The BIOS splash screen is just a pretty picture to show while it's doing its Power On Self Test (POST). It's not holding anything back.

A full-text index is inefficiency? It's certainly faster than reading all the text on the disk. Are you talking about the extra step taken in advance to save time in the future? Yes, overall there's more processing involved if you only search once in your life. If you search every day, you'd appreciate the near-instant results.

Hilarious quote:

"The first one could have been a fluke," Ratard told Shots. But now that we have a second one, the only explanation is the use of the neti pot."

I guess they didn't realize when they said it that a fluke is another kind of parasite.

Why can't a small start-up come in and start making these generic drugs? Why aren't there companies that do nothing but profit off of patent-free medications? I'm afraid I know the answer - that the big companies will ramp up production again just long enough to push these guys out of the market.

I'm not sure what you mean. There are no live cultures in cottage cheese. I don't think there's even any dead cultures.

Isn't that what the appendix is for? Repopulating gut flora?

An IQ of 100 is based on the mean of intelligence scores. The score of 100 isn't arbitrary - it's based on the actual mean.

You missed a LOT in economics. Economies of scale only matter when two companies are competing on the same product. Most things are priced based on what the market will bear. That is, prices are set as high as they can as long as people still buy it and the companies can maximize their profits. If dropping the price by 20% gives you 3x sales, then you do it. But if dropping the price just gives you less revenue, you'll not find many companies doing that. That is the basis of capitalism.

Sony can create artificial scarcity whenever they want as the sole supplier. You see the same thing when the price of oil skyrockets due to oil-producing companies stockpiling and withholding product from the market.

Don't forget to boycott the Blu-Ray format. They're a member of the BDA, and yeah - they also get royalties on the DVD format. Good luck boycotting them entirely.

A range of less than a centimeter? Surely it could do better than that.