Either way, they'll try to execute him without giving him his Sixth Amendment right to a trial.

Not Joseph? Lame.

I thought Tjmax was unreliable because it was calculated using some standard offset number that in reality varies from CPU to CPU, and that's why most monitoring software didn't use it, preferring Tcase.

The 4770k's maximum Tcase is 73C.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/core/4th-gen-core-family-desktop-vol-1-datasheet.html

Because most microprocessors do not run for 100k hours at 70C. Maybe at 40C, but electromigration will kill just about any chip running that hot for an extended period of time.

The temps that manufacturers state tell you the temperature at which a chip will operate, not a temperature at which it will survive with extended use. If a processor runs at 70C but crashes constantly at 73C, do you really think it will happily run at 70C for 11 years?

But it doesn't matter, because they both run at 3 GHz! Wait, what? Instruction set? What's that? Like for Lego sets?

Moore's Law doesn't say anything about CPU speed, it's about the number of transistors on a chip doubling every two years. And it is still accurate (roughly).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Transistor_Count_and_Moore's_Law_-_2011.svg

They just haven't watched enough X-Files. "Humbug" taught me that term when I was 14 or so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdBYlH4H9Ck

Sure a geek can have a use for guns. Because guns are amazing hobby tools, not just something for "busting a cap." Go to a shooting competition sometime, and watch those bastards haul around hundreds of pounds of equipment, on which they have spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars tuning and modding and unmodding and remodding, just to make a little metal target flip down.

THAT is geekdom.

(Just don't share that with most of them, or you might get shot)

Great news for 22nd century anthropologists!

And Obama's dad was a drunk-driving Muslim homeopath. What's your point?

AC is correct. Make: Electronics is a great resource, and will definitely aid the submitter in understanding what all those little magic widgets in the robot kits do.

Also, if you need to learn how to solder, check out EEVBlog's three soldering tutorial videos on Youtube.
http://www.eevblog.com/2011/06/19/eevblog-180-soldering-tutorial-part-1-tools/

I'm kind of surprised we haven't seem more robot vacuum kits become available. Seems like the kind of thing everybody would want, something that is useful AND tweakable.

Only if you like soldering and bending metal. If you're a software guy, the coding is the fun part.

I've never worked with biofilms, but I was a part of a research group that did, so hopefully I am remembering this correctly.

They're actually very similar in makeup, mucins and biofilms. The way mucins are supposed to work is to preferentially bind to the external saccharides on cellular walls, inhibiting the microbes from attaching with their pili and thereby stopping the biofilm from ever gaining a foothold.

Most mucins are o-glycoproteins, while the biofilms are typically polysaccharides (very interlinked and stiff, unlike the intermittently-crosslinked and thereby floppy o-glycoproteins).

Of course, there are plenty of OTHER things on which biofilms will form, like iron and other metals, by using siderophores and whatnot. But that's not really relevant to this discussion.