For those who have never heard about troy ounces: that's around 3200US$/kg (2500€/kg) for Ruthenium resp. ten times that for Iridium.

You could also build a camera out of a medical X-ray sensor, with pixel size around 150 micron. Sensors are typically 43x43cm (17x17 inch) wide, which might be a problem.

While I have no need for a 20inch 4K tablet, I'm very interested in an affordable monitor based on that panel. Even more if they made it a bit larger, say 24".

Sorry to interrupt you here, but at least in Germany, shops must state the price per kg or liter on the price tag.

milk: 1 liter is the standard size with sometimes 0.5 liters also being available
cream: 200 grams standard size, some are 150g

A few years ago, eBay had some flash animation on it's start page showing off a few items with rotation and scaling.
It caused constant 70% CPU load on my 1.8GHz Athlon64!

i++ or ++i or i = i + 1 doesn't generate an atomic operation. You need some intrinsic like Increment(&i) to get that.

Germans (actually all Europeans) don't need credit cards because with EC/Maestro cards, they already have something better: free card and transactions for customers, and just 0.3% transaction fee for merchants. Payment is online with PIN against your bank account. AmEx and others don't offer free cards (here) and seem to take 3-5% transaction fee.

Other vendors can do better.

Apple iPod: Just copying audio files to the device doesn't work, special software has to be used, which also updates the index. File and directory names are lost, replaced by has values.

Philips GoGear: You can copy audio files on/off it with any file manager. Directory and file names are preserved. When file system content has been changed, on detach, the device updates the index itself. So you can add/remove tracks with any file manager and the device still can use an index database.

I hope the US gets to adopt SI units before hitting 4.3L/100km in 2025.

I wonder how they came up with US$ 1.90 retail for 500ml in Germany. That's fair for 2 premium or 3 average 500ml units, but not for one. For that price, there is quite some selection of sixpacks at discounters.

And 130km/h (81 mph) is the recommended speed for highways, meaning if conditions are good, you should go at least 81mph.

On the 2600, the CPU has to generate the video signal, each frame (@60/50Hz), all the time.
The playfield makes up around 50% of the analog video signal's beam time. Therefore, even if you use
all tricks to have the CPU available for game logic on left, right, top & bottom border, you still have less
than 50% of the CPU time available.

If you want to use the hardware sprites (movable overlays), you have
around 30% CPU time (=0.36MHz) left for game logic.

http://www.alienbill.com/2600/101/02breach.html

MS made it way too hard to reconfigure Win7 to have the same quicklaunch bar like in XP. You need the recipe how to do it and around 30 clicks. No wonder user behavior changed compared to XP.

I was really missing the XP-like quicklaunch it in Win7, mainly because "pinned icons" (?) only work to open the first window:
Click "Firefox" to open one window. Fine. Click again for a second window? Doesn't work.

Only because of this article, google found me how to get the XP behavior back.

It's a bit more complicated than just hacking away some license check. Each game happens in it's own randomly generated game world.

The world generator code & data is server-side only. The game client does not have the code to generate a world, it can only display and navigate a world. I heard that some (or all?) world generator stuff was shipped with the closed alpha test builds, but was removed before beta test.

It would take somebody to code something emulating a Blizzard D3 server with quite some logic.