Good question - does the bus speed match the ram convention, or the hard drive storage convention and all other communication speed conventions?

Actually it's much worse than "who wants to be a billionaire." A show like that actually is plausible and wouldn't need to have 1000x as many viewers as the millionaire show.

You don't need an actual billion dollars on-hand, you need insurance for a billion dollars. The premium for which needs to be lower per episode than the revenue for each episode, but that can be arranged by limiting the number of questions per episode, raising the number of questions before reaching the grand prize, and increasing the difficulty of the questions. It's entirely possible to arrange things so that the risk of a payout is low enough to have a profitable show.

Of course.. you wouldn't be able to have a winner most years, so that might be a negative for viewership, but all of the factors are within your control, and you could have such a show at pretty much any budget level (that an insurance company will bother with) by tweaking the conditions.

A space mission's costs will be what they will be. If you're definitely going to do the mission, you can't get rid of them by something as simple as tweaking a number of dice rolls.

A decade ago South Korea had had a well-publicized StarCraft obsession for years. The fact that they are stuck on ActiveX is due to them being early adopters of internet banking and government activities. IIRC, a decade ago there were already articles and discussions about being South Korea being stuck on ActiveX...

No, they should not add an off switch.

They should add an on switch. The default state shouldn't be "spend my money for me on something that mostly benefits you and not me."

No, it was lost due to bad ratings.

How is this a problem?

It's important to note that "an eye for an eye" was a prohibition of escalation. It was a prohibition of taking more than an eye for an eye's worth of injury.

There is a book described within 1984 that was something of an instruction manual, or a warning, nobody really was sure any more.

1984 actually does come pretty close to meeting the definition of the book described within it....

Germs? I always thought the purpose of hot wash was to increase its solubility for whatever you're trying to separate from the clothes, and also to ruin wool. More dangerously, I have heard this sterilization idea brought up regarding the dishwasher, as if it's an autoclave, I guess. (why don't we us kitchen autoclaves....)

Soda and vinegar? Are you trying to make a laundry volcano?

Comparatively low-res?

Since the 1080p panel size won the supply-chain wars, most computer monitors are just TVs without tuners. The resolution is the same. Or it should be. Does anyone know what the hell "overscan" is and why I need to turn it on to get my 1080p desktop stretch to fill my entire 1080p LCD television screen when connecting using HDMI? (also why it stretches a little too much?)

The period where you're claiming to benefit form savings time, you're actually under standard time....

There already is a feature for that, ANI, where the information is sent by the phone company rather than by the caller themselves over the "voice" portion of the call. It costs more than caller ID, and I'm not sure you can even get the phone company to offer it to you as an individual, but many business use this feature. Probably the spam callers themselves are using it to avoid receiving unwanted calls...

I try to make sure that the only clocks I have are connected to the internet other automatically adjusted sources - computer, cell phone, DVR, "atomic" radio clock, etc. If it's not connected to the internet or some other source for updating time zone data (because, not only do we need to change the time twice a year, we need to change when we do it, too, and differently depending on location), then I try to buy one that doesn't have a clock so I don't need to bother.

The only clock I still need to adjust that I don't just ignore is my car radio. Do new cars have internet-connected clock/radios?

Despite this great convenience of automatically adjusting clocks, DST is still stupid.

So, now they have to have special "summer" and "winter" hours, which they may or may not have needed to bother with without DST. Exactly what is the benefit of monkeying with everyone else's time?

Yeah, most people don't care. Or think they don't. They still have to waste time adjusting to it, though.

Only morning people actually like it, because they get to be extra smug for the following week while their co-workers, friends, and neighbors adjust.