Comment: Re:Asus (Score 1) 730
I recommend Asus too. Their computers are the best looking next to Apple's design, durable, and have an extremely good price-to-performance ratio. Don't get Asus and Acer confused, Asus is a much superior brand.
Comment: Does not look user friendly (Score 1) 282
The new design strongly highlights the current tab, but subdues the other tabs into an ambiguous text and icon soup; they do not have shape. I'm having a hard enough time getting my parents to grasp the concept of tabbed browsing, must Mozilla and Google make it so much harder with this and the obfuscation of the new tab button?
Comment: Pretty cool, I must admit (Score 1) 314
I was convinced when they took off the back cover of the HTC Thunderbolt and resubmerged it. It would be nice if phones started being shipped with this preapplied.
Didn't DuPont already make hydrophobic coating for pants?
Comment: Paywall. (Score 1) 100
I'm able to get to it through this link though:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/technology/hacker-attacks-like-stratfors-require-fast-response.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/technology/hacker-attacks-like-stratfors-require-fast-response.html
The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes Today->
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Joshua Fan writes ""...[A] provision of the law, called the medical loss ratio, that requires health insurance companies to spend 80% of the consumers’ premium dollars they collect—85% for large group insurers—on actual medical care rather than overhead, marketing expenses and profit. Failure on the part of insurers to meet this requirement will result in the insurers having to send their customers a rebate check representing the amount in which they underspend on actual medical care."
"So, can private health insurance companies manage to make a profit when they actually have to spend premium receipts taking care of their customers’ health needs as promised?
Not a chance-and they know it. Indeed, we are already seeing the parent companies who own these insurance operations fleeing into other types of investments. They know what we should all know – we are now on an inescapable path to a single-payer system for most Americans and thank goodness for it.""
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"So, can private health insurance companies manage to make a profit when they actually have to spend premium receipts taking care of their customers’ health needs as promised?
Not a chance-and they know it. Indeed, we are already seeing the parent companies who own these insurance operations fleeing into other types of investments. They know what we should all know – we are now on an inescapable path to a single-payer system for most Americans and thank goodness for it.""
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Comment: Electroactive Polymers (Score 1) 56
don't require bulky air compressors and have been around for decades, and far surpass this in strength and precision.
Electroactive polymers
Move along people, nothing to see here but balloon animals.
Electroactive polymers
Move along people, nothing to see here but balloon animals.
Comment: Re:FYI military uses iodine tablets to purify wate (Score 1) 757
Wow, I never knew that. It's amazing what Wikipedia gets wrong all the time. Dang that unarbitrated hogwash.
Comment: FYI military uses iodine tablets to purify water (Score 2) 757
The purified water doesn't taste very good, but when it's the difference between hydrating and not hydrating, aka life and death, it's worth it.
Comment: Don't need an optical drive even for live Linux (Score 2) 440
Take a Linux CD ISO and extract it to a FAT32 USB drive (7-zip can do that). Delete isolinux.bin and rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg. Then grab syslinux.exe and run "syslinux.exe -mifa [drive]:"
You can still use the drive for storage.
There are also many tutorials out there for installing Windows 7 from a thumbdrive.
You can still use the drive for storage.
There are also many tutorials out there for installing Windows 7 from a thumbdrive.
Comment: Re:other bits to consider besides software (Score 1) 377
Yes. In fact, giving free software implies that you think they don't know how to use computers, and that you're a cheapo to boot. People like to load what software they please on their computers, regardless if they had to pay for it or not, what's important to them is that they chose to do it. Big computer companies and lots of geeks just never get that.