I would suspect C3 sleep states are supported on a majority of systems by now. Perhaps I was just lucky when I picked up the hackintosh board a few years ago. Now, I simply use a reasonably long idle timer and the system goes to sleep/power off. It takes a few seconds to come back out of that state and wholly beats a cold start.

I guestimate my home system gets about 3-4 hours of usage each day during the weekday. In addition, there are plenty of other device around the house which support other core services.

I don't know if it's so much about being green as it is the sensibility to turn a light switch off if it's not in use.

Back in the day, we had a fairly good GM and wouldn't let you gimp yourself on a bad roll.

We even implemented a blue mage class for my character. Sure, you can learn spells as long as you survive the effect (percentage chance of course). The positive offset was the class could learn monster magic. ie, a needleman attack.

This more or less barred the character from certain forms of magic, but it made a far more interesting game.

I'm sure someone would enjoy it.

MythTV has a commercial skip functionality which attempts to automate the detection with several factors (frame, scene change, logo removal). I had thought they included decibel, but I see no mention of that now.

SciFi (SyFy now) seemed to take great joy in mucking with this or at least only their prime time shows seemed to anger the mythtv gods. At least when they had programming I watched. On a side note, WOW, nostalgia begged me to see what their schedule looks like and I'm now completely surprised they are still on the air.

This sounds more like someone is planning for a divorce.

As every telecom expert knows...

C Pound.

Scrap dealers will buy it for the metal.

This is a fairly standard term for purchasing equipment which can only be taken away as scrap.

FCC has sent some much greater punches down the pipe then a requirement to publish vote rates. Digital conversion has had much greater impact and was pushed out with even less notice. FCC dictates the term of the license and their rule is pretty much supreme. There are about a zillion mandates in the regulations from everything to programming to the antenna. It's a daily effort to stay in check with those regulations.

Rates for political candidates are based on the lowest rate ever sold. Stations are pretty keen not to lower rates too much for fear of reducing potential campaign dollars. The heavy campaign years generally see the most stringent restrictions for offerings.

I'm not seeing that much potential for disaster as sales are entirely fluid and the only buyer a station is required to offer fixed rates are in regard to campaign dollars.

For embedded systems maybe one or two of my peers in school really understood everything. Even at that level we were just poking a few memory addresses and sending in data down the bus to flip a few latches. Precision, timing and the code in a big pot tended to throw some off. Made a killing in tutoring for those classes as my rates were extremely high. (No one was displeased)

Most if it has rotted away, but I can still look at a spec sheet to get a feel for the chip. The things we do today are always impressive and if given the chance I could probably release the magic smoke. (Magic smoke for the uninformed is the core component to most electronics. Accidentally shorting a line could produce a puncture which releases the gas and renders the component useless.)

It is rather a strong password good sir!

I find the correct horse battery staple password for ages. Thanks xkcd!

Dark Helmet: Careful you idiot! I said across her nose, not up it!
Laser Gunner: Sorry sir! I'm doing my best!
Dark Helmet: Who made that man a gunner?
Major Asshole: I did sir. He's my cousin.
Dark Helmet: Who is he?
Colonel Sandurz: He's an asshole sir.
Dark Helmet: I know that! What's his name?
Colonel Sandurz: That is his name sir. Asshole, Major Asshole!
Dark Helmet: And his cousin?
Colonel Sandurz: He's an asshole too sir. Gunner's mate First Class Philip Asshole!
Dark Helmet: How many asholes do we have on this ship, anyway?
[Entire bridge crew stands up and raises a hand]
Entire Bridge Crew: Yo!
Dark Helmet: I knew it. I'm surrounded by assholes!
[Dark Helmet pulls his face shield down]
Dark Helmet: Keep firing, assholes!

Here's a not-so-made up response.

Combo mp3 player cell phones still suck. I need that power to keep the damn pda/phone actually working.

I can live with the mp3 player running out of juice, but the phone I cannot.