Do you want to pay ten times as much for a routine medical procedure as someone that has insurance?

Whenever I an invoice from a medical provider, they list the normal price and the insurance-negotiated price. It is usually about 10x more if you don't have insurance.

The system is broken. People cannot shop around for medical care like they do with other goods and services, because the prices aren't known ahead of time and often the consumer doesn't have time or a state of mind to do a comparison anyway.

There needs to be some regulation to keep costs reasonable. With that in place, your desire to pay for your own expenses might work.

Skype offers unlimited calling to the US & Canada for $2.99 a month. Are there any SIP providers that match that?

The correct word is flout, not flaunt.

You got a few milliwatts of output using a heatsink and a fan. How much power was the fan using?

Most gps logs only show the calculated location and timestamp. They do not show the timing information from each satellite. Without this info, it is easier to falsify a log.

I also have the AspireRevo 1600.

It generally works great with XBMC, but if you are going to play a lot of 1080p content, you might be better off getting a dual-core atom. 1080p videos play fine, but there can be some stuttering if you have background processes running (like sabnzbd), or if you need to do any audio processing (like software mixing).

Since the AR1600 comes with windows XP, I first tried XBMC for Windows, but it didn't have hardware accelerated playback, even with the latest nVidia drivers. I installed an ion-optimized version of the XMBC live cd (based on Ubuntu Linux) produced by XBMCFreak.

The AR1600 also doesn't have any digital audio outputs, other than HDMI. This means that if you want surround sound and your receiver doesn't support hdmi audio, your tv needs to do digital audio pass-through.

Streaming sources like Pandora and Last.FM are free and legal. I don't have to search for music I like, and I don't have to worry about running out of storage space.

The last digital album I bought on Amazon only allowed each file to be downloaded once. Even worse, I was using the Amazon music download utility. I put my laptop to sleep before it was completed and when I woke it, the download session had expired, and it would not let me finish downloading the tracks. A quick message to Amazon tech support through their website resulted in them granting me an additional download of each track in the album. It took them approximately 12 hours to respond.

The upshot is that the way Amazon handles digital downloads is not perfect.

Nokia has been shipping Flash on their ARM based internet tablets (N800, N810) and also on their new smart phone (N900).

The best options for a carpc currently are windows xp and windows 7 because there are few gps navigation apps for linux.

It would be nice if they would have included an infrared port for universal remotes. The PS3 is reportedly the best Blu-Ray player, but it is hard to integrate into many people's home theaters because of the RF remote.

That is NOT the only real difference. The biggest difference here is that there is NO variable timed engine. No cam lobes. No transmission. Just a gas powered electric generator. There is NO hybrid mode. This vehicle operators only on power from the batteries. When you take it over a certain speed, the generator kicks on to keep the batteries juiced. This decouples the generator from the power source.

This setup is called a Series Hybrid.

There are electric scooters with in-line wheels that are much lighter, have similar ranges and speeds, and can be had for $500 (like the Go Motorboard). The Segway's gyro technology is expensive and unnecessary.

That much energy could supply 1.21 Gigawatts for 3.4 hours. The BTTF time machine only needed that much power for a split second.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=14770+joules+%2F+1.21+watts&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

Your scenario seems like an ideal use of twitter.

How did people know to follow you for scores?