We use PlayOn for local media streaming, as well as Hulu, YouTube, and some cable channels. We bought it for $70, lifetime license. Requires a PC to run on, but other than that, makes our Rokus serve all our television needs.

We mechanical engineers called those "Baby Statics" :) They actually taught a subset of sum(F)=sum(m*a) to the civil engineers that got rid of all that useless m and a business. All forces summed to zero, and that's how they liked it!

No judgement on you, though. My EE knowledge goes just about far enough to remember V=I*R, and my greatest software achievements have manifested themselves in MS Excel VBA scripts!

Congrats to you for expanding your knowledge and stepping into the messy world of physics!

You cannot possibly leave off the list HCBaily, who is, I dare say, the most prolific LP'er in the universe. He does JRPGs, and is really damned good at it. He's funny, quirky, and deeply knowledgeable about the games he plays, and the genre as a whole. He has something like 10,000 videos and 57 million video views.

As far as I know, he doesn't do advertising or paid LPs.

It's easy to see how it could be torture. For the specific case of Muslim terrorists who find it spiritually objectionable to drink alcohol, imagine their forced feeding slurry including wine. Or if not wine, maybe the terrorist believes eating pork is sinful, and the liquid food comes from processed pork. Or lima beans, or whatever. The effect of knowingly, but against your will, ingesting a food could be psychologically traumatizing and cause mental pain.

A completely reasonable food, administered in a completely reasonable way could still be torture.

I imagine some of it has to do with Quantum Electro Dynamics, and the fact that the electron arrangement in gold makes it naturally a very different color under white light than most other metals. Ancient people found a rock that had a color like no other rocks, and also could be shaped into trinkets. That's my best guess for how it all got started.

Millions of US citizens also take baths every day. Some even dunk their head under the water to rinse away shampoo.

Close enough that water boarding is just maintaining the prisoners' head hygiene?

Without making any judgement on interrogation practices or detainee treatment, the argument that something is a "routine ... procedure performed daily for large numbers of people" and therefore not torture is illogical.

Check the next-to-last slide on the linked presentation. 50X smaller than typical VR components usually placed next to the CPU. http://www.psma.com/sites/default/files/uploads/tech-forums-nanotechnology/resources/400a-fully-integrated-silicon-voltage-regulator.pdf

Check out pages 7-9 or so for the magnetics and inductors: http://www.psma.com/sites/default/files/uploads/tech-forums-nanotechnology/resources/400a-fully-integrated-silicon-voltage-regulator.pdf

Nope, they actually did get on-chip magnetics and inductors. They're the Intel folks, afterall.

While I believe that the amount of debt I accrued during my time in college was high, and is a significant part of my monthly budget now (~1 mortgage payment), I do not believe that I could have gained the knowledge, experience, and training in any other way.

It may be argued that life experience, time in the local library, etc, can give someone a great deal of useful education. And honestly, I don't disagree. However, my population 6,000 hometown had none of the resources available to compare to 3.5 years of undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum from my alma mater. "Stress" was a psychological term, not a mathematical description of load and area. "Fluid dynamics" sounded like a plumber's job, not the study of pressures and flows in liquids and gases. Nobody in Small Town, Ohio knew about AutoCAD, or Maple, or Fortran, or differential equations, mechatronics, or engineering management. These are all things I learned first in college, and have since refined in my professional practice on a daily basis.

I agree that not all costs for college seem rational for the student, and indeed, many colleges do take advantage of their "customers". For me, I'm glad I made the investment, as it's expanded my understanding of the world and my earning potential (well in excess of what it costs me, even 10 yrs beyond graduation). I would make the same purchase again. And I'll teach my kids about the costs and benefits and help them pay if they choose to and our college savings are adequate.

Might I suggest you investigate Aereo? They are working on, and legally defending, a service to stream live TV to their customers. Of course, this still is network content, but it's something.

Or, your parents might have gotten you mixed up with Martians and you could come back to Terra and provide spiritual/mathematical/scientific enlightenment as the main ingredient in a watery broth.

To be fair, it sounds like this spreadsheet calculation was averaging maybe a dozen or so values. Hardly a misuse of Excel. Yes, I know people complain all the time about using Excel as if it were a DB application, but this is not one of those instances.

How come there's such a specific prohibition on camels?

And how are you supposed to know if the camel ever ate filth?

Balderdash!

It's a percentage, look it up on wikipedia. You'll see that percentages are an ancient way of making things relative, regardless of their absolute value. "Per" means divided evenly, and "cent" means 100. You take some absolute number, break it up into 100 equal parts, and then you can compare it to other equally divided number w/o being concerned about the absolute amount.

And, some basic necessity things don't scale well with the income level of the people who use them. It's much easier for a wealthy person to buy food, even expensive, organic, hand picked food, than it is for a poor person to buy horse meat and high fructose corn syrup.