They're not dropping a P4 or an Athlon XP in these things. The processor is basically a radiation-hardened Motorola G3 running at 200MHz. Or in x86 terms, take a Tualatin P3 (widely available mobile processor in 2002) and underclock it.to a fraction of its original speed.

A 19" CRT is about 80W. A 19" LCD is about 30W. So if you have the monitor on for 8 hours a day you use an extra 0.4KWH, which at the 12.5 cents/KWH I pay comes out to an even nickel per day. If I use the monitor 365 days a year for 8 hours, I'll pay an extra $18.25 in electricity. So the payback would be a few years, probably around the lifespan of the replacement LCD.

As maligned as the DeathStars were, I never lost any data on them. They always gave signs of theilr impending doom, and lasted long enough to copy the data off of them. In comparison, I've seen enough SSDs suddenly just stop working, and anything stored on them is simply gone.

Link works fine for me. It's one of those show an ad and redirect you type of sites, so you might want to check your adblocker.

They also need to add a way to get rid of the annoying message directing you to install flash any time everytime you visit a page that needs flash and you don't have it installed. Did it ever occur to them that some people don't want to install flash? Or that some people may run an open source browser on a platform that isn't even supported by flash?

I think a big part of the problem is not just that the UI changed, it's that the Firefox UI changes are basically a rip-off of Chrome's UI. So if you don't like Chrome's UI, you're certainly not going to be happy with a browser that looks and acts like a bad copy of Chrome.

Well, you have mountains in the western part, and those can slow you down quite a bit. Especially if you have to go well out of your way just to get around them depending on your starting point or destination. There simply aren't a lot of roads in that part of the state, and the roads that do exist you aren't going to be driving 60 on generally. Granted, if you're just pounding down I-90/I-94 then that'll take about 10 hours if you don't stop much. Then again, to a lot of people that's a day's worth of driving.

The military has such beasts, such as the M35 2 1/2 cargo truck, which are designed so that in a pinch you can use just about anything that'll burn (kerosene, gasoline, jet fuel, av gas, gasoline, ethanol, whatever) as fuel. Of course, they really prefer running diesel, and standard practice is if you're going to burn something like gasoline to throw a quart or two of oil into the tank to keep things lubricated.

Doing a trip like that in an e-Golf would be crazy. But that doesn't mean you couldn't own one, and rent a car for a trip like that. Heck, I know people with a perfectly functional gasoline powered car that still like to rent for trips like that.

For many people, a 90 mile range is just fine. For a family with more than one vehicle, having one car with a 90 mile range because they'll just use the other car for long trips. I do agree that we need more serial hybrids, but pure electrics also have their place.

It's practically impossible to import anything newer than 25 years into the US unless it's an exotic or a not street-legal race car. On the other hand, if you just want a commuter car I suppose you could pick out a nice late 80's Renault/VW/Peugeot/Mercedes/Ford/whatever and import that.

From what I've seen, MKV was most popular around 2009-2012 or so. While it's still common, it seems that things are shifting over to MP4 and MKV isn't as dominant as it used to be.

The problem is that parts all have serial numbers, no first world airline is going to touch parts of questionable origin, and third world airlines generally don't have 777's yet, so you'd be better off stealing something like a 727.

In every drive I've ever taken apart, all the heads move together so you're not reading data simultaneously from multiple platters unless by chance you just happen to need to read data from the exact same spot on multiple platters at the same time. Even if this happened, my guess is that the drive isn't capable of utilizing more than one head at a time anyway.

Why not? You simply stick more flash chips in the drive. It's not like it's a mechanical device with moving parts where it gets impractical to keep stacking platters.