Can't say I blame him. If I had to deal with Wintel all day I would hate computers too. Switch to *NIX, more control, more sense, more power!

So they spent months, thousands of dollars in defense, thousands in city funds all over the fact that some drunk tool refused to tell the cop who he was?

Where are my BNC connectors and 50ohm terminators!

Seriously coax is a nightmare and like others said use the coax as a wire pull for some nice CAT6.

Most if not arguably all the movies in the last few years are either remakes or rehashes, many artists rehash or sample others music and now society has started tolerating plagiarists. Is society stagnating?

What board games are you buying and where are you shopping? Last time I checked Scrabble and Monopoly were still in the sub-20 dollar range. Even Axis and Allies is 40-50 bucks. Even if they were 100 bucks you could buy 10-20 of them for the cost of an iPad and 3 iPhones.

So I have the choice of a buying a 10 dollar board game or spending thousands in on iPads and iPhones. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this one out.

Tritium is just an isotope of Hydrogen. Being that it is too light the Earth to hold onto it gravitationally so doesn't it all just end up wisping away into space?

I hesitate to say it because the original was frankly one of the best Sci-Fi movies of all time but I think the message is still pertaent and as long as they stay true to the original it could be a very good movie to remake.

Don't forget that the average worker on this were paid 5-10 dollars a DAY. Pratically slavery

Will it be:

a. The company that makes the Dazzler
b. The company that makes the BeDazzler (that rhinestone pressing gadget)

I have to say I am surprised that the whole concept of serial consoles, serial cards and what not are completely lost on the Windows generation.

Here are the kernel configs for using a serial dongle (costs around 5 bucks) on a USB port for as a serial console.

If you don't want to do that buy a serial port on a PCI card (costs around 10 bucks) or just buy a cheap watchdog card (most expensive least work since it emulates vga over serial).

I think this might be possible but would actually require structure, a great deal of discipline and a lot of work on the "teachers" part. I doubt most people are qualified or have the dedication do this effectively. So I suspect most people who try it will end up really hurting their children in the long run.

We used to live next door to some people who tried something similar to this and their kids didn't learn to read until they were 10 and even then they were likely functionally illiterate.

Additionally society and the work environment have some measure of structure and school is what introduces them to that. Without that the kids are at a disadvantage when they are flung into society and the workplace.

Yes, the hype played big time into it. We were all expecting some new power generating sterling engine or something equally cool. In the end we got an SUPER expensive scooter.

So I would put forth a theory that it is a combination of disappointment from the hype + sour grapes because it is so expensive + you look like a complete tool riding it.

Do the math, if you assume you drive 20,000 miles a year that comes out to 200-400 dollars if they do it by mile. As opposed to driving a car that gets 20mpg you would only pay 180 dollars at 18 cents a gallon for the same 20,000 miles.

Not to mention they can then track people, levy fines, charge more for certain roads etc etc etc

I have heard from some reliable sources that Facebook and Twitter's backend applications are poorly written.

Are Intel and AMD's claims overblown, sure what hardware manufacter doesn't cherry pick performance claims.

But I don't care what sort of hardware you through at crap code you are always going to get crap performance.