I took my laptop from Oregon to London last summer so I could send email to my family and log my geocaches.
No problem with wi-fi. It worked for me exactly as it does in the states. Channel selection is made by the access point, not by the laptop, so it's not your worry.
Your laptop charger has a label telling what input voltages it will accept. All of my chargers (and my electric razor) take 100-240 VAC and 50 or 60 Hz. That means they don't need a transformer to work with England's 240/50 power, just a cheap mechanical adapter which I picked up for a few bucks.
The Boingboing discussion of "Geek Atlas: 128 nerdy must-sees and an education in science, technology and geek history" describes a good reference.
I can recommend the The American Museum of Radio and Electricity in Bellingham, Washington. My daughter and I dropped by for an hour and found ourselves staying until closing time.
Yes, just like the Catholic church "converted" the natives living in the Americas. Oh, where are they today, anyway? That's right, most of them chose to die rather than be "converted".
That's true only if dying from smallpox is "by choice." The natives that survived the new diseases chose to convert and intermingle.
From TFA:
This supercluster is so massive that its gravity pulls our galaxy toward it at a velocity of about 200 kilometers per second.
(Huh? Gravity pull is an acceleration, not a velocity.)
The space between galaxies is not empty. It's actually full of rarefied hot gas. As our galaxy falls into the Local Supercluster, it should disturb this gas and create a shock wave, like the bow shock of a jet plane.
I don't follow this. If the supercluster is pulling us in, it's also pulling in the intergalactic gas. We should be flowing along with that gas, not blasting through it.
Sprint asks you to confirm the last four digits of your SSN when you call customer service.
I've called them several times in the last two years, including one call this month, and they're never asked for this. Instead, they ask for the PIN number that I defined when I opened my account.
Adobe did add this dialog -- but it only appears if you have disabled Javascript! (Which you can do with Edit / Preferences, no need for the registry hack.)
Here's the exact dialog:
? This document contains JavaScripts. Do you want to enable JavaScripts from now on? The document may not behave correctly if they're disabled.
[ ] Don't show this message again until this document is reopened
[[Yes]] [[No]]
Ya need to read your Tom Clancy. The article is wrong to talk about using SONAR
Which Tom Clancy, and everybody else, calls passive sonar .
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
