Yes, please buy bunches of these or some XBox Ones if you must. Life is too short to waste on tech support and these things can be maintained by a tweenager once the initial internet connection is established.

The speed of sound is relative to the density of the media it is traversing. All Ultrasonic transmit beamforming algorithms must take media density into consideration to achieve reasonable convergence. Unless this device is performing adaptive beamforming or has a very precise humidity sensor its functionality will be spotty at best, and even if it does the inventors just stepped into a shiatstorm of patents held by the companies that have been forming medical imaging IP warchests over the past 15 - 20 years. Good luck and godspeed.

Nintendo should give up on making console hardware and stick with handhelds and offer their traditional console titles via Steam.

I'd like to encode some data in one of these spheres and have these fine gentlemen rotate it at light speed to send it and its information back in time. Why should Biff Tanen have all the luck?

A transparent bridging scenario such as this would not make much sense as an SSD can easily saturate the available bandwidth of a 6 Gb/s SATA port. A non-transparent bridging scheme which makes the device look more like a traditional spinning HD with a really big cache would make more sense as the SATA port driver would not have to route every sector write/fetch to specific device. Most likely the driver on the OS side only manages migration of data between the SSD and HD to balance read/write performance favoring keeping as much free space on the SSD as possible to enhance write performance.

Thank goodness this is an IBM product rather than another MS abomination. Future history could have read 2014: The year Clippy became self aware and doomed the fate of Internet in a nanosecond

With the ability to target cells, specifically immunodeficient cancer cells, the total dosage of radioactive material needed should be greatly reduced. This would seem to be favorable to techniques that target all tissues in the vicinity of a tumor.

If you cannot use solder wick properly then you aren't really skilled enough to be modding circuit boards.

WinKey+X brings up a menu of all the OS admin utilities I use frequently. Hitting the WinKey and typing the first few letters of an application name works for everything else. No hacking required.

If you have done the work to become an EE you should know how to code fairly well already and given the current need for skilled software developers you can probably get hired doing embedded systems work in any of the North American technology hubs quite easily. It may not be your preferred line of work but its a living wage until and work experience to tide you over until the wave of change sweeps across the industry.

Keep in mind the Gartner comparison is in number of units sold. Considering Apple is much more vertically integrated than MS they keep a much larger chunk of the unit selling price and therefore earn substantially more revenue from per device sold. Apple should really start rolling their own server and office productivity software to compete against the remaining MS cash cows.

So are you willing to share the details of your /. account with your employer should they deem it a 'social media' site? I, for one, would like to cling to whatever shreds of pseudo-anonymity are left on the Internet.

Those measures only apply to the offsite backups of the Bitcoin wallets, there is nothing preventing a fund manager who routinely performs transactions on these accounts from going rogue.