It would be cool if I could run switchboard on a pi and reserve it to all my devices.

But I guess that's not a question :)

When you're talking about office visits, even specialists, I fully agree. People put off automotive work for the same reason, but the chances of that widowing a wife are slimmer than procrastinating the cost of a scan for an abdominal pain.

At present I pay $140usd/mo for a low dosage of dextroamphetamine, something that could be made by a high schooler with Google and given proper lab access. I do not mind paying a man for his skill, but that I do find insulting.

MA is not doing anyone favoures.

Unless a company buys you health insurance you can only enroll in July. In the mean time they will penalize your already high state taxes for every month you do not have insurance. Keep in mind it's not a 'fine,' thatd be unconstitutional!

The logic behind this is people with no insurance avoid going to the dr, their ailments turn into bad conditions that they must get treated, then skip out on the bill. This money supposedly compensates for this.

Health insurance is, how ever, prohibitely expensive so they push high deductible plans for 300/month. High deductible plans... You mean the sort of insurance that causes people to avoid the dr?

A lot of laptops come with an nvidia and an Intel GPU. The Intel being used for desktop rendering to save juice. It would be cooler if nvidia worked in the direction of making laptops that utilize them to not need a competing companies chip to be efficient.

The cell companies aren't discounting hardware because they love you.

They're over charging non contract people because they want you on that contract. There are no new cell phone customers. A market where people can move freely from carrier to carrier at a whim is one where they lose.

An automated test is more important then a fix. People goof. Can't fix that but you can test for it.

I guess the years have accumulated and I'm now and old timer but I don't see how that's cracking by anyone's definition.

From what I know, wii kept old the old driver versions installed and games would request the one they knew worked when loading. So an older game would load a pre-sdhc support driver.

I'm not saying that doesn't suck, but that is why.

I'm sure most of the burglars live in residence that came with alarm stickers on the doors and windows. They don't fool anyone. The two places I've lived that were broken into had them.

Phones, tablets, etc lack Ethernet ports. It's pretty close to deprecated for consumer electronics and understandably so.

To take on debt is not to spend money, they are very different. When you take on debt you are, well, in someone elses debt.

People are giving away their power. No questions asked: If it's the control of your life you're about to sign away, even a tiny fraction of it, the answer is "no."

I used to hate javascript. I'd disable it in my browsers up until a few years ago and avoid it like the plague in all of my web development tasks. A year and a half ago I became a full time web developer.

I had to shut up and learn to love javascript, and I really do. There's nothing wrong with it.

A language like PHP3 lacks enough features to make many common patterns possible. Progressing to PHP4, and PHP5, more and more patterns became possible. PHP can now house proper code, though it frequently doesn't because people still hack away like it's PHP3 or PHP4

To me, javascript feels much the same way. I never come across a pattern I can not implement, though I see a lot of coding that ignores standard patterns to it's own demise. linq.js, underscore.js, jquery, and some in-house libraries make classes, objects, collections, DOM work, etc, amazingly simple. The standard library is very poor, but that's ok because the 3rd party libraries are fantastic. Outside of IE8 and under, the speed is FAST too.

A lot of times there's a function that will be implemented by a library but can optionally wrap to a native function if available, making support for everything universal.

I too find the pricing to be appalling, but I suspect it's mostly because store clerks are designed to sell people everything they can, not what they need. I believe by doing your homework and wanting adequate, not just 'top of the line,' you can get away relatively cheap.

I paid $225 for a good quality used Nexus One (I'm aware it's not compatible with this service, but it's a smart phone regardless) and I pay t-mobile $15/mo for unlimited text, 10c/minute voice, and $1.50/day data that I never use because in general wifi is available.

This is expensive in comparison to my old phone which cost $14 shipped off of ebay, but for something so modern (just not bleeding edge) I would say it's an affordable luxury if you play your cards right.

Dell really wants BIOS updates to involve them fronting the $40-$120 min shop charge or paying for an onsite call.

I suspect it may have more to do with emission/dumping laws/costs, etc, though it's only a guess.