The word that you're looking for is hovering. As in "hovercraft".

Why on earth would you want the back light totally off? That's unusable in every situation. At that point, just turn it off.

Link?

It's anecdotal, but I'm seeing a lot of small businesses beginning to look at Macs. Most wind up buying Windows 7 systems for now, but people are starting to look at other options. Microsoft's removal of Exchange from their SBS suite, and the availability of Google Apps for business seems to be encouraging this trend.

That sheet brings back memories. That scheme was less annoying than the Monkey Island wheel, or games that wouldn't let you start it without having to type in the third word of the sixth paragraph of page 43. I always liked the Leisure Suit Larry questions though, they were at least amusing.

I had Cyanogen Mod on my old phone, then bought one of the Thunderbolts mentioned in the summary. Cyanogen offers NO support for this device. There was a dev who was releasing a really nice port of Cyanogen for the Thunderbolt, but he stopped several months ago.

It's my understanding that the main thing keeping Cyanogen from officially supporting the Thunderbolt is a lack of drivers for the phone's radio coming from HTC. HTC keeps promising us an ICS update, which wouldn't be as good as full Cyanogen support, but would be better than outdated OS on a not very old phone, which was sold as one of their premium phones not that long ago.

As a consumer, I feel like HTC really dropped the ball on this, and in the future will be considering a Samsung to replace my HTC. Previously, I've had a few other HTC phones and loved them. But this whole thing has left a bad taste in my mouth with them.

I don't have a question, but a comment on the Museum of the Rockies. This is an excellent little museum, and well worth the visit. Anyone who goes to Yellowstone, the 1.5 hour trek to Bozeman is well worth the drive. The drive will take you past many geological formations, such as the Devil's Slide, and often takes you past quite a bit of wildlife like elk, bighorn sheep, bears and bald eagles.

The museum is very enjoyable and educational for both children and adults.

My parents have U-verse at their house, and had a similar experience. It took almost 6 months before the service could even be considered near reliable. Even still, they only get about half of their advertised speed, but it's still the best option where they live. And they don't live out in the boonies, they live on the LA/Orange county border, in a city of over 100k people. I however, DO live out in the boonies (Comparitavely speaking), and have Verizon FIOS with a 150/75Mbit connection, that is consistently the speed that was advertised, and costs less than their U-verse.

My parents recently had an interesting problem with their service. They kept finding little pools of water near the switch that the U-verse technician installed in their bedroom, with the switch fried. After technicians had replaced their second or third switch, they finally decided to look into what was causing the problem. When the technician ran the original wire (Which went outside of their house), he didn't use outdoor rated cable. After about a year in the sun, it had developed little cracks in the cable jacket, and capillary action was running water from the cracks all the way to the switch.

I've got a samba server with a share containing all of our media that's for my wife & I to watch. I've got a second, read-only share set up for the kids. The kid's directory has a bunch of symlinks to content that's suitable for them. It allows them to freely browse the media on their own, and I know exactly what they're accessing.

I've been around slashdot for probably at least a decade, and seen some pretty stupid crap here. But seriously, this takes the cake. No one else is reporting anything like this. The picture in the "article" is clearly a bad photoshop of mardi gras beads, and the front page of the linked site has a picture of Chewbacca superimposed on a Martian hill.

I can maybe see samzenpus thinking that he had a real scoop on a big story, but he should have at least ran it by some of the other people there. Someone there must have at least a semi-functioning brain. Or maybe he could have looked into the domain registration, and seen that the domain was registered a few days ago to the leader of the New Orleans Bigfoot Society.

Crap like this is a lot of why decent discussion on nerdy things is dying on this site.

Actually, you can search the store. It's just that it's as completely unintuitive as every other design choice they made for the Metro UI. From the start screen, start typing. In the search bar that shows up, click on "Store". Whoever decided to not put a search box in the actual store app should be fired.

I have Windows 8 on my laptop, and overall I like it. It feels much snappier than 7 did (Not sure if it's simply because it's a fresh install, or lack of Aero?), and boot times are really good.

However, the entire Metro UI feels half baked and like a last minute addition. Opening, and then closing a Metro app does not take you back to where you were, it forces you back to the start screen. You then have to alt-tab back to the window that you were at. I had to Google where the Shut Down option was (Yes, I know that I can just press the power button, but I very rarely shut it completely down. I usually either restart, or put it in sleep or hibernate depending on what I'm planning). For the record, the shut down button is now in the Settings panel for some unknown reason.

As far as the start button, there was NO reason for that to be eliminated. They could have kept the metro UI, and start screen, and still had the start button. Removing that and forcing the start screen is just forcing a poorly designed UI on everyone. The really frustrating part is that in Vista & Win7, they had made a ton of improvements to the start menu. It was really, really useful and intuitive. Much more so than the crap they have now.

There's also quite a bit of half baked system settings screens that use the metro UI. For example, in the Devices & Printers screen, you can add and delete printers, but I haven't found any way to do anything else, like adjust settings, view the print queue, etc. Right clicking does nothing. You can still go to the Win7 style control panel, but that's somewhat hidden, and not nearly as easy to access as it was in Win7 (Unless I'm missing something).

Don't even get me started on Minesweeper and Solitaire now. Both used to be games that you could open in a window, and quickly play while you were waiting for a task to finish. Minesweeper is now an over 130MB additional download, which wants you to log in to xbox live to play, forces full screen, and takes several seconds to load. I know that the games aren't a major part of the OS, but it really epitomizes how much usability has been lost in Windows 8, and how they're trying their hardest to force metro UI on everyone.

But this patent is for e-reader devices. That's obviously COMPLETELY different from what you posted.

/sarcasm

I bet there's quite a few people who would spend close to their entire net worth to get to space. I probably would. What's the point of having so much money if you can't do something really cool with it?