expected to learn an area to maintain it that we'll not likely touch again.

I wouldn't say horribly horribly wrong... just a different type of a software project at a different level of maturity than yours. In those cases any kind of tools that help navigating and understanding the system are most welcome. Falling back to windows textual find tools is a bit painful.

The federal law trumps state law when the constitution gives the federal government power to legislate on that area.
A treaty trumps federal law, when there is a conflict... however,
A treaty does not trump constitutional law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_v._Covert

If in fact election law is reserved to the state then short of a constitutional amendment the federal government shouldn't have power to regulate how a state chooses to run its elections and the supremacy clause doesn't enter into it because the power was not delegated to the federal government in the first place.

If its this one: http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/wayne_county/an-unusual-case-of-road-rage-between-a-truck-driver-and-bicycle-rider-takes-a-shocking-turn
then he was arrested but not charged and eventually released. Bizarre story though.

I've been an AMD purchaser for years. As mentioned previously when you look at cost of processor + cost of motherboard the best performance per dollar is almost always in AMDs favor for low-mid range systems. At this point, however, the difference in the power used between comparable systems is getting harder to ignore. For a system that is on all the time there is a big difference between an Ivy Bridge 65 watt and a Phenom II 125 watt. And while that is the max, the idle states have a similar gap.

I really would like to buy AMD if anything to avoid the above situation where Intel has no true competitor. That is good for no one. But unless intel gets arrogant and raises its prices before its done driving AMD out of the desktop chip arena, I don't see a way for them to recover.

Speak for yourself. Tried git for a small project. It may be that I just didn't understand the push's properly, but as it was explained a gatekeeper would have to merge all pushes into the central repository. This seemed like an unnecessary burden when work is naturally segregated into modules and sharing needs to occur regularly. That and the commit with a merge somehow managing to put diffs into the file and I never quite trusted it to handle merges again.

Working with svn now and I'm much happier. Possibly just matches our admittedly simple workflow much better.

I'm curious what your conclusions were... mine were inconclusive based on an admittedly limited sampling:
http://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/colorado/
Aurora: In 2009 the city violent crime rate in Aurora was higher than the violent crime rate in Colorado by 39.22%.
Colorado Springs: In 2009 the city violent crime rate in Colorado Springs was higher than the violent crime rate in Colorado by 45.04%.
Denver: In 2009 the city violent crime rate in Denver was higher than the violent crime rate in Colorado by 70.98%.

It seems like other factors might be at play here.

This has been the argument out there... that the taxation power under this ruling is effectively unlimited. It is not clear to me, however, whether the bill of rights overrules the taxation power. I'd like to believe that "Congress shall make no law..." includes tax law. Thus you could not prohibit (via tax) speech, right to assembly, voting, etc. I guess we'll see when this trick is tried to prohibit some protected right.

Why not just have those TLDs resolve within the us, but require .gov.us to resolve outside the us? Likewise Australia could have .edu resolve to educational institutions within the country but require .edu.au outside. Of course that breaks the universality of the link, but the same could be said for phone numbers... once you leave the nation you need to tack on additional numbers to get to the same phone number. Internally the site would have to reference itself as the fully qualified name, of course.

Not true. National ID identity theft would simply be big business. By definition you cannot control all the hardware in such a scenario and so there would be workarounds.

In this case any rights that Sony would be trying to enforce come from a law which is provided by the state. If that law prevents you from exercising those rights then it is indeed the state interfering with your rights (perhaps on the behalf of the Corporation). To my knowledge you do not need to sign a contract with Sony in order to obtain a PS3, and without that contract you "should" retain all the rights associated with owning a piece of property. Notwithstanding copyrights which are written into the constitution the federal laws should grant Sony no special powers over your property. Sony should be left with only a copyright claim, which would be pretty weak.

Now I am not so naive to believe that the system works that way, but in short Sony should have no hold on your usage of your hardware. (Obviously since this case is in Germany a whole different framework applies, however.)

And this is where we part ways. You cannot have the right not to be offended, even if the government says you do. Such a right (perfectly enforced) would lead to a society where noone could say anything to anyone for fear of offending them. And it wouldn't stop there as I personally know people who'd be happy to take there offense at the slightest smell to a judge. Wearing the wrong cologne today?

The bar must be set higher to have logically consistent rules.

The original argument was that countries with socialized medicine would not have astronomical costs for the cash buyer. They shouldn't get it free, but the actual amount charged (to whoever is actually paying for the device) is what is at issue here.